Maybe it is just really hard to say something intelligent after another 3+ hour stink-a-thon, but Sean Kugler said this; "We didn't sustain any drives and offensively, we're not running the ball well. We need to fix that problem," Kugler said. "What the answers are, we're going to have to get back to work and try to figure that out. I don't have that answer for you right now."
"Can you believe this came out of his mouth, "we're not running the ball well"?! I don't know if there has even been a bigger understatement ever made. The Miners, built by Sean Kugler to run the football, no trickeration, just push people around run the football, ran for 17 yards last night. Seventeen yards!
Kugler says the coaches have to fix that and he doesn't have an answer. Coach! Who do you think we should pay to come give you the answer? Here's what is even worse! There have been three games so far. Against the top 5 in the country team, OU, the Miners ran for 73 yards. By any measure that is oh, since I am an retired teacher I'll give it a letter grade a "D" at best. Then, against Rice it dropped to 26 yards of rushing! That is an "F", and it wasn't even close to passing. Working hard to fix the problem it only got worse. The Miners powered their way to seventeen yards behind the All-American left tackle Will Hernandez! I mean, how do you even do that? I have never coached a single game of football, but I swear, I believe I could coach the team to more rushing yards than that if I didn't coach them at all. But, with just what I know, I am pretty sure I could do much better than 17 yards of rushing. And, having never coached a single football game in my life, I think I can see the answer that Sean Kugler can't find if it was his ass and he was using both hands. I mean, everyone can. My wife can see it. But, Kugler is at a loss!
Here is his plan, though;
"You look at scheme first, whether you're doing too much or not doing what's suited for your players. And then you look at personnel. And again, we do have some guys we can look at with [Joshua] Fields and [Ronald] Awatt. But collectively, something has got to change there or we will be in trouble."
Has he not been looking at his "scheme"? I mean, seriously! What the Hell! His scheme is the same as it has been since he got here, and it has gotten to this point! Seventeen yards! What are you looking at when you are looking, for Christ's sake? Jock strap placement? The new helmets? The line blocking? It really isn't that complicated. But, even if you can't figure out what is wrong, which oh by the way is what you're paid to do, how about just throwing up you hands and saying I don't know why we can't run the ball the way I want to, so in desperation I'm going to try that throwing a forward pass? Nope, let's try and figure out if we can move feet closer together, spread the line out maybe a little, work on the line men's hands. Get new jerseys. Something!?
Maybe it is because you are looking at what is suited for your players(you know, the ones you recruited to be just the kind of players you needed to do what you do) instead of looking at what your basic idea of what to do is? Maybe? Couldn't be that, right? Nope. Look at the players. Surely there has to be some players that can do what I want to do! Right? Because that is so much easier than looking at the way you are trying to play football!
But, in one of the stupidest statements I have ever read(looking back at it, it could be very insightful, though, one that rates right up there with we have to pass it to find out what's in it, there is this, " But collectively, something has got to change there or we will be in trouble." Will be in trouble? We aren't now, but we will be! Something has got to change. Well, Kugler, like a blind hog, may have finally stumbled onto an acorn of wisdom. Most Miners fans know what it is and are waiting, disgustedly for the change to come. It is obvious that Kugler can't be held to his word. Stull is out of here. So, it seems that Clueless Kugler is here for the duration.
