No doubting here, with kids and the new rules today, practices just are not intense at all man like they used to be. You really need to scrape the bottom of the barrel to get the juices going today. And if you get the intensity going, you're lucky if it sustains for just that working period of the practice.
You missed the point. The point is that the old school mentality that the old Canes have is no longer relatable and realistic. Those P5 coaches can relate because they have adjusted towards more positive reinforcement. Ask any coach that has been in the game for over 10 years and they will tell you they have adjusted their coaching style from then to the present day. Grade A example is Bill Belichick. He has drastically changed over the past 2 years alone because he knows kids coming into the league are just different.
That's the crazy **** to me. Our walk ons outworked these dudes now & were better prepared to step in.
It's sad man what is happening to football.
Not true at all. The entire country has the same parameters to follow. I've watched practices at usc,Oregon,Illinois,bama & Georgia within the last two years and they don't have the same problem we have when it relates to this. Mandy will write it off as we practice with Pete Carroll standard of not tackling to the ground etc... Well guess what, that's not Pete Carroll standard at all. I've watched Seahawks practices multiple times from just last season when AC was there and I was in town. His standard is tackling proper technique. Big difference between proper technique and just simply not tackling. On top of that the rules that were put in place have alot more to do with off season camps & far less to do with in season and how ineffective you conduct the practices you are able to have. Again no matter how much some of you condone this and pussify this staph, our current predicament has far too much to do with the fact the head man and far too many of his stooges just aren't football players themselves and don't know how to teach technique as a result...
I was speaking more on the HS level especially in the area I'm in. I have no clue how Miami practices are run other than the quick clips I see from reporters.
All this makes sense, but the real question is back when you practiced, if you hit 20 mph did you get a chocolate cupcake and the rest of practice off?
I know the articles brother. I know the policies. Those relate to off season camps. Not in season. In shells you shouldn't be having FULL contact regardless other than when it's simply in house (no coaches) Regardless of all this NCAA policy, one thing sarge taught all of us, drilled it into our heads actually, is certain rules are simply meant to be broke. All programs that are built to win police themselves and pick and choose what's meant to be treaded on. When you have real leadership this is a given. From staff to players to compliance. There is a line you can walk clearly as one... What goes on here now is without much coherence or direction. Everyone is its own unit & compliance will happily send us in. Strawley single handedly deals with compliance. *** backwards as it is. Also myself I don't know high school rules etc but while I would certainly want to control the level of physicality in my practices, there is no way in **** I'd simply eliminate physicality as a whole. All the things that should be engrained in you fundamentally as a football player we've eliminated by pussifying our practices and our approach to the game. This used car salesman came in and immediately started preaching getting us back to the things that made Miami football unique and in that same breath he changed even the basics that gave us that edge...
I may be mistaken and you would know better, but I think the MPH tracker started at Bama and is still being used there and elsewhere. The problem is Manny and company forgot to implement the rest of the program, nutrition, and culture. He took the shiny toy part and none of the rest.
It's used everywhere. But the point is it's A tool. Not THE tool. It's simply a small piece of a LARGE puzzle.
I thought maybe Diaz was looking for another Coach or player but literally walked off while Ed was talking, Waited for Ed to walk away, than Diaz returned to the exact same spot after Ed walked further down the sideline
What a C*nt....
Appreciate the insight.
Again Mandy thinks he's the smartest dude & don't listen to NO ONE...
He was literally hand picked by Mandy for that exact reason. All the pull he has in and out of the football community,the street cred etc, but most importantly the fact that his time is spoken for often and he can't dedicate himself to day in and day out. Ed is doing EXACTLY what he came in for & he's handling this **** with class cause he can't stand Mandy now. Yet he doesn't speak out and he keeps things to himself. Instead of complaining about what he's not doing y'all should be extremely grateful for what he does... Cause trust me he's the one closing alot of these kids and keeping them in check at the same point.
And his efforts are much appreciated!