Chris Ault has led the Wolf Pack to yet another default-appearance in the post season. After completely dominating perennial cellar dweller, Louisiana Tech 49-10 on Saturday (in front of approximately 10,000 fans), Ault gladly accepted an invite to the 2nd annual New Mexico Bowl.
The Wolf Pack, 6-6 on the season, "earned" an invite due to the fact that June Jone's Hawaii football team will be playing the BCS's Sugar Bowl. Had UH not been invited to a non-WAC affiliated bowl, the Pack would have almost assuredly been left out in the cold. This marks the second consecutive year that the University of Nevada's football team has accepted a bid to a WAC affiliated bowl game because another WAC team earned a BCS bowl appearance. The Western Athletic Conference is aligned with 3 bowl games.
The Pack fan base has acknowledge this seemingly undeserved bowl-eligbility, by attending home football games in alarmingly small numbers. Chris Ault's football team is recently drawing an attendance less than that required to remain NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision (D1) eligible. Click HERE to read a USA Today blog on the issue of D1 attendance requirements.
The auspicious New Mexico Bowl will be held on December 22, 2007, in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Sunday, December 2, 2007
Thursday, November 29, 2007
Post Of The Day
Another excellent post, this one followed the aforementioned RGJ article:
"First of all, what kind of meaning does a Bowl game have when you are 5-7, or even 6-6. Give me a break. Unless you are in the BCS championship game it is just about fundraising. And I hate to burst bubbles but UNR will probably never have to make travel arrangements to that game. I don't know Ault personally but he comes across as a jerk. As far as his job is concerned, why should he be any different from a non performer in any field. If you are not doing your job you shouldn't have one."
Chris Ault, to be sure, has not lived up to the standards that (ironically enough) he set. We must try something new...
"First of all, what kind of meaning does a Bowl game have when you are 5-7, or even 6-6. Give me a break. Unless you are in the BCS championship game it is just about fundraising. And I hate to burst bubbles but UNR will probably never have to make travel arrangements to that game. I don't know Ault personally but he comes across as a jerk. As far as his job is concerned, why should he be any different from a non performer in any field. If you are not doing your job you shouldn't have one."
Chris Ault, to be sure, has not lived up to the standards that (ironically enough) he set. We must try something new...
The Reno Gazette Journal Finally Wakes Up, Sort Of
Apparently Dan Hinxman, a not-so-critical Reno Gazette Journal columnist, has finally realized that Chris Ault may not be a fan favorite. Hinxman interviewed Nevada AD, Cary Groth, about Ault's future with the program. It seems that Groth is taking a preemptive stance with the coach, denying that his job is in any sort of jeopardy, even though the issue has yet to be broached by Northern Nevada news outlets.
To read for yourself, click HERE
The comments following the article are especially interesting. It appears that many of the knowledgable Pack faithful have grown tired of the perennial mediocrity. Maybe we can finally affect a little change...
To read for yourself, click HERE
The comments following the article are especially interesting. It appears that many of the knowledgable Pack faithful have grown tired of the perennial mediocrity. Maybe we can finally affect a little change...
Wednesday, November 28, 2007
Post Of The Day
This was posted on a Reno Gazette Journal message board. The demands for a coaching change are growing louder. The intelligent fans of Nevada sports no longer chose to allow single, power-mongering individuals to monopolize one of their teams.
" 'The play calling is predictable, that's a problem.' --poster TheObjective.
Of course it is predictable. How else could a 14 point lead be taken away by halftime adjustments? Tomey is a good coach, not a great coach (AZ chased him out after better seasons than fAult), and a 32-yr-old Pat Fitzgerald & staff found a way too. Coaching matters. Idaho and Utah St. adjusted and made 2nd half surges too. They have 3 wins between them, and they found a way to make it a game against the fAulty Nevada coaching on both sides of the ball. Go figure."
-AZona
" 'The play calling is predictable, that's a problem.' --poster TheObjective.
Of course it is predictable. How else could a 14 point lead be taken away by halftime adjustments? Tomey is a good coach, not a great coach (AZ chased him out after better seasons than fAult), and a 32-yr-old Pat Fitzgerald & staff found a way too. Coaching matters. Idaho and Utah St. adjusted and made 2nd half surges too. They have 3 wins between them, and they found a way to make it a game against the fAulty Nevada coaching on both sides of the ball. Go figure."
-AZona
Monday, November 26, 2007
Post Of The Day
" 'Go check his record, compare him to his sucessors, Horton, Tisdale, Tormey. Also check who came calling for him before having to settle for Jeff Horton.' -poster nvgrad
Isn't his current record similar to that which got the forementioned canned?
Nobody came calling when Ault and his coaching staff were pushing paper and warming desks for nearly 10 years. You get what you pay for.
I can't wait for the Arizona-Arizona State game this weekend. I'll get to be around 2 programs that hired coaches to take them to the next level, with fans and a student body who care.
Mackay will have 100/16,000 students in attendace and 7,000/150,000 from the surrounding areas.
Yep, you get what you pay for. An outdated coach, and an unimpressed fan base.
If it was an "outsider" coaching this season instead of a guy with 40-year-old blue liscense plates, would you still want him back?
Didn't think so. The "Good 'Ole Boy" mentality is holding Nevada football back.
The old man got a beat down by a 32-year-old Big 10 bottom feeder who knew how to better coach and adjust after halftime."
-This was posted today on a Reno Gazette Journal comment board, following an article written by RGJ columnist Dan Hinxman.
Isn't his current record similar to that which got the forementioned canned?
Nobody came calling when Ault and his coaching staff were pushing paper and warming desks for nearly 10 years. You get what you pay for.
I can't wait for the Arizona-Arizona State game this weekend. I'll get to be around 2 programs that hired coaches to take them to the next level, with fans and a student body who care.
Mackay will have 100/16,000 students in attendace and 7,000/150,000 from the surrounding areas.
Yep, you get what you pay for. An outdated coach, and an unimpressed fan base.
If it was an "outsider" coaching this season instead of a guy with 40-year-old blue liscense plates, would you still want him back?
Didn't think so. The "Good 'Ole Boy" mentality is holding Nevada football back.
The old man got a beat down by a 32-year-old Big 10 bottom feeder who knew how to better coach and adjust after halftime."
-This was posted today on a Reno Gazette Journal comment board, following an article written by RGJ columnist Dan Hinxman.
Sunday, November 25, 2007
It's Time For A Change...
Last night we lost to San Jose State, after a scoreless second half. We left the field at halftime with a 24-10 lead, against a team we hadn't lost to since 2001. All indicators pointed toward victory. But 30 minutes later, the Pack left Spartan Stadium dejected, after having been beat 27-24.
This was the latest in a series of winnable games that were lost because of coaching ineptitude and a fundametal unwillingness by the University to regain control of its football program, and point it in a different direction. Chris Ault is no longer an acceptable head coach. It's time to begin change...
This was the latest in a series of winnable games that were lost because of coaching ineptitude and a fundametal unwillingness by the University to regain control of its football program, and point it in a different direction. Chris Ault is no longer an acceptable head coach. It's time to begin change...
Sunday, April 1, 2007
There's no room for "Coach" Chris Ault in the 21st century
Chris Ault should absolutely be proud of his coaching accomplishments at the University of Nevada, Reno. He saw success and was eventually rewarded with a spot in the college football hall of fame. I admire Chris Ault for this.
However, these accomplishments came during the late 1970s and 80s at the division 1AA level - they should definitely be admired, but only as stepping stones, leading us into a new era of NEVADA athletics (get it, not the antiquated "University of Nevada, Reno". Its the 21st century ya'll). Anyways, Ault is currently the head coach of the Nevada football team (after, as AD, he fired coach Chris Tormey and named himself head coach) and is in the process of setting the program back more than a decade with his (inexplicable) egotism, prehistoric Div. 1AA recruiting philosophies and an almost diabolical scheduling system that results in built-in .500 record (which certain fans somehow find acceptable).
Just because he had a hand in building Nevada football (and he'll NEVER let us forget this, but thats a different blog entirely), he has not earned the right to drive it into the ground. Chris Ault has got to go.
However, these accomplishments came during the late 1970s and 80s at the division 1AA level - they should definitely be admired, but only as stepping stones, leading us into a new era of NEVADA athletics (get it, not the antiquated "University of Nevada, Reno". Its the 21st century ya'll). Anyways, Ault is currently the head coach of the Nevada football team (after, as AD, he fired coach Chris Tormey and named himself head coach) and is in the process of setting the program back more than a decade with his (inexplicable) egotism, prehistoric Div. 1AA recruiting philosophies and an almost diabolical scheduling system that results in built-in .500 record (which certain fans somehow find acceptable).
Just because he had a hand in building Nevada football (and he'll NEVER let us forget this, but thats a different blog entirely), he has not earned the right to drive it into the ground. Chris Ault has got to go.
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