That’s all you can call it. 5-1 to 5-7: collapse. Doesn’t matter that Vegas had us at 1.5 or 2.5 wins. Doesn’t matter that we beat that in the first half of the season. The end result is we lost the last 6 games of the year, 4 by double digits. That’s failure. Anyone who says otherwise is just coping with that failure. Coaching staff hasn’t been able to eliminate stupid penalties all year, offense has been predictable, WRs couldn’t catch when they needed to. If it weren’t for Hardy our offense would have been just as bad (and maybe worse) as what Kubik put out last year. For all the intensity the team showed in week 2 against UAB, they only matched it maybe one more time against JMU and didn’t come close the rest of the way. It honestly makes me think BV just wasn’t as focused after the revenge game against his old employer.
I’d like to think there will be improvement next year but I’m not sold. Texas state took a step back this year, I don’t think it’s unreasonable to assume it could happen here too, especially if we lose all or the majority of our playmakers. I think there’s a reason teams were wary to make BV a head coach and we saw a lot of them this year. The weird time management and timeout usage, the lack of discipline, the offense being shaky. The only thing that makes me hopeful it’ll get better is that he’s still new to being an HC at this level. Maybe those things can work themselves out with experience, but right now all we can say about his first season is collapse.
I’d like to think there will be improvement next year but I’m not sold. Texas state took a step back this year, I don’t think it’s unreasonable to assume it could happen here too, especially if we lose all or the majority of our playmakers. I think there’s a reason teams were wary to make BV a head coach and we saw a lot of them this year. The weird time management and timeout usage, the lack of discipline, the offense being shaky. The only thing that makes me hopeful it’ll get better is that he’s still new to being an HC at this level. Maybe those things can work themselves out with experience, but right now all we can say about his first season is collapse.
