Now we are getting pissed off. We are hearing excuses coming from Wayne Cook and Joe Grande on AM 570, that you can’t fault Karl Dorrell for yesterday - that is was the players’ fault - and that 7-6 is a good season. WTF?! Cook beat USC so he will always have respect. But look at the record Dorrell has built over 4 years. Stop giving excuses. It’s always something with Dorrell’s team or assistants, and never with Dorrell himself with these guys. 6-6, 6-7, 7-6, and it’s not Dorrell.

We thought we’d point out 2 very obvious coaching mistakes for the boys at AM 570. Everyone is talking about the 4th and 1 FG call in the 2nd Qtr. The play before that play was the biggest mistake Karl Dorrell made and it affected the game the rest of the way. We had FSU down by a touchdown, ready to put them down by 2 touchdowns going into the half. On 3rd and 4 on the 5 yard line KD calls a timeout. After the commercial break you would think Dorrell would come up with a decent play call. He went bone dead conservative, and called a 2 man lead rush play down the middle with Markey. WTF was that? That was Notre Dame all over again, not playing with urgency, not playing to win.

Markey had been rushing well up to the point, but that call up the gut was not how Markey was gaining yards … and he wasn’t going to gain yards that way with the otherwise very good rush defense stacked in the box with nothing but the end zone behind them. A roll out would have opened the field up more and would have given Cowan an option to tuck and run, like he did successfully against USC, or pass.  Or a corner route, or at the very least Shane Moline to break through. But no, after a timeout we run it up the gut with Markey. That is our best play.

That showed legendary gambler and winner Bobby Bowden that Karl Dorrell did not know how to put teams away, did not know how to win this game. Bowden was going for it on 4th and 9, down only 4 points, early in the 4th qtr. He knew that KD didn’t have the mettle to make the tough calls to win. He knew he could take the fight out of our team because our coach could not match him. He did it with one play.

There is one other big coaching problem people are not talking about. Here we are in the 13th game of the season, having practiced punting as many times as any team can in one year. We had 3 weeks to prepare for Florida State and knew their punt rush sets. How in the world does one guy go completely uncovered, unassigned, directly to the kicker. This is the 13th game of the season!! That is a preparation problem. The special teams were not prepared. No excuses, that is the coaches fault.

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