šŸˆ Urban Meyer throws Herman under the bus

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TUSKtimes

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Wow, here's a switch, Urban Meyer is fed up with first-year head coaches, and apparently that means even his ex-assistance coach, for blaming their lack of gridiron success on the players they inherited. He said it drives him "insane." In fact his exact words about Mr. Herman:

"It's like a new generation of excuse," Meyer told CBSsports.com. "[Texas coach Tom Herman] said, 'I can't rub pixie dust on this thing.' He got a dose of reality. Maryland just scored 51 points on you."


Careful there Urban, I'm finding myself drawn to your logic and honesty in a brawl kind of way.

"They're your Players"
 
I know a lot of folks don't like Meyer, but he is spot on IMO. Unless your are trying to make a silk purse out of a sows ear (HUNH from a previous power I team), there really is no excuse.

While I think more and more coaches easily blame the players and previous staff for their current losing efforts. Tubberville had it perfected years ago. He was one of the first I remember throwing his players under bus like that.
 
Idk what to think about him specifically singling out specific coaches when he could have spoken in broader terms and still gotten his point across.

But, weesing through the harshness of that, he does have a point. The mark of a really good coach is that he can adapt to current personnel enough to make transition into his own system more seamless. If you don't quite have the type of playet that fits your fully implemented system, you adapt to what you have.

Unless it's a complete culture overhaul like what Saban had to deal with in 07, you should be able to have moderate success in year 1 if you adapt your philosophy to your current personnel.

Bama 2008 is a better example. Saban only had 3 or 4 of "his players" that contributed heavily. He nearly won the Natty with mostly Shula players. The reason it took Saban a full year is because the roster was soft. It took lotwrally an entire year for Saban to build a semblance of mental toughness in those former Shula players.
 
That was really a surprising game to watch. Say what you want but TOS got run out of their stadium in the second half. They had the, supposed, best defensive line in college football and a veteran QB in Barrett, and they couldn't take Mayfield out of anything he wanted to do, just amazing to watch.

Maybe this is the year that the B1G catch up to Urban's brand of football. Fear can win a lot of games before they're played and I think the big boys in the conference are excited about what they saw.
 
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