This post is not to comment on today's game. It's been covered, very accurately, already. I'm jumping on here to confirm what I said last week and that is that Christensen needs to be fired. It doesn't matter what we feel about him personally (for instance, I feel he's an ass and a bully, has a gigantic ego, with just a little bit of stupid thrown in). The reason he needs to be fired is because he does not have what it takes to be a head coach at the FBS level. He was a good OC in his last situation, he took a shot, we took a shot, but it didn't work. He simply can not do the job. Not many people can. It's hard. Move on.
Most of us were pretty excited when he came here. We were hoping for a little bit of that Missouri magic. Unfortunately, that's what we got, a little bit.
He took over for Glenn. Why? Because Glenn couldn't do the job. Maybe Glenn couldn't either, but he certainly did a better job than Christensen, and it was a lot more entertaining!
We're 43 games into the Christensen experiment and our record under his leadership is 19-24. Well, after 43 games under Glenn's guidance we were 19-24 also. Glenn inherited a team without a pulse, maybe the worse situation possible, a team that won 5 games total in the previous 3 years. Christensen inherited a team that averaged 5 wins per year in the previous 3 before showing up. That's a huge difference. Christensen has a larger budget (mostly his paycheck!) and the facilities have improved and he has delivered what we already had. I guess people could try to defend Christensen by saying, "we've been to 2 bowl games and Glenn only took us to one." Fair enough, but in the first, we beat Fresno State and in the second bowl game we got embarassed in front of the nation. In Glenn's bowl game we beat a team with a "big name". Not to mention that there are more bowl games now and therefore easier to get into one, plus under the same conditions that Christensen has, Glenn should have coached us in 2 bowl games. When we went 6-6 under Glenn (the same record as our 2009 team) we should have gone to the same bowl game (New Mexico). The bowl picked New Mexico over Wyoming, even though we beat them in the regular season and finished ahead of them in conference. Understandably as the local team should deliver a better attendance, but it should have been given to Wyoming. It wasn't, but only due to politics, not Glenn's lack of delivering a record that quaified. There's also the fact that over the entire body of work, Glenn's teams had much tougher schdules. During Christensen's era we've had a couple tough OOC teams on the schedule each year, but our conference is getting weaker.
It's also apparant that our "play not to lose" strategy is delivering what's to be expected, losses. In Glenn's first 43 games we beat Utah, Ole Miss, UCLA and BYU. What's out biggest win in the DC era?
To keep up with Glenn's (what we had) first 50 games, Christensen needs to finish this season 4-3. That's to stay even with what we had. Anything less and we're actually going backward. Glenn was fired. Why should Christensen be allowed to stay? He can't hold onto players, can't beat a big program, can't recruit (What do have so far for next year, a few 2 star and no star recruits?), can't coach up, can't oversee a defense and can't seem to care enough to communicate with the fans.
If Christensen stays be prepared for more of the same over and over again. He built this thing...
Most of us were pretty excited when he came here. We were hoping for a little bit of that Missouri magic. Unfortunately, that's what we got, a little bit.
He took over for Glenn. Why? Because Glenn couldn't do the job. Maybe Glenn couldn't either, but he certainly did a better job than Christensen, and it was a lot more entertaining!
We're 43 games into the Christensen experiment and our record under his leadership is 19-24. Well, after 43 games under Glenn's guidance we were 19-24 also. Glenn inherited a team without a pulse, maybe the worse situation possible, a team that won 5 games total in the previous 3 years. Christensen inherited a team that averaged 5 wins per year in the previous 3 before showing up. That's a huge difference. Christensen has a larger budget (mostly his paycheck!) and the facilities have improved and he has delivered what we already had. I guess people could try to defend Christensen by saying, "we've been to 2 bowl games and Glenn only took us to one." Fair enough, but in the first, we beat Fresno State and in the second bowl game we got embarassed in front of the nation. In Glenn's bowl game we beat a team with a "big name". Not to mention that there are more bowl games now and therefore easier to get into one, plus under the same conditions that Christensen has, Glenn should have coached us in 2 bowl games. When we went 6-6 under Glenn (the same record as our 2009 team) we should have gone to the same bowl game (New Mexico). The bowl picked New Mexico over Wyoming, even though we beat them in the regular season and finished ahead of them in conference. Understandably as the local team should deliver a better attendance, but it should have been given to Wyoming. It wasn't, but only due to politics, not Glenn's lack of delivering a record that quaified. There's also the fact that over the entire body of work, Glenn's teams had much tougher schdules. During Christensen's era we've had a couple tough OOC teams on the schedule each year, but our conference is getting weaker.
It's also apparant that our "play not to lose" strategy is delivering what's to be expected, losses. In Glenn's first 43 games we beat Utah, Ole Miss, UCLA and BYU. What's out biggest win in the DC era?
To keep up with Glenn's (what we had) first 50 games, Christensen needs to finish this season 4-3. That's to stay even with what we had. Anything less and we're actually going backward. Glenn was fired. Why should Christensen be allowed to stay? He can't hold onto players, can't beat a big program, can't recruit (What do have so far for next year, a few 2 star and no star recruits?), can't coach up, can't oversee a defense and can't seem to care enough to communicate with the fans.
If Christensen stays be prepared for more of the same over and over again. He built this thing...
