Mark Ivey

I have to acknowledge this by our guy, 895Juice.

Mark Ivey's tweet, gotta love it, with a picture of the score after the win.

I'm not going to read the last part of that.

And again, you all know I've got to protect my connections and my reputation, but we could have done without that tweet.

That tweet didn't need to be posted.

I like Mark Ivey.

I love him.

I love Mark Ivey.

Overall, you have a first-time play caller defensive coordinator.

A really respected position coach in Mark Ivey, who was with the program since the Scott Satterfield era, the only coach left from the Satterfield era, stayed on with Jeff Brohm, and the players love him.

I mean, he is a player's coach, really energetic, passionate coach that, I mean, you can see him before games just, I mean, going crazy and screaming in the pregame huddles, and that's the energy that he brings.

But when you step up to being that first-time play caller, sometimes there's a learning curve.

And unfortunately, the learning curve has been about as large as you hoped it wouldn't be, to the point to where Jeff Brohm is now helping Mark Ivey out.

So second half, I mean, this was the first game where Jeff Brohm gave up the offensive play calling so he could help the defense out.

They give up 20 points, right? I mean, they scored 14 right away, but Louisville made some adjustments.

I do want to follow that up.

Um, this week you seem to have went to the armbands for defense and you moved Mark Ivey to the booth.

Are the armbands going to be something that you use going forward? And then as far as play calling, how was that much different than years past and kind of weeks past in getting the play into the defense using the armbands?

Well, Coach Ivey's been up in the booth, uh, uh, the last couple games.

Jeff talked about it a little bit at his press conference today.

But Brian did call the plays, and a combination of Jeff and Mike Cassidy, I believe, were, were mostly In charge on the defense, Mark Ivey was up in the box for a second straight game, I, I believe, and Steve Ellis was down on the field like he's been this entire season.

And I assume that that's the way that it's gonna go.

Now, Cassidy, I think a lot of people did not know that he was on staff.

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Texas, "Mike, I'm calling for Mark Ivey job if FSU went up 21-nothing." I mean, you had people that were calling for it before.

We, we, we-

So I sound like a broken record here, but limit the penalties.

What does Mark Ivey do? Because there's a lot of noise right now.

Everybody's wondering why Ivey is still calling plays.

This is an opportunity for Mark to, to show that like, "Hey, look, first time defensive play caller.

You mention the defense, and, and here is the big question.

You know, Jeff Brohm knew that Ron English was no longer gonna be here, and instead of going out and hiring a defensive coordinator, he elevated Mark Ivey and Steve Ellis, who are s- assistants on staff.

That clearly hasn't worked for whatever reason.

And Jeff Brohm said this week they have to simplify things.

But at this point, I'm not really sure that it's so much personnel as it is scheme and play calling.

Jeff Brom hired or promoted Mark Ivey from a position coach to defensive coordinator.

This is his first time as a play caller in the Power Four, and it seems like there are some things that he just has to adjust and has to learn because what's currently going on right now, I mean, you just can't keep running this out there every single week because, like you said, it looks like one of the worst defenses in the country.

I, for the sake of my mental sanity, haven't really looked at the numbers as much this week because I already know they are hashtag very bad.

But this is more of a scheme issue than a roster one, in my opinion.

It's a little column A, column B, but...

If those players aren't in the right position, how can you ask them to consistently make plays? And that's where we are heading into the sixth game of the season thinking, okay, is Jeff Brom going to make any changes or adjustments? Is Mark Ivey going to continue to call the plays? If so, what's he going to do differently? Because at this point, it doesn't look like there's been much that's different.

And if there has been a change, that's even more discouraging because it looks the same every week.