I will put this a few different places on this forum, so apologies in advance to the mods, but there is a petition gaining steam to get Phil Distefano to resign. Anyone who wants to can sign here:
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Bring him down
Uhh, no. Ever heard of SAG? Every member is guaranteed a union wage from any of hundreds of production companies.
Technically, the players would probably form a guild, not a union, just like actors and screenwriters do, although there are other less prominent guilds out there for skilled craftsmen too, which of course is your point.
SignedI will put this a few different places on this forum, so apologies in advance to the mods, but there is a petition gaining steam to get Phil Distefano to resign. Anyone who wants to can sign here:
I believe there are enough logistical challenges to make any kind of collective bargaining arrangement untenable. I think this is likely going to end up being managed by some kind of consortium of the conferences. So many ways this could go that it’s really hard to make any predictions that come with any level of certainty.
Thanks BigBang3.
well he may be bad at coaching college football in 2022, but he's being honest about it
What annoys me the most is that he should have been talking to (well actually listening to, which is a different thing) the players *before* the season ended. If he had been doing that part of his job correctly, then he would have known he needed to have a more thorough talk with them after the season ended - and if he had been excelling at the "listening" part during the season, then he would not have needed to have those discussions after the season ended at all and he could have focused on recruiting.
He obviously has no system or method to get feedback from the players other than their twitter announcements that they're leaving the program. There's just too many data points to think otherwise. (Exhibit A: this admission, exhibit B. the OL's comments about coach gumbo, and more...)
Maybe he'll create one now - but it needs to be something he does regularly, even during the season. It can't just be a thing that is done a few times during recruiting dead periods that occur outside of the season, spring practice, and fall camp.
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One can almost hear HCKD saying, "you mean I have to coach AND talk to them?"
FIFY. Open communication is ongoing, it's not something that's done a couple times a year.
Well, I guess the "glass half full" thought would be that KD does evaluate everything that goes wrong and has shown he will adjust.
So now that he has realized that it's important to meet with his players to explain his plan for the program and for them, in the future he will do so (at least at the end of the season to avoid some transfer problems).
Necessary changes to get the CU program to the basic standards of how to run a football program is a multi-year learning process. Baby steps. I figure that KD will have things looking competent in most areas by 2024.
Hmm. I thought NCAA rules specifically restrict boosters from providing any inducements to players. My bad.
Nothing like having your coach learning on the job at a P5 school. Embarrassing
At least he’s learning from his mistakes (we think). Can we honestly say the same about Phil? Dude has been making the same mistakes for the last 20 years.
Phil isn't making mistakes. He's just doing what he needs to do to do as little as possible while keeping his job.
In his 2nd stint as a P5 HC
2024 eh. We may even be a respectable, perennial .500 program by then. Great fun.
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I think HCKD should have an open door policy and encourage players to come forward if they want to talk about anything. But he has a staff for a reason, and the position coaches should be closer to their guys anyway, and should schedule end of season meetings.
something...old dogs... new tricks .. something
I'm reminded of Brian Kelly almost losing his job at Notre Dame ~5 years ago because he was losing his team by not building personal relationships with players, letting his hair down, etc. He went 180 degrees the other direction and his greatest success there followed. Now at LSU, we're seeing the silliness of his dance moves and whatnot. You simply cannot be an aloof taskmaster as a HC in this era of college football if you want to get buy-in from your players. And beyond that, those players can easily leave for somewhere they feel appreciated.
What alarms me the most is that he fessed up to this, apparently not cognizant of how completely incompetent this omission makes him appear.
Who hires those guys and dictates the processess and best practices of the program? Oh yeah, the head coach.
I’m ok with the admission, actually. Possibly a weird tangent to go on here: but I’ll never criticize somebody who openly admits to making a mistake.
Honestly, the quote was taken out of context a bit and it's really not as bad as it seems or how people here are making it, but AllBuffs is hellbent on finding anything to rip Dorrell for.
He just makes it so easy, over and over and over again.
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