2023 49er Football Week #9 - Charlotte vs FAU 10/27 7:30 PM ESPN2

Maybe we SHOULD have joined the Southern Conference.

Be interesting to see whom is starting Qb next week.

Unc Charlotte is a average fcs team.

To have 4 QB’s get into a d1 FBS game is a joke!!
We must average at least one delay of game to start a drive
The play calling is PATHETIC!
The amount of 15 yard penalties tonight was awful! Not disciplined at all! Talking crap for what…you are losing! BAD COMPANY = BS BAD COACHING AND OVERHYPING PLAYERS WHO HAD 4-5 STARS A FEW YEARS AGO!
No urgency when losing like we are playing to just lose by a decent margin!
I legit do not understand what they get done from Monday thru Friday!
Having a documentary during the season is so dumb! All talk and can’t back it up!
The amount of money I and everyone else has wasted is crazy!
Cigars after beating a putrid ECU team 10-7 after giving them a chance to win at the end!
BIFF and his staff are in over their head!

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That is the play you call when you play on All-Madden and you shouldn’t be but need yards!

He is talented but i completely agree!!! There is a reason he is on his 5th team!!! He showed the NFL tonight that he is mentally weak on ESPN2!!! FACTS!

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FAU is a peer institution, their last three hires were Kiffin, Taggart (whom they moved in from quickly), and Herman. Ours were Lambert, Healy, and Poggi. Ones of these is not like the other.

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I don’t know why we keep trying to find a hidden gem and save some money. What has all that cost us in lost fanbase over time? If we can fund stadium expansion, could we not sell naming rights for our next football or basketball coach or something?!

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There’s an old saying “Penny wise, pound foolish”. It feels like that is our philosophy when it comes to coaches. Now I see what he was thinking in both Healy and Poggi but paying up to get Kiffin and Herman is the way, heck or even someone Golesh.

I’m still pulling hard for Poggi but tonight was another body blow.

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https://twitter.com/Hunter_Bailey45/status/1718112224680505571?t=ZO9HNWlpeakWXvhXAJB68g&s=19

Ego. Hill strikes me as the kind of guy that has to feel like he’s the smartest guy in the room. He’s clearly not, but he desperately wants to be.

Expanding the stadium is going to be a joke when it is EMPTY!

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Vertigo from rotating in and out all season.

Not a great result, but my son and I had a great time and stayed until the bitter end. Thank you so much 49RFootballNow!

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Im glad you did. I’m glad l had something else to do tonight myself.

Some have said that a win against ECU was enough. Doesn’t really feel like it’s enough tonight though.

Just bad bad football. Really no excuse for some of this.

I dunno what’s going to happen. I think theres a decent chance Biff throws in the towel. he doesn’t seem to have a plan. I said this before the season started - we hired someone with less college coaching experience than Will Healy. Ga State, Navy and now this game - ugly undisciplined unimaginative inexcusable football.

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Some things…like never ever do you want to take a TO before going for it on 4th down. You never should get delays on a punt. The personal fouls that were not in the flow of the game. It was rough.

There have been years where FAU was just physically better than us, it didn’t feel like that was the case this year. The end result though was the same, they handled us. I don’t know which is worse honestly.

The onside kick and the TO FAU took at the end of the first half demonstrated the total lack of fear, and to be blunt respect they had for us. It stings that assessment turned out to be accurate.

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Losing this game doesn’t concern me. We were supposed to lose this one and we did. 4-8 was our realistic ceiling this year. New rookie coach, half-new team, new and much better conference. It was inevitable we’d struggle.

The injuries in this game are particularly concerning. Not sure the coaching staff can control that.

The total colapse of discipline, on the other hand, is completely Biff’s responsibility. We have to clean that shit up or we won’t see a 3rd win.

I’ll personally give this experiment a 3 year window so long as next year shows improvement and we can bowl in year 3. If not, time for Graber to look at the entire AD and clean it out.

One of our fans flipping off ESPN might cost us some prime TV spots next year too. We didn’t look good. “Thugs” getting thrown around a lot online.

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Between that and the behavior of our team… Embarrassing.

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https://x.com/EricCHenry_/status/1718074141054578928?s=20

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