Bryant Disciple said:I voted yes, mainly because:
1. It's Saturday, I'm feeling optimistic, and I've consumed a substantial amount of Australian wine, as well as Czech & Polish beer. My judgment is admittedly impaired.
2. Stability, staff experience, facilities, recruiting, and 100+ years of momentum. Shula actually has an impressive staff and world class facilities. The past few probation-ridden years have been anomalies. Alabama is freakin' ALABAMA. Even a mentally-challenged rube like Mike DuBose can win 10 games at Alabama. Mike Shula is not a mentally-challenged rube; he's a very smart guy. He's finally off probation. He will eventually win at the highest levels.
rtauburnsucks said:Shula is a great recruiter.......but.....he needs to stop calling any plays and let the coaches that he hired handle that.........as soon as he figures that out....the better.
dabaxter said:Maybe so. However, he did win 10 games last year with the same staff and philosophy.
dabaxter said:It's the head coach's responsibility for providing leadership and the staff's responsibility to develop it with their players.
moreno_iv said:dabaxter said:It's the head coach's responsibility for providing leadership and the staff's responsibility to develop it with their players.
Have you ever played a team sport? You can't just create GOOD leadership on any team. You can encourage the players that show the most promise and help them develop character, but even that takes lots and lots of time! I would challenge you to find me one person in the world that can take a 18-22 year old kid and make him into a good leader on the football team in one year's time. :x
moreno_iv said:Last year, the leaders on the team were Prothro and Brodie on the offense and now they're both gone. :?
Condor 63 said:moreno_iv said:Last year, the leaders on the team were Prothro and Brodie on the offense and now they're both gone. :?
I think the biggest leadership losses we had are Ryans and Harper. It sure shows on "D" from time to time.
dabaxter said:rtauburnsucks said:Shula is a great recruiter.......but.....he needs to stop calling any plays and let the coaches that he hired handle that.........as soon as he figures that out....the better.
I don't think that was the issue with the Duke game. It was a head coaching/leadership issue having to do with not motivating the team to get up for the game.
moreno_iv said:Agreed.
DirtyDave said:dabaxter said:rtauburnsucks said:Shula is a great recruiter.......but.....he needs to stop calling any plays and let the coaches that he hired handle that.........as soon as he figures that out....the better.
I don't think that was the issue with the Duke game. It was a head coaching/leadership issue having to do with not motivating the team to get up for the game.
I have heard you make this argument more than once today and to tell you the truth it is total BS. Bottom line is that they were playing Duke. Duke was playing The University of Alabama Crimson Tide. Now you tell me which was more fired up for that game. When I was playing high school football we went into a game one night against a team that we should have beaten by 70 at least. At halftime our coach came in the locker room and peeled the paint off the walls with his speach. After that I got up and spoke to the team. We were losing at half 14-6. We came back out and lit them up to win the game 44-14. After I graduated my coach pulled me to the side at our football banquet and said this to me word for word... I remember it like it was yesterday and I still think about it when going through tough times in my life.
"David, remember that game at ____?? We were playing like crap in the first half and you gave that speach after I got done ranting and raving."
"Well, I never told anyone this, but I knew we were gonna play like that in that game. We practiced like crap, we warmed up like crap, we even ran on the field like crap. But, when you stood up and gave that speach, I knew we were gonna be a better team the rest of the season. We had a leader and it was our QB."
I asked him why he didn't do something to motivate us to play better in the first half, and he said, "What was I supposed to do?? I just felt like the best thing was to let you guys play like sh** and take you over my knee at halftime. If someone didn't take charge of that team at half and we didn't have the turnaround we did, we were gonna do nothing but run sprints the rest of the year."
He also explained to me that he knew we were gonna win. It wasn't a doubt in his mind because they just weren't conditioned enough to stay with us in the 4th quarter. However, he wasn't happy about how we played in the first half and if it hadn't ended like it did we would have had hell to pay.
I have a feeling that Coach Shula suspected that his players were overlooking Duke and were gonna come out flat. I think that Bino standing up at halftime is huge. Now, we have been through adversity and we have a leader. Leadership only sprouts more leadership. What exactly would you have Shula do to get them pumped up to play?? He can give speaches till he's blue in the face, but when you're a player it doesn't matter till someone stands up, slaps you in the face, and makes you snap out of it.
DirtyDave said:dabaxter said:rtauburnsucks said:Shula is a great recruiter.......but.....he needs to stop calling any plays and let the coaches that he hired handle that.........as soon as he figures that out....the better.
I don't think that was the issue with the Duke game. It was a head coaching/leadership issue having to do with not motivating the team to get up for the game.
I have heard you make this argument more than once today and to tell you the truth it is total BS. Bottom line is that they were playing Duke. Duke was playing The University of Alabama Crimson Tide. Now you tell me which was more fired up for that game. When I was playing high school football we went into a game one night against a team that we should have beaten by 70 at least. At halftime our coach came in the locker room and peeled the paint off the walls with his speach. After that I got up and spoke to the team. We were losing at half 14-6. We came back out and lit them up to win the game 44-14. After I graduated my coach pulled me to the side at our football banquet and said this to me word for word... I remember it like it was yesterday and I still think about it when going through tough times in my life.
"David, remember that game at ____?? We were playing like crap in the first half and you gave that speach after I got done ranting and raving."
"Well, I never told anyone this, but I knew we were gonna play like that in that game. We practiced like crap, we warmed up like crap, we even ran on the field like crap. But, when you stood up and gave that speach, I knew we were gonna be a better team the rest of the season. We had a leader and it was our QB."
I asked him why he didn't do something to motivate us to play better in the first half, and he said, "What was I supposed to do?? I just felt like the best thing was to let you guys play like sh** and take you over my knee at halftime. If someone didn't take charge of that team at half and we didn't have the turnaround we did, we were gonna do nothing but run sprints the rest of the year."
He also explained to me that he knew we were gonna win. It wasn't a doubt in his mind because they just weren't conditioned enough to stay with us in the 4th quarter. However, he wasn't happy about how we played in the first half and if it hadn't ended like it did we would have had hell to pay.
I have a feeling that Coach Shula suspected that his players were overlooking Duke and were gonna come out flat. I think that Bino standing up at halftime is huge. Now, we have been through adversity and we have a leader. Leadership only sprouts more leadership. What exactly would you have Shula do to get them pumped up to play?? He can give speaches till he's blue in the face, but when you're a player it doesn't matter till someone stands up, slaps you in the face, and makes you snap out of it.
DirtyDave said:When I was playing high school football we went into a game one night against a team that we should have beaten by 70 at least. At halftime our coach came in the locker room and peeled the paint off the walls with his speach.
Condor 63 said:DirtyDave said:When I was playing high school football we went into a game one night against a team that we should have beaten by 70 at least. At halftime our coach came in the locker room and peeled the paint off the walls with his speach.
LOL
We had a game once against a team we should have smashed, but we slinked into the locker room down 24 -13 and we were lucky to have gotten the 13.
Sure enough Coach was already in there sitting in a chair with his feet propped up on a garbage can, looked over casually at us when everyone had filed in and calmly announced that if we were going to play like **** he wasn't going to bother with coaching the likes of us.
He also added as a matter of fact it wouldn't make much sense to coach us anyway since 3/4 of us wouldn't be in here with him next week....
That was it. He never said another word until the second half started.