I can take a loss, but I cannot take lack of game preperation and competitiveness. Olivet's program has been run into the ground.

After speaking with a senior who quit due to the lack of competence from the the coaching staff, I learned why we won't win a game this year. Players are not required to weight train or watch film. They do not have playbooks they can study, the coaches many of the coaches show up right before practice and leave right after practice. Players are not allowed to give feedback to the defensive coordinator on what's happening on the field. Roster is down to 60 players, they do not run a scout team. This program is just plain bad.

I know it is a new coaching staff and they had a very hard non-conference schedual, but three of those four teams we have been playing anyway and ha e been semi-competitive against them. Now we get blown out at Homecoming against Adrian. 4 first downs and 0 3rd down conversions. How long do play cover 2 before you realize it is not working.
It may be a lack of talant, but come on same story diffrent week.

I am thinking about wearing a paper bag over my head at the next home game.
Signed, Depressed.

Quote from: short on September 12, 2010, 08:34:19 AM
Sometimes it gets worse before it gets better!  Their problem is that they have no business playing school like Wittenberg, Elmhust, North Central, and Wheaton, in their non-miaa schedule.  Maybe one of those schools but no all of them.  Getting beat like that can kill a teams confidence before it gets started.  

They knew who they were playing 8 months ago. They have had plenty of time to prepare for them and as the season goes on it is not going to get any easier. This majority of this coaching staff has no place in college football. Send those guys back to Marshall, bring in a head coach who has the competence to run a football program.

I put just as much blame on Heather Bateman for destroying what little football pride Olivet had. She was a horrible basketball coach and is a biased Atheletic Director. She knew what she was doing by hiring this guy.

Hope fans were wishing their nightmare was going to end. I have just one question for them, DO YOU WANT TO SWITCH? I'll be happy to switch nightmares with you.

FIRE HULKOW AND BATEMEN NOW! The program will has not and will not get better.

I can take losing, but I cannot stomach the serious lack of competitiveness, 124 total yards game 1, 115 game 2. They have been outscored 85-13, only 16 first downs, 2.3 yds per play (opp 6.4), top recievers stats Games2, REC  3, YDS 29. Top rusher  15 att, 46yds, 3.1per carry. They can't score, they can't stop anyone from scoring. JUST PLAIN PATHETIC!

I REPEAT, FIRE HULKOW AND BATEMAN NOW!!!!


I am thinking about wearing a brown paper bag over my head to the next game.

I think it can be very helpful to have a JV schedual. You can, as I like to say, guesstimate what your talant will be like in two years (maybe sooner for certain players). But there are a couple of problems, first, the evaluation comes against competition that isn't "developed" yet. They are the same as they are just with a diffrent color jersey( assuming they are not transfers from DI orDII). .Second, there just aren't enough coaches to coach 85+ players. Most MIAA programs have aporox. 9-10 coaches. I cannot speak for other schools, but outside of installation (class) many underclassman do not get proper coaching due to lack of coaches. Third, they are used as the scout team and do not get run thru the plays they need to know, but are trying to recreate what the next opponets is doing. So kids get fustrated when they are either not playing, getting quality reps, or getting any snaps during practice. It gets especially difficult when schools are not winning because the young players feel they could do better.

Being on the inside I can see why we went 1-19 the last two seasons. I do not know if people on the outside understood what happend. It goes back to the 2007 season (championship year). Many of our number 2's were junoirs who backed up all conference players and did not get a lot of PT. Such as WR's and TE's, we lost just almost all of our O-Line, all of our D-line. We lost two young RB's, ( Jackson & Jones)who got a lot of PT that year and a potential Senior QB. We lost that entire freshman class (all but 3, who will be seniors now) and two seniors due to personal issues. So the team that has been fielded the last two seasons was fairly young, I beleive we started and played more freshamn than any other team. If we did not lose some of those guys or if the others had more playing time earlier in thier careers I truly think we could have repeated as conference champs and been very competitive last season as well.

As a Comet, I want them to do well, but I'm just not sold on the fact on the coaching decsion that was made.

I would say this, without trying to air dirty laundry, I personally know team moral was not were it should have been when classes ended. I talked to several would be seniors and the fire was not there during spring ball as the seniors before them was. Two, Hulkow has made some comments about recruiting that has made several people nervous. I do not think him and some of his staff realize what they are getting into. Third, they do not have the resources they once had. Heather Bateman, the A.D., has took over the whole wing that was used for football. There is not, at least back in May it wasn't, a designated film/meeting room anymore, most of the assistant coaches are cramped in a 10x20 office, and there was just a "gloomy" feeling when I last walked thru there. I still do not know if players even have a playbook to study. But, they did keep a good coach in Larry Smith and added Ryan VanDyke to the staff.

I still cannot get over the fact they past up on Mike Sparks as the head coach. I think with him at the helm they would have been in the mix of things.

What would be considered an acceptable year for Hulkow at Olivet?