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Three or four years ago now, Pitt started the season 2-2 under Walt Harris and one of the local sports writers wrote an article titled, "Who Will Be Pitt's Next Head Coach?" Harris went on to win seven in a row and Pitt went to a BCS Bowl. At the end of the year he was let go and Dave Wanstead was hired. Wanstead has absolutely run that program into the ground in three years.Be careful of what you wish for.........

Specifically, what would you do differently?

Let's not........

Doesn't me....I know you are kidding. There are guys out there who are still pissed that Lee Owens was fired. Second, Akron is in the backyard of Cleveland and with that brings Browns fans. Third, there are some mental midgets out there who see this as a KD vs. JD thing and that's just silly. They are both very good coaches.I agree that people need to be more specific. I don't like the type of defense we play, but it beat Can't. I still don't like it for all the reasons I have posted. I don't like this QB decision Saturday because CJ11 is not mobile enough behind a young line. I'm not 100% certain why he did it.I still like our chances this year in the MAC East....although I don't like them this Saturday.

From all we know, CJ7 is out because he missed a meeting. All I'm saying, and will continue to say, is that to continue to punish him for that is going too far. If it is something worse, then maybe he should be punished more. I have no problem with punishing as long as it is proportional to what he did wrong. Maybe this has been a long time coming. I'd sure like to know.As far as CJ11 learning from mistakes, he probably can. But the problem is he is too slow. College football is not played with slow QBs any more. His ability does not lend itself to a young offensive line or the option style offense we are now playing. We are in big trouble this year if he starts the remainder of the games. The MAC is bad, but it's not that bad.

College leadership comes from the head coach. The myth was perpetuated on this board last year that there was no leader on the team coming from the players. It can't come from the players because there are too many. It must come from the coach.I think this type of hard ass leadership (coaching) does not work in college any longer. Kids are different now. I'm not making judgement, I just think kids are different now and they don't respond to extreme punishment. CJ7 is much more likely to respond negatively if he thinks this is going overboard than positively. Either way, he is our only hope for winning this week.

I don't, but there has to be some stability at the position. Win or lose, CJ7 needed playing time last week.

No one said he wasn't going to play...they just said he wasn't the starter. I am happy with JD's decision. how can u lead a team on the field if you don't do what you are suppose to do off? CJ7 you need to lead by example, you are setting the tone for offense when you are under center and don't think freshmen don't watch upper class men's antics. Be mature and take care off business. A 50K scholarship, the least you could do is go to meetings and get you ankle iced!!!This kinda stuff is what strikes a nerve with me, I had to endure some terrible seasons cause I played with talented guys who didn't wanna work, or simply did dumb shit.Missing meetings = not reading offenses or defensive coverages correctlyNot going to treatment = season long nagging injuriesNot going to class = ineligible playersGeez!!!! How much punishment is enough? I think basically missing the UCONN game was punishment enough for missing a meeting or treatment. Probably too much. If the infraction was more than that it could explain why he is not starting this week. If JD thinks CJ11 gives us a better shot at winning than CJ7, he was not paying attention the first five games.I really am not in favor of CJ11 playing at all unless he must. His time in the games is just a waste of time and there are only 60 minutes in a game. Time can't be wasted. Akron will be 2-4 if he plays more than two series this Saturday. If CJ11 is going to play, we need to change to a different type of offense, but it's too late in the season to do that. There is no deception running the option when he is in the game as there is no threat of him keeping the ball or even getting very far when he keeps it. I'm just amazed by this decision.

Nice pick-up DrZ . I just had a feeling of dread wash over me for many reasons.I bet my brother $100 that CJ11 would never start another game by beating out CJ7 after the showing at UCONN. I still have my $100 if this is punishment. If not, I'm out $100 to a guy who needs $100 like he needs a hole in the head. Someone please find out.Playing CJ11 eliminates one of our playmakers for a "safe" player. The only playmaker remaining is Jabari. How hard is it to stop our offense with Jabari as the only playmaker? Not difficult........ I do think it is difficult to stop with CJ7 in the game though.

We beat NC State last year. It's BCS school. How soon we forget.As far as being competitive in the MAC, I would say that where we sit right now we should be a favorite to win the MAC East and go to a Bowl. Can't beat OU at OU and we beat them. I feel good about the rest of the season.You guys need to understand something. We'll never be able to beat BCS schools on a regular basis. The NCAA has made certain that schools like Akron or any other MAC school will never again be able to beat the BCS schools on a regular basis. No fieldhouse, no new 25,000 seat stadium is going to change that. All of those big schools have big fieldhouses and bigger stadiums. It's not a negative or positive, it's just the way things are. The MAC is a fun and entertaining league and we should all take it for what it is and enjoy it.If you guys want it to change at Akron, it needs to change at the NCAA first. Good luck.

It really can't be the base defense.We should be playing a 3-4 and on third an long a nickle which is the 3-3-5.

I agree and that should be the plan. Long term, we need to bring in enough money so we can get out of playing teams like OSU to make money. Miami now has enough money so they won't have to prostitute themselves and they are no longer going to accept anything other than home and homes with non-conference teams.If we want more home games, we need to make it financially beneficial for a team to come to Akron.

You guys are missing a big point about our games against OSU and IU and to some extent UCONN. If these teams wanted to beat us by more, especially OSU, then they could have. In fact, I think OSU was doing their usual hiding of their plays until they play a major conference team.There is no doubt they stunk yesterday. I'll say it again though, it's a long season and Akron will be in position to win the MAC East late in the season.

This thread is Butt Monkey Central.

Excellent, excellent, excellent post. As bad as I want JD and the team to succeed, there are those on this board that would rather be right than to win.

A guy who has won nothing. (Sorry Coach D.)

Based upon the performance of the MAC so far this season, we are one of the best teams out there. That's my nice way of saying we are the one of the best of a lot of poor teams. We lost to a good Big East team yesterday and that conference has become one of the best in the country.Akron competes well the remainder of the year and wins the MAC East.

WARNING....BUTT MONKEY ALERT.I hate to say it, BUTT the style of defense we play is the reason we have been out scored 44-3 or something this year in the third quarter. That's giving up 11 points per third quarter. Please don't anyone tell us how good this defense is or throw out statistics. This defense is too easy to figure out and teams go into the locker room and come out in the third quarter and kill it. Our defense allows for little adjustments as they are either all in defending the run our all in defending the pass. By the time we figure out what other teams are doing, it's the fourth quarter and we are fighting for our lives.We will continue to do well with this defense against MAC schools because they aren't very good. WVU uses the same 3-3-5 defense and looks good against bad schools. When we play good schools, we are depending too much on guessing or the other team making a mistakes. I don't like guessing.The non-conference schedule is now over and we will look better on defense next week because the teams aren't as good in conference as non-conference and we will be able to control the ball more on offense.Again, it's too late to do anything about it this year. This style of defense has to go. I've been saying it since the MACC two years ago on this board.

yeah...kinda killed ourselves at the end of that half. JD, give CJ a chance...please? Halftime adjustments kill us...just like against indiana. BUTT MONKEY WARNING! Who the hell are you calling a "butt monkey"? Reference my great and funny post from last Sunday. It will make you laugh.

yeah...kinda killed ourselves at the end of that half. JD, give CJ a chance...please? Halftime adjustments kill us...just like against indiana. BUTT MONKEY WARNING!

AMEN!The only person who would like what JD is doing right now is some 80 year old crank who thinks making a point is more important than winning. Depending on what CJ did, the point was made after the first quarter. After that, CJ must have done something pretty bad, or JD would rather be right than win (a sickness of many coaches), or he just doesn't want to get CJ killed during a non-conference game.At this point, JD should just leave Jacq. in to finally prove how impossible it is to win with him.Go mow your lawns guys. I have nothing better to do or I would as well.

How come every team in the world can stop everyone else on 3rd & 10 or more and we seem to magically give up the first down every time? Answer to use our case: On third and sixteen, every other team has a picket line of defenders at sixteen yards and does not allow the other team to get the distance. We somehow don't have a defender in the TV screen when the ball is caught.I don't care what the numbers say, this 3-3-5 defense gives up too many yards at key times all at once.Touchdown. This game is over. Go mow your grass or something.

I hear you. He doesn't make mistakes, but over the course of the game, he doesn't do anything to win the game either. I dunno. I'd call holding onto the ball WAY too long and taking 3 or 4 big sacks mistakes.You don't have to turn the ball over to make a mistake. agreed

I hear you. He doesn't make mistakes, but over the course of the game, he doesn't do anything to win the game either.

Only if they want to win the game. Jacquemaine does absolutely nothing. Impressive numbers, but too many sacks and lost yards.