I like a coach that gets in a player's grill quick about stupid stuff, like unsportsmanlike conduct penalties. Moorhead may have been frustrated by it, but he never seemed to show it last night. Maybe that's his coaching style during a game, but I prefer the Saban approach...Meet the kid about 10 yards out on the field, red-faced, with the veins in your neck all swollen and get on his time. It tips the whole team that you're not going to tolerate it. The head coach has to set that tone in no uncertain terms. Sherrill knew this, and so did Mullen.
What we didn't see last night...
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Name a successful coach that doesn't chew on players' asses besides Pete Carroll.
It's not the only way to coach. But sometimes, it is the appropriate way to coach. The head coach has to show the players that he cares about what they do on the field. To seemingly ignore the first, second, third and fourth unsportsmanlike conduct call is not the way to coach in any sport, ever. I recall seeing Stoops chewing on some players in a huddle during a timeout last night. And that was just for costing him a timeout when they couldn't get the right defense lined up. I'm not saying that's the only way to coach, but sometimes, in some situations, you have to get their attention.
I bet those coaches never experienced four (4) unsportsmanlike conduct calls in a game, either. Their teams were more disciplined than that.
A lot of head coaches don't directly, but there are assistant coaches that have full authority to be the "bad cop" to their "good cop" routine. I have not seen that either.
Nobody here knows how Moorhead handles these things as it’s his 4th game. We’ll see. My father never cursed at me hardly ever raised his voice but to this day I try not to do anything to disappoint that man. Joe doesn’t seem like a hot head we’ll have to see how we bounce back from this
I don't care if he yells at players or not, but there should have been no unsportsmanlike penalties after the first. That just shows me that Moorhead is not in control of this team, and they can do what they want. It's a bad precedent to set because it's almost impossible to set a different precedent on the back end.
If I were Moorhead there is one thing I would do for sure. I'd let the team know that the the next dumbass that participated in a pre-game brawl would get to know personally every single step in DW stadium by heart on a dead run.
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