I was a 4x all conference P5 athlete less than 10 years ago. We worked on the fundamentals every day. Great coaches understand that in order to build up great athletes you teach the fundamentals and build upon them every day. Mastery of the basics is what allows athletes to play free. This isn’t the NFL. These are 18-22 year old kids.
Our recruiting has changed because we’re recruiting better players but regardless of the caliber of player the game is the same. If you can’t communicate what you are trying to do in a way that your players understand it. You have failed as a coach. If you can’t understand that to steal your own words, You sir are clueless!
A clear example of a player with talent that needs to be taught fundamentals of the position he’s playing is Harold Perkins at LSU. You can this year he was playing purely off of ability and not fundamentals of a LB. It’s being grossly overstated how “dumb” our roster is. All 3 QBs came from strong areas of country but all struggled with this system. The teacher of it sucks.