3, I could definitely go harsher like everyone else but figure it should be more balanced. There’s saying among football coaches that “You get what allow” and here we have an AD who writes a contract to reward someone who performs at a .500 level so what do we get? 91-87 record over CRS tenure. Massaro’s only way out was probably to book those P5 OOC schools every year in an effort to whittle down the contract but he needed to book four P5’s instead of two. But in the process he makes the program look worse and worse which is ultimately hurting recruiting because kids don’t want to play for a dog. This is a penny wise pound foolish program that looks at the Power 5 paydays as a way to make quick money without trying to run a consistent 9-10 win team who’s exciting that brings fans in.
You only have to look South to UAB to see they went from a dead program to a C-USA champion & runner up in 2 years.
2, Probably being kind here but how ultimately as the Head Coach you have to get something on your ONLY red zone series of the game. I get it you don’t want to give the ball back to Army but they are a run offense, you could probably give them the ball back with 2 minutes and be safe, take your time use your timeouts and get a score. There are High School and Youth coaches across the country that saw this as a big mistake (which CRS admitted) but this is FBS you can’t make that mistake at this level it is a massive failure. He got shutout on the opener with a -4 TO and less then 200 yards of offense, and basically lost ever statistical category. I’m giving him a 2 for ‘Competing’ 😃
1, Truthfully the core of every problem starts with Tony Franklin and based on that statement you could say it trickles up to Rick Stockstill based on leadership. Last year was Time of Possession was 26:59, we were basically giving up 10% more plays to the opposing offense. Some folks might say the defense needs to get off the field but offense controls the tempo and they aren’t doing that, for the record MTSU TOP of 24:31 giving Army 15% more plays. Secondly and I complained about this last season is 3rd down efficiency we were 33% and two of the three were 3rd and short, if you can’t convert your TOP isn’t going to improve. The offense is just horrible, multiple times each game I see multiple receivers in the same spot for passes, this is a cardinal rule WR’s should never been in the same spot and since Franklin has been here I’ve seen it happen game in and game out. Lastly, Tony Franklin is responsible for recruiting a QB and here we are without a QB that was offered a scholarship to come to MTSU, our 1st and 2nd string QB’s are both walk ons and chances are the kid from California with change his mind (or get recruited) and he’ll back out.
PS - The run game isn’t working either.
5, I can’t say anything good I think everything starts with offense and in a week when you have four TO’s offensively the defense is put in some very bad positions. You add in very little time off the field against a ball control offense and defense will suffer, Schafer needs to do a better job of substitutions it looks like the same guys there the whole game. Last point, I would punish that MLB for the late hit in the 4th it was about to be 3rd and 25 and a late cheap shot against the back up QB allowed Army to score another.