The House of Blue

Please tell me how this isn't Joker himself contradicting Barnhart & Brooks saying Joker was ready to be HC. Seems it's amunition for those the opposed Joker being hired. Thanks.

Wow...Caffey...wow! A freshman moves positions and is slated as a starter and then loses it in the classroom, unbelievable! The good news is that before Caffey switched positions, I thought Neloms would move back to CB and open up the S position for Faulkner and Lowrey. Hopefully, those two young safeties will get a lot of experience this year.... Anytime you lose a starter it's hard to take, but especially in a must win year for the head man. I really hope Minter can dail up some schemes to lessen this blow.

Nobody is ready to be a head coach until after they have been one for a few years......and that's when you realize you can or can't do it. Sometimes, you realize it very quickly. Then, there are some who don't realize they can't do but still try to but that's mainly on the high school and youth league level.

Only if the NCAA starts poking into why all those South Florida/Miami stud recruits started following Hurtt to UofL like he's the pied piper, yet UofL can't get the kids at the UofL HS (Trinity) 20 minutes from campus to stay at home...

Faulkner was behind Neloms on the DC. Benton and Lowery are battling for the other spot, with Lowery supposedly being close to taking it coming out of spring practice. With Neloms moving to CB, I assume that puts Faulkner as the starter unless one of the freshmen comes in and takes over. Faulkner and Lowery are not at the same Safety spot.

So you disagree with what Barnhart & Brooks stated also. Thank you.

A to the mother-touching MEN! It's time to put the bickering and complaining to bed and support this team. Whether you think Joker is the man for the job or not he's the one that has the job this season and that isn't changing, might as well get onboard.

Phillips says that he is "more prepared" now than he was. Says that there are "some" things about being HC that have to be experienced to understand.

In your mind, this is a complete and total admission that he was wholly unprepared to be a head coach, and Brooks and Barnhart were literally lying to you.

So not only a nitpicky little argument you've developed here, but based on actual statements that don't say what you believe (or would like to believe) the statements actually say.

VH, I'm more prepared today to do my job than I was two years ago. Does this mean I was absolutely unqualified to perform my job two years ago? If my mentor told you two years ago that I was ready for the job, was he lying?

Are you understanding the concept that you can be "ready" to do something at a certain point and then become "more prepared" and have a "better understanding" of that thing two years later?

I'm sure it won't happen, but I'd like to see Joker open the first Satuday scrimmage to the public as a way to stir fan enthusiam.

Yeah, I know. Autographs and fireworks don't do much for me though. Unless you're into them, there's not a lot for you at FAD.

I went last year and it was pretty rudimentary. Can't even remember if they wore pads. I'll probably still go, if I can get a ride (I'm temporarily carless), but I'd like to get an eatly look at a scrimmage.

The NCAA won't let a team wear pads in its first handful of practices (maybe first two practices...not sure of the exact number). I know they didn't wear pads last year, and I know they won't wear them this year.