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RABBLE wrote: ↑Tue Dec 05, 2023 10:17 pm In reality, we lost our identity as America's team no matter we win or lose to Navy. We are not special anymore and now we join the other rag tag teams of the AAC. I am very sad and disheartened.

wpgrad wrote: ↑Tue Dec 05, 2023 5:58 pm

Dong Fong '09 wrote: ↑Tue Dec 05, 2023 4:53 pm

wpgrad wrote: ↑Tue Dec 05, 2023 3:53 pm Who else would you suggest we have call plays?

It is not like we have someone just sitting there who has shown they can do the job much better.

cody worley called the plays against coastal carolina and that was one of the better offensive performances of the past few years

I was being sarcastic

prideandream wrote: ↑Tue Dec 05, 2023 9:02 pm I'll be shocked if Thatcher actually calls the plays. I guess maybe but doubtful.

Here's the reality, if we let Thatcher call the plays and we run out of Shotgun the whole game and we lose people are gonna lose their minds. If we are not under center and we lose then it's gonna be bad.

PD

Boris23 wrote: ↑Sat Dec 09, 2023 3:02 pm I worry that with three weeks preparation Coach Monken, who I believe has always been disingenuous about his reasons for bringing in the underqualified, by Division 1 standards, Drew Thatcher to be his offensive coordinator, while even contemplating the use of significantly underqualified Mike Viti in any capacity other than as a coach of running backs, will be determined to base his offense in the game against on the shotgun formation and a modified "air raid" passing attack. If he does so, the game that can be won on the ground by Army's stable of hard-running backs, starting with Quarterback Bryson Daily including Buchanan, Udoh, Johnson and especially Tyson Riley, who was started, idiotically in my subjective opinion, at tight end to begin the season, can easily be lost. Army instead should build on what was done against Air Force, Holy Cross and Coastal Carolina.

It will be seductive for Army to try to win this match from the gun and Coach Monken, I subjectively have always believed, wants to be elevated to a respectable Division I program at a substantially higher pay level or, like Coach Sutton with the New York Jets, a long term highly paid sinecure as a competent resident assistant . This football game could look like the Syracuse, Troy and Boston College games. The game is Army's to lose.