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Chad Reese leaving Cowboy football

MrTitleist

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Just announced it on Twitter.

[tweet]https://twitter.com/_Chad100/status/403574092625747968[/tweet]
 
So number 7 bails out. Wonder about the inner-workings of this. Too bad all the way around - not good to lose a JR 2 year letterman, who was 6th on the team last season in tackles. Then again, he has his RS year, and can transfer home to Texas-Somewhere and play his final year there.
 
Get Christensen the hell out of here. I understand that there is going to be some attrition within the program from time to time, but his track record on attrition is beyond bad. It's pretty clear to me that the players don't like playing for him, and they wouldn't be too sad to see him leave.
 
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The ship is sinking fast....
 
I can't get worked up about anybody on the defense leaving. It's like they're not out there on game day anyway, so who cares?
 
To be fair attrition hasn't been out of the ordinary after his 09 class ( which was a late class to be put together). The problem seems to be development. Take Berg for example, he came in an started as a true freshman at lb but now where is he? Burns is another example of a lack of development.
 
marcuswyo said:
To be fair attrition hasn't been out of the ordinary after his 09 class ( which was a late class to be put together). The problem seems to be development. Take Berg for example, he came in an started as a true freshman at lb but now where is he? Burns is another example of a lack of development.
This is why we need to up the budget so we can afford quality assistant coaches. Redonkulous.
 
marcuswyo said:
To be fair attrition hasn't been out of the ordinary after his 09 class ( which was a late class to be put together). The problem seems to be development. Take Berg for example, he came in an started as a true freshman at lb but now where is he? Burns is another example of a lack of development.

Burns - that kid should have stuck with being a host at Chili's and left the team. All 5'7" slow as molasses of him.
 
JimmyDimes said:
marcuswyo said:
To be fair attrition hasn't been out of the ordinary after his 09 class ( which was a late class to be put together). The problem seems to be development. Take Berg for example, he came in an started as a true freshman at lb but now where is he? Burns is another example of a lack of development.

+1
 
thirtyseven said:
JimmyDimes said:
marcuswyo said:
To be fair attrition hasn't been out of the ordinary after his 09 class ( which was a late class to be put together). The problem seems to be development. Take Berg for example, he came in an started as a true freshman at lb but now where is he? Burns is another example of a lack of development.

+1


Lack of development is a byproduct of trying to fix things quickly. When you rely on JUCO recruits your development is going to lag! Not to mention you will be stuck with a large number of "thugs" who have a huge sense of entitlement! Recruit the upper Mid-West where the athletes are used to the cold and wind. Our problem is we go to Texarkana, Southern Cal, Florida and think that they are better players. Hell get your ass in the frozen tundra in Alaska and get some of those tough nutted Eskimos!
 
Slow Hand said:
thirtyseven said:
JimmyDimes said:
marcuswyo said:
To be fair attrition hasn't been out of the ordinary after his 09 class ( which was a late class to be put together). The problem seems to be development. Take Berg for example, he came in an started as a true freshman at lb but now where is he? Burns is another example of a lack of development.

+1


Lack of development is a byproduct of trying to fix things quickly. When you rely on JUCO recruits your development is going to lag! Not to mention you will be stuck with a large number of "thugs" who have a huge sense of entitlement! Recruit the upper Mid-West where the athletes are used to the cold and wind. Our problem is we go to Texarkana, Southern Cal, Florida and think that they are better players. Hell get your ass in the frozen tundra in Alaska and get some of those tough nutted Eskimos!

The problem with that is that there just aren't that many D-1 caliber players in the upper Midwest. Any of the really good ones get snagged by Boise, Minnesota, Wisconsin. Some do go to FCS schools (why North Dakota is so strong). In the states of Wyoming, Montana, N./S. Dakota combined, there are probably as many D-1 caliber players as just in Colorado in any given year, maybe less.
 
marcuswyo said:
To be fair attrition hasn't been out of the ordinary after his 09 class ( which was a late class to be put together). The problem seems to be development. Take Berg for example, he came in an started as a true freshman at lb but now where is he? Burns is another example of a lack of development.

You are 100% correct that the last couple years development has been the problem. When he first arrived it was players leaving, be it his recruits or Glenn's. From my rant of a couple years ago when I realized DC was shit (cut & pasted below), I came up with 36 players that left during or right after the first two seasons. Then there were more before the next season started. We keep having players trickle away (our punter, our All-American long snapper, our back-up QBs, etc.), but it isn't as bad as it was. So now he recruits players that stay, but he doesn't get them better or let them see the field. If we keep him another year, can you imagine the new guy taking over with all the Juco players graduating with the seniors? Talk about no depth!

My rant from January 2011 with the list of departing players:

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I just read an article on-line from the Boomerang regarding the retention of our players. The timing seems to be tied to the recent departure of ACS. To me it appears to be a bit of spin doctoring, as in "we're not losing too many players, this is okay". Then they mention a few players that have left that were DC recruits. The list was rather small as I remember players have been dropping left and right since last season, regardless of the reason or who recruited them. So I pulled out my program from the 2009 season game against UNLV and ran down how many true freshmen or red shirt freshmen were on the roster that are no longer here. There are some high profile players like:

ACS
Gary
Watts
Tooley

ACS and Watts have been two of our three leading scorers in each of the past two seasons. Their first year the script was ACS would drive us back using grit, smoke & mirrors and Watts would hit the game winning or game tying FG. Meanwhile Gary was a first team Freshman All American. Tooley, although not used a whole lot was looking like he may become the go-to guy. We went to the NM Bowl, won, and things were looking great, so what happened? Besides these four players other true or red shirt freshmen that have left are:

Orth
Battle
Jaynes
Barry
Marsom
Mitchell
Petsch
Hirtz
Gilkey
Owen
Hundley
Downs
James
Jerred
Buzzanowski
Vonashek
Criss
Aliota
Pinney
Rosen
Chong Tim
Greenfield

Then there were DC transfers that departed:

Benjamin
Bridgford

And there are even a couple kickers on the roster that aren't around, we could use one of them now:

Kevin Bell
Chase Klocker

Plus we even lost our first Captain:

Terry

Is there anybody else? Oh right, Brandon Stewart, Marcus Felker, Alex Hays, James Davis and Joe Evers. This seems like a lot more than one would expect. And a lot more than the Boomerang article mentions.

On top of this we're losing experienced coaches like Hammerschmidt and Montgomery. Then we're re-assigning an experienced coach, Fanoga, and replacing him with Rahl, who has never coached defense or line backers. Hell, he never even played the position or defense. He can join our other "young" coaches like our receivers coach, Sage, who was a Juco player and Grinch, who coaches our secondary after a stellar career as a D III 3rd team All American. I didn't even know that D III had All Americans until I read his bio! And what is 3rd team D III equal to a 2nd team high school All County? I know you didn't have to be a great player to be a great coach, but let's get a few guys with a little more experience at the coaching positions. BYU probably has players older than some of our coaches! My biggest complaint with assistant coaches is Arroyo, our offensive coordinator. Counting his last year at San Jose and his first two years here, he's managed to lead his offenses to finishes of 112th, 107th and 116th in the country. I only add the tidbit about San Jose to question why our head coach would hire this guy in the first place? Couldn't we have hired away someone that had actually lead a successful offense? Even if you don't agree with anything else I'm saying, you'll have to admit that our play calling was crap. Arroyo couldn't game plan, adjust during the game or even keep his quarterback that he brought with him. Any outsider would look at this string of non-success and question why this guy isn't fired or assigned to only coaching quarterbacks or reassigned to Helper of Recruiting with Fanoga.

I'll admit, like most of us, I was pretty excited with the hiring of DC ("Here's hoping the scoreboard at War Memorial Stadium is in good working order, because Dave Christensen's offense will test it ."). Now I'm starting to think that DC is intimidated by anyone with experience or an opinion. That's why he hires inexperienced coaches regardless if it's a good fit. It also might explain why our players are leaving. Question one thing and you're in the dog house. Another thing that bothers me about DC is his ongoing love affair with Missouri. News Alert-you left that team, you coach Wyoming now! I sort of understand why he didn't move his family here, seeing as they didn't want to leave their friends over their father. What I don't understand is why we have to see him prancing on the sidelines of Missouri's bowl games the past two years, like some little girl who's attending bring-your-daughter-to-work day. He needs to let go and concentrate on the team he has not the team he wishes he had. Not to mention that if I were Missouri's Offensive Coordinator I'd be a little creeped out that this dude keeps showing up. I know I wouldn't like it if the old french fry maker showed up and watched me at my job. DC wouldn't be so surprised when his returning starting quarterback quits if he was paying attention. Wake up, embrace the university, the State and the team, or leave.

Anyway, I'm off to find my meds and fill out my season ticket application...
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