After watching the whole video, I was very impressed with all the new coaches. They can talk the talk, lets see them walk the walk.
On a side note, when So'oto talked about being violent....I hope he can teach that to our DL
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Signing Day Press Conference
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After watching the whole video, I was very impressed with all the new coaches. They can talk the talk, lets see them walk the walk.
On a side note, when So'oto talked about being violent....I hope he can teach that to our DL
I’ve been as upset with KD as everyone else about all the defections.
But this assertion about the end of year interviews, I don’t have a problem with. I am a trial attorney, and one of the best lessons I ever learned was, don’t pretend your case or your witnesses are perfect. The jury has been watching the whole trial. They didn’t miss it when your client lied on the stand or your expert couldn’t connect the dots. You can’t stand in front of them at the end of the trial and pretend that didn’t happen. In fact, if you call your client out for it, admit that your case wasn’t perfect, but then show them how you still get to a verdict in your favor even with all the problems, you CAN win over the jury heading into deliberations. But if you ignore it, you WILL lose.
We all saw the defections. KD knows he can’t pretend it didn’t happen. Taking the blame for it on himself is—I think—a smart move. It potentially shifts the narrative from the program is rotting from the inside to, we really should have spent some more time focusing on where each of us were at the end of a bad season. We missed that opportunity. My bad.
Sure, he should have actually done the end of year interviews, but as I recall, this was his first chance to leave campus for ANY recruiting since he had been hired. I can understand wanting to jump on that immediately, especially in light of the glaring needs and holes in the depth chart.
So, I give him a pass on the statement, and see the lack of interviews as not properly foreseeing what became the biggest exodus in college football history—systemically.
He should hire you to spin his incompetence. Exit interviews are a basic thing that nearly all major sports teams do to establish closure on the season. Admitting he erred is fine and dandy, except for the fact that he thought not internally recruiting players was a priority. This is evidence of a coach who does not understand the people he’s paid to coach/lead/mentor. We could see how badly things were going as did the players. This only gives credence to the belief that he was totally clueless.
Oh, RG did get in that azz
You don’t lose a third of your employees at once because you didn’t do 1 interview with them.
You shouldn’t need 1 interview to be aware you’re going to lose them either.
Most private sector managers make 50-150k and seem to be far more capable than this moron making 3MM a year. I’m sure they’d know if a third of their team was going to bail.
Culture and buy-in doesn’t happen in 1 interview. It happens in the 2 full years he’s had to interact and cultivate relationships. He clearly failed there and also failed on exit interviews as well which are both baseline requirements.
“But he’s honest and owning up to it”…. Give me a break, he’s honest and still seems to be completely missing the lesson and the point here. Maybe he should give his kid’s job to someone with real management experience of some kind so they could teach everyone how to steer a ship because Dorrell has shown repeatedly that he has poor management skills
You shouldn’t need 1 interview to be aware you’re going to lose them either.
Most private sector managers make 50-150k and seem to be far more capable than this moron making 3MM a year. I’m sure they’d know if a third of their team was going to bail.
Culture and buy-in doesn’t happen in 1 interview. It happens in the 2 full years he’s had to interact and cultivate relationships. He clearly failed there and also failed on exit interviews as well which are both baseline requirements.
“But he’s honest and owning up to it”…. Give me a break, he’s honest and still seems to be completely missing the lesson and the point here. Maybe he should give his kid’s job to someone with real management experience of some kind so they could teach everyone how to steer a ship because Dorrell has shown repeatedly that he has poor management skills
Great, valid points here. I was thinking along a similar plane. KD doesn't seem to pander to his athletes, which is his coaching style, however he needs to acquiesce and make sure he supports coaches on staff who are willing to recruit their own players as the greatest priority. This philosophy is football 101.
Silver lining: There is some natural thinning of the herd here where the players who were not bought in to the program have moved on as well. And that press conference was impressive from the new coaches on staff.
I look at this exit interview issue a bit differently. I question why the exit interviews were necessary at all.
It seems to me that a head coach should have a very clear picture into the attitudes of his best players and be able to gauge morale well before the end of the season.
The fact that he wasn’t “rerecruiting” his best players in late October and early November displays a coach that is too far removed from his team.
When I think about this in the same vein as the MichRod fiasco it gives me pause as to whether he is working hard enough.
To me there is no excuse for not having a finger on the pulse of your team.
Bliff Cranch
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Pretty clear to me KD thinks he’s in year two, not three, of a rebuild and believes he just purged the heretics on the team. This, I suspect he believes, gives him a free pass in 2022 to chalk up impending losses to said rebuild.
You all know that none of the bad attrition actually happened when he was on the road recruiting, right? It’s never a great look when a highly paid CEO admits a mistake that most people view as common practice, but the players we cared about leaving didn’t leave because Karl didn’t “interview” them immediately following the season.
bigbang2
blindslighted
KD might not be the guy. But it seems like yall trying hard to find things to criticize him on. There are certain things the guy can't control. He is not he only coach that has lost guys to the portal and are now changing the way they do things. Atleast he is reflecting on it and making adjustments. The reality is it is a new landsape for College football. B Lewis announced he is now in partnership with the Sink. This is not the traditional NCAA we are familiar with. Every one is still adjusting including the head coach. You say he is not a good recruitier. His 2022 class is ranked higher than Mel Tucker 2020 class. The guy is an excellent recruiter of coaches. I just wached the Presser. I liked what I saw. A diverse coaching staff with different backgrounds and skill sets.
Bliff Cranch
Well-Known Member
It remains to be seen if KD is, as you state, an excellent recruiter of coaches. It’s all sound bites right now. There is some room for optimism about the coaching capability at this point but talk is cheap. Win or go home and the prospects for winning more than a few games in 2022 are very slim.
bigbang2
blindslighted
Based on his record at UCLA and Colorado. It is clear he is an excelent recruiter of coaches.
Disclaimer - I like many of the new coaches on the offensive side of the ball.
BB: "The guy is an excellent recruiter of coaches"
Anyone who has been paying attention: "Mitch Rodrigue"
This.
I don't know about working hard or not working hard. He may have been working very hard for the past 2 years, but it's obviously been on the wrong stuff.
There have been repeated examples of him seemingly not being aware of certain dynamics on his team. Hiring his son to be one of the people whose job responsibility is to be aware of those dynamics is a classic case of why nepotism is always wrong. His son was only qualified for that position if you don't think that position is important enough to have a seasoned professional in it.
@Duff Man is right: KD sure is learning a lot more on the job than he should be.
BB2 is a bot planted by the mods to boost site engagement and traffic. Nothing anyone can say will convince me otherwise
or that TE coach who recruited one guy
Bliff Cranch
Well-Known Member
bigbang2
blindslighted
Tom Cable
Are we naming OL coaches that are better than Rodrigue? Because that could take a while.
SINKRATZ
PhD in Analogy
Is Tom Cable our new OL coach, or are you talking about something that happened 18 years ago when Dorrell gave Cable his last ever OC job.
Because Colorado
Because the last time he was a Head Coach at the collegiate level the iPhone wasn't invented?
I want to say I am surprised but unfortunately this is where we are and nothing surprises anymore. It is funny thought in a weird, strange way
Because except for one year (2014) he has spent every year from 2008 through 2019 as a position coach in the NFL and he's out of touch with the modern college game. Having said that, I thought that the new assistants were pretty impressive at the presser. We'll see what they can do with the current roster.
Not if we do it in the aggregate: all of them. The good part of this task is specificity is not required to still be completely accurate.
GoBuffs08
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It's working. I paid for the membership just so my avatar would not be the poop emoji, and somehow associated with bb2.