It was haha. I think all sports in the world are 90% mental, and continuity for team sports. The best coaches are the ones that can guide proper focus and connection, not the ones with the best X’s and O’s.
One of my favorite quote is from Presti- “We don’t look for basketball players. We look for people that can play basketball.” People were like “what does that mean? Those are the same thing.” But it’s a pretty deep quote.
Point taken overall, but I contend 95% of our missed tackles were due exclusively to lack of a complete understanding of fundamental tackling.
Angles too. I don’t know how many bad angles, maybe speed underestimated , but just plain bad
Well, we have a real DC now. Hopefully, silly things like that will be cleaned up.
Remember who hired our now fired DC 
. He obviously proved he can’t coach players at this level.
I don’t know. Do you think 73rd and 74th on defense will be good enough? Because that’s what his last two years at Florida produced before being fired.
Hey champ,
I don’t even have the energy this morning to call you stupid.
In Season training is definitely different at other programs. Glass is too old school during the season. If you notice most of the injuries are lifting or a combo heavy practice and heavy lift the same day. Glass needs to focus more on recovery than just size.
Agree. Glass and Co also seem to not optimize functional speed and strength versus “look good” body sculpting. Our end of season speed endurance is crap. Only Coach Knowles had our team in best functional S&C shape. But that’s because, as @michael13 mentioned, he largely over-rode Glass and Gundy and had the defensive team practicing fundamentals, including live tacking, throughout the season instead of going to the additional lifting sessions.
The functional work was always puzzling to me.
In addition, stadiums are tough but players pace themselves with those types of runs. Other programs focus on sprinting full speed up walk down and do it again. More HiT based. I prefer positioned focused stations for speed and endurance. Running 10 100’s does very little for trench guys. I believe this program should be the best in the country with the amount OSU spends on it.
And yet here you are doing exactly what you said you had no energy to do 
. It’s really a simple question if you ask me.
You would think after going 0-9 that he shouldn’t be overriding anything at this point. I’m of the opinion nothing has changed when it comes to Gundy doing so . Because if you keep reinforcing to the man he’s the “best coach in school history” you’ll eventually make him think that improvement from his own failure should be given as credit and a raise again even at 6-6.
Hey champ,
Except he’s had better defenses than that. There’s no reason to assume he’s going to have a defense as low as that, and if he did, it’d be a big improvement. You’d also have to look at Florida’s situation and analyze it. How was their schedule? How was their offense?
Key word is “had”. Glen Spencer had a great defense his first season as DC and was still fired. Not sure why anyone would think a D2 coach with no experience at this level would’ve been a better option .
I’d also have to analyze that going from 7th and 20th to 73rd and 74th is probably what cost him his job at Florida. The fact that Saban wouldn’t give him an actual position speaks volumes as well.
In case you’re wondering Florida’s offense from 2018-2021 was 20th, 29th, 13th, and 49th. Not exactly too bad considering Dunn while he was here could only break the top 50 in offense twice .
I just don’t see how this could be a championship worthy staff. Maybe it’s good enough for 6 wins. However, Meacham couldn’t even make it as the OC at TCU when they’ve been average or below. Graham has been fired and wasn’t even considered an actual coaching position at Bama.
We just got finished firing both our OC and DC. Yet, here we are going back to hiring people that didn’t cut it anywhere else . Apparently we didn’t learn our lessons from the past. In fact, if you look very closely at it. The only time we’ve won the conference or came close to doing it a second time are with guys who continue to be successful in those positional roles (Monken and Knowles).
Better hope our incoming transfer players are able to overcome the coaching errors.
Hey champ,
Saban took in a lot of coaches that didn’t have “real” positions like Steve Sarkisian. The fact that he took him shows he was worth having around. Meacham did a good job at TCU. He wasn’t “good” enough because they changed head coaches. The fact that he survived a head coaching purge is a testament not a detraction. Everything you say is the worst take. It’s like watching MSNBC covering Trump–there might be one or two legitimate critiques in there somewhere but it’s buried in so many baffingly stupid logical pretzels that I can’t even comment on the real thing.
Anything he says is baffling. He takes the worst of what he wants to talk about. I promise you the guy is straight mental. I wish Marshall would ban him from here for nothing but critical comments. He’s a pariah. , he’s like a bad virus going around. Always lingers around to bash Gundy. Always stinking the air .
The difference here is Sark was never fired from anywhere he’s coached for lack of performance on the field. If he had been, then I doubt he would’ve ended up in places like USC and Texas in the first place. Meacham and Grantham have both been fired along the path. So using a guy like Sark in comparison is a really poor example.
If Sonny Dykes had any confidence in Meacham’s abilities. Then he would’ve offered him a chance at that position knowing his previous stint as the TCU OC. I’m not saying Meacham won’t work out at OSU. I just don’t know how “successful” OSU is going to be with a guy that hasn’t called plays in four years, and most likely will be stuck with an outdated playbook everyone has figured out by now.
You’re trying to compare a coach that’s been successful as a HC just about everywhere he’s been to Meacham and Grantham (which is why Saban hired him) . Perhaps review your own takes before posting them and criticizing someone else for their own .
You should be more worried about if Gundy is getting to 6-6 next season instead of what I’m saying all the time 
.
I’m not worried about it at all. Do I want a good season sure but it’s his as$ that goes if he doesn’t. I don’t hunt any positive posts down to gargle the same idiotic remarks
That’s not a given. I’m not convinced he would be fired if he went 3-9 again. Cancer is hard to get rid of.