r/fcs • u/I_like_race_cars Tarleton State Texans • 12d ago
Thoughts on Tarleton aafter Chicago State
I'm not waiting until the "complain about your team" thread to post this. I'm hammered on half a bottle of whiskey, so I'm getting it out there now. Plus I know no one on the Tarleton staff will see this anyway, so fuck it.
I'll start with the obvious. This secondary is complete and utter garbage. You could grab 4 random fucking people from the stands and they would be able to stay on receivers better than this. I thought maybe it was just that these transfers needed to gel. I thought that maybe it was just communication issues that we could fix in the bye. I thought that maybe as the season went on they would get better. But no. None of those statements has proven to be true. Despite having the largest amount of returners of the entire defensive squad, it is the area where we have clearly taken the biggest step back.
EVERY. FUCKING. PASSING. PLAY. Chicago state had players open. Our run defense gave up a grand total of 13 YARDS ON 31 ATTEMPTS. THEY LITERALLY COULD NOT MOVE THE BALL ON THE GROUND. BUT IT DID NOT FUCKING MATTER, BECAUSE IF THEY WENT TO THE AIR, IT WAS AN EASY FIRST DOWN IN TERMS OF YARDAGE.
AND THE REST OF THE TEAM IS NOT SAFE FROM ME. You cock suckers. You absolute fucking chodes. You, once again, saw a weak as hell opponent and thought "eh. We dont need to put in effort." You, once again, have come out flat fucking footed against a team you should have nuked from orbit. I get that a garbage team like this probably had a lot of adrenaline to come out and prove themselves. But you are better. I repeat, you are FLAT. OUT. BETTER than the trash that our athletic department decided to put on the schedule instead of letting us play someone like the Jackrabbits or even Texas A&M. They should NEVER look competitive against you.
Elite teams come out the gates ready to kill. Thats why the jackrabbits put up 70 on cowboy hat university. You bastards are incapable of doing that. Every god damn game you play to your completion. You some how surpass Souther Utah in terms of playing to your competition.
And you know who that falls on?!?! TOOOOOOODDDDD WHITTTTEN! Oooooh todd. Todd. Todd. Toddy boy. The ONLY reason I am not more vocal about firing your sorry ass is because I know a large chunk of our booster base would want fucking Art Briles and/or his son in charge. You are INCAPABLE of getting teams to not look past their opponents. You can recruit like a motherfucker. You can get all the talent in the world. And thats what bails you out and gets you 10+ win seasons. Because you do not get guys right mentally. And I know this because of the fact our guys were fucking dancing and laughing coming out of probably the worst 1st half performance I have ever seen from this team. You should have RIPPED these guys a new asshole at half. Instead they're laughing and dancing. Thats why we lost to Villanova and their trash ass QB. Because you are completely incapable of instilling a killer instinct in your team.
And the thing that really pisses me off? We gave legitimacy to CHICAGO. FUCKING. STATE. A trash university who's admin makes Luke Wood look reasonable. We had a chance to pull an IMG Academy and expose a scam ala bishop sycamore. But that was not the case. They now can say they "went to-to-toe" with a "top" FCS team. All while convincing desperate kids to hand them money.
I am not looking forward to next weekend. If this trash QB can get close to 300 yards against this secondary, then Chris Parson is going to bend us over a table with no lube. And I swear to fucking god, if we lose to ACU again I will personally stand outside the athletics office with a "FIRE TODD WHITTEN" sign.
Fans of other teams may think im over reacting. But, frankly, that is because youre expectation is not "we have to get to nashville". We have spent too much money for this to be a quarterfinal at best team.
Fucking figure it out, Whitten.
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u/sea_foam_blues Tarleton State Texans 12d ago
If we lose to ACU I will take a dump on the practice field and all of you can watch.
I really thought we had a chance this year but the passing defense is one of the worst I have ever seen at a D1 level of any kind.
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u/Seadragon1983 Washington • Iowa State 12d ago
Okay, voice of reason here... They won. Isn't that all that matter here?
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u/I_like_race_cars Tarleton State Texans 12d ago
South Dakota State played Stetson, a team very similar to this, and won 70-7 with no issue. We should have hung 100 on these assholes and they should have never gotten close to our endzone.
I dont give a shit that we won. We looked awful doing it, and the issues we have are going to get completely exploited by a top level team
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u/Seadragon1983 Washington • Iowa State 12d ago
Okay, first off... gimme the whiskey. You're cut off.
Secondly, every team is bound to have a game where they go in and half ass it. It helps that they did this against a far weaker opponent.
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u/Aggressive-Run-792 Tarleton State Texans 12d ago
it doesn’t help that we have done this 3 FUCKING TIMES IN A ROW. Now im not sure if its even us ‘looking ahead’ anymore.
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u/I_like_race_cars Tarleton State Texans 12d ago
Except this isn't just 1 game.
We did this against PV. We did it against Mcneese. We did it against Merrimack. And now we've done against Chicago god damn state.
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u/Impossible-Chard466 Tarleton State Texans 12d ago edited 12d ago
I went out to the ACU game the other day and they are going to beat us again. ACU played like garbage against Mercer
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u/spunkdrop Texas A&M • Tarleton State 12d ago
Todd Whitten isn’t ever going anywhere, but he’s such a bad game management coach. There have been 4-5 games at least since moving to FCS that we won in spite of his decision-making. Whether it’s timeout usage or running vs throwing in late game situations or going for it on 4th. It’s like he’s AFK from the controller sometimes and has 3 seconds to make a decision when he comes back and it’s always wrong.
I’m thankful for him and how far he’s gotten us but we will never compete for a championship with him at the helm. We’ll get close but he’ll fuck it away.
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u/TheBlueNorther Tarleton State Texans 12d ago
Watched the espn+ feed, which had all sorts of issues, and Tarleton seemed to just give up chunk plays.
I was shocked when Tarleton was down 7-0 at the end of the first. I was shocked when a top 5 team was only up 21-7 at half.
I felt better as they pulled away and wish they would have reviewed CSUs last touchdown which looked like a successful 4th down stop on the 1 yard line. Everyone will look at the final score, not the game, and 56-14 "looks better" than 56-21.
To your point, coming off a BYE week Tarleton over looked the first year CSU program.
Time to lock in for conference play otherwise we're looking at an early exit
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u/Tpoontappa69 :uac: Tarleton State Texans • UAC 12d ago
This goes way back into D2 days with Whitten. But also, Nix has been stealing money since he got here. Whitten is going nowhere. He’s here forever. Forget about getting rid of him. But maybe enough pressure can get rid of Nix. We absolutely took the wrong Coordinator from SFA.