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Darrin Chiaverini relieved of his duties as Offensive Coordinator

Buffnik said:
Chev just isn't good at coordinating an offense.

Making a change, not just to a proven guy but someone who will bring a scheme, has to happen this offseason.

The answer is not "promote Langsdorf", in case anyone was entertaining that idea.
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It’s just common curtesy to tag RG if you are going to post answers like this.
 
skibum said:
I will start by noting that the ability to give negative feedback "up the chain" is a difficult thing to establish and maintain in any organization. It's also something that is, in the long term, critical for success. I will also note that establishing a culture where negative feedback can travel up nearly as well as it can travel down almost always starts at the top.

Coach sled wasn't merely a failure as a position coach, his poor performance was an organizational failure for which Chev, KD, LC and RG all share some amount of blame.
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Clearly, Coach Sled was a disaster. Conceptually, I may be able to understand how it happened and--maybe even---the thought process; I might even respect the desire to look outside-the-box. Surely as HCKD was a late hire, none of the top-tier OL coaches were available. So, maybe you look for someone with different ideas, who might be a hidden gem, just on the verge of finding a better way to teach OL techniques. Clearly that turned out not to be the case here, and no doubt, Coach Sled was a major stretch, even assuming an out-of-the-box approach, and that stretch snapped back hard.

I just wish we could get better information about such things, and I put that at the feet of reporting, to an extent. I never hear any specifics about what differences Coach Sled was actually teaching. What were the different concepts or approaches? What's the point of his "sled"? After he was fired, the changes couldn't have simply been "more energy." Maybe I have missed the detailed discussions of such things, and I do realize that teams and coaches avoid providing much detail so as to not give-away info to other teams. But I really don't care about the answers to most of the questions I hear asked. I rarely hear questions seeking detail or actual football concepts and techniques that I would find worthy of reading about. (I do occasionally hear a question seeking that information, and it does go nowhere.) I like our reporters, and they seem like very nice guys and solid Buff fans, but they are not "analysts." And since CU is never in the national picture, we rarely hear anyone even purporting to be an "analyst" discuss the team, the scheme, the concepts, the techniques, etc. I listen to the main weekly podcasts which get posted on BuffZone, but even those seems pretty vague in their "analysis."

(If I'm missing something, I'd love to know where to find it.)
 
GawainBuff said:
Clearly, Coach Sled was a disaster. Conceptually, I may be able to understand how it happened and--maybe even---the thought process; I might even respect the desire to look outside-the-box. Surely as HCKD was a late hire, none of the top-tier OL coaches were available. So, maybe you look for someone with different ideas, who might be a hidden gem, just on the verge of finding a better way to teach OL techniques. Clearly that turned out not to be the case here, and no doubt, Coach Sled was a major stretch, even assuming an out-of-the-box approach, and that stretch snapped back hard.

I just wish we could get better information about such things, and I put that at the feet of reporting, to an extent. I never hear any specifics about what differences Coach Sled was actually teaching. What were the different concepts or approaches? What's the point of his "sled"? After he was fired, the changes couldn't have simply been "more energy." Maybe I have missed the detailed discussions of such things, and I do realize that teams and coaches avoid providing much detail so as to not give-away info to other teams. But I really don't care about the answers to most of the questions I hear asked. I rarely hear questions seeking detail or actual football concepts and techniques that I would find worthy of reading about. (I do occasionally hear a question seeking that information, and it does go nowhere.) I like our reporters, and they seem like very nice guys and solid Buff fans, but they are not "analysts." And since CU is never in the national picture, we rarely hear anyone even purporting to be an "analyst" discuss the team, the scheme, the concepts, the techniques, etc. I listen to the main weekly podcasts which get posted on BuffZone, but even those seems pretty vague in their "analysis."

(If I'm missing something, I'd love to know where to find it.)
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Yup. And softball reporters like Brian Howell saying the verdict is still out on 'Duh-rell' and that 'excuses are valid'. Okay dude.....
 
GawainBuff said:
Clearly, Coach Sled was a disaster. Conceptually, I may be able to understand how it happened and--maybe even---the thought process; I might even respect the desire to look outside-the-box. Surely as HCKD was a late hire, none of the top-tier OL coaches were available. So, maybe you look for someone with different ideas, who might be a hidden gem, just on the verge of finding a better way to teach OL techniques. Clearly that turned out not to be the case here, and no doubt, Coach Sled was a major stretch, even assuming an out-of-the-box approach, and that stretch snapped back hard.

I just wish we could get better information about such things, and I put that at the feet of reporting, to an extent. I never hear any specifics about what differences Coach Sled was actually teaching. What were the different concepts or approaches? What's the point of his "sled"? After he was fired, the changes couldn't have simply been "more energy." Maybe I have missed the detailed discussions of such things, and I do realize that teams and coaches avoid providing much detail so as to not give-away info to other teams. But I really don't care about the answers to most of the questions I hear asked. I rarely hear questions seeking detail or actual football concepts and techniques that I would find worthy of reading about. (I do occasionally hear a question seeking that information, and it does go nowhere.) I like our reporters, and they seem like very nice guys and solid Buff fans, but they are not "analysts." And since CU is never in the national picture, we rarely hear anyone even purporting to be an "analyst" discuss the team, the scheme, the concepts, the techniques, etc. I listen to the main weekly podcasts which get posted on BuffZone, but even those seems pretty vague in their "analysis."

(If I'm missing something, I'd love to know where to find it.)
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Coach Sled was more of an uncoach. Others have said that Vlachos has coached with Coach Kap, and part of the recent success was abandoning the uncoaching and simply re-installing Coach Kap's methods from 2019. I don't know if that is rock solid, or if it qualifies as "analysis", but thank goodness for Coach Vlachos.
 
leftybuff said:
Coach Sled was more of an uncoach. Others have said that Vlachos has coached with Coach Kap, and part of the recent success was abandoning the uncoaching and simply re-installing Coach Kap's methods from 2019. I don't know if that is rock solid, or if it qualifies as "analysis", but thank goodness for Coach Vlachos.
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It says quite a bit that a completely inexperienced coach at this level was allowed to be hired in the first place....and an underscore that it takes freaking SEVEN weeks to fix it.
 
CU IT guy said:
Yup. And softball reporters like Brian Howell saying the verdict is still out on 'Duh-rell' and that 'excuses are valid'. Okay dude.....
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I watched one presser, after Minnesota, I think. I would say the beat reporters were groveling, but that might be too abrasive a term to describe their questioning.
 
CU IT guy said:
It says quite a bit that a completely inexperienced coach at this level was allowed to be hired in the first place....and an underscore that it takes freaking SEVEN weeks to fix it.
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True. Imagine going a full spring and fall camp and half the season without figuring out the biggest problem on the team, the OL, was caused chiefly by the OL coach. That does not inspire confidence.
 
leftybuff said:
I watched one presser, after Minnesota, I think. I would say the beat reporters were groveling, but that might be too abrasive a term to describe their questioning.
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Seriously that Howell guy has no balls. Or is paid by CU. How do you explain off a 37-0 run after half time as 'due to injury' and not point out the glaring obvious fact the CU coaches got just SKOOLED by UCLA and the adjustments they made? Yeah injuries that's it. JFC....
 
CU IT guy said:
Seriously that Howell guy has no balls. Or is paid by CU. How do you explain off a 37-0 run after half time as 'due to injury' and not point out the glaring obvious fact the CU coaches got just SKOOLED by UCLA and the adjustments they made? Yeah injuries that's it. JFC....
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That is why I stopped watching or listening to pressers. I don't read any of the claptrap from Howell et al, either. Ladies Home Journal hits issues harder than those people.
 
Are you the resident judge of what's 'relevant' and what's not on here or something? Good lord man I was responding to SOMEONE ELSES post, if you haven't noticed.
Not sure why the big boner about my post's 'relevance' but the fact that there are no reporters or writers that light up these misfit coaches and ask the needed tough insightful questions is, in fact, RELEVANT to why this program consistently blows ass.

If you think my line of questioning is 'irrelevant' take it to Law and Order.
 
CU IT guy said:
Are you the resident judge of what's 'relevant' and what's not on here or something? Good lord man I was responding to SOMEONE ELSES post, if you haven't noticed.
Not sure why the big boner about my post's 'relevance' but the fact that there are no reporters or writers that light up these misfit coaches and ask the needed tough insightful questions is, in fact, RELEVANT to why this program consistently blows ass.

If you think my line of questioning is 'irrelevant' take it to Law and Order.
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You seem fun
 
CU IT guy said:
Are you the resident judge of what's 'relevant' and what's not on here or something? Good lord man I was responding to SOMEONE ELSES post, if you haven't noticed.
Not sure why the big boner about my post's 'relevance' but the fact that there are no reporters or writers that light up these misfit coaches and ask the needed tough insightful questions is, in fact, RELEVANT to why this program consistently blows ass.

If you think my line of questioning is 'irrelevant' take it to Law and Order.
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take it down a notch, Nick.
saturday night live youre welcome GIF
 
CU IT guy said:
Seriously that Howell guy has no balls. Or is paid by CU. How do you explain off a 37-0 run after half time as 'due to injury' and not point out the glaring obvious fact the CU coaches got just SKOOLED by UCLA and the adjustments they made? Yeah injuries that's it. JFC....
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The only adjustment UCLA made was to run the ball right down our throat. That’s not some super special coaching adjustments.
 
CU IT guy said:
Seriously that Howell guy has no balls. Or is paid by CU. How do you explain off a 37-0 run after half time as 'due to injury' and not point out the glaring obvious fact the CU coaches got just SKOOLED by UCLA and the adjustments they made? Yeah injuries that's it. JFC....
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Howell is a talentless, pansy, jock sniffer. A monkey could write more on point, in depth articles.
 
GawainBuff said:
Clearly, Coach Sled was a disaster. Conceptually, I may be able to understand how it happened and--maybe even---the thought process; I might even respect the desire to look outside-the-box. Surely as HCKD was a late hire, none of the top-tier OL coaches were available. So, maybe you look for someone with different ideas, who might be a hidden gem, just on the verge of finding a better way to teach OL techniques. Clearly that turned out not to be the case here, and no doubt, Coach Sled was a major stretch, even assuming an out-of-the-box approach, and that stretch snapped back hard.

I just wish we could get better information about such things, and I put that at the feet of reporting, to an extent. I never hear any specifics about what differences Coach Sled was actually teaching. What were the different concepts or approaches? What's the point of his "sled"? After he was fired, the changes couldn't have simply been "more energy." Maybe I have missed the detailed discussions of such things, and I do realize that teams and coaches avoid providing much detail so as to not give-away info to other teams. But I really don't care about the answers to most of the questions I hear asked. I rarely hear questions seeking detail or actual football concepts and techniques that I would find worthy of reading about. (I do occasionally hear a question seeking that information, and it does go nowhere.) I like our reporters, and they seem like very nice guys and solid Buff fans, but they are not "analysts." And since CU is never in the national picture, we rarely hear anyone even purporting to be an "analyst" discuss the team, the scheme, the concepts, the techniques, etc. I listen to the main weekly podcasts which get posted on BuffZone, but even those seems pretty vague in their "analysis."

(If I'm missing something, I'd love to know where to find it.)
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