What grade would you give Tracy Claeys in his first game as full time head coach?

What grade would you give Tracy Claeys in his first game as full time head coach?

  • A

    Votes: 11 13.6%

  • B

    Votes: 48 59.3%

  • C

    Votes: 15 18.5%

  • D

    Votes: 1 1.2%

  • F

    Votes: 6 7.4%
  • Total voters
    81
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What grade would you give Tracy Claeys in his first game as full time head coach?
 

C....Dont know what he has to do with the offense, but the special teams and defense were garbage...Injuries have played a factor but are the fundamentals being taught?
 


C. Were hurt i get it....

But punting on 4th and 2 with twelve to go down by two scores is not rolling the dice enough for me. Why don't we take two plays to get 3 yards.
Playing not to lose is the same as playing not to win.

Also the missed holding calls and blocks in the back on Iowa were atrocious.
 



Gave a "B" but already looking to next year.

Not because of the schedule but whether the preparation will be the same or better.

With the same or better preparation next year should be good on paper.

That said, need to work the onside kicks. Not good.
 

3 Fs. Really? A botched on-side kick away from trying for a last minute scoring drive against the #5 team in the country. On the road.
 

I don't know. Do you give credit for hanging close with a skeleton crew? Or do you take away points for having the supposed strengths of your team in D and ST seem woefully unprepared yet again. Not to mention wasting TOs?

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Gopher028 said:
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This rushing play went for....51yds? Yeah, that's officiating.
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Yeah, that was pretty terrible. I've seen muggings which were less blatant than that, but anyhow...

The defense last night brought back horrible memories for me of a Glen Mason defense at its absolute worst. It got to the point where I just had to turn on the DVR, turn off the TV, and walk away, because it was that fricken discouraging and that upsetting for me to sit there and watch that without me sinking into the sh*ttiest mood imaginable, which I really don't wish to be that way around my wife and children. I don't know of anything more disheartening in football than for a defense to get its opponent into 3rd and long situations time and again, yet time and again be simply unable to get off the field in those situations because they are categorically unable to make the stop. Again, Mason-esque, and horrible memories for me of about screaming at my TV, tearing my hair out at the roots, and practically begging to the gods above to please, please, please, please, please for the love of all that is holy, PLEASE let us make a stop! And how so very often, we just didn't. Those were the Mason years, and bad calls aside, that was the exact same type of defense I saw last night.

Yeah, we have some injuries, and yeah, we had some crap calls against, but it's still about impossible for me to stomach watching us allow a team like that to convert 10-15 3rd downs, and to see our defense make their decent-average QB somehow look like the second coming of Joe Montana, and to see us so, so very often be in position to make a play to try and minimize the damage by simply wrapping the ball-carrier up, yet again and again we didn't, we arm-tackled left and right and they simply bounced through those token efforts at tackling like any decent football player should. Poor fricken defensive technique on display all over that field last night.

I'm just pissed, and so frustrated right now. God I despise poor defense, and that, that sucked.
 

Cody Poock might have played his worst game with bad angles, missed tackles, and bad gambles. He's too important -- and too good -- to take so many chances that put us in tough spot. We did not play our best, overall, defensively. Special teams have been the worst of the Kill era in all facets.
 



killme said:
Cody Poock might have played his worst game with bad angles, missed tackles, and bad gambles. He's too important -- and too good -- to take so many chances that put us in tough spot. We did not play our best, overall, defensively. Special teams have been the worst of the Kill era in all facets.
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Totally agree. Being there watching him play, he really struggled all night. Like you said, too talented to play that way.
 

Why is this coaching staff content to run down the clock to go into halftime, especially when we still have timeouts left? Second game in a row doing that. At least try to get into FG range for points, especially when we don't get the ball to start second half!
 

jonnyganas said:
Why is this coaching staff content to run down the clock to go into halftime, especially when we still have timeouts left? Second game in a row doing that. At least try to get into FG range for points, especially when we don't get the ball to start second half!
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Agree
 

jonnyganas said:
Why is this coaching staff content to run down the clock to go into halftime, especially when we still have timeouts left? Second game in a row doing that. At least try to get into FG range for points, especially when we don't get the ball to start second half!
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I totally agree, but that is how Kill always did it too. I would guess it is how we will continue to do it as well.
 

If the passing game continues to be good maybe they will take some chances late in the first half.
On the other hand you have a Kevin Wilson led team that doesn't know when to run the clock when their team is in the drivers seat.
 


Must be that the committee of little gods and idols who rank the teams have got the fix on by putting a horrible team like iowa at number 5 in the nation. Their stinking combined offense, defense, special teams and benefit from the officials accounted for 40 points vs. the lowly, pathetic Gopher offense, defense, special teams and benefit from the officials according to some of the posters here who are so disgusted by the Gopher effort on defense that accounted for 35 points. In other words, the committee's 5th best team is about 12.5% better than the totally unranked Gopher Team. Personally, I thought the Gopher Defense was just about as good as the stinking hawkeye defense. Maybe the committee is bought out and the national championship series is rigged.
 

jonnyganas said:
Why is this coaching staff content to run down the clock to go into halftime, especially when we still have timeouts left? Second game in a row doing that. At least try to get into FG range for points, especially when we don't get the ball to start second half!
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Agreed. It seems like every game, the first half ends with us winding down the clock. That basically spots the other team net one possession over us. I don't know why a team that is 1-8 in its last nine games against Power 5 competition thinks it is good enough to just throw away one possession per game. As I always said when we did that last year, I am not looking for us to blindly chuck the ball downfield, but when you have timeouts, college rules stopping the clock on first down, and a kicker with as big of a leg as Santoso, we could at least try to move the ball with some 10-15 yard routes and hurry up to the line. They will likely be playing soft enough coverage to avoid the big play that we could make some high-percentage mid-range passes, and trust your redshirt upper classman quarterback to just tuck and run if it isn't there.
 

bleedsmaroonandgold said:
Agreed. It seems like every game, the first half ends with us winding down the clock. That basically spots the other team net one possession over us. I don't know why a team that is 1-8 in its last nine games against Power 5 competition thinks it is good enough to just throw away one possession per game. As I always said when we did that last year, I am not looking for us to blindly chuck the ball downfield, but when you have timeouts, college rules stopping the clock on first down, and a kicker with as big of a leg as Santoso, we could at least try to move the ball with some 10-15 yard routes and hurry up to the line. They will likely be playing soft enough coverage to avoid the big play that we could make some high-percentage mid-range passes, and trust your redshirt upper classman quarterback to just tuck and run if it isn't there.
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They only do it so you will have something to bitch about. It also helps create traffic on GOPHER HOLE! It is a very trendy topic for sports message boards...
 

imthewalrus said:
They only do it so you will have something to bitch about. It also helps create traffic on GOPHER HOLE! It is a very trendy topic for sports message boards...
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Expressing opinions about strategic decisions is pretty much what sports message boards were built for.
 

bleedsmaroonandgold said:
Expressing opinions about strategic decisions is pretty much what sports message boards were built for.
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Why yes, then we agree. And the coaches will coach and the complainers will complain. And I won't care one way or the other because complainers are going to complain and coaches are going to coach the way they want to coach. It makes for great traffic generation and it proves nothing one way or the other so it is basically harmless...tiresome...but, harmless.
 

killme said:
Cody Poock might have played his worst game with bad angles, missed tackles, and bad gambles. He's too important -- and too good -- to take so many chances that put us in tough spot. We did not play our best, overall, defensively. Special teams have been the worst of the Kill era in all facets.
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Easy to say that, but a lot of times Poock was on an Island by himself as the last man that could make a play, I thought he did a good job of diagnosing the play but he didn't have anyone else rally to the ball like he did on the cutbacks. To many people slanting at times, I realize with both the two starting defensive tackles out, and the undersized guy's they had in there that they did that slanting out of necessity but to call out Poock by himself isn't the truth or whole story. The slants were to force O-line to be engaged and hopefully allow the linebackers to fill and scrape without having to beat as many blocks one on one.
There were just as many times that the Safety's were out of position or over ran tackles or took bad angles even more so than Poock.

I thought Poock played his butt off on Saturday and seemed like he was the last line of defense, yeah he got beat by some cutbacks but give credit to Daniels he made the right reads and cut's away from the over-pursuit, there were many times guys were in position to make plays but for whatever reason, tired, worn down a little beaten down mentally mistakes were made. Say what you will about disappointment in the D but I still thought we got a great effort out of the defensive guy's across the board, the 40 points don't tell the whole story. To me the scheme was correct, the technique was correct, we just got beat by a back that saw the holes develop faster than we could react or close. This is where relying on inexperienced or less talented guys in your backside get's you burned some times. In these situations the Free safety has to have the middle linebackers back and be able to offset mistakes and has to have the wheels to compensate. I'm not down on the Gophers, may not reflect in the win loss column right now but these guys are playing their rear ends off on all sides of the ball right now.
 

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