Kansas Falls To Southern Mississippi

this really comes down to the inability to sustain some consistent drives and maintain a time of possession advantage, coupled with our inability to get more stops on D…they were just running right through us for much of the game…lack of really any pass rush and corners playing too far off the ball.

i am optimistic about webb and sims, however-i hope to see continued improvement from both of them as the year progresses.

He’s the one coach that Gill brought with him from Buffalo. At this point, I’m sure we’re all wondering why………

But the fact that we’ve looked helpless against the spread for 2 years, and it continued last night has me worried. It seemed to me like this staff is no more confident the last in terms of our CBs being able to play tight man-to-man coverage. We gave them cushions and they took advantage. Our linebackers also seem to vacate the middle of the field immediately on every play, leaving us vulnerable to scrambles and slow-developing running plays. Aside from the occasional creative blitz, this defense looked like a carbon copy of last year’s.

We kept the ball in our hands for the majority of the 3rd quarter which was definitely a win and the two stops early in the 3rd did provide some optimism…but beyond that USM was able to take their foot off the gas and ran twice as much as they passed in the 2nd half.

I did think the defense played better as they settled in and I liked the fact that we were able to blitz and generate some pressure at times, but I still don’t get the sense that we’re at a point where we can go into a game and win it with our defense.

Mangino and his staff just missed in recruiting front 7 players too often in recent years. We have pieces but their isn’t much depth and we don’t really have anyone that consistently provides a playmaking threat.

You can’t expect an offense with a freshman quarterback to start winging it all over the field and be effective. I would expect the passing game to remain conservative until Webb gets more comfortable (and a little more time to throw). I agree something has to change in the punting game, but firing Stamm after three games will not fix our problems. We’re 1-2 in a year with a new coach, new systems, and a new quarterback. Not time to fall on our swords yet.

As a team we are giving up 190 yards/game. We gave up 202 yards last night. Torbush may figure it out somehow, but don’t expect much improvement with the talent level we have. Our D-line has to rank at the bottom of the Big 12. All that aside, it worries me a lot that it has been 3 games and our game management has been awful. Wasted timeouts, unorganized plays/personnel, and lack of play-clock attention have really hurt. I’m thinking this will be a season to forget, but I hope we turn it around by Big 12 play.