TSM Coaching Approval Meter (Post-USF, 2010)

Is the season average calculated by tabulating the overal votes or by averaging the weekly result?

I voted no because our offense was bad in 2008 and we were told it was a transition year and bad in 2009 and we were told the line was young and Jarrett wasn’t good and now its bad in 2010 and we’re told that it’s because we choose not to be dynamic. Besides the fact that choosing not to be dynamic is ridiculous, my biggest problem is that we have play-makers galore on offense, our o-line has not been as dreadful as it had been and we show flashes of great ability, yet we do not improve from our 20 points per game. 20 points per game probably will win us the rest of the games on our cupcake schedule, but it could be a problem in a bowl. the offense is not playing anywhere near its full potential, and i think that is a due to the coaching staff. thus, i do not approve.

because a Yes at this point is better than the disruption any coaching change would entail. Though I am starting to lose my patience with the sometimes baffling playcalling and the inability to keep the pedal down.

This isn’t the best reason to vote no, but, you know, I don’t care…

On Saturday, I was hanging out with the 25314 and he informed me that Jock Sanders had 10 catches for 31 yards on Thursday. I was floored; I thought he was lying. But I’ve never known him to be a liar, so I just sat and shook my head for a few seconds. Much later, I went to look at the box score and sure enough he was right. Throw out his one catch for 13 yards and you are left with 9 catches for 18 yards. That’s 2 yards per catch! How is that possible?!

In short, until this ‘explosive’ offense shows a pulse against a defense worth something, I’ll continue to cast my vote no.

I am Stiles and I approve of this message.

As frustrating as it is to watch WVU play what some poeple call “Tressel ball” and just sit on leads, I can’t change my vote till it back-fires.

I hate taking our foot off the pedal. I like the jumbo package where we run and smash heads, but those screen passes were killing me. All they did was stack the box. Throw down field so we can open up the damn running game for Devine. Don’t be content with a 14 point lead to a team who has embarrassed us in the past. We need to be hanging 40+ on every team until then my vote stays a “HELL NO!”

I’m with TC. Cut the offense loose and score as much as the time allows. This downshift to eat up clock time is crap. The scores tell a story, too. And since the sports press generally does not like the Big East, we overcome low poll positions with big scores. Send a message to the polls and stop holding the offense back!!! To continue “settling” for 20 points and the win gives the sports press the ability to paint us with the same ugly brush along with the rest of the conference and a ho-hum poll position. When do you want to play your Bowl in early December??? New Years (or beyond) is he only time for the Almighty Mountain Momma!!

On guard Truck Bryant commenting that he actually prefers the Mountaineers not being ranked to start the season in order to sneak up on others …

"He’s lying," said Huggins. "Everybody wants to be in the top 10 and everybody wants their highlights on TV. I think what Truck was trying to say is that they want to go out and earn their own stripes, but the truth is, everybody wants to be on TV.

"I like to be good. I like to walk out there at half court and look at their guys and look at mine and say we ought to win – we got better guys. Now it doesn’t always work that way, particularly in this league, but I don’t think there’s anything wrong with that."

The win was more dominant than what the score indicated. The defense looks fantastic. A guy who accoutned for over 300 yards of total offense against us a year go looked absolutely lost this year. I’ll take a 14-point win against a team that has had our number like USF has any day of the week.

1. 5-1
2. Defense is one of the best in the nation. 5th in total yards, 4th in rushing D, 4th in points allowed
3. Ranked 20th in the BCS

Honestly, I prefer the touchdowns. However, and unlike those here who aren’t happy unless the scoreboard is lighting up like a pinball machine, I appreciate good defense equally. A shutout is rare these days, and worth rooting for.

The Louisville game last year was the worst win I have ever seen — but it still beats a loss.

Here’s the thing, WVU underachieved in 2008, they underacheived in 2009, and while they may be 5-1 this year, they are showing the same signs of offensive ineptitude that led to underachieving in 2008 and 2009.

Another reason to vote no – WVU was ranked in the top 15 in 45 of the 62 AP polls before Stew took over, including 36 weeks in a row in the top 15. Stew was out of the top 15 after his second game and hasn’t been back in in the 37 weeks since.

Craig James made an interesting point during the telecast when he said that Bill Stewart doesn’t care about rankings only wins. James said that as far as Stew-Beef was concerned he would win the Big East and go to a BCS bowl. I tend to agree with James on this point and can see the validity of this approach. But…as Charley pointed out in a post last week (I think?) this is a short view. If we are to continue to be the obvious big boy in the Big East we need recruits like Devine, like Geno, like Austin and I’m not sure we can get them without a little more “style”.

I also remember complaints about RR when we didn’t run up the score on teams that we obviously were better than, which sometimes resulted in too close for comfort games. There were complaints, hell I complained that we “took our foot off the pedal”. I wonder if this overarching complaint is one where the complainers will never be satisfied unless we be break 100. I, like most of you, play football video games and I score 100 without even thinking so maybe we need to remember that “THIS ISN’T PLAYSTATION.”

One last thing regarding relevance. I’m a pastor of a mainline denominational church (so this maybe completely off your radar but…) and we often are concerned that nobody cares about what we think or do, that we’ve lost the relevance that we had 20 years ago. I often argue that if we do things so we can be relevant we are missing the point. We need to do the right things and ultimately the relevance will take care of itself.

Take Tennessee for example, Lane Kiffin came in and said a bunch of crazy crap for the stated goal of “getting people talking about the Vols.” A lot of good that did. We don’t need to necessarily be flashy we need to win and win with class. If we continue to do that we will be relevant (think Ohio State a few years back) they almost lost every game yet they still won or were in the NC.

If we need gimmicks and flash we’re Boise State. We need wins and if we get another signature win (i.e. BCS…any BCS) I think we’ll be alright.

I read this when Stewy was appointed HC in 2008 from big booster Ken Kendrick (D-Backs GM) "Oh crap, they fired the architect and kept the painter……….we are going to be mediocre. The language describing player ability coming out of fall camp this year raised expectations. We have the talent. We do not have consistant play calls that utilizes our team talent. HCBS, polleessse get a media specialist to help guide you on language before the cameras are turned on so we don’t cringe on hearing, “glad to get out of here with a win” after facing a sub-par team!