Thinking out of the box

ChiefGator

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Some might not like this but so what.

How about we break tradition and try something different to address our issues.

We have had a lot of injury issues and player lack of leadership issues as well.

To address the injury issues how about we improve our strength and conditioning, use some of Chip's improvement processes, work with others on reducing injuries as well.

http://www.espn.com/espn/story/_/id/20695591/cfl-eliminates-pads-all-regular-season-practices

http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap30...ers-experimenting-with-robot-tackling-dummies

http://www.mobilevirtualplayer.com/

http://fortune.com/2015/12/31/nfl-concussion-technology/

Work with the CFL, NFL, and anybody else to improve safety.

Use the academic side to become cutting edge on reducing and preventing all types of injuries.

Now comes the really out of box concept. I have joked that I could be our HBC, it was a joke.

How about instead of building our coaching staff from the top we start in the middle. Assembly a great set of assistants, we were rumored to be vetting many of them and they could be Gators. This eliminates some of the issues we have seen where the head coach hires his friends and declines to replace them somewhat because they are his friends.

As part of this we implement Saban's concept of having a lot of bench players, testing to find out how each player learns best, and any other best practices that exist.

We might also split up the traditional HBC duties, like making commercials for our sponsors (maybe SOS takes this over), meeting with booster clubs (could be virtual to a certain extent and delegated to key assistants), be creative.

Then we get a head coach that can be the CEO of our team, he would need to not be like Mac and actually work with the AD staff and be open to improvements in all aspects.

We already have a plan to improve facilities, perhaps they need to be accelerated. We also need to improve our coordination with say Nike and make some new ones.

Comment as you desire, but keep your dislikes to yourself, I am happy to hear how this won't work, but not just your opinion that it won't.
 

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We dont hire good assistants. We hire the ceapest shyt available from FIU, FAU and N Tex.

Facilties? Of course but that should have been done decades ago. We are riding the Titanic to the ocean floor first.
 

GatorSkin

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So hire assistants before the head coach?
We wouldn't even be able to land a head coach from division 2 if that happened.

This is exactly how the Redskins ended up with Jim Zorn as their head coach.
Snyder thought outside of the box and hired him as the offensive coordinator and then started looking for a head coach.

Zorn's only coaching experience at that point was Qb coach for the sea chickens.

When every decent coach Snyder reached out to about the HC gig laughed in his face he was forced to name Zorn the HC.

No thanks on that idea.
 

ChiefGator

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So hire assistants before the head coach?
We wouldn't even be able to land a head coach from division 2 if that happened.

This is exactly how the Redskins ended up with Jim Zorn as their head coach.
Snyder thought outside of the box and hired him as the offensive coordinator and then started looking for a head coach.

Zorn's only coaching experience at that point was Qb coach for the sea chickens.

When every decent coach Snyder reached out to about the HC gig laughed in his face he was forced to name Zorn the HC.

No thanks on that idea.

Fine for your opinion, but one example of when you think it would not work is not very convincing to me. And of course this would be a last resort if we can't get a coach we really want and who really wants to be a Gator. You want another Mac???
 

ChiefGator

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We dont hire good assistants. We hire the ceapest shyt available from FIU, FAU and N Tex.

Facilties? Of course but that should have been done decades ago. We are riding the Titanic to the ocean floor first.

So you agree??? How interesting.
 

AugustaGator

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Some might not like this but so what.

How about we break tradition and try something different to address our issues.

We have had a lot of injury issues and player lack of leadership issues as well.

To address the injury issues how about we improve our strength and conditioning, use some of Chip's improvement processes, work with others on reducing injuries as well.

http://www.espn.com/espn/story/_/id/20695591/cfl-eliminates-pads-all-regular-season-practices

http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap30...ers-experimenting-with-robot-tackling-dummies

http://www.mobilevirtualplayer.com/

http://fortune.com/2015/12/31/nfl-concussion-technology/

Work with the CFL, NFL, and anybody else to improve safety.

Use the academic side to become cutting edge on reducing and preventing all types of injuries.

Now comes the really out of box concept. I have joked that I could be our HBC, it was a joke.

How about instead of building our coaching staff from the top we start in the middle. Assembly a great set of assistants, we were rumored to be vetting many of them and they could be Gators. This eliminates some of the issues we have seen where the head coach hires his friends and declines to replace them somewhat because they are his friends.

As part of this we implement Saban's concept of having a lot of bench players, testing to find out how each player learns best, and any other best practices that exist.

We might also split up the traditional HBC duties, like making commercials for our sponsors (maybe SOS takes this over), meeting with booster clubs (could be virtual to a certain extent and delegated to key assistants), be creative.

Then we get a head coach that can be the CEO of our team, he would need to not be like Mac and actually work with the AD staff and be open to improvements in all aspects.

We already have a plan to improve facilities, perhaps they need to be accelerated. We also need to improve our coordination with say Nike and make some new ones.

Comment as you desire, but keep your dislikes to yourself, I am happy to hear how this won't work, but not just your opinion that it won't.
Just keep Mordor out of it. Rules are rules.
 

GatorSkin

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Fine for your opinion, but one example of when you think it would not work is not very convincing to me. And of course this would be a last resort if we can't get a coach we really want and who really wants to be a Gator. You want another Mac???
Theirs only one example because 99.9% of GM's owners or AD's are smarter than Dan Snyder. You don't hire assistants before the head coach.
 

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