We’ve seen the numbers and when we really look at it we’ve been giving Stockstill more credit than he deserves.

He’s at .500 as we speak after more than 200 games coached yet a lot of the wins he has are against FCS schools and FCS to FBS transitions schools. And worse he hasn’t even won all of those.

So, let’s call it what it really is. We have a losing coach that this university continues to promote with absurd bonuses. This is evidenced by statistically significant data.

No championships
Record vs FBS
Record vs G5

I think this squad might win one or two more, can't see more than that. 3-9 is what I predict.

2023 Conference USA Standings​

No one loses to new FBS teams the way do. It’s THE middle tennessee tradition.

Question. How many schools wouldn’t fire the head coach on Sunday (or in this case Thursday) after this?

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Location: Jacksonville, AL
Founded: 1883
Enrollment: 9,540
Colors: Red and White Nickname: Gamecocks
Series: MTSU leads 14-2-2
Stadium: JSU (24,000)
Head Coach: Rich Rodriquez (West Virginia, 1986)
Record at JSU: 9-2 (2nd) Overall: 172-121-2 (26th)
2022 Record: 9-2 2022 Bowl: None
Starters Ret./Lost: 22/6 Lettermen R/L: 50/42

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Television: ESPNU: Play-by-play: Jay Alter, Analyst: Rene Ingoglia, Field Analyst: None

Radio: PxP: Chip Walters (33rd season) Analyst Joe Dubin (1st season)
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Over the years, I have stopped saying x person should be fired. It's not my job to determine who should be hired or fired for any position except the office I currently lead. That said, I have no problem saying I'm not donating, I'm not coming, and I'm not supporting what I see as an anchor tied around the neck of this University. But if there are any Board members who lurk know this. As I progressed in my career, I truly believed that my donations to the University's academic endeavors and athletics would increase commensurate with my own pay increases. That obviously has not happened. The failure of leadership at this University forced me to withdraw all funding. If you fail to manage the resources I do provide you, what rationale are you using to expect me to continue to do so much less give you more just to fail with it too?

So, again as I said last week these comments aren't about a single loss to our rival or a loss to a transition team. Or even a loss of one law school. It's more about how those types of things are happening yet again and again and again and pulling the curtain back to see why. What's exactly going on? What's behind the curtain isn't pretty. I'm not sure what bullets I have left other than completely disowning my alma mater. Is that what it has come to and what I need to do? Mail my diploma back?

But regardless of what's next, I have serious questions for people in charge. The ones who oversee the University, the athletics program, and the football program. What is your creed? Do you even have one? What are your moral convictions? What are your goals and objectives? We've never seen them if they exist. In what way do you hold yourself accountable not for the people below you who report to you but for yourself as a professional, as a human being. We know in great detail that Rick Stockstill holds his players to a certain standard once they sign. Going to class. Community support. Doing the right things on and off the field. Hold yourself accountable for your teammates success. Etc. We've heard all that from Stock over the years about his expectations for the people under his tutelage. But Rick Stockstill what is your own personal creed and level of integrity and how do you hold yourself accountable? It's certainly not covering for kids who break the law as you have. Or even sweeping under the rug someone who was betting on his own team. And it's damn sure not failing to take responsibility for your failure in specific games or for never winning a conference title in weak conferences. Nor is it outsmarting your own leadership chain to set a bar so low that just about any other coach could meet to keep those automatic extensions rolling. If Rick Stockstill could execute a gameplan as good as he could his contract negotiations we would be on top of the world. I'm not saying he's not a decent person who does decent things. But I don't see a man who holds himself to the same standards he's asking of his team. Mainly to be accountable to the man next to you and truly competing. What we see is not competing. Anyone who is ever been involved in sports knows the objective through "competition" - is to win. But you cannot win and you really can't be truly competitive if you aren't doing everything you can to make your program the best that it can be. That requires making tough decisions. It requires evolving and innovating - not resting on your laurels. Coach how much more time do you need to produce an offensive line that's better than a transition FCS DL? I mean is 18 years not enough time to have figured that out? There's no way Rick Stockstill is waking up every morning with that mindset. What message has that sent to 100 kids every year for two decades? Well, let's look at the proof we have there. What we've seen are enablers who back the coach up no matter how poor the performance. That's not positive influence on how to be excellent people or an outstanding professional.

Which leads me to the others. With Rick I know that there is at least something within him that has a degree of integrity (though he's been chipping away at that each and every year this goes on as far as I'm concerned). But with M&M, I have no idea. Do they have any semblance of a creed, intestinal fortitude, integrity, etc? We have a group a people leading this institution who say they wake up and piss excellence but then spend the day dropping diarrhea everywhere. And then we have a Board that continues to enable it all. It's no wonder the stench from campus is so bad.

I really want to mail everyone of them a copy of the book "Purpose Driven Life." And there's a dude who's a former Navy Seal on Youtube who is really worth a follow. He talks about a lot of things our leaders should be doing but probably aren't. His name is Chadd Wright.

1. Accept responsibility, privilege, and loyalty to the team.
2. Prioritize the welfare of others, control emotions and actions, and maintain uncompromising integrity.
3. Expect to lead and be led, never quit, and demand innovation and discipline from yourself.
4. Constantly seek to sharpen skills, proficiency, and attention to detail, and stand ready to bring full spectrum of knowledge, skills, and ability to bear in order to achieve the mission and goals established by superiors.

Whether it's the Three Amigos or any of you who just wants to lead a better life. Check these things out. And become better. All of us including myself we can all choose to be better.

I’ve never seen so many sacks and TFLs in a game. I’ve also never seen so many blown assignments on the OL. Just kids flat out letting defenders run by them. I could have literally provided more resistance, and I’m 6 foot 155 pounds.

How bad does our OL have to be to try something different ? We seriously probably have the worst OL in FBS and there’s probably 20-30 FCS teams with better lines too. And this isn’t a rare occurrence.

Our OL is bad year in, year out. Couldn’t tell you the last time we had a respectable OL. Maybe when Geep was here ? Been almost a decade I believe.

Does a QB have to get seriously injured before we decide it’s a bad idea to lose the line of scrimmage every game? Puzzling situation. Even for Rick Nepotism Stockstill, who hires family and keeps his buddies around so they can juice their retirement, regardless of their performance as a coach


Pathetic and shameless. Weak man who is not a good role model to his players. Actions speak louder than words Rick. Your refusal to fire your dead weight assistants speaks volumes about you and your lack of regard for MT and the players. And everyone sees it.

Top paid CUSA head football coaches:

LU Jamey Chadwell 4.0M*
JSU Rich Rodriguez 1.0M
LaTech Sonny Cumbie 950k
WKU Tyson Helton 922k
MT Rick Stockstill 910k
UTEP Dana Dimel 829k
FIU Mike MacIntyre 750k
SHSU KC Keeler 600k
NMSU Jerry Kill 600k

*reportedly

I found myself wondering what andy mccollum is doing these days?😫

Rehtorical question, I knew he is the head coach at the University of the South in Sewanee, TN.

They're 3-1 and host this Saturday at 2PM, October 7, B'ham Southern, who is 1-4,

Since joining a conference in 1947, the only decade an outright conference title in football wasn't won was the 1970s. There was a 20-year gap between 1965 and 1985. At the time, that was the longest.

Until now. It's now been 31 years. And Rick is responsible for 18 of those 31 all by himself. Three decades of futility. MT had 11 outright titles over 40 years. If CRS stays, we may have zero in the next 40. We're already three fourths of the way there.

Is anyone in Cope, Murphy, or the Board awake?

I turned it off a while ago because I already knew what was going to happen.

But just remember that this University rewards this. So long as Rick gets to six wins he’s gets a one million dollar bonus.

As said earlier everywhere else this coach wouldn’t have an office tomorrow losing a decades worth of games to your biggest rival and peer. At MT we reward this with millions of dollars.

This is why I quit giving and why I quit going. Y’all have a good rest of the season.

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Western Kentucky University
Location: 1906 College Heights Blvd, Bowling Green, KY 42101
Founded: 1906 Enrollment: 20,171 Undergrad Postgrad
Acceptance rate: 97%
Colors: Red and White Nickname: Hilltoppers Mascot: Big Red
Fight song: "Stand up and Cheer" (Fight song of Ohio, WKU, Montana St. and SEMOST)
Series: MT leads 35-36-1 (In Murfreesboro: MT leads 21-15-1; At Bowling Green: WKU leads 21-14)
Stadium: Houchens (22,113)
Head Coach: : Tyson Helton (Houston, 1999)
Record at WKU: 32-21 (5th) Overall: Same
2022 Record: 9-5 2022 Bowl: New Orleans
Starters Ret./Lost: 12/14 Lettermen R/L: 36/35

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Where: Houchens Industries-L.T. Smith Stadium, 1605 Avenue Of The Champions, Bowling Green, KY 42101

Game Day Information: 2021 WKU Football Gameday Guide

Television: CBSSN, Play-by-play Alex Del Barrio, Analyst Malik Zaire, Field Analyst None

Radio: PxP: Chip Walters (33rd season) Analyst Joe Dubin (1st season)
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2022 Game Thread: Middle Tennessee (3-3, 0-2) vs Western Kentucky (3-3, 1-1), #100MilesOfHate, (Homecoming), (ESPN+), 2:30PM, Saturday, October 15, 2022

2021 Game Thread: Middle Tennessee(4-4, 2-2) @ WKU(4-4, 3-1), (Stadium), 2:30, Saturday, November 6, 2021

2020 Game Thread: Middle Tennessee (0-3, 0-1) vs WKU (0-2, 0-0) (ESPN3)/Homecoming, Saturday 4PM, October 3, 2020

2019 Game Thread: Middle Tennessee (4-7, 3-4) @ WKU (7-4, 5-2), (ESPN+), 1PM, Saturday, November 30, 2019

2018 Game Thread: MIDDLE TENNESSEE (5-3; 4-1) vs WKU (1-7; 0-4)(CBSSN)/Salute to Armed Forces, 7PM, Friday, 11/2/18

2017 Game Thread: Middle Tennessee (5-5, 3-3) @ Western Kentucky (5-5, 3-3) (CBSSN), 7PM, Friday, 11/17/2017

For almost all of Ricks 18 years here there has been a fundamental flaw with the offensive scheme. The same issue lurks beneath the surface Year after year. Yes, terrible OL play is part of the issue but there is something else and this last game really helps elucidate it. And would like some of you coach types to weigh in on this.

Yesterday both QBs completed 30 passes. Both offenses employ similar attributes schematically. But CSU got 66 more yards out of their 30 completions than we did. This in spite of CSU basically throwing a bunch of East/west WR screens and five yard out routes.

It doesn’t sound like much but how many times do we throw a sideways pass and only get a yard or two? CSU was consistently getting five yards on those types of plays. Which resulted in CSU having less yards to go on 3rd down. We weren’t terrible on 3rd down but CSU won that game on 55% third down conversion rate to our 41%. Why is that when we beat them in every other phase of the game is it so difficult to convert on third down? Because it’s easier to convert on 3rd and 2 or 3 than it is 3rd and 5 or 6. Especially when CSU knows they have built in five yard plays. This has always been a problem schematically for Ricks teams. When you rush for 150 yards and triple the opponents total you should never lose unless you turn it over four or five times. It just blows my mind how often we throw into the boundary when we don’t have the numbers or the DBs are are playing bump. Opponents can do this to us because they don’t respect our vertical passing game. If we’re going to throw 25 WR screens and jet sweeps we’ve got throw down the field more. As many screens as we throw we should run the fake screen to a streaking fake blocker at least five times a game to give our WRs a little more space to operate in space. We ran it once last week against Murray and it went for a TD. I think we only ran it once yesterday and it went incomplete because Nick didn’t have enough time. I thought the OL did a nice job run blocking but they have got to get better in protection. That’s coaching. Ah nevermind we know the problem there. All of this is connected though. It’s such minor things that would be the difference in probably at least two more scoring chances that get wasted. And these can’t be wasted anymore with the new clock rules. There are less possessions. Efficiency is far more important now than it was in years past with these new rules.

Another reason this occurred is because opposing offenses can do what CSU did to to us because we pretty much give that yardage away. I wanted to pull my hair out under four when CSU kept throwing the screen under four mins to play and our DBs were playing 10 yards off the line. Why they elected to run the ball on that last 3rd down I have no idea. If they want to potentially throw an incompletion 40 yards down the field and stop the clock then take your shot. But to keep giving them room to throw those sidleline passes blew my mind. They knew they couldn’t run it. We should have had a DB ready to jump one of those for a pick six. But we choose to compete instead of win. Sigh

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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28

Middle Tennessee at WKU (CBSSN) 6:30 p.m.
Jax State at Sam Houston (ESPNU) 7 p.m.


FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 29

LA Tech at UTEP (CBSSN) 8 p.m

O/U 60.5

Wayne County's Blair Baugus, one of Tennessee's best basketball players had an unofficial visit with the Lady Raiders coaching staff September 16th. Baugus was named the 1-A state MVP after scoring 25 points in Wayne County's 2022-2023 championship game this past March. While having 2 years left Baugus has also received offers from Southern Miss & Belmont.
She will be sure to receive Power 5 offers before her tenure is out, but Matt & staff have proved themselves be excellent recruiters. She would be a tremendous get! Very smart to start early.