your absolutely right! all of those sacks were justin's fault, haha.... it's his non ability to read a defense and his happy feet that lost those 6 games, and it was by luck that he was able to play decent games to lead us to 6 wins... im not getting in this argument with you... aparently we weren't watching the same games, or watching the same freshmen QB out there give a spark to SMU football that hasnt been seen in a long time... oh yah and Kincades fumbles inside the redzone were Justin's fault too... actually the way i remember it we got the Death Penalty because of Justinponyte wrote:expony18 wrote:Willis learned quickly to stay in pocket longer, our offensive line was not that great, there was many times this year where his feet alone kept drives going for us. With this thinking we should still have Bartel back there.ponyte wrote:Willis suffers from Matt Jones' disease. If his first read isn't open, he starts running around to make things happen. Matt Jones at Ark made a career out of those antics. The problem was Jones lost Ark as many games as he won. Defense soon started letting Jones run around knowing he couldn't consistently challenge a pass defense. And Ark continually got worse. Willis needs discipline and to wait for thing to open up. The consistent QBs win (Roger the Dodger began his greatness when he learned to stay in the pocket). A new coach may coach Willis how to be disciplined. Willis can be better than great but it will require discipline.
I stand corrected and I agree totally. All those Willis fumbles while running helter skelter didn't hurt us once. It sure kept drives alive didn't it? And all those completions over the middle to the TE (secondary receiver) opened up the outside passing game and made the linebackers respect our passing over the middle. And all those sacks for 10+ yards instead of throwing the ball away never bothered our awesome offense. Boy, thank goodness those sacks never killed a drive.
Willis can be more than good. He can be great. But only if we continue to use the one pattern, no passing over the middle offense and let Willis try to create great plays while running around a field. Imagine how effective Willis will be when defense can't put a rover on him because he can read defenses, select more than one receiver or then run. I would just hate to put opponent's defense in a worse situation because they have to defend against a Willis with more passing options and more weapons on offense. Gee, if the opponent’s linebackers had to respect the pass over the middle, maybe, just maybe those linebackers wouldn’t be crashing the line when DM got the ball.
No, we should rely exclusively on one receiver patterns and if not open, let Willis try to win with his feet. As we all know, we are all more productive, effective and successful when we are running undisciplined all over our work environment trying to solve a fast moving dilemma. Everyone knows that planning and execution are no substitute for improvisation while being chased by large fast angry men. We should not expect any of our QBs to step up to the next level of improvement and expand the passing game. We are so successful as things current stand. Why expect improvement when we can have a few sensational plays followed by fumbles, sacks and limiting the weapons a defense needs to consider?
Oh, and sarcasm off.
Willis says he will transfer if Bennett is fired
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First, Willis can go 1-AA and wouldn't have to sit out a year. I can think of some very solid schools that would offer Willis in a minute. Jame Madison, Texas State, SHS, Delaware to name a few. Remember the first Bennett year when one QB decided to get his MBA, and another transferred. That's what next year will look like for Larry Coker or another Coach. Great coaches can't wave a magic wand and great players materialize overnight. The next coach will need 4-5 years to turn the program around and we'll start from scratch again next year with a 1-11 record. Then 0-12. Then start moving up again.
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EastStang wrote:First, Willis can go 1-AA and wouldn't have to sit out a year. I can think of some very solid schools that would offer Willis in a minute. Jame Madison, Texas State, SHS, Delaware to name a few. Remember the first Bennett year when one QB decided to get his MBA, and another transferred. That's what next year will look like for Larry Coker or another Coach. Great coaches can't wave a magic wand and great players materialize overnight. The next coach will need 4-5 years to turn the program around and we'll start from scratch again next year with a 1-11 record. Then 0-12. Then start moving up again.
That is a load of crap. Nothing is set in stone that we will have 1-11 and 0-12 seasons just because you change coaches. I guess we don't want to risk losing our position in college football meiocrity by making a change though. I'd hate to lose out on further dissappointing, non-winning seasons.
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Casey wrote:I don't know about 1-11, but I agree that his departure would be crippling.EastStang wrote:If Willis goes, mark my words, 1-11 next year.
Crippling? 4-8? Would we consider that crippling? I think if we keep PB I see 7 wins as an absolute best case scenario with 6 wins being likely and 5 being very possible.
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when he left here his baseball chances were pretty much done, last i heard the reds had cut him and nobody else picked him up... i went to a rival school and we ran with the same groups of people, we all normally get together over xmas break to play basketball, so ill know more when i see him next monthMustangIcon wrote:expony18 wrote: BUST! i went to watch him in their spring game last year and he took his helmet off after being sacked and hit one of his teammates... ive known him since high school, he has the arm strength of an NFL QB, he just isn't mentally composed to be a leader
Thats a shame. Good guy and everytime I saw him throw he had that wow factor with his arm but I guess he just never had the make up of a big time QB. Is he still playing baseball? And did you go to Gvine or a rival school?
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