Originally published at: https://pistolsfiringblog.com/hes-doing-fine-gundy-discusses-defensive-coordinator-bryan-nardo/
‘I have to evaluate all things, not just look at results.’
If he won’t make a change then he needs to BE the change. If he doesn’t fire Nardo and/or Dunn I hope season ticket renewals go down the drain. Not kidding - I do. Hit Weiberg and Dr. Shrum where it hurts - in the pocketbook. I’m sick of this 
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This from the defensive mastermind who fired Bill Young a year after a missed field goal from playing for a national championship in favor of a linebacker coach with no coordinator experience at ANY level and who just this last offseason replaced a known-producer D-line coach just because he felt like it.
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Just as I had predicted recently, Gundy gives Nardo one more season because he thinks injuries and mistakes from the players are the reason for putrid “defense”.
A decent coach would have fixed these recurring mistakes by now.
We played one good game on offense thanks to Rangel lighting a fire, therefore, Gundy probably retains Dunn, telling himself that the main reason for lack of offense is because Dunn is limited in play selection because Bowman is limited in ability.
If I had to bet on this, I would bet Nardo and Dunn remain for next season.
If Weinberg and Shrum knock on Gundy’s door, Gundy probably says, " how many seasons have y’all been coaching? "
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He’s delusional. Having Oliver and Martin would obviously have helped some, but when your team is 0-5 in conference play and the defense routinely gives up 550+ yards per game, the DC is not fine.
Baylor: 565 yards
BYU: 473 yards
WV: 558 yards
KState: 559 yards
Just 3 seasons after fielding the #3 rated defense in D1 college football, this year’s OSU defense is only ahead of Kent State in all of D1.
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First of all I doubt anyone on this forum is qualified to really know where the problems really are. If today’s press conference was truthful and an accurate assessment of what is going on it sounds like the problems are a mixture of coaching and players. The problems with the players that Gundy described is consistent with what I can see on TV. I have no way of knowing if they are aligned/schemed correctly but what you can see is that everyone on the D is playing on an island, there is no mad rush to the ball, if someone misses a tackle there is hardly ever a second and third guy there to pick up the slack. I watched O state daily YT channel today and Casey’s guest said that our D only had 4 assisted tackles the WHOLE game. That tells you what is going on all on it’s own. Gundy in today’s press conference pretty much concluded the same with some of the stats that he provided and he said that he was going to address that this week. We shall see this coming weekend if any progress is made.
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All teams have injuries and often to key players. That’s why you develop depth on your roster. Get the second and (sometimes) third teams some reps in games. This builds confidence for these guys and rewards them for contributing to the team, last, preps them for the time they are called on to step up and play in a game. The tackling issue says “coaching sucks” all over it. Some say recruiting doesn’t matter these days, I disagree, we aren’t able to offer NIL to a two deep roster. You need recruits to be the foundation. Let me restate “good” recruits that have a high probability of contributing. The fact we don’t have talent ready to step up is the result of Gundy being apathetic. He is not managing the team properly. Weiberg has the spotlight on him to calm the fan base. Something needs to happen. I give him credit for the wrestling and hoops hires. I’m waiting for the next move!
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In a National Championship game Nick Sabin make a QB change and things worked out. But, even if it did not work out, it speaks VOLUMES about the ability to make critical decisions. Mike Grundy is no Nick Sabin …for sure. MG’s whole career is riddled with an inability to make critical decisions at the time they need TO BE made. He will not make them until the point arrives that he can no longer avoid it. …aka…NIL makes the Boosters voice so much louder that Grundy will be forced to LISTEN …IMHO …
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Don’t really want to defend Gundy but to be fair Sabin/Alabama compared to Gundy/OSU are apples and oranges.
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“(Nardo is) doing fine“ Coach Gundy, not sure if you’re watching the same game, but the defense is a complete clown show.
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If you bothered to listen to Gundy’s press conf today you would know he was watching the same game. Man everybody just wants to crap over everyone and burn it all down and it seems that almost no one wants to gather what facts they can and try to come to some kind of sensible conclusion.
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What I have been witnessing this season isn’t Cowboy Football. Plain and simple. All I hear from Gundy is just whitewash trying to gloss over the problems that we have all witnessed the past few years. And when I hear the whitewash explainations they are insulting to us who care about this university. Insulting to us who are totally vested in this team. A coach is there to do one thing: get results. Last year we were lucky. This year the cracks are showing. The players are not playing to win and just let the opposing team just walk in for the winning score. If we are ready to settle and be content, then we need to start playing D4 ball.
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We can see it in the field and on the sidelines. Unless you want to willfully remain blind 
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It’s been a year since I been on here and active. I’m to the point between this season where I’m ready to see Gundy be forced to retire and pass the torch to someone that will show someone with fire, passion, ability to make the difficult choices, to take responsibility for a dumpster fire, and can handle this new era of college football.
Kasey Dunn isn’t the guy for our offense and Gundy can’t tell what a good quarterback is. Any sensible coach would had told Bowman his services wasn’t needed anymore after last season, that after 3 teams
learning different offenses, with no athleticism, throwing off his back foot for 8 years, and not being able to develop anymore would had told him to hang it up.
Our guys Rangel, Flores, and Smith their careers have been set back. Their growth has been set back. We are 2 years set back of where we should be. Rangel and Flores would had done well or better than Bowman last season with Gordon when we finally found out what he is about.
All season long teams have found out if we stick 6-7 defensive guys on Gordon that Bowman can’t carry this team. Rangel a better arm and with legs changed the dynamics of our run game helping Gordon out. Rangel gets hurt and Gundy persist to run RPO with a unmobile QB afraid of contact.
If we don’t let Smith play these last 4 games, which he can still keep his redshirt then we can expect more seasons like this for the foreseeable future. Non of these QBs can develop if we can’t take chances with and be willing to take a down year for development and experience to be better for the next season. I’m willing to have a losing season for players to get better for the next season to be better to contend for playoffs and conference championships. Stop being a mother arrogant egotistical mother hen Gundy and let these guys learn to develop their wings to fly.
Never thought I’d be this type of fan but I’m almost ready to let Gundy go if we have a mass exodus and make zero changes.
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I’m going to disagree with that, I’m sure donors and other hire ups don’t agree too. It doesn’t take much to see Gundy thinks he’s God if of the school and each year his ego grows bigger till the AD has a sit down with him. If he didn’t have the season he did last year he’d been gone after this season. The school has some big donors ready to dump money to win and other means to get money to take the program further, even if it means bringing in a good caliber coach. This isn’t a deadend program and Gary Patterson found out he was fireable at TCU.
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We got the talent just not the right coaching personnel to guide them to multiple wins. Gundy still has the mentality of seniority over talent unfortunately too. We have the best wide receiver corps in the country and best running back. Unfortunately these teams are forcing the game to be carried by Bowman. They put 6-7 guys in the box and know Bowman isn’t a playmaker. Rangel proved why we need a athletic QB. Opens the run game and opens the run game. Can’t run RPO with Bowman either which is proven.
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I have no idea if Nardo is up to this or not but I do know one thing for sure: This team SUCKS at tackling. And I don’t care how you call plays or come up with a defensive game plan, but if you can’t tackle then you will NOT win. And losing your best players are game changing losses. Literally.
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This is just another typical forum member statement that is based on some personal bias against Gundy, he makes too much, he has an ego, he is lazy et al. If you want to call for his head for those reasons then fine. As for me I’m interested to see if his analysis and approach to fixing things shows up in the remaining games that we have. Once the season is over we can decide what really needs to be changed based on the totality of the season. Making knee jerk decisions based on personal bias isn’t going to gets us anywhere IMO.
Everyone on this forum is qualified to have a voice about the problems of which we are aware. What the problems ‘really are’ may include some of which are not aware but most definitely include those of which we are.
Every comment you make of our defense is accurate. It also falls directly onto Nardo. If the defense is not playing hard for Nardo, as Gundy indicates, it still falls ON Nardo. If Nardo is doing fine in Gundy’s assessment, then it falls to Gundy as well in all of his self absorbed glory. It actually does anyway. He made the hire. Now, willing to admit the mistake for Gundy is tantamount to being emasculated. He forgets that Texas emasculated him repeatedly in second half comeback wins a few years in a row early on. He should grow some testicular fortitude, swallow his stupid pride and fire Nardo. Jmho…
I was slow to the party, but I have so much ‘love’ to give all comments of our hopelessness with the man who was my favorite head coach despite his glaring faults. Saying that Nardo is ‘doing fine’ is the very essence of obliviousness or willful blindness.
Is it softball season yet?? GO POKETTES!!! 
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