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While both Mullen and Albin did coach at Ohio, it was at completely different times. They probably know each other through coaching circles, but I wouldn’t call Ohio the common ground. Just because Charlotte struggled in it’s early years, that doesn’t mean that Mullen has nothing of value to say. He may be a very fine motivational speaker.

One other thing you are starting to notice about Albin, is that he takes his role at Charlotte seriously, and that he will wear shirts, hats, etc. that tie in to Charlotte history, and that he will build ties to Charlotte history. He will not be trying to make Charlotte into Ohio. He will cultivate and celebrate a unique Charlotte culture of it’s own.

For those with no interest in Ohio football history, skip the remainder of this post.
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[While Ohio has been a good team for the last 20 years, do not think that that has always been the case. Over the last fifty years, Ohio has been bad more years than they have been good. Ohio is proof that, with a bad hire, a good program can go downhill fast, and that with a good hire, things can get better.

1960: Ohio won the “small college” (predecessor of FCS?) championship in 1960
1968: Undefeated regular season. This was the last MAC championship for 56 years.
1985-94: Ohio was horrible. They went went 17-89-4 during this period
1995-2000: Grobe was 33-33-1 in a very tough MAC. Toledo, Miami, Marshall, and BG all appeared in the top 20 in those days. Due to a dispute with the AD, Grobe and his staff (including Mullen) all moved to Wake Forest, leaving behind only Brian Knorr, to be the head coach, and to start from scratch. Knorr was quite young, and not ready for a head coaching job.
2000-2024: Knorr was 11-35.
===>Overall, from 1985-2004, Ohio was 61-157-5, with only 2 winning seasons.
2005-2021: Frank Solich was 115-82, with only one losing season, but never won a championship.
2022-2024: Solich had unexpected health issues in 2021, so Albin took over in the summer just before the season started. His first year was 3-9, but Ohio was 29-10 over the next three years.
===>Overall, from 2005-2024, Ohio was 147-101, with only 2 losing seasons.]

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The then “small college” division probably more akin to the current NCAA Division II.
Of course, with realignment etc, some of those football programs from 65 years ago are now either FBS, FCS, or - for a number - defunct.

BTW, Lenoir-Rhyne (Hickory, NC) also finished undefeated that same 1960 season at 10-0 and ranked #2 behind Ohio in the final AP poll.

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Mullen was not a player. He was extremely detrimental to our program. Lambert would have likely succeeded if not for Mullen, in my opinion. Hey, with so many guys here blindly celebrating a losing culture, your comments are not surprising. He probably could use a hug next time you see him.

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https://x.com/Charlotte49ers/status/1957480191279747462

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I checked the roster, and I see that Mayes has not appeared, so apparently he still hasn’t heard about his request for an extra year. I also note that Antonio Cotman has vanished from the roster.

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The bubble screen fits your bubba head. It’s a concept where the QB throws the ball behind the line of scrimmage and far away from the teams biggest and best blockers with the hope that the teams smallest and least effective blockers will get guys like you to keep cheering no matter how many times it fails

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https://x.com/Hunter_Bailey45/status/1957588590239596984

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Since you brought up the bubble screen, it’s one of many kinds of misdirection plays, a class of play that also includes reverses. Those are not the kinds of plays that can reliably gain yards, but misdirection plays are essential for keeping defenses off balance. There is nothing inherently wrong with this type of play, but it depends on how it is used.

As far as the blocking by WR, I don’t know that this policy will follow Albin to Charlotte, but I strongly suspect that it will. At Ohio, no receiver would see the field unless he could block. Blocking was an essential expectation. Your bubble screen certainly requires WRs who can block, and so do pitch options, but receivers that can block can also be the difference between a short run up the middle, and a run that breaks for big yardage.

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Carl, that was thoughtful, but it was mostly bubble screen left, bubble screen right, sack or incomplete pass then punt. It was a 3 and out hurry up offense, apparently designed to keep our 1 deep defense on the field and exhausted. I am not exaggerating

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Always a fountain of positivity MeanJoe!

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CarlP don’t try to use facts and logic with “meanjo” as he has no clue what those things are nor does he care.
His mantra is the same; fire the coach, fire the AD and it is all Judy’s fault.
Ignore his posts and you will be much happier in life.

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clt was also frustrated by the hurry up offense. run a little clock occasionally, especially when you have a NFL DT on your team

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1000% this.

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What is 1000%? Study any really difficult math? The both of you are the losing culture. Losing is what you want us all to ignore. If you truly ignored me, then I wouldn’t get these types of responses. Logic much?

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Reminder :radio: :down_arrow:

https://x.com/TBoneWFNZ/status/1957584412482150855

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Jeff wasn’t a good OC, probably would have been fine had we stayed at FCS levels and he helped build the program.’ The entire staff was out of their league when we stepped up to fbs. With that said he was on the first staff we ever had. Which means he has perspective and history of what went into making the program a reality and he knew some legendary names for our young program in Ratliff Duke Larry and Alex - etc.

Absolutely nothing wrong with letting him talk to the team.

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I missed the show. Did Hunter give any new interesting updates?

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TBH, really nothing new.

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Interested to hear what he said as well.

Sometimes he is too optimistic, like his fav line, ‘we may surprise some people’, :face_with_peeking_eye:.