Jonathan Smith demonstrated the backbone Riley never had, sacks Tibesar.
Sunday evening Smith makes the move for which many here were pleading, names Trent Bray to the interim DC job.

• What immediate changes to the on field results do you expect?
• What scheme changes can realistically be expected before the CW?
• What does Bray have to do to have the “interim” removed?
• Thoughts on how you expect the rest of the staff/team to react?
• Who can Bray change into the next Vontaze Burfict?

Have at it, a much more positive thread than the previous (very well named) Sunday Blues!

Feel free to go general……as always…(as if you degenerates need to be told)!

Let me know if you have any questions for the Stanford blogger, Hank of GoMightyCard. We’ll be doing our yearly routine.

Some thoughts on last night copied from the prior thread, in case you missed these. They sum up my feelings at this point in the Smith tenure. Don’t get me wrong, I’m grateful Smith brought in legit 3-star talent and made us respectable, but I don’t see how a guy with that type of [poor] feel is going to be the answer.

People seem to be making excuses that we’re not that good, etc…well the entire league is not that good, and we should be 8-1. Think about that. With boring “conservative” coaching, we’d very likely be 8-1. Sure, we can’t know definitely that punts and properly management of 4ths would have resulted in wins, but looking at the games in retrospect, very likely. I don’t buy we don’t have the talent. We don’t have the coaching talent. The one thing Smith has done very well is bring in legit 3-star talent, so I disagree we don’t have the talent. The HC is losing the games with reckless calls. I saw this first at Nevada in 2018 and commented on it that game as something to watch because the management was so extraordinarily stupid. Sure enough that pattern continued, and I’d say last night it got even worse, because Smith now doesn’t go for two when it IS the correct move. It’s almost like he realized his stupid decision earlier in the game and was trying to self-correct there. That’s a HC way too much in his own head. Need a HC with “feel”…hard to explain what that is, but you know it when you see it, and Smith doesn’t have it.

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Just to back up my comment (which I made well before the TD). You go for two for a host of reasons:

1. You were gifted a 2nd life with the 60yd FG…
2. Defense is awful and even more winded than usual (altitude!).
3. On the road.
4. Both teams have to go for 2 next time anyway, so front run that…
5. Crowd was into it…12th man. Refs were going to start wanting to go home…

There are more reasons, but those are obvious.

Run Colletto and take your chances. That was your best play to win that particular game. If the coach is going off a play-sheet and has no feel for that, then he has to go. Will cost you too many games. Smith built up recruiting and got us close, and now someone good but mature has to take over.

Goooo Beavs.

Run da ball. 38-24

Not much to say about this one. 38-24 Beavs.

Congrats to Orange Julius for winning this week’s COTT award with “Those 500 people in the stadium may rush the field.”

Have at it. #FireTibs

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