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One takeaway from players at Manny Diaz’s initial team meeting Sunday night: This is going to be different from the Mark Richt regime, with less tolerance for missteps. And players will be more accountable for their teammates’ behavior than ever before.

Some of what we’re hearing, from close associates who were briefed by players after the Sunday evening session:

Diaz named a bunch of designated leaders — primarily respected upperclassmen — and those players will look after the players that they select to join them in their groups.

Players who commit violations — tardiness and far worse — will be subject to discipline, with pushing a weighted sled the most minor of the disciplinary consequences.

The appointed leaders are expected to carefully watch over those players on their “teams,” monitor their missteps, make sure they’re not slacking in their workouts or anything else and take ownership of their groups. Ultimately, the group leader will be held accountable if there are repeated missteps by somebody in their group.

Each leader and his group of players will be situated close to each other in the locker room and, ideally, work out together.

This all feeds into the belief, held by some coaches, that the best locker rooms are the ones where players police their teammates.

It was made clear to players in the meeting that nobody has won a starting job for next season. Everything will be a competition.

Another takeaway: These coaches are “very serious,” as one player conveyed. One UM person predicted there will be greater respect — or fear — of Diaz’s discipline than Richt’s.
 
He's letting the players police the locker room, which is EXACTLY what you want, instead of having the HC & position Coaches micro-manage the locker room, which rarely ever works & usually results in fissures between the coaches & the players.
 
Reminds me of being in the military hoping they don't assign you any knuckle heads because you will be responsible for other people being stupid.
 
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Liberty City El said:
He's letting the players police the locker room, which is EXACTLY what you want, instead of having the HC & position Coaches micro-manage the locker room, which rarely ever works & usually results in fissures between the coaches & the players.
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This is a standard management principle.

It is literally impossible to micro manage 80+ scholarship players plus walkons.

Then you have assistant coaches, associate coaches, athletic personnel, etc.

Any HC is literally in charge of a minimum of 150 people, if you don’t get self-policing, you better fūcking pray you have 80+ Boy Scouts as players and as we all know, that’s a statistical impossibility.
 
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bitehardceo said:
Reminds me of being in the military hoping they don't assign you any knuckle heads because you will be responsible for other people being stupid.
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You're only as strong as your weakest link & when you have a fck up in your squad it puts the pressure on the rest of the guys to get him in line so the rest don't have to suffer lol

It's psychological team building 101.
 
Liberty City El said:
From the article-
One takeaway from players at Manny Diaz’s initial team meeting Sunday night: This is going to be different from the Mark Richt regime, with less tolerance for missteps. And players will be more accountable for their teammates’ behavior than ever before.

Some of what we’re hearing, from close associates who were briefed by players after the Sunday evening session:

Diaz named a bunch of designated leaders — primarily respected upperclassmen — and those players will look after the players that they select to join them in their groups.

Players who commit violations — tardiness and far worse — will be subject to discipline, with pushing a weighted sled the most minor of the disciplinary consequences.

The appointed leaders are expected to carefully watch over those players on their “teams,” monitor their missteps, make sure they’re not slacking in their workouts or anything else and take ownership of their groups. Ultimately, the group leader will be held accountable if there are repeated missteps by somebody in their group.

Each leader and his group of players will be situated close to each other in the locker room and, ideally, work out together.

This all feeds into the belief, held by some coaches, that the best locker rooms are the ones where players police their teammates.

It was made clear to players in the meeting that nobody has won a starting job for next season. Everything will be a competition.

Another takeaway: These coaches are “very serious,” as one player conveyed. One UM person predicted there will be greater respect — or fear — of Diaz’s discipline than Richt’s.
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Love this approach. Add to it the coaches pouring into these appointed leaders. Go Canes!
 
Caneillac said:
Coaches self appointing leaders again. SMH

Leadership doesn’t work that way. LOL
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from an organizational standpoint it makes perfect sense to breakdown into smaller groups and assign "leaders" (or, if you prefer, "accountability czars"). Not enough coaches to supervise all the guys so have to delegate that responsibility to trusted upper classmen (who are also held accountable if their guys are not doing what they need to do). This is not meant to inspire. This is to maintain discipline and accountability through positive peer pressure. It makes perfectly good sense to me.
 
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Caneillac said:
Coaches self appointing leaders again. SMH

Leadership doesn’t work that way. LOL
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On the contrary, I think it is perfect for our situation, there will be no favoritism with certain players and position coaches like in the past, and leadership roles will be assigned through seniority- most likely guys like Shaq & Pickney, as they tend to be most level headed and mature.
 
Liberty City El said:
You're only as strong as your weakest link & when you have a fck up in your squad it puts the pressure on the rest of the guys to get him in line so the rest don't have to suffer lol

It's psychological team building 101.
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I get that but no matter what some folks don't get that or it does not effect on them. No matter how much Extra Training they receive. They still will be idiots until they are gone and you are responsible for that. Can be a double edged sword is all I am saying seen it work on both sides.
 
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