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Tom Herman (Head Coach FAU Owls)

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scarletmike said:
Because it probably normally results in an extra charge of a couple hundred dollars, on top of being on the hook for towing expenses and the ridiculous refuel charges. Given the conditions, maybe they waived the charges or Herman decided that he makes enough, its whatever and worth it to keep the recruiting on schedule.
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I didn't ask why everyone doesn't do it for shits n gigs. Dude makes 600k a year. I'd have done what he did ten hrs sooner. 3% of one week's pay be damned.
 
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Big year here for Coach Herman. He's been listed on just about every list I've seen this season for assistants ready to take that next step and this year obviously is going to be a big year long interview for him. Without the star QB how quickly can Herman react and adapt this offense - if the team has as much success as many of us hope and expect, Herman will improve his resume greatly. I'm very intrigued to see how he does, there were quite a few times last year I got frustrated thinking he got too smart for his own good and got away from the simple plays that had worked (i.e. run Hyde up field..., not that I'm still bitter about that last MSU call....) but this is a new year and we just may need some of that trickery.
 
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bigdog3300 said:
Big year here for Coach Herman. He's been listed on just about every list I've seen this season for assistants ready to take that next step and this year obviously is going to be a big year long interview for him. Without the star QB how quickly can Herman react and adapt this offense - if the team has as much success as many of us hope and expect, Herman will improve his resume greatly. I'm very intrigued to see how he does, there were quite a few times last year I got frustrated thinking he got too smart for his own good and got away from the simple plays that had worked (i.e. run Hyde up field..., not that I'm still bitter about that last MSU call....) but this is a new year and we just may need some of that trickery.
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Hopefully that resume says something along the lines of "Coached top-5 offense to National Championship victory"
 
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I'm not seeing this as a Herman problem. Our line is poor, our QB is young and hence average. This was to be expected. If I were upset, it would be on the defensive side where we have continuity and yet we are average to poor.
 
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Play calling really leaves a lot to be desired on offense.
Defense has improved bit by bit and really stepped up in the 2nd half. Three turnovers and consistently sold out by both offense and special teams with bad field position... and only gave up 1 TD in the 2nd half (when it seemed like they turned a corner and the lightbulb went on for some of them)
 
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matcar said:
I'm not seeing this as a Herman problem. Our line is poor, our QB is young and hence average. This was to be expected. If I were upset, it would be on the defensive side where we have continuity and yet we are average to poor.
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I'll disagree on that - there are plenty of options when you have an OL getting continually blown up. We didn't do a whole bunch to keep them honest, how many screens, draws, or how often did we release a TE to attempt to keep them honest? I get he wants to try to protect J.T. and keep the TE home but when that is doing nothing you only have two options; keep doing what you're doing which isn't getting you anywhere, or attempt to put the pressure right back on them.

When he started going back to his slants, we had some success. There are options you have when your OL will only block for 2 seconds, we just didn't see many of them.

On top of that, the first half focus on attempting to run the option was very confusing; Foster saw that coming a mile away and that is not playing to our strengths early on.
 
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bigdog3300 said:
I'll disagree on that - there are plenty of options when you have an OL getting continually blown up. We didn't do a whole bunch to keep them honest, how many screens, draws, or how often did we release a TE to attempt to keep them honest? I get he wants to try to protect J.T. and keep the TE home but when that is doing nothing you only have two options; keep doing what you're doing which isn't getting you anywhere, or attempt to put the pressure right back on them.

When he started going back to his slants, we had some success. There are options you have when your OL will only block for 2 seconds, we just didn't see many of them.

On top of that, the first half focus on attempting to run the option was very confusing; Foster saw that coming a mile away and that is not playing to our strengths early on.
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I see us with inexperience at QB and oline. I think that causes far more problems than we acknowledge. Again I'm far more concerned with a defense that consistently fails in third and long.

As soon as miller went down I assumed 3 losses. But with a very average defense, that number could grow.
 
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That little motion flare play to Wilson on the 2nd to last drive was great. No doubt about that. What's baffling is why the speed guys weren't called upon to draw the attention of the linebacks to the edges more often. You do that play early and now the LB has to think about assignment on the outside and trying to catch those guys flaring.

Blackledge was diagnosing it all night. VT just pounded the interior of the line. They had no respect for the edges and LBs were free to roam/blitz. Then we had to counter by being conservative and leaving RBs in to block...for those long developing plays. God, even more frustrating typing that out.
 
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