Vandy Poll: Derek Mason
Posted: Mon Nov 27, 2017 7:57 pm
How many games should Derek Mason's team win in 2018 for him to be retained as head coach?
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The day's of thinking like this are long gone. Anything less than 6 wins is a failure now.KudzuLeague wrote:1, as long as it's the UT game.
6 wins should be more attainable now than in the past for a number of reasons: (1) We have 12 rather than 11 games in which to do it; (2) I-AA teams were rarely scheduled before 2001; now there's one every year, so six wins now is the equivalent of 4 or 5 in a pre-2001 11 game schedule ; (3)the SEC East is nowhere near as difficult as it typically has been; (4) there has been a greater emphasis on non-power 5 teams for OOC games than in the past (we've gotten some really cheap wins like UMass and Old Dominion in this regard); (5) we are in the fifth year of a coach's tenure; he's had ages to recruit, learn from mistakes etc.vandybrad wrote:The day's of thinking like this are long gone. Anything less than 6 wins is a failure now.KudzuLeague wrote:1, as long as it's the UT game.
Not sure I understand your take on us having the talent for a 10-2 year. "A few good break........we could have been". Oh my we got blown out almost every game from Alabama until Mizzo(not including W.Ky & SC)Vandorrison wrote:I can't figure out how to vote on the poll, but I would say 4-5 to be retained. Less than 6 and I will not be happy, but I don't support firing a coach over that. Honestly, the coaching carousel just seems really wrong to me.
These are college kids playing a game and keeping them focused, out of trouble and in school gets a lot of credit from me. We were in a position from a talent and coaching standpoint to have gone 10-2 this year. A few good breaks or a few fluke plays or some different calls and we could have been. Kids have bad days. They make occasional bad plays. It happens. Look at Alabama and Georgia against Auburn this year. It's a game, a gambit, a series of chances. It is not a definite outcome no matter what you do. Accept that. Look at the improvement in recruiting. The improvement in public relations. The way he has has handled discipline and attitude and inspired effort. As long as those things are done well, I would not fire a coach over a 4-5 win season. To do so is like betting at the roulette wheel by switching to whatever color came up on the last spin. You are just chasing chance.
Maybe he is thinking of 2016, where we were 12 (?) points from winning the East. If we got lucky every week that season, we could have easily been 11-1 (8-0 SEC) and gone to the Sugar Bowl after getting killed by Bama in the SEC Championship Game.Nashmann wrote:Not sure I understand your take on us having the talent for a 10-2 year. "A few good break........we could have been". Oh my we got blown out almost every game from Alabama until Mizzo(not including W.Ky & SC)Vandorrison wrote:I can't figure out how to vote on the poll, but I would say 4-5 to be retained. Less than 6 and I will not be happy, but I don't support firing a coach over that. Honestly, the coaching carousel just seems really wrong to me.
These are college kids playing a game and keeping them focused, out of trouble and in school gets a lot of credit from me. We were in a position from a talent and coaching standpoint to have gone 10-2 this year. A few good breaks or a few fluke plays or some different calls and we could have been. Kids have bad days. They make occasional bad plays. It happens. Look at Alabama and Georgia against Auburn this year. It's a game, a gambit, a series of chances. It is not a definite outcome no matter what you do. Accept that. Look at the improvement in recruiting. The improvement in public relations. The way he has has handled discipline and attitude and inspired effort. As long as those things are done well, I would not fire a coach over a 4-5 win season. To do so is like betting at the roulette wheel by switching to whatever color came up on the last spin. You are just chasing chance.
Well, the defense can't get much worse. I think it'll be a little better.Nashmann wrote:It is going to be very difficult for CDM to win even 5 games next year.Our defense was horrible this year and we lose a ton of starters & significant back up to graduation. Who in the world is going to step up? If they were that good they would have been playing. Our DB's will be the only position not affected as much. I know we swap Bama for Ark, but look who we play as an OOC team....Notre Dame!!! Unless the SEC sucks next year we will be hardpressed to even win 5...
I don't explicitly disagree, but I disagree a little bit. Every year we try to do this with the schedule and you just never know a lot of times. Plus timing of a schedule plays a huge part. I remain convinced that if we had played Florida in the usual early November spot this year we would've beaten them. They were completely off the rails by then.Nashmann wrote:It is going to be very difficult for CDM to win even 5 games next year.Our defense was horrible this year and we lose a ton of starters & significant back up to graduation. Who in the world is going to step up? If they were that good they would have been playing. Our DB's will be the only position not affected as much. I know we swap Bama for Ark, but look who we play as an OOC team....Notre Dame!!! Unless the SEC sucks next year we will be hardpressed to even win 5...
You missed the gist of comment......We had a horrible defense and lose by VU standards some great players. With no one in the wings, next year could be a disaster!!vandy05 wrote:I don't explicitly disagree, but I disagree a little bit. Every year we try to do this with the schedule and you just never know a lot of times. Plus timing of a schedule plays a huge part. I remain convinced that if we had played Florida in the usual early November spot this year we would've beaten them. They were completely off the rails by then.Nashmann wrote:It is going to be very difficult for CDM to win even 5 games next year.Our defense was horrible this year and we lose a ton of starters & significant back up to graduation. Who in the world is going to step up? If they were that good they would have been playing. Our DB's will be the only position not affected as much. I know we swap Bama for Ark, but look who we play as an OOC team....Notre Dame!!! Unless the SEC sucks next year we will be hardpressed to even win 5...
I would not have pegged Georgia at 11-1 this year or Florida with their record, nor Tennessee with their record. I say all of this to say that I am not going to cut slack for how hard the schedule may or may not be. This year the schedule was perfectly accomodating to get 6 wins and maybe even up to 8 or 9 considering we won 5 and had losses to Kentucky, USCe, Mizzou and Ole Miss.
vandy05 wrote:I don't explicitly disagree, but I disagree a little bit. Every year we try to do this with the schedule and you just never know a lot of times. Plus timing of a schedule plays a huge part. I remain convinced that if we had played Florida in the usual early November spot this year we would've beaten them. They were completely off the rails by then.Nashmann wrote:It is going to be very difficult for CDM to win even 5 games next year.Our defense was horrible this year and we lose a ton of starters & significant back up to graduation. Who in the world is going to step up? If they were that good they would have been playing. Our DB's will be the only position not affected as much. I know we swap Bama for Ark, but look who we play as an OOC team....Notre Dame!!! Unless the SEC sucks next year we will be hardpressed to even win 5...
I would not have pegged Georgia at 11-1 this year or Florida with their record, nor Tennessee with their record. I say all of this to say that I am not going to cut slack for how hard the schedule may or may not be. This year the schedule was perfectly accomodating to get 6 wins and maybe even up to 8 or 9 considering we won 5 and had losses to Kentucky, USCe, Mizzou and Ole Miss.
Well this season is a failure but don't you agree that 5 wins with one of them being UT is much better than 5 wins with one of them not being UT?vandybrad wrote:The day's of thinking like this are long gone. Anything less than 6 wins is a failure now.KudzuLeague wrote:1, as long as it's the UT game.
Agreed 100%. Very different flavor.BILTMORE wrote:Well this season is a failure but don't you agree that 5 wins with one of them being UT is much better than 5 wins with one of them not being UT?vandybrad wrote:The day's of thinking like this are long gone. Anything less than 6 wins is a failure now.KudzuLeague wrote:1, as long as it's the UT game.