Vandy's Clark Lea reimagined how to coach current CFB players, and it's paying off

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He lost the Georgia State a few weeks ago.

He's a dung heap of a coach. People just don't put much effort into preparing for Vanderbilt and perhaps a underestimated.
You are knowledgeable about football so I do not understand what losing a game to what you may perceive to be a lesser opponent has anything to do with the coach overall. I would argue that GSU has more athleticism than Vandy. But the bigger point is every single coach has lost a game to an opponent that was perceived to be lesser.
 

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You missed the entire point of the thread and still never commented on the topic at hand.
If you are happy being in the bottom third of the SEC, then Im sure it is as good as any other plan.

Id hope that we arent Vanderbilt with players just bursting for a chance to leave and go play for a real team, even if it is just stepping up to Mizzu or Indiana. Obviously that currently isnt the case.
 

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If you are happy being in the bottom third of the SEC, then Im sure it is as good as any other plan.

Id hope that we arent Vanderbilt with players just bursting for a chance to leave and go play for a real team, even if it is just stepping up to Mizzu or Indiana. Obviously that currently isnt the case.
At this point I hope we hire this guy just to trigger you.

You still post like it's 2012. College football has changed.
 

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At this point I hope we hire this guy just to trigger you.

You still post like it's 2012. College football has changed.
Whatever, dude.

Yeah, we'll see how the "we dont bother to develop them" route lasts.
 

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Game day had a piece on Clark Lea yesterday morning. He explained what he means by “rethinking everything” he does this past offseason.

He decided that the whole model of player development as athletes, students and people doesn’t work anymore. He’d invest in players and they’d just leave. So he went out and found the best QB he could, hired that OC and the recently retired HC as an analyst or whatever. He quit starting meetings with team building stuff and now goes straight to game planning.

All of which is very sad to me, but very true.

Why spend all that money on “Gator Made” and so forth? Why spend money on anything but compensation, recruiting and keeping them “eligible” - whatever that means now.

I’m afraid these undercurrents are washing away the foundations of college football. Conferences, rivalries and bowl games are eroded already. If the vision/myth of our school ties doesn’t matter to the players, why should it matter to me? If I were a big-money booster, I’d question what I’m boosting.

To be consistent, that should morph into owner and investor.

What bothers me about this and really when things change in general, nobody who was for the change in the spirit of “progress” ever admits it didn’t work and that we should go back to the old ways…we just can’t stand to leave things alone and let it be
 

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Everything you say is true but there aren't many if any pillars left that still have some innocence and purity remaining....just sad to see IMO
 

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I still think player development is gonna win you the most games. Just like in pro sports. Keeping talented young guys bought in is gonna be the kicker. That being said , it's like building your team through the draft. Invest in your own players and then supplement with the portal.
 

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My post wasn't geared necessarily to this team. I was basically saying you should still build your roster through highschool recruiting. But with a pro ball mentality.
 

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What bothers me about this and really when things change in general, nobody who was for the change in the spirit of “progress” ever admits it didn’t work and that we should go back to the old ways…we just can’t stand to leave things alone and let it be

I hear you, but once the courts rightly struck down the NCAA’s restraints on players capitalizing on their fame (or ingenuity), chaos ensued because the one entity that couldn’t pay them was the school they played for. So these “collectives” formed to be supposedly arm’s-length intermediaries. Which is absurd.

Add to that going overnight from highly restricted transfer rules to complete free agency.

The utter failure to develop a reasonable and legal framework for these new realities - which they knew were coming for years - has left things chaotic.
 

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