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Louis Riddick thinks Lance Guidry was out schemed by Georgia Tech

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hoops156 said:
just so poorly coached
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Like...that's not getting fixed. I don't know what the f*** is going on. Guys are confused EVERY GAME.

People think there's a chance we solve this. I was one of them. But after the GT game we aren't solving this. It's crazy. We're in one of those can't see the forest for the trees coaching situations. They're too far up their own a**es to fix it.
 
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there's a book out on our D. You don't need to be bill walsh to exploit it. We just need to get our isht together or we'll be getting outschemed again.
 
Other than maybe Ruben Bain, is there a single difference maker recruited the last three years on defense? OJ maybe such a player. Obviously true freshman and second year players who didn’t play last year can’t be expected to be all conference type players, but they surely should be able to line up correctly.

Mario’s transition class was a disaster. Only had a few weeks to put it together, so it’s not unexpected. Wes is the only contributor and I frankly don’t think he’s that good. Third year player who still takes bad angles and can’t tackle consistently.

Add a complete set of bad coaching hires and here we are.

Below average players and below average coaching.
 
Gables Canes said:
So then this is Mario’s fault. There’s zero reason for the defense to be this atrocious in year 3. We’re not getting lit up by top tier offenses. We’re getting bludgeoned and embarrassed by below average offenses, 3rd stringers, and QB’s with limp shoulders.

If this is really a talent issue, how is the talent arguably WORSE in year 3 than it was in year 1? That’s what the defensive production says, at least.
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The transition class was a total bust.

The jury is still out on '23, but not a particularly strong defensive class.

The '24 and '25 classes look much better on defense, but that doesn't do us a ton of good right now.
 
Glow said:
I’m curios how often they faced misdirection offenses at Marshall.

My worry is he impressed Mario because his stuff is good vs teams that line up and run at you but maybe he is too reliant on players to erase mistakes against teams that motion around and create assignment conflicts right before the snap.

I would feel better if he had more proven p4 success, the combo of being g5 and deon bush saying DBs are playing poor technique and then giving multiple bad offenses their best games of the conference season is sus.

If more of the opponents were Louisville quality that would be one thing but we are getting burned by mid offenses that can’t even throw.
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I don't think schemes are dramatically different at the P4 level.

Everybody's running the same stuff.

Under Guidry, we've been good against the run.

GTech was just a horrible game for a lot of reasons.
 
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You don’t need great talent to not get beat by alignment, you don’t need great talent to PROTECT THE EDGE OF THE DEFENSE.

Gtech literally ran the same **** in different ways all game and they were marching down field consistently
 
CANESCANES said:
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@Coach Macho is there a Devil’s advocate defense of this

CanesAreAble said:
I don't think schemes are dramatically different at the P4 level.

Everybody's running the same stuff.

Under Guidry, we've been good against the run.

GTech was just a horrible game for a lot of reasons.
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Guidry's rep coming in was that he did some creative/gimmicky stuff with his fronts but I am most interested in the question of does he need eraser safeties to make his defense work, is there a big enough supply of what counts as an eraser safety at the p4 level to keep the team stocked with them, is he a good teacher & developer of safeties.

I would say Cal and Duke were also very bad games, will give them a pass on Louisville and VT since Louisville is a good offense and VT's QB and RB were breaking tackles and making plays.
 
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Cannot sugar coat the defense. A pathetic effort. I have to equally blame to the offense. They had chances especially to middle 8 minutes to take control of the game. Miami gave up 31 or more points 4 times and won.
 
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There’s too many fundamental issues with our defense to just blame it on lack of talent. It doesn’t take first round talent to line up correctly. It doesn’t take first round talent to know where the sticks are on third down and to drop accordingly. It doesn’t take first round talent to set the edge and funnel the runner back towards the middle. This is fundamental stuff that every high school kid learns. I get it, there’s only so much you can expect with mediocre players but basic fundamentals is one of the things you can.
 
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252cane said:
This is a complete lie. You can’t name anyone on either of their defenses and most of there guys won’t be playing beyond college. Our guys would start there. Hèll gore couldn’t get on the field here and he was playing for gt
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this is the excuse people use when a side of the ball sucks. it can never be coaching.

Kam would literally go off script to cover up scheme deficiencies.
 
hoops156 said:
this is the excuse people use when a side of the ball sucks. it can never be coaching.

Kam would literally go off script to cover up scheme deficiencies.
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And this is always the revisionist history to explain why last year’s savior is this year’s village idiot.

“The good players freelanced to cover up his incompetence.”

I won’t lose any sleep if Guidry is replaced, but the narratives forming around him are quite common.
 
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