re: Coach Cig, "You cant be a nice guy with my job"

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You do realize that one of Cignetti's signature pieces of how he runs his program is shorter practices and being efficient with time and coaches are not expected to work nights or extended hours. Practices are only live three times a week for about 90 minutes with two days as limited walktroughs.

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The DeBoer quote posted is literally the exact same thing Cignetti pushes.


but I'm sure PowHound will come back in here and tell us that we are wrong, or that its beside the point, or some other dumb deflection

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"you do realize" - The ultimate "gotcha" line on internet message board speak. Welp, let's unpack this a little.

I dont care how many hours they work during the week as long as the team is ready to play, and the organization is tip top.

My comment about DeBoer making that public statement the week he took over was more pointed at his "I'm gonna save everyone from this work to death environment that Nick Saban created."

When you take command or leadership then immediately make a blanket statement like "we're gonna spend more time at home" I think you're telling everyone we are gonna loosen things up a bit around the program, and boy it shows.

I personally have weeks that I can get away with being in the office 3 days a week. I have other times of the year where I know I'll be in the office for a month straight, because that's what it takes to manage my goals to my standards, and continue my career trajectory. I do this for much much less than 10 million a year.

It's not the hours for me it's the message, and the timing of the message.

Also, dont forget there are a lot of highly competitive people in the coaching world, and a lot of them WANT to work as much as possible because they are young and ambitious and they want to get to that next rung up in their career trajectory as fast as possible.

There are also players that are so close to making their dreams come true that they eat, drink, shite, sleep, football 24/7 because they know it's what it takes to make the NFL and become millionaires.

Nobody at this level of pay or competition is shying away from working long hours... the ones that get it are actually wanting to work harder.

Kirby Smart immediately after beating the ever living shite outta Bama in the SECCG looked directly into the camera and said "these boys are ready to practice right now, that's the kind of team we got, they love to work."

The same things win that always won - Bear Bryant