It's time for Hypothetical Wednesday....

[DowntownDawg]

The rules of Hypothetical Wednesday are that you must pick one of the following choices and defend your position. No write ins or situation changes.

Situation A: We finish 6-6. Wins over SELA, Vandy, UT, MTSU, UK, and Arkansas. Lopsided loss to Bama, close loss to Ole Miss. We play in the Indepdence or PapaJohn's Bowl. We keep our currently committed recruiting class, and we pick up either Thames or Bumphis. The offense continues on its curent trend of approximately 300 yards and 17 points per game. We win our games with an opportunistic defense and a running game that gives us just enough. No coaching staff changes are made in the offseason, and no extensions/raises are rewarded.

Situation B: We finish 4-8. Wins over SELA, Vandy, MTSU, and UK. Lopsided losses to Bama and UT, close losses to Ark and OM. We lose either Montrell Conner or Tyler Russell (but not both), and we don't get anybody significant that is uncommitted (i.e. no Bumphis or Thames). The offense continues on its current trend of approximately 300 yards and 17 points per game. Our defense, while very solid, can't quite play lights out enough to make 17 points per game stand up, and we don't come up with enough turnovers. Woody McCorvey is fired/steps down, and Croom is asked to find a replacement. No other coaching staff changes are made.

 

[gtowndawg]

This occured to me this morning. I'll go with situation A, with one change. Croom is hired away by some sucker school. They buy into the Croom myth, take him from us, we go to a small bowl, keep a good class and bring in a legit coach.

 

[vhdawg]

nm

 

[DowntownDawg]

...that any change forced upon Croom is unlikely to fix things. In other words, he would hire a figurehead OC, still control the offense, and have more of the same. And getting a stellar recruiting class in is more likely to make a difference.

 

[rebelrouseri]

no decent OC is going to hitch his star to the croom wagon. O only got werner (not exactly a decent OC) because he was fired at the U.

 

[saltybulldog]

Winning 5 of the last 7 means something good is happening and it looks like more of a trend than a fluke at that point. Getting a good recruiting class, like it appears we have, will continue to build momentum and would likely start another good recruiting class.

Choice B doesnt get us anywhere because Croom will not hire a good enough OC.

 

[DowntownDawg]

....who would excite me based on his history with Jason Campbell and Auburn's big tailbacks, since we've got Russell and Montrell Conner coming in (hopefully). Otherwise, you'd probably have to get a young up and coming coordinator from a weak conference.

 

[Harry Truax III.nafoom]

yuku

 

[DowntownDawg]

...unless Woodrow steps down on his own. Remember, we gave him a raise last year. Besides,

he rules of Hypothetical Wednesday are that you must pick one of the following choices and defend your position. No write ins or <span style="font-weight: bold;">situation changes</span>.

 

[rebelrouseri]

feelers. That would be an excellent replacement. Maybe mccorvery to rb coach, rb coach to admin duty, borges to oc and qb coach. I still think borges is a good oc.

 

[lawdawg02]

if we win 5 of our last 7, and with a strong recruiting class full of offensive potential, i would be excited. plus, 6-6 isn't bad, considering we'd la tech and auburn away from 8-4. but i'm sure next year, i would be disappointed yet again.

 

[patdog]

I'm still holding out hope that he would make Crxxm make a change even if we go 6-6 but the offense doesn't improve. Oh, hell, who am I kidding? No 17-ing way we go 6-6 if the offense doesn't improve.

 

[DerHntr]

I am still not confident that we have turned this thing around. I would really like to put my wool sweater back on from this summer b/c it is rather cold here but I just don't trust this team to show up enough to win as many games as projected in situation A.

As for the coaching changes I think it would more likely be Woody stepping down than Croom firing him. Croom would actually ask him to step down instead. This would save Croom face and show even more that he is a "man of character" by not firing his buddy. It would be said that Woody did it on his own accord for the betterment of the program so that both Woody and Croom would look good. The media blitz would ensue at least in MS.

I also agree that no other coaching changes would occur because "we are doing things the right way" but just aren't "executing" yet. Croom wants so badly to be right that he won't be firing folks who trusted him to be right. That would aGAIN tarnish his "character." Also he likely wouldn't be doing any firing because he knows that we "were so close" to executing enough to win those 2 close games and go to a bowl. Why fix it if it ain't broke?

/edit: had to clarify the woody leaving bit

 

[thunderclap]

Blind faith in this staff has taken the train.