One win, eleven losses. Embarrassing, sometimes comical ineptitude, in nearly all facets of the game. If competitive football means anything at NU, the results of the last two seasons should be 100% unacceptable, and that word needs to mean something. We are Dark Ages Bad, with most of the old excuses no longer operative -- which actually makes it even worse, in my view. At any other major conference school the head coach would be gone, or on a white hot seat. The buck stops with him. But he's not going anywhere, and I'm actually ok with that. For now. He's brought us to unprecedented heights in the modern era, both as a player and coach. He deserves a chance to get out of the hole he's dug for himself and the program. We cannot suffer a season or two more of this garbage, but he is and should be safe. For now.
The offense is unwatchably atrocious, regardless of who is at QB (a position that has been a real problem ever since Thorson, with that one transfer for the 2020 season, as a major exception). I don't know how much of this is the fault of the OC's schemes/game-planning, but the results speak for themselves. I don't know how the person responsible for the last two years' putrid offensive output should keep his job.
Then there's the DC, a hire that was utterly puzzling, on paper. The hire has been just as bad, or worse, in reality. This is on the head coach. It was his buddy hire. The results are very bad. The guy can recruit, it seems, but that only means so much. Look at the game outcomes.
I'm not a 'fire everyone!' type of fan, but my god. How can we embrace "continuity" if it means continuing...this? In my opinion, both coordinators should be gone, and perhaps some other coaches, too. Clean house. The message needs to be that this is not acceptable. And Fitz ought to think very hard -- much harder than last time, evidently -- about the would-be hires he'd be bringing in. He'll be hiring and coaching for his job over the next season or two. That's my view. My questions for the gallery are:
(1) Who *should* be fired?
(2) One week from today, will one, both, or neither of the two coordinators still have their jobs at NU?