I try not to blame the ventriloquist dummy

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If a ventriloquist dummy insults you, you don't get mad at the dummy.

Lausch is a symptom, not the problem. It's not his fault that he can't do the job. By all accounts, hes putting in the work (unlike Hilinski, who seems to be just enjoying life). I'm not sure he'd start at any other FBS program. And he's not a kid, he's 11 games into his 3rd year of college football.

Likewise guys like Carsello or our geriatric tight ends. They just aren't good enough despite years in the program.

We got thrashed by the worst Mich team since RichRod and it looks like the team quit.

I don't get it. Braun seemed like a godsend last year. This year, he's like a deer in the headlights on GameDay. And the team looks slow, weak, and unprepared.

Sigh. I'll see you guys at Wrigley.

 

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If a ventriloquist dummy insults you, you don't get mad at the dummy.

Lausch is a symptom, not the problem. It's not his fault that he can't do the job. By all accounts, hes putting in the work (unlike Hilinski, who seems to be just enjoying life). I'm not sure he'd start at any other FBS program. And he's not a kid, he's 11 games into his 3rd year of college football.

Likewise guys like Carsello or our geriatric tight ends. They just aren't good enough despite years in the program.

We got thrashed by the worst Mich team since RichRod and it looks like the team quit.

I don't get it. Braun seemed like a godsend last year. This year, he's like a deer in the headlights on GameDay. And the team looks slow, weak, and unprepared.

Sigh. I'll see you guys at Wrigley.

One could argue 9 career starts with a brand new OC constitutes being a kid. Lausch was thrust into the starting role after the ineffectiveness of Wright. The plan all along was for Wright to serve as a bridge to next season when the staff felt Lausch would be more prepared to take over the starting role.

 

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One could argue 9 career starts with a brand new OC constitutes being a kid. Lausch was thrust into the starting role after the ineffectiveness of Wright. The plan all along was for Wright to serve as a bridge to next season when the staff felt Lausch would be more prepared to take over the starting role.

That was a huge mistake.

 

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That was a huge mistake.

Perhaps, but what choice was there? Wright clearly isn't Ramsey or Bryant. He has better running skills than Lausch but is an equally poor passer, with same bad ball security. I don't see another game on the schedule he'd have won. Perhaps fewer/less embarrassing losses like yesterday or Washington.

We are in a "Dust Bowl" of quarterbacking, with a drought that goes back to Thor's signing. Sullivan, with all his flaws, remains the best signee since then.

It's the coaches' job to identify, attract and develop talent. It's the hardest part of the job. I feel they may have coasted this winter after Lujan signed, thinking the SDSU guy would transfer. When he didn't, they looked at Lausch's raw athletic talent this spring and figured, incorrectly, that he and a late transfer could do it.

Although I feel Lausch is more Brewer than Kafka (and, anyway, do we to suck for two years to get one good year?), but this is WAY beyond him. Stupid penalties, missed assignments and tackles from veteran players, or simple inability to do their job. Carsello is a 3rd year player that cannot handle the most important part of the job. Apparently there isn't a single other OL that can make the center snap. But I don't blame him (or Lausch). It's the coaches' fault that they have to play because we don't have anyone better