re: Hearing two rumors

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I downvoted you by accident but I totally agree with you, BOB wasn't terrible but he lacked creativity especially during times when the opposing team had affected our gameplan.

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BOB's style of playcalling requires high-level execution. He's not really a fit for college playcalling in my opinion either but he's at one of the small handful of places where it is more feasible to take that approach due to the overall talent level.

Sarkisian was more of a college playcaller in my opinion. Yes, he also like a more pro-style multiple offense but he had a habit of finding moments to scheme people open rather than requiring execution from the player to get open. This is why Billingsley flourished with Sark but was mostly a non-factor with BOB.

In BOB's offense, you're getting open with your own ability to win your matchup. In Sark's offense, a few of the guys would be doing that but the 2nd and 3rd tier options were getting easy money catches influenced by the defense taking away the primary options.

That's what we lacked on offense this year. For a team that targeted two guys so often, we did very little to take advantage of the amount of attention Metchie and Williams got from the defense.

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On Nov. 4, Tennessee announced it had completed its internal investigation. Athletics director Danny White, who was hired after the investigation began, said the university was the NCAA’s “partner” in the probe.

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Danny White said that... I wouldn't take his word to heart.

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Marrone's coaching style didn't mesh with Alabama's style. It's more of NFL level coaching style.

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Please explain this... How are they different?

LINK

This will explain it for you.

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The college guy is a “builder” and “shaper.”

This coach gets handed a young, 18-year-old kid who wants to be a pro player, presumably, or else wants to go on and be a full-fledged adult in another field.

Either way, he has to motivate this youngster to be a part of his team and his system. He’s basically working with an unmolded lump of clay as opposed to somebody who is more in touch with who he is and what he wants.

So, the college coach must meld all of these younger guys, still trying to find themselves, into a successful, winning football team.

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The NFL coach, on the other hand, is dealing with men—big, fast men—who have already “made it” all the way to the pro level.

These athletes have dreamed the dream and are now living the dream.

Mere lumps of clay no more, these guys are off the potter’s wheel and come complete with their own attitudes, sets of ideals and yes, they don’t need some guy to help them make it, they’re already there. So, the NFL guy must manage all these professionals, these dudes with ‘tudes, into a successful, winning football team.

Again, it’s like two totally different worlds being played out on the same field, with the same rules, using the same equipment.

And the two coaches leading the way at each level couldn’t have two more different jobs to do.

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Thanks for the clarification... It was obvious that he wasn't good here and wouldn't be around long term.

I'm assuming coach boob has similar issues... With the exception being that he was in the NFL and failed already. So, why would a year in college make him more desirable now?

For whatever reason, I'm just glad we will have a better OL coach and probably OC. I knew it was a mistake when they were hired.

He didn't fail as a head coach, he failed as a GM. He won four nfc south titles in six years. Became GM, and traded two of his top players for next to nothing, stayed 0 and 4 and got fired. As a head coach he was successful. He only had one losing season not counting the 4 games into 2020.

His teams went 9-7, 9-7 nfcs title, 9-7 nfcs title, 4-12, 11-5 nfcs title, 10-6 nfcs title. Had he not taken the gm position as well as hc, he would probably still be the coach.

I never said he couldn’t string together enough wins to make the playoffs in the NFL. I just said his resume has some stink on it due to how it fell apart in Houston. Being around winning in Tuscaloosa helped him out. Just the same as Kiffin, Locksley, and Sarkisian before him.

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To be fair, he was in a bad division and couldn't get past the divisional play off game. His players couldn't stand him and even "NFL Man of the Year" JJ Watt tried to fight him in practice on more than one occasion and was a big factor in getting BOB fired.

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Yeah, he was fired for being a shitty GM, but if he was loved by the organization as a coach they'd have found a way to work things out. As a HC he is adequate, but nothing more. He won't burn a team to the ground Adam Gase style, but he's also never going to win a Super Bowl. So it's accurate to say he wasn't fired for being a bad coach, but had he not totally shite the bed as a GM he'd have been fired for being an average coach who can't get over the hump within a couple of years. Especially with Happy Ending's current legal mess.

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