Ted Roof Comments

[ASU85Grad]

Thank goodness for special teams.

Thank goodness for D Evans!

[Cro-Magnon App]

Coach Drink has two weeks to get in there and fix it. Go to work!

[Black Saturday]

I remember lots of complaints about Nate Woody when he brought his new scheme as well, but I don’t think the d was this bad.

We gave up over 500 yards to Liberty in 2014, and then turned it around.

At least we have an extra week to prepare for UNC.

At this rate we need a whole offseason.

[cnut]

defensive play was beyond excuse. In business, you should expect to be fired for such a display. It’s beyond me why people are defending this guy. Poor play and an absurd amount of penalties. Rip the band aid off and move on (easier said than done - I realize that).

[ASU85Grad]

This for me was as hard to watch as the VT game (that many claimed never happened) . I have felt better after loses.

[mountaineerman]

You need to fix this Tedd ! I will not live through a season with this bull crap D. Tarholes will hang a 100 on us

[Yosef10]

We gave up 52 to ULM just 2 seasons ago. At some point y’all will realize how big a piece Stout was for us and now we have a former walk on getting significant snaps there. Also replacing 2 corners who are now on NFL practice squads. This isn’t Alabama, you don’t reload at a place like App, you rebuild. You’re also ignoring the obvious strides UNCC has made under Healy. LeMay, Tucker, Reynolds, and the FR WR whose name is escaping me could all play here no doubt.

All that being said there are obviously things that need to be fixed, and the good news is we have 2 weeks to fix it. Roof wasn’t exactly a great hire in my eyes either when it happened but calling for the firing at this point is pretty silly, not to mention completely unrealistic. We’ll see what adjustments get made.

[ah59396]

For those that know more than I do, why was Roof hired? Was there a specific reason we targeted him? Looking at his coaching history, I don’t understand why. Genuinely curious.

[mountaineerman]

Snowflake Defense I saw today. Not sure what you saw ? No adjustments.

[Appalachman]

The roof leaketh everywhere. Lots of patching quick or replace the roof? There was a solid base with 7 returning starters and backups with quite a bit of experience. Offense will need 90 to win some of these upcoming games.

[AppSt94]

So let’s look at the numbers. Charlotte rushed for 240 yards on 41 carries. If you take away Lemays 58 yard run and Fingers 68 yard run, we held them to under 3 yards a carry. I infer from this that we don’t have a scheme problem but missed assignments. To the point made on the lack of adjustments on the slants, fair point, but you can only do so much. The game plan was probably stop the run and see if Reynolds could beat them. He played well enough to do it, with some nice dimes and he took advantage of our inexperienced corners. As a coach, you pick your poison and hope it doesn’t kill you.

[Chaz]

For those that know more than I do, why was Roof hired? Was there a specific reason we targeted him? Looking at his coaching history, I don’t understand why. Genuinely curious.

He was a friend and coworker of Drinkwitz. That’s literally the only reason. He tried to make a comfy hire, and it may be the one that costs him his job if he doesn’t fix it or fire him.

[AppSt94]

For those that know more than I do, why was Roof hired? Was there a specific reason we targeted him? Looking at his coaching history, I don’t understand why. Genuinely curious.

Drink hired him because his plate was full with OC, HC, and QB duties. He hired Roof because he wouldn’t need to be as hands on.

[mountaineerman]

So let’s look at the numbers. Charlotte rushed for 240 yards on 41 carries. If you take away Lemays 58 yard run and Fingers 68 yard run, we held them to under 3 yards a carry. I infer from this that we don’t have a scheme problem but missed assignments. To the point made on the lack of adjustments on the slants, fair point, but you can only do so much. The game plan was probably stop the run and see if Reynolds could beat them. He played well enough to do it, with some nice dimes and he took advantage of our inexperienced corners. As a coach, you pick your poison and hope it doesn’t kill you.

Yeah let’s take away 58 and a 68 yard run up the middle ! It looks good now what the hell kind of post is this?

[NoLongerLurking]

You guys......so silly. I hate you.

[ah59396]

So let’s look at the numbers. Charlotte rushed for 240 yards on 41 carries. If you take away Lemays 58 yard run and Fingers 68 yard run, we held them to under 3 yards a carry. I infer from this that we don’t have a scheme problem but missed assignments. To the point made on the lack of adjustments on the slants, fair point, but you can only do so much. The game plan was probably stop the run and see if Reynolds could beat them. He played well enough to do it, with some nice dimes and he took advantage of our inexperienced corners. As a coach, you pick your poison and hope it doesn’t kill you.

Yeah let’s take away 58 and a 68 yard run up the middle ! It looks good now what the hell kind of post is this?

You know if you take away our losses to Penn State and GSU last season, we actually went undefeated.

[mountaineerman]

So let’s look at the numbers. Charlotte rushed for 240 yards on 41 carries. If you take away Lemays 58 yard run and Fingers 68 yard run, we held them to under 3 yards a carry. I infer from this that we don’t have a scheme problem but missed assignments. To the point made on the lack of adjustments on the slants, fair point, but you can only do so much. The game plan was probably stop the run and see if Reynolds could beat them. He played well enough to do it, with some nice dimes and he took advantage of our inexperienced corners. As a coach, you pick your poison and hope it doesn’t kill you.

Yeah let’s take away 58 and a 68 yard run up the middle ! It looks good now what the hell kind of post is this?

You know if you take away our losses to Penn State and GSU last season, we actually went undefeated.

Why are you taking any play or game loss away they happened ?!

[AppSt94]

So let’s look at the numbers. Charlotte rushed for 240 yards on 41 carries. If you take away Lemays 58 yard run and Fingers 68 yard run, we held them to under 3 yards a carry. I infer from this that we don’t have a scheme problem but missed assignments. To the point made on the lack of adjustments on the slants, fair point, but you can only do so much. The game plan was probably stop the run and see if Reynolds could beat them. He played well enough to do it, with some nice dimes and he took advantage of our inexperienced corners. As a coach, you pick your poison and hope it doesn’t kill you.

Yeah let’s take away 58 and a 68 yard run up the middle ! It looks good now what the hell kind of post is this?

My point is that those runs were due to missed assignments. They count in the stats, but it shows that we had a decent game plan to stop the run. Two runs skewed the perception.

[WVAPPeer]

Two long runs surely skewed the perception - on both sides ---
526 yards by Charlotte is awfully hard to write off as missed assignments - it could have also been because of being in the wrong alignment signaled in ---

Those who know me, know I am not in panic mode - As many have said before me, I will take an ugly win over a pretty loss every day of the week - I am SURE the players are not happy with their performance and I clearly believe this defense will bounce back - As someone mentioned earlier, maybe this is a serious wake-up call while still remaining undefeated ---

[falcoapp]

I'd like to see how the defense bounces back after a performance like that. I think that will tell us everything we need to know come conference action time. Also, let's be realistic here, we lost too much talent and coaching to not take a step back, at least initially.