Coaches on the hot seat

[bearcatbret]

I am not sure if I will list Satterfield in this list yet but I suspect that ND, Wisconsin and FSU may be looking for new coaches soon.

[leo from jersey]

ND actually beat a top 20 team yesterday.

[red_n_black_attack]

Satterfield has lost by a total of 4 points. The letdown in the 4th quarter against Pitt was much more Pitt taking the momentum than anything Cincinnati or Satterfield did to lose. Satterfield's other loss was a 3 point loss on the road with injuries to top two backs, and a late injury to the top receiver. If anything, Satterfield should be getting kudos for having the backups prepared and ready to perform. Against TT, we lost because the oblong football bounced the wrong way one too many times, and that same oblong football twisted/turned the wrong way on two field goal attempts.

The biggest complaint I have for Satterfield is his stubborn insistence on using the 3-5-3 when our secondary and our down linemen need help. Our personnel (his personnel) are more suited to the 4-3-4

[swilsonsp4]

Satterfield has lost by a total of 4 points. The letdown in the 4th quarter against Pitt was much more Pitt taking the momentum than anything Cincinnati or Satterfield did to lose. Satterfield's other loss was a 3 point loss on the road with injuries to top two backs, and a late injury to the top receiver. If anything, Satterfield should be getting kudos for having the backups prepared and ready to perform. Against TT, we lost because the oblong football bounced the wrong way one too many times, and that same oblong football twisted/turned the wrong way on two field goal attempts.

The biggest complaint I have for Satterfield is his stubborn insistence on using the 3-5-3 when our secondary and our down linemen need help. Our personnel (his personnel) are more suited to the 4-3-4

They're actually playing a 3-3-5, which will continue throughout the rest of this season and, most likely well into the future. As the squad's composition stands at present, there are not enough quality (and healthy) D-linemen to play 4 of them simultaneously. Under CLF, Marcus Freeman employed a 3-3-5 most of the time during the best of their years here. It's a very commonly used setup, developed to counter the proliferation of read-option offenses. The version that Tyson Veidt brought with him from Iowa State just employs the Star (quasi-LB/S) differently.