[MV72018]

There was a time when I cared who the coaches were. Now, I DGAF. Muir failed to hold Shaw accountable, and Shaw failed to hold his assistants accountable. As a result, the program is as irrelevant at this point as any time in my life. 

I get it that some fans actually do want better assistants. However, mid-July is not when those changes are made unless something tragic happens. Now is when you bring in lower level staff. The time for bitching about coaching changes is September-February. Assistants are pretty well settled from March-September at minimum, and usually through November.

Thank you for telling me when I can bitch about the quality of new coaches. Without checking with you, I decided to criticize the new additions to the coaching staff shortly after they were announced and I had read about their backgrounds. Thank you very much for tolerating my perversity.

As much as I am not impressed by the backgrounds of the latest additions to the coaching staff, I also wanted to criticize Shaw again for his dismal and desultory approach to improving our coaching staff, especially on the O side. He is clearly too arrogant to even consider bringing in someone who knows what he's doing on O, re play calling and strategy. He insists on being the total braintrust re Cardinal play calling. Consequently, I expect a continuation of the same predictable and perverse play calling (not just series of two 1-yard runs and a low-percentage pass, and punts from the opponent's 40 or 35 yard line) that loses us a game or two each season and then blaming it on the players for not executing. I find that infuriating and wish that Muir would hold Shaw accountable. Of course, that won't happen until hell freezes over. Disgraceful.

[MV72018]

There was a time when I cared who the coaches were. Now, I DGAF. Muir failed to hold Shaw accountable, and Shaw failed to hold his assistants accountable. As a result, the program is as irrelevant at this point as any time in my life. 

I get it that some fans actually do want better assistants. However, mid-July is not when those changes are made unless something tragic happens. Now is when you bring in lower level staff. The time for bitching about coaching changes is September-February. Assistants are pretty well settled from March-September at minimum, and usually through November.

Thank you for telling me when I can bitch about the quality of new coaches. Without checking with you, I decided to criticize the new additions to the coaching staff shortly after they were announced and I had read about their backgrounds. Thank you very much for tolerating my perversity.

As much as I am not impressed by the backgrounds of the latest additions to the coaching staff, I also wanted to criticize Shaw again for his dismal and desultory approach to improving our coaching staff, especially on the O side. He is clearly too arrogant to even consider bringing in someone who knows what he's doing on O, re play calling and strategy. He insists on being the total braintrust re Cardinal play calling. Consequently, I expect a continuation of the same predictable and perverse play calling (not just series of two 1-yard runs and a low-percentage pass, and punts from the opponent's 40 or 35 yard line) that loses us a game or two each season and then blaming it on the players for not executing. I find that infuriating and wish that Muir would hold Shaw accountable. Of course, that won't happen until hell freezes over. Disgraceful.

[msqueri]

There was a time when I cared who the coaches were. Now, I DGAF. Muir failed to hold Shaw accountable, and Shaw failed to hold his assistants accountable. As a result, the program is as irrelevant at this point as any time in my life. 

I get it that some fans actually do want better assistants. However, mid-July is not when those changes are made unless something tragic happens. Now is when you bring in lower level staff. The time for bitching about coaching changes is September-February. Assistants are pretty well settled from March-September at minimum, and usually through November.

Thank you for telling me when I can bitch about the quality of new coaches. Without checking with you, I decided to criticize the new additions to the coaching staff shortly after they were announced and I had read about their backgrounds. Thank you very much for tolerating my perversity.

As much as I am not impressed by the backgrounds of the latest additions to the coaching staff, I also wanted to criticize Shaw again for his dismal and desultory approach to improving our coaching staff, especially on the O side. He is clearly too arrogant to even consider bringing in someone who knows what he's doing on O, re play calling and strategy. He insists on being the total braintrust re Cardinal play calling. Consequently, I expect a continuation of the same predictable and perverse play calling (not just series of two 1-yard runs and a low-percentage pass, and punts from the opponent's 40 or 35 yard line) that loses us a game or two each season and then blaming it on the players for not executing. I find that infuriating and wish that Muir would hold Shaw accountable. Of course, that won't happen until hell freezes over. Disgraceful.

Why do you keep calling them members of the coaching staff? These are additive people to give us more bodies around for a variety of purposes. They're not taking a spot from anybody and are not "coaches" in the way college football defines it, which is quite important because there is a numerical limit on coaches and qualitative limits on what they can do. If these additions came at the expense of our "coaching staff" or were key guys or were an indication we are bringing in lightweights to run the offense, you might be on to something.

The reason the timing is valid is that the actual time to shuffle a coaching staff (i.e., the ten COACHES Shaw is allowed to have) is much earlier in the off-season and a time in which it has been very valid for several years now to lambast the continuity, lack of accountability, etc. of our coaching staff. To criticize this news now is to criticize adding more help being provided on top of the group you/I think is insufficient. You're arguing against yourself. It is indeed a kind of perverse argument to get bent out of shape about a few non-coach consultants who got added to augment the staff.

Be honest, you think these are coaches don't you? They ARE glorified grad assistants. The whole initial post of this thread was a misunderstanding of college football.

[msqueri]

There was a time when I cared who the coaches were. Now, I DGAF. Muir failed to hold Shaw accountable, and Shaw failed to hold his assistants accountable. As a result, the program is as irrelevant at this point as any time in my life. 

I get it that some fans actually do want better assistants. However, mid-July is not when those changes are made unless something tragic happens. Now is when you bring in lower level staff. The time for bitching about coaching changes is September-February. Assistants are pretty well settled from March-September at minimum, and usually through November.

Thank you for telling me when I can bitch about the quality of new coaches. Without checking with you, I decided to criticize the new additions to the coaching staff shortly after they were announced and I had read about their backgrounds. Thank you very much for tolerating my perversity.

As much as I am not impressed by the backgrounds of the latest additions to the coaching staff, I also wanted to criticize Shaw again for his dismal and desultory approach to improving our coaching staff, especially on the O side. He is clearly too arrogant to even consider bringing in someone who knows what he's doing on O, re play calling and strategy. He insists on being the total braintrust re Cardinal play calling. Consequently, I expect a continuation of the same predictable and perverse play calling (not just series of two 1-yard runs and a low-percentage pass, and punts from the opponent's 40 or 35 yard line) that loses us a game or two each season and then blaming it on the players for not executing. I find that infuriating and wish that Muir would hold Shaw accountable. Of course, that won't happen until hell freezes over. Disgraceful.

Why do you keep calling them members of the coaching staff? These are additive people to give us more bodies around for a variety of purposes. They're not taking a spot from anybody and are not "coaches" in the way college football defines it, which is quite important because there is a numerical limit on coaches and qualitative limits on what they can do. If these additions came at the expense of our "coaching staff" or were key guys or were an indication we are bringing in lightweights to run the offense, you might be on to something.

The reason the timing is valid is that the actual time to shuffle a coaching staff (i.e., the ten COACHES Shaw is allowed to have) is much earlier in the off-season and a time in which it has been very valid for several years now to lambast the continuity, lack of accountability, etc. of our coaching staff. To criticize this news now is to criticize adding more help being provided on top of the group you/I think is insufficient. You're arguing against yourself. It is indeed a kind of perverse argument to get bent out of shape about a few non-coach consultants who got added to augment the staff.

Be honest, you think these are coaches don't you? They ARE glorified grad assistants. The whole initial post of this thread was a misunderstanding of college football.