"We do a lot more of those punts where I try to pin them inside the 20," said Dougherty, a two-time athletic director's honor roll selection. "It's something we really didn't concentrate on in the past. We try to work on it every day now, and not just with me, but with the gunners on the outside."I'm glad to see Sensai Holtz is stressing accuracy, but it begs the question: What was John Thompson teaching these kids? How can you coach punting and not stress the idea of trying to pin opponents inside the 20?
Every day it becomes a little more clear that John Thompson was a horrendous ECU hire.
2 comments:
John Thompson was an absolute failure as a head coach and the fact that it surprised anyone really shocks me.
He was a compromise hire by a lame duck AD, a criminal Chancellor, and BOT who really could care less if ECU succeeded.
Thompson's prowess as a Defensive coordinator was highly overstated if you look at Florida's performance. Yes, he was stellar at USM, but tell me a year before Thompson or after that USM has NOT been stellar on defense. We didn't hire Bowers, we hired Thompson.
His players were so fundamentally flawed that I believe there may have been 1,000 coaches out there who could have done better simply by teaching how to tackle, pass, kick, and run.
He flat out sucked and made a decent coach in Steve Logan look like Lombardi.
This is very hard for me to say, but I must: Steve Logan wasn't the worst coach we've every had.
Thompson was awful.
(Baby steps ... baby steps ...)
Post a Comment