coffee wrote:

levon1975 wrote:

Well, if you want to play these games and win when you aren’t overmatched; you need a higher level of coaching. When you’re playing FBS schools it’s just a big jump for the coaching staff as well as the players. They seem to struggle even beating the better-coached teams in the NEC!

 
Every coach has strengths and weaknesses. Schmidt does a great job recruiting, especially with the smallest “stadium” in the nation and is strong in pregame preparation. He’s a good “teacher” of the game with player development but is slow making in-game adjustments of player personnel, clock management, play calling and pacing. In short, he’s stubborn with his game planning and player selection when they need to adapt.

You are dead on.  His style of coaching is antiquated and Duquesne really should move on from him if they want to be a serious contender.  Problem is...he has 100+ wins, he's local, homegrown yinzer and athletics really shot their wad ($$) to bring in Dambrot.   Sad thing is, Duquesne could be known as a Football school if they were willing to spend some of the basketball money.  God knows they haven't been taken seriously on the Basketball side.