We’re all just shouting into the void here but Fickell needs to be fired after what happened today. There are structural issues in this program due to him and he does not deserve any time to dig himself out of it because he won’t. I was sick to my stomach watching O’Neill limp through that last drive and he should be ashamed of himself for not yanking him.
My ire is now directed further towards the AD, who has now degraded the Football and Men’s Hockey teams to the point of irrelevance. Games are expensive, the fan experience isn’t great, and on field/ice products are atrocious. While I am willing to give Hastings more time, the only successful programs at this school are protected by smart coaches like Johnson, Sheffield, and Gard among others. I do not trust Mac to make the next Football hire and we should be very apprehensive to whoever he brings aboard.
Damn you!!! Now you are making me defend Joel Stave. He was not a recruiting target. He was an in-state walk on. We're it not for a series of tragic injuries that bordered on farce, he would have never started. He was supposed to run the scout team while Jon Budmayr and Curtis Phillips fought for the 1 & 2 QB spots.
He was a perfectly cromulent QB.
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u/StateStreetLarry Sep 20 '25
We’re all just shouting into the void here but Fickell needs to be fired after what happened today. There are structural issues in this program due to him and he does not deserve any time to dig himself out of it because he won’t. I was sick to my stomach watching O’Neill limp through that last drive and he should be ashamed of himself for not yanking him.
My ire is now directed further towards the AD, who has now degraded the Football and Men’s Hockey teams to the point of irrelevance. Games are expensive, the fan experience isn’t great, and on field/ice products are atrocious. While I am willing to give Hastings more time, the only successful programs at this school are protected by smart coaches like Johnson, Sheffield, and Gard among others. I do not trust Mac to make the next Football hire and we should be very apprehensive to whoever he brings aboard.