Addazio's Folly

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This is the kind of SHYT I talk about all the time. Simple Game Management ability. Always knowing the situation from HC down to players. This is simply not understanding the concept of physically practicing the mental aspects of the game. This kind of stuff litters all sports every day, granted not quite as egregious as this folly.

I kept thinking about this and this is as simple as it gets. I talk about it all the time regarding how people want an offensive minded head coach etc. This is why you need a guy who has "it". The ability to understand and process what is going on every single second of every single game. Whatever the sport there were always a few things I thought about during every single game or match I was involved in: Time and score, Down and distance, number of fouls both team/personal, count and situation, it just does not matter. A head coach has to know all of these things without thinking. These things are innate.
 
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This is the kind of SHYT I talk about all the time.

Even worse, and what you also point out is playing the result instead of the process. If that kicker somehow nails the kick in the rushed situation many, if not most fans, and almost certainly Greg McElroy would be touting the amazing comeback win by the Dazzler and how prepped he was to have the kicking team ready to take the field.

This garbage is only highlighted if a kid is slightly off plane kicking a football. Yet the coaching idiocy happened regardless.
 

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This is the kind of SHYT I talk about all the time. Simple Game Management ability. Always knowing the situation from HC down to players. This is simply not understanding the concept of physically practicing the mental aspects of the game. This kind of stuff litters all sports every day, granted not quite as egregious as this folly.

I kept thinking about this and this is as simple as it gets. I talk about it all the time regarding how people want an offensive minded head coach etc. This is why you need a guy who has "it". The ability to understand and process what is going on every single second of every single game. Whatever the sport there were always a few things I thought about during every single game or match I was involved in: Time and score, Down and distance, number of fouls both team/personal, count and situation, it just does not matter. A head coach has to know all of these things without thinking. These things are innate.
TLDR... clock ran out after first paragraph...
 

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I woke up happy in the knowledge that there would be no Mullenball to watch, read, or hear about today. Then, I read this . . .
 

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This is the kind of SHYT I talk about all the time. Simple Game Management ability. Always knowing the situation from HC down to players. This is simply not understanding the concept of physically practicing the mental aspects of the game. This kind of stuff litters all sports every day, granted not quite as egregious as this folly.

I kept thinking about this and this is as simple as it gets. I talk about it all the time regarding how people want an offensive minded head coach etc. This is why you need a guy who has "it". The ability to understand and process what is going on every single second of every single game. Whatever the sport there were always a few things I thought about during every single game or match I was involved in: Time and score, Down and distance, number of fouls both team/personal, count and situation, it just does not matter. A head coach has to know all of these things without thinking. These things are innate.
Well when you are watching the game, you are not mana it.
 

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Addazio is just another in the long line of incompetent boobs that keep getting hired to be head coaches in college and the NFL. Does anyone check into these guys before they hire them. Looking at our last three hires, I think I have the answer, and it’s no.
 

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I kind of mystifies me that Urban Meyer is the greatest ST coach in history, and I can't even think of how it could be debatable that is who might be even be debatable as competition. Everyone else is fighting for second place.

And not a damn one of his assistants took notes and can even field a slightly competent ST themselves. It is amazing.
 

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I kind of mystifies me that Urban Meyer is the greatest ST coach in history, and I can't even think of how it could be debatable that is who might be even be debatable as competition....
That's because we had 4 and 5 stars on the bench competing for playing time. Meyer let it be known the fastest (and sometimes only) path onto the field was through excelling on Special Teams. You want to pass the guy in front of you on the depth chart, get on Special Teams and make some plays.

Kick-off rule-changes have neutered special teams a little bit.

Bring back Nord!
 
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That's because we had 4 and 5 stars on the bench competing for playing time. Meyer let it be known the fastest (and sometimes only) path onto the field was through excelling on Special Teams. You want to pass the guy in front of you on the depth chart, get on Special Teams and make some plays. Kick-off rule-changes have neutered special teams a little bit. Bring back Nord!
I'm pretty sure you're still allowed to block punts and field goals, and to return punts.

not that we ever even try.
 

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I kind of mystifies me that Urban Meyer is the greatest ST coach in history, and I can't even think of how it could be debatable that is who might be even be debatable as competition. Everyone else is fighting for second place.

And not a damn one of his assistants took notes and can even field a slightly competent ST themselves. It is amazing.

But this particular instance has nothing to do whether the ST or the ST coach is competent. This purely a management issue and not a physical issue. This is a HC issue.
 

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But this particular instance has nothing to do whether the ST or the ST coach is competent. This purely a management issue and not a physical issue. This is a HC issue.
You heard McElroy say they practiced this exact scenario every week. Think Daz (or Mullinz) does?
 

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You heard McElroy say they practiced this exact scenario every week. Think Daz (or Mullinz) does?

Not a Sno-Ballz chance in Hades that Cousin Eddie or the Dazzler practice these scenarios. Just like I use to complain about QB's who would scramble outside the pocket and step out of bounds for a loss instead of heaving it 50 rows into the stands, which is legal. I would practice that every single day. Or in hoops with a 3 point lead and a few seconds remaining and you want to foul "intentionally" before they get up a shot but not make the foul look intentional. When I was coaching hoops after the 3 point line was put in, we practiced that every single day at the end of practice.
 

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