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Great Article on Coach Justice

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Really good stuff. some very sharp commentary on our past two OL coaches:

A former Miami player and a parent of a current offensive lineman told The Athletic recently UM has badly needed an offensive line coach who is more relatable on a personal level to his players and a more patient teacher.

Veteran college coach Stacy Searels, who was fired by Diaz along with the rest of Mark Richt’s offensive staff following the 2018 season and is now at North Carolina, “yelled too much at players, shaking their confidence,” the parent said.

Shaking confidence is a criticism even Diaz alluded to in the past without calling Searels by name.

As for Butch Barry, a former NFL assistant with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers before coming to Miami with Dan Enos (his former boss at Central Michigan), he apparently did a better job teaching than Searels did. “My son said he learned more from Barry in two weeks than he ever did under Searels in two years,” the current players’ parent said.

One criticism of Barry, though, was he wasn’t patient enough with some players who struggled to pick up what he was teaching, and ultimately the parent said that’s why Miami’s offensive line rotation didn’t extend beyond its starters and backup John Campbell, a redshirt freshman. “He just wasn’t a player’s coach,” the former player said. “He had that NFL mentality about him.”

Said the current players’ parent: “If guys got hurt, he didn’t even call to check up on them. He was cold like that.”


On Justice:
Film study is very important to Justice, his former players said. That’s something former Hurricane linemen Bryant McKinnie and Brett Romberg said earlier this year was a problem with Miami’s players. Both met with players at Miami before and during the season and said they didn’t put enough time into breaking down film. Justice, though, wants his players well-versed in film study and employs some interesting tactics to make sure they do.


The link to the entire article: https://theathletic.com/1531486/?source=twittered
 
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We have so many soft, coddled players who need to be spoon fed to have any chance at success.
Are their any football obsessed kids on this team or do they all need a coach to hold their hand thru film study, and workouts, and going to class?
i am really sick of all the articles describing how “mean” or “uncaring” previous coaches were. I wouldn’t want a high school team of p,Ayers this soft.
does anyone believe Michael Irvin, or Ed Reed or Sean Taylor needed this level of hand holding?
 
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Ash Joshi said:
We have so many soft, coddled players who need to be spoon fed to have any chance at success.
Are their any football obsessed kids on this team or do they all need a coach to hold their hand thru film study, and workouts, and going to class?
i am really sick of all the articles describing how “mean” or “uncaring” previous coaches were. I wouldn’t want a high school team of p,Ayers this soft.
does anyone believe Michael Irvin, or Ed Reed or Sean Taylor needed this level of hand holding?
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The ***** ***, social justice, all inclusive, everyone gets a trophy mentality of the candy *** administration has permeated down to the team. Manny's too worried about being cool with his fake swag instead of putting a foot in their ***.
 
“From an offensive tackle standpoint, there was a lot of quick-set/short-set blocking schemes in pass protection, meaning instead of a kick-step back and the tackle meeting a rusher at an angle three yards back, you fire out and attack him so he doesn’t get into his move, like you see in play-action passes,” Harris said. “The problem with that is it makes it an angle situation. Because if the pass rushers’ get-off is good, your angle as a tackle is beat and you’re beat. That’s why you saw (Zion) Nelson with his shoulders turned so much because he would go out to quick-set and the guys, he was trying to block were exploding off the ball, which means he had to turn.

“When you kick-step back, and basically wait for them to come to you, that’s when you use your hands, your leverage. Nelson has long arms. If Justice comes in and works on Nelson’s kick-step, uses his punch, gets his hands on people, he’ll be a lot better.”

I don't claim to be any type of offensive expert (or defensive for that matter), but is the reason they don't drop b/c of the recentish college football rules allowing Olinemen to be up to 3 yards in front of the LOS and RPOs? That by dropping back you either 1) give away that it is a pass allowing the LBs to drop back or 2) make it very difficult to run since you are allowing the Dline to crash in?
 
Our line is pretty young overall, Feeley will accelerate their physical maturity, but what was definitely missing is the extra mental preparation combined with an overall nasty demeanor. Hopefully coach justice can change that and get the unit to make a leap, even just a small leap.
 
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