From a potential 21-7 halftime lead to being down 21-14 after that offsides negated our interception.
UTEP vs Charlotte game thread
- Thread starter MineroFanatico
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We haven't lost to Charlotte yet. We're only losing right now because of turnovers.
I'm worried that our defense is going to tire out this half, though, since the offense can't seem to stay on the field.
Hankins fumble was no doubt on him, but the play caller setting Hardison up for failure is on dimel. The wasted time outs, that's dimel too. He has beat bad teams, why they may be improving its also sugar coated.
So Dimel didn't see the LB over the middle? Dimel ran the wrong route?
Agree. Players aren’t making the plays. As far as coaching, I think it’s just the unpreparedness. The constant penalties. The play calling of run or go deep. The lack of getting in a ref’s face when there is a bad call, or one that can be reviewed.
Tale of 2 halves so far. If they score a TD here, it's a wrap after a promising 1st half. Just too many mistakes and turnovers are going to cause us to lose to another team we are capable of beating.
We can't abandon the run, but nothing good comes from all those deep throws. They're not "play action" type deep throws, either. If we make them think "run" and then we throw deep, that would sometimes work. But these deep throws are almost always into coverage.
I don't understand what Dimel thinks he sees when he keeps calling that play. I can't remember the last time it worked. It leads to short possessions and puts our defense back out on the field.
offense needs to get it going, how about some play action or try hitting the TE
The only good to come from those deep balls are a couple PI calls that went our way. That is NOT reason enough to keep going downfield. Why do we see that and Dimel doesn’t?
There’s still time to make a comeback. Offense has to drive and score here. A TD here will put us back in the game. We’ve got to stop the turnovers and dumb penalties. We’ve got great filed position.
Gawd damn the play calling is astoundingly bad! What in the hell?
Just punt the damn ball too much time to give up another 3 pts
Run it up the middle on 3rd and 10.
Brilliant!
Are we really going to go for it on 4th and long from our own 35? When we didn't on 4th and 1 last drive?
Brilliant!
Are we really going to go for it on 4th and long from our own 35? When we didn't on 4th and 1 last drive?
UTEP's pass offense seems like ok guys go get open and I'll see if I can get it to you, no rubs, picks, something.
Other than Monroe, this offense has not done too much. They take too much time to score, so there is no way they come back. 0-13 in conference games.
Has Charlotte offense been called for holding this game?
After this game I think there are serious concerns about the qb position. Hardison's completion percentage is god awful. For the season he has to be under 50%. You can't win with a qb under 50%. You can teach a qb alot of thing accuracy isn't one of them.
Our shot to stay in the game and maybe win was not to turn it over so far we have 4 turnovers 2ints 1 fumble and 1 on downs. Charlotte has scored 3 TD's on those turnovers.
For this game he was over 50%, over 200 yards and 2 tds. The 2 ints really hurt. Were they bad throws or great defense? Hankins had over 100 yards rushing and UTEP won total yardage although late game yardage helped there. I think its way too early to ditch a soph qb. I still think this team can win up to 4 more games.
