Coaching Changes

[Rokawaylifer]

all great stuff. Btw, a wrigley fun fact, Lombardi also taught Latin at st. Cecilia.

Unrelated to football and worth probably nothing to the conversation but Benjamin graham, who taught warren Buffett at Columbia, was also a classics scholar.

Charlie munger uses the term “learning machine” to describe many successful individuals across all paths of life.

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Well, he might not have a lot of options for hiring somebody at this point in the year. A new guy might not even get here until July. And how attractive is this job for anybody who has a job? So he looks around the room to find the best guy for the job and sees him in the mirror. He's better than anybody he can hire. So if the OL needs fixed, it is smart for him to do it himself. Meanwhile he'll have a smart, motivated apprentice watching how he does it.

I also want to add Halas, the inventor of the modern QB, to my list (engineer).
So Rockne, the forward pass guy, was a chemist.
Landry (inventor of the 4-3, reinventor of the shotgun, first to use computers for draft evaluations, etc) was an engineer.
Shula who, among other things, perfected the new fangled 3-4 was a math guy.
And Lombardi who was the greatest was a physics and chem teacher before going to Army.

Maybe there is a STEM connection to really great coaching. But its not just STEM; its just general smartness. Leach is really smart. Osborn had a PhD. Paterno was planning for law school after graduating Brown. These guys, like maybe our young guy, were just way smarter than the average football coaching bear.
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[Affirm]

It’s basketball, not football, but a very smart man was educated as a physician before a coaching & educator & military service & athletics director career: Dr. James Naismith, INVENTOR of the sport. He spent 8 years as university physician at KU + 2 years in military service between his time as basketball coach & his time as AD. (His pre-medical education included both physical education and theology.)

[apaladin]

We will find out how this all works out 4 months from today.

[gofurman]

PC just hired the guy who almost always go for it on 4th down (meaning you don't know that they will throw on 3rd and 7 - all options are on the table at all times).... and almost never punts or kicks off. many times goes onside. I have a man-crush on this guy - Analytics Work. As shown by Butler coach Brad Stevens

https://www.espn.com/college-football/s ... head-coach

read this - Genius ! Love the lateral stuff.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/spo ... ical-idea/

[jesse174]

I originally felt we had a very good QB and losing Darren wouldn't make a difference. I also felt we had a good OL and our running game was deep. So naturally I thought we would win all our games. None of that happened and we lost most of our games.
So what happened to the QB...why did we lose Cory Watkins and have a not so good running game. And what happened to our star Center...and,,,and....
Glad I'm not the coach of this team...

[Thorny]

We had two solid centers that arguably under performed. For that matter, a lot of the offense under performed.

I'm not sure why so many of our players seemed to take a step back from 2019.

I do understand that prospects, players, and families read the stuff on here so I try to be positive because a happy team is a team that wins and wish more people that commented on here would keep that in mind.

Still, this team really seemed to underperform.

[The Jackal]

We had two solid centers that arguably under performed. For that matter, a lot of the offense under performed.

I'm not sure why so many of our players seemed to take a step back from 2019.

I do understand that prospects, players, and families read the stuff on here so I try to be positive because a happy team is a team that wins and wish more people that commented on here would keep that in mind.

Still, this team really seemed to underperform.

If we had film on every play of every game, we could probably sit down here and go through it and nitpick what went wrong.

Bottom line - we weren't as good as headlines suggested we were. We need to get better in all facets of the game if we expect the program to be where we think it can be.

[gofurman]

We had two solid centers that arguably under performed. For that matter, a lot of the offense under performed.

I'm not sure why so many of our players seemed to take a step back from 2019.

I do understand that prospects, players, and families read the stuff on here so I try to be positive because a happy team is a team that wins and wish more people that commented on here would keep that in mind.

Still, this team really seemed to underperform.

If we had film on every play of every game, we could probably sit down here and go through it and nitpick what went wrong.

Bottom line - we weren't as good as headlines suggested we were. We need to get better in all facets of the game if we expect the program to be where we think it can be.

Yep, objectively, our OL didn't get much of a push after Western. Think of how we owned Western and then Citadel lost to Western and we lost to Cit.. i can hardly stand it. We not only underperformed - but seemed to regress as the year went on. That was what got me the most. I would rather start poor and finish strong than start strong and finish poor.

I know there is some talent there - its' many of the same players that made the playoffs in years prior on the OL etc - Hope we put this in the rearview mirror and improve. If nothing else it teaches young men you can't just show up and expect to win. You have to play hard every down

[apaladin]

Agree GF, the most disturbing, disappointing thingswas the regression. Maybe we started strong because of the competition? The stong start only lasted one game.