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re: Let's all take a moment to point and laugh at what is going down on the 40 Acres
Posted on 9/8/15 at 2:37 pm to BadAgg7
Posted on 9/8/15 at 2:37 pm to BadAgg7
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you could be right. i'm not an expert on the guy
Actually I honestly think you are right. Charlie is a great head coach at lower levels of football where all the talent is compatively shite and actual coaching makes a huge difference in results. Or he is a great coordinator at a high level when someone else recruits talent for him.
Charlie's problem is the Texas job isn't about how good of a coach you are- that is why you are given what is head coaching budgets elsewhere to hire coordinators. When you are head coach of Texas you are kinda like the mayor of the state, your job is to make everything look great (no matter the reality under the surface) so that five stars who are naturally inclined to play for your program aren't given a reason not to.
I think some mid level program is going to do very well under him years from now.
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Posted on 9/8/15 at 2:52 pm to cardboardboxer
It's the BCG @ Kentucky story, minus the alcoholism.
Billy's Stalin-esq approach to discipline and abusiveness at UTEP & A&M worked wonders with players who KNEW they were second-rate and bought-in because they saw his system as their one chance at success.
At Kentucky, where the players knew they were headed to the NBA in a year or so regardless and correctly thought they could compete for natties based on talent alone, nobody would put up with his crap.
Add in the fact that A&M let Billy run rampant and he had no media obligations here, whereas at Kentucky they put him in a media spotlight he wasn't equipped to handle (and expected him to be occasionally sober and upstanding) and you have a recipe for disaster.
Take Charlie, who has some sort of mental disability that makes speaking difficult, put him on the LHN, make him do coach's tours, and watch as he embarrass himself in the public eye. Meanwhile, he's been trying to institute hokey disciplinary measures like "the pit" and signs his players are supposed to tear down while forcing the players into the dorms.
That sort of ultra-discipline - on the football field or the basketball court - can give you the edge when you are coaching a mid-level school with mid-level players against other mid-level schools with mid-level players, (where your "meh" players will win by out-working your opponent's equally "meh" talented, but less fanatical, players) but it looks really unattractive to the 5* football heroes you have to recruit to win and win big on UT's level.
Billy's Stalin-esq approach to discipline and abusiveness at UTEP & A&M worked wonders with players who KNEW they were second-rate and bought-in because they saw his system as their one chance at success.
At Kentucky, where the players knew they were headed to the NBA in a year or so regardless and correctly thought they could compete for natties based on talent alone, nobody would put up with his crap.
Add in the fact that A&M let Billy run rampant and he had no media obligations here, whereas at Kentucky they put him in a media spotlight he wasn't equipped to handle (and expected him to be occasionally sober and upstanding) and you have a recipe for disaster.
Take Charlie, who has some sort of mental disability that makes speaking difficult, put him on the LHN, make him do coach's tours, and watch as he embarrass himself in the public eye. Meanwhile, he's been trying to institute hokey disciplinary measures like "the pit" and signs his players are supposed to tear down while forcing the players into the dorms.
That sort of ultra-discipline - on the football field or the basketball court - can give you the edge when you are coaching a mid-level school with mid-level players against other mid-level schools with mid-level players, (where your "meh" players will win by out-working your opponent's equally "meh" talented, but less fanatical, players) but it looks really unattractive to the 5* football heroes you have to recruit to win and win big on UT's level.
This post was edited on 9/8/15 at 2:58 pm
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