Craig Smoak offers his immediate thoughts and opinions on Baylor Football after their latest game.
It's only fair for a coach to call out his players after acknowledging his own failures. And Dave had enough failures of his own to fill the whole press conference last night.BU82EX said:
You make an excellent point about calling out the players. In today's world of NIL, I'd say its completely fair to call out the players responsible for missed tackles, assignments, dropped passes, sacks, penalties, etc.. IF these players are getting paid. I know in my job, I'm going to be held personally accountable for my work production. You are now considered an investment and you should be held accountable for what your employer is getting for their investment in you (ROI).
Calling the time out after seeing the lineup on the field was good. The resulting strategery and execution was not so good.Killing Floor said:
Please stop using that word. It is not a "heartbreaker" to call that last second time out to save the Buffs, let the opponent call in a play, and leave the end zone largely unattended. The word you're looking for is "charitable".
This. You know who doesn't critique missed assignments in the press after games? Kyle Whittingham. Why? Because his team doesn't miss assignments. Why? Because he's a good coach.Big12Fan2024 said:
Dear Dave:
You said the problem was the players made a lot of mistakes. Why did they make the mistakes? I'll answer it for you -- we do not have a fundamentally sound team. Why do we not have a fundamentally sound team? Because despite you and your coaching staff having combined salaries well over $5 million, you have failed in teaching the basic fundamentals of the game. We may not have the raw talent of Texas, Ohio St or UGA but there's no reason our players can't perform the basic fundamentals of the game unless, of course, you and your staff didn't teach them. Which has been obvious for the past 3 seasons.
Quinton said:
Our safeties have no instinct or feel for the game. The number one criteria for a roamer to have and they don't have it. The dude who transferred back is okay but made mistakes too, and I don't even think he plays straight safety anymore. The other guys are unplayable
4thandgoal said:
Defensive line was really solid for the most part aside from a few missed sacks. LBs were very good against the run.
The defensive backs…. Lorando stepped up and made some nice plays. But his awful PI early on, not turning around at all. Devin Lemear not knowing where the ball is, not turned around, and just walks into Hunter while the ball arrives. Insane.
Caden Jenkins was supposed to be arguably our best player. He's borderline unplayable now. All for a guy who took to Twitter last year about NIL BS. To have back to back Hail Mary plays where both should have been TDs to lose the game essentially? It's crazy.
How are our DBs so awfully coached?
And what about the few times our DBs literally stopped mid play and didn't tackle the ball carrier or simply make the finishing tackle or TOUCH to end the play and prevent that BS touchdown (he was down). It's just incompetency all across the board.
This group of DBs is worse than any year of Briles era, that is absolute insanity.
Pastorron said:
I have listened and watched Baylor football since the 1950s. It has been interesting over the years to hear and read the gripers calling for a coaching change. Doesn't make any difference what they have done in past. Just what about today? I remember the gripe birds calling for Coach Teaff to go and some of us back then actually think admins listened to that stuff. Our current coach has a contact and I believe we should honor that. Remember three years ago he was offered a number of what many considered to be better than Baylor. Sat. was hard to watch, yet there was a number of real positives. Quit the gripes and enjoy the seasons. The real days of college sports is over. Now who has the most money will start to win the most games. I will be gone, but remember you heard it here... Hurry for Hollywood and drill baby drill and buy those sports shoes.
