I fully expect some to jump off the Capstone. It's a young team's first loss of the season. There are more on the way. Wrong to jump all over Bentley after this loss. Sure, he didn't have a great game but his OC didn't put him into too many situations to be successful. Case in point, failed on the goal line numerous times because of ill suited plays, I.E. tailback sweeps for the end around with no lead blockers and CB and LB waiting in the wings to stop us for a loss. This was not due to the fact Bentley can't run an option, can't sneak it in from behind center, can't roll out and run, throw or pitch it to the trailing TB, DOSEN'T MEAN Bentley CAIN'T FAKE IT TO A BLOCKING FULLBACK AND HAND IT OFF TO THE TAILBACK, oh no, doesn't mean this AT ALL. What it does mean is our OC, Mr. Kurt Roper is continuing his failure that he had at Duke for three years and Florida for one year, his only OC stints on his dismal resume.
We cannot fault our O Line coach too much. The deck was stacked against him and our linemen most of the night with eight, nine and sometimes ten in the box with blitzing on every play. Try blocking that sometime. Like Bentley, our linemen were put in a very bad situation with Roper's very predictable, no imagination play calling.
What hurts most is this is a game we should have won. Our defense gave us every opportunity to win it. We should have scored at least twenty one points in the first quarter. I don't expect our offense to get any better, hopefully it won't get worse, don't see how after last Saturday.
The extra point/ field goal kicking must get better, I believe it will.
One more note: We jumped off sides too many times but some of it was because of all the pressure having a defense stacked against you.
This is Muschamp's last hurrah as a head coach if he fails this time. He has to much at stake to allow his OC to bring him down. I, like so many fans think the change should happen right now. Bobby Bentley and Wolford have had head coaching experience and either could do better at OC I believe. If not a replacement this season Muschamp damn well hire someone qualified next season if he is to have a head coaching future.