that Stoops create a unity in the locker room among the coaches and the players. It's hard for us fans to determine where all the division and disconnection was coming from this year. Probably Stoops himself was partially responsible, but we cannot afford to have another season blow up because of internal strife. Whoever gets hired has to be 100% sold on Stoops' overall philosophy and cannot be pulling in the opposite direction. The HC has to convey the confidence that he has the plan to succeed. Stoops cannot afford to hire just a good OC. The coaches MUST be in sync, otherwise the team itself gets internally divided. Disagreements among coaches must be handled privately and settled privately so that unity is maintained in front of the players. The coaches must determine what the identity of this team will be both on offense and defense and then play to that identity.
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The internal strife and division are the biggest turn off to me. I can't understand how any coach allows it to get to that point. And if it does, correct it immediately as in don't let the sun go down before you act on it. It is time for Stoops to step up and lead this team. That is why he is called Head Coach.
I know from personal experience as I have been a part of numerous collegiate programs.
When you have 120+ players, coaches, training staff, etc, as part of a football program......if you are losing, nobody is happy........you will have many, many factions pop up all with varying ideas of how the team should be run. Fingers will point, tempers will flare, etc.
When you win, almost everyone is happy and of the same mindset.
When you have 120+ players, coaches, training staff, etc, as part of a football program......if you are losing, nobody is happy........you will have many, many factions pop up all with varying ideas of how the team should be run. Fingers will point, tempers will flare, etc.
When you win, almost everyone is happy and of the same mindset.
The internal division is/was the final straw for me caring as much about UK football as I have in the past. With everything else that has gone poorly, at least the players looked like they were trying in years past. I'm not so sure that players weren't dropping balls, not blocking, running wrong routes on purpose this past year.