Bighead, Alcorn was having success with Southern before Hopson got there. Alcorn was like 1 or 2 games behind in the series before Hopson got there. I don't care how bad Alcorn was and how good Southern was. Alcorn was going to give Southern hell. Remember Alcorn gave Southern their only loss in 2013 at home. Being honest, I think Southern had more success against Grambling than they have against Alcorn. Alcorn gets up for Southern. Now with the situation about Hopson. Hopson only took the job when Alcorn set him up for success. He even put some of his own money into the program. It was a win-win for him because Alcorn gave him his first Head Coaching job and he was only 45 minutes from his family in Vicksburg, MS. He hired good coaches and let his coaches do their job. Also he paid attention to detail. He worked on fixing OL and DL. That is a reason that Alcorn is so successful running the ball. That is also the reason that Alcorn was very successful against teams with no major threat at QB. Hopson was a good recruiter and his staff coached. Hopson and Fobbs was in the running for the ULM job. McNeese St. head coach took the job when all others dropped out when it was shown that ULM wasn't going to set the program up for success. Alcorn AD was even in the running for the AD job and he even dropped out. Their athletic budget is no better than the top teams in the SWAC. Hopson got the job at USM because their HC got named the OC at Tampa Bay. USM knew he was good when they had to cheat to win in 2014 and he was the DC there when Jeff Bower was there. Him being white didn't make him a better coach. Fobbs is a good coach as well. Odums will have to fix his defense and I think he would do well.
That's a good assesment.
Odums is not a thinking coach. Ole dude hit it on the head, we don't have "thinking" ass coaches in this league.
How do I know Odums isn't a thinking coach?
We couldn't run a RB screen to save our life. That sht looked so dayum ugly and sloppy and embarrassing. I'm like really. This doesn't fall on the kids, it falls on the coaching staff, are you teaching the proper timing, the proper angles?? Who pulls out 1st? Who leads? etc.
RB screen is ran perfectly at the middle school level, when we ran the sht, the shat was just ugly. That there alone tells me all I need to know about you as a coach.
We couldn't get off a punt in 3 games.
Odums IMO has to be more a "thinker" than a dayum motivator. That's good but what are you doing on the field with these kids to distance yourself from these sad ass coaches in this league.
As I stated, the defense is so green, our offense became predictable, I remember when we would run on 1st and 2nd down, the same plays and then pass. Lol. Like really breh?
That's what I mean when I talk about chess matches in games
This may come off as me bashing Odums, and I am not, I'm bashing his coaching skills, only wanting better. These kids deserve better
If I am a parent and I got the top FS coming outta HS, I want to know how will my son be around the ball? If all you're going to use him as, him being the deep person, and we gotta another school, telling me, he's going to blitz the QB, play around the LOS and also cover X, Y, Z in packages, then where do you think my son is going??
See #3 from FSU, how they had him lining up on the field.
See the DB from Bama #22 how they had him lining up on the field.
We say recruit but we don't unpack that word and process, what is it that our coaches are telling these "players". How can you make that kid that plays SS the best in the SWAC? I bet Bama can make that kid the best SS in the SEC.
See the difference?? You start unpacking stuff and you start to see why we don't get certain players