Guys, its not the coaching thats the problem
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Your subject line says it is not the coaching then your post goes on to explain exactly why the problem is the coaching. You need to get things a bit better organized before you present you argument. And by the way, it is totally a lack of coaching.
Maybe, but we have ulismyman on here posting about football. Have you read his replies in the "Pull the RS" off of Hoak thread?
The same it's been except for Curci. We don't have the players to compete past low Sun Belt level. Those who say this or past teams are/were talented are talking about three or four good players and the rest just have a uniform.
My point being, everybody is blaming this entire thing on coaches. My use of past coaches to illustrate my point seemed pretty clear to me. I am not sure what you construe as criticizing of coaches.
My point with this post was that these coaches know what they are doing. A helluva alot more than any of us on this board. Coaches can draw up plays, players can practice those plays all week, but during the game if we do not have execution, we look horrible. How much more can a coach do?
Recruiting is part of coaching. I mean you realize that we have no speed on defense, why didn't these guys recruit some speed? The players are quitters? Why have a players only meeting? Who is responsible for motivating? Come on man, if the players aren't "good enough" the coaches should have recruited and coached up players who are good enough. This is year 4, not year 1
Recruiting is part of coaching. I mean you realize that we have no speed on defense, why didn't these guys recruit some speed? The players are quitters? Why have a players only meeting? Who is responsible for motivating? Come on man, if the players aren't "good enough" the coaches should have recruited and coached up players who are good enough. This is year 4,
Our recruiting rankings the last 4 years were top heavy with 2 or 3 highly ranked players. Speed on defense has been our Achilles heel for the last 50 years. Hindsights' 20-20, we do not have the talent to sucessfully compete but you cant lay all of that on the coaching. At some point, players have to step up or step aside.
OK, so you are saying we are recruiting highly ranked players. Then they aren't being coached...
Our Achilles heel has always been miserable line play and lack of depth on the defensive side.
Not to mention a coach that always looks like a deer caught in the headlights.
That comes down to either recruiting talent or coaching but Stoops is responsible for both !
If we lost 24-21, I would for sure agree with you....but yesterday wasn't even close.
Its not the coaching? Please explain why it took a miracle to beat EKU on our home field last year? 8 men on the field for a punt with the game on the line. Calling a timeout to ice our own kicker. The WKU debacle. The Vandy debacle last year. Multiple blow outs. Multiple off the field incidents. It all points to coaching.
Absolute terrible take. We have better players. It's the coach's job to get them to execute....that's not happening.
Explain to me how a coach gets a player on the field to throw a block, catch a pass, make a tackle? I know all about how they teach them in practice. I have yet to figure out how a coach can make a kid tackle. As a player, if you don't have the desire to get better and quit going out there and embarassing yourself, then quit the sport.
LMAO at these people who think the problem is the players and not the coach. As if a new coach came in and suddenly produced a winning season he would be denied credit for it. As if coaches who consistently produce effective results have fans who say stupid crap like, it's really our players who deserve all the credit, because these guys have been competing like this since they were in high school.
This is year four, not year one. Stoops teams appear to be getting worse, not better. So far he is nothing more than a famous name in an empty suit.
In agree with you. What is so hard to understand that missed blocks, missed tackles, not executing is on the coaches. Why are they not recruiting guys who can bloc and tackle and execute. why are they not coaching players how to do this. Something is wrong and it is not the players, it lies at the feet of the staff
Vince Lombardi would have had bloody knuckles coming out of the locker room and a dozen players would have been booted from the team. I've supported Stoops from the beginning, but he's got to toughen up and will this team into victory. Teams take on their coach's personality, and right now this team is playing confused and without emotion.
I know that he said that 2 or 3 players are good and the rest are crap. I also know he doesn't know what the hell he is talking about
If we don't hold the coaches accountable then we just need to quit. This is not high school sports where you have to play what you are dealt. This is college athletics and coaches have total control on who they evaluate and recruit for their program. If you have a bunch of players that are not performing then it is all on the coach. If they cannot be motivated then you are either doing a poor job motivating or you shouldn't have recruited them..