Grantham versus Pasqualoni

[khiladi]

It seems our DL has gotten worse, with over-aggressive pursuit and lack of pressure. The fact that we are often out of position seems to be a common trait. Fundamentals?

Pasqualoni was fired by Sparano last year and the Miami defense was getting worse as the season went on.

Any thoughts that the loss of Grantham was big?​

 

[Hostile]

I sure liked him. Liked the pursuit angles he taught and the gap control.

 

[khiladi]

I sure liked him. Liked the pursuit angles he taught and the gap control.

So did I... The thing is nobody has actually made a case regarding the loss of Grantham. Maybe it is one of the reasons Spencer's play has dropped, along with the fact we don't get as much pressure. But what really bothers me is the fact that this year, the DL is often just flat out not in the right position and is sloppy.

 

[dbair1967]

It seems our DL has gotten worse, with over-aggressive pursuit and lack of pressure. The fact that we are often out of position seems to be a common trait. Fundamentals?

Pasqualoni was fired by Sparano last year and the Miami defense was getting worse as the season went on.

Any thoughts that the loss of Grantham was big?​

I posted this the other day, I think he was a significant loss. None of the DL's, not even Ratliff seem to be performing well. I always thought Pasqualoni was a lousy coach too. And Wade hired this clown not even a day after he got canned in Miami. He should have explored other options first.

 

[NOVA Cowboy]

Forget Grantham....The Sporano loss is the one that hurt the most...he should be head coach of this team

 

[Yakuza Rich]

Pasqualoni knows how to act the right way and say the right things that convinces athletic directors, chancellors, owners, and head coaches that he's a really good coach when time after time he has shown that he's anything but a great coach.

Remember when Jason Witten's blocking went downhill, who was his position coach?

Paul Pasqualoni.

Remember in '06 when Sean Payton exposed the Cowboys problems with covering running backs and even *fullbacks* with linebacers? Remember when it got so bad that these runningbacks/fullbacks were going uncovered by blown assignments by the linebackers? Who was the LB coach?

Paul Pasqualoni.

It's gotten to the point where I'm actually considering rooting for another NFL team because the attitude of the team is digusting, the play is uninspired, the owner is worried more about charging $27 for people to watch practice instead of developing a winning team, and we keep hiring a proven lousy coach who has been the bane of my football fan existence.

The coaching clowns must go down.





YR

 

[Hostile]

Pasqualoni is Gilderoy Lockhart?






Sorry, couldn't resist.

 

[Chocolate Lab]

Hmm, all the writers insist that Paul P. is a great, detail-oriented, intense coach.

 

[igtmfo]

Spears talked about Grantham vs. Pasqualoni a few months ago. Not flattering to Grantham.

Pasqualoni. Praised him.

Grantham: "Well ... he just kind of let you figure things out for yourself."

Yakuza knows a lot more about Pasqualoni than I do, but apologists on the Dolphins board talked about Ireland/Parcells forcing him to start two high-pick rookies (1st and 3rd) at CB plus an underachieving FA safety Gibril Wilson, also signed in the offseason before the 2009 season. Result: they fairly sucked. ... Also the first-place schedule after playing a last-place schedule the year before - killed them last year.

 

[Yakuza Rich]

The thing about Pasqualoni that killed me was the improper techniques his teams would use when he was at Syracuse. It was amazing just how often his receivers and defensive backs would turn the wrong way, use the wrong hand to bat down passes, take lousy angles, etc. And then there were the decisions, clock management, etc. And he really isn't a 3-4 coach. He coached it back in the late 80's...but guess what, everybody used the 3-4 back then and it was a 'stale' 3-4 that everybody used. So he then went to the 4-3. Offensively, he's the same nitwit that used the wishbone up till his last season at Syracuse (2004 IIRC), which was outdated by *at least* 10 years in the college game. Even worse, Syracuse plays in the dome and they are running the wishbone?

To me it's a shining example of a coach that isn't a forward thinker and he may be details oriented, but it doesn't show up on game day.





YR

 

[The Emperor]

Pasqualoni knows how to act the right way and say the right things that convinces athletic directors, chancellors, owners, and head coaches that he's a really good coach when time after time he has shown that he's anything but a great coach.

Remember when Jason Witten's blocking went downhill, who was his position coach?

Paul Pasqualoni.

Remember in '06 when Sean Payton exposed the Cowboys problems with covering running backs and even *fullbacks* with linebacers? Remember when it got so bad that these runningbacks/fullbacks were going uncovered by blown assignments by the linebackers? Who was the LB coach?

Paul Pasqualoni.

It's gotten to the point where I'm actually considering rooting for another NFL team because the attitude of the team is digusting, the play is uninspired, the owner is worried more about charging $27 for people to watch practice instead of developing a winning team, and we keep hiring a proven lousy coach who has been the bane of my football fan existence.

The coaching clowns must go down.





YR

Will you make a statistical blog for that team?

Come on, Rich. I know this team is hard to watch, but don't abandon the Star if for but one season.

 

[Jimz31]

Say it ain't so...Coaching made a difference?

{sarcasm off}

 

[Yakuza Rich]

Will you make a statistical blog for that team?

Come on, Rich. I know this team is hard to watch, but don't abandon the Star if for but one season.

When an owner shows me that he's more interested in other things than winning, I have a major issue with that. I understand he has the right to make money, but when it comes down to money versus winning and he's willing to chance winning if he can make money, maybe I need to find somebody else to root for.

I'm not quite convinced that is the case with Jerry, but for the first time I've started to doubt that.

Remember, this is the only time I've ever heard the team complain about practices being too easy and too distracting. To me, that's crazy and it points to Jerry perhaps having bigger priorities than winning.

And I've been thru the Pasqualoni crap for every season except for 2 of them, since 1990. I'm sick of having that bum coaching my teams and screwing them up.

It's not fun right now and I don't think it will be fun for awhile. And Jerry's motives are questionable in my mind. I'd rather see a team go 1-15 with little talent, but everybody on the same page that *winning* is the #1 priority and there's NO EXCUSE for risking winning.

Jerry distracted the team before the Bears game with an open practice, then announces AGAIN that he's allowing for fans to watch practice if they pay $27 for a stadium tour.

I say it all of the time...there are plenty of people that pose as Cowboys fans but instead they are really just fans of hating Jerry Jones. I refuse to be that. If I figure out that he is truly more interested in money over winning, then I won't bother sticking around so I can bash an owner that will never sell the tam and will never give up power and will not change. I'll save that for the fans of hating Jerry and save the board some grief over having another one of those posters on this board.






YR

 

[DIAF]

Trust me. Right now, UGA fans would be more than happy to give him back.

 

[igtmfo]

Hey Yakuza.

I started to believe you about Pasqualoni.

Then I saw he has the best winning percentage as a head coach at Syracuse (.644) since Pete Reynolds one-year tenure in 1925-1926. (I cut pasted the following - the scheme under the years coached is: seasons, games, won, lost, tied, percentage.

Sorry Yakuza, I guess it was just bad recruiting between 1926-1990, and then again when Pasqualoni left 2005-2009.

Lewis P. "Lew" Andreas
1927-1929
3
18
15
10
3
.589
Victor A. "Vic" Hanson
1930-1936
7
59
33
21
5
.602
Oscar M. "Ossie" Solem
1937-1945
8
63
30
27
6
.524
Clarence L. "Biggie" Munn
1946
1
9
4
5
0
.444
Reaves H. Baysinger
1947-1948
2
18
4
14
0
.222
Floyd B. "Ben" Schwartzwalder
1949-1973
25
247
153
91
3
.626
Frank Maloney
1974-1980
7
78
32
46
0
.410
Dick MacPherson
1981-1990
10
116
66
46
4
.586
Paul Pasqualoni
1991-2004
14
167
107
59
1
.644
Greg Robinson
2005-2008
4
47
10
37
0
.213
Doug Marone
2009
1
12
4
8
0
.whatever

 

[Randy White]

Pasqualoni knows how to act the right way and say the right things that convinces athletic directors, chancellors, owners, and head coaches that he's a really good coach when time after time he has shown that he's anything but a great coach.

The coaching clowns must go down.

YR

Where do I join the club ? I don't get tired of asking why this guy is back in Valley Ranch ? He's been a dismal failure where ever he's been.

 

[Yakuza Rich]

Hey Yakuza.

I started to believe you about Pasqualoni.

Then I saw he has the best winning percentage as a head coach at Syracuse (.644) since Pete Reynolds one-year tenure in 1925-1926. (I cut pasted the following - the scheme under the years coached is: seasons, games, won, lost, tied, percentage.

Sorry Yakuza, I guess it was just bad recruiting between 1926-1990, and then again when Pasqualoni left 2005-2009.

Lee Corso, is this you?

Syracuse isn't traditionally a football school and NY state is not traditionally a football state.

The teams that each of the coaches preceeding Pasqualoni took over were in far worse shape than the team that Pasqualoni took over. Pasqualoni took over a top-10 program and ran it inot the ground.

Sound familiar?

This guy has McNabb and Marvin Harrison and a host of others on the same team and still could not win 10 games in a season in the Big East with McNabb and Harrison. And you think the Big East stinks now, take a look back then when the ONLY teams that were good were Miami and SU. Rutgers along with Temple was the biggest joke in D-1 ball. UConn didn't even have a D-1 team. Pittsburgh was lousy. WVU was decent at best.

ESPN Classic typically shows 2 'classic' SU football games quite a bit. One is SU vs. Va. Tech at the Carrier Dome (I think it was '98) and the other was SU vs. Oklahoma at the Carrier Dome (I think it was '94). Watch those games and tell me that you think Pasqualoni was/is a good coach.

And I'm not the only one who feels that way.

I remember SU playing Va. Tech when Va. Tech had Vick and the Hokies were ranked #2 in the nation and SU was unranked. At the Carrier Dome, Syracuse sacks Vick SEVEN times in the *first half*. They were up 14-3 and got the ball twice before the half in Va. Tech territory and then the Pasqualoni coaching reared its ugly head and they didn't even come close to scoring a point and went into the locker room at 14-3.

And the SU fans booed Pasqualoni mercilessly. AND DESERVEDLY SO.

Think about it, a team that is unranked is up 14-3 at halftime against the #2 team in the nation and the coaching staff is being deservedly booed.

Why?

Because they knew that Pasqualoni was going to screw it up.

And he did and SU loss.

Just one of his countless blunders.

That and IIRC, he was 1-13 against top 10 teams and his record vs. top 25 teams was in the sub .400 range.

He was afforded every advantage a coach could get by inheriting a talented squad in a very weak conference and along with Penn State, being the only place in the Northeast that good players would even consider going to and he drove the program right into the ground.

Fortunately, Doug Marrone is rebuilding the team already despite having almost zero talent.





YR