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<blockquote data-quote="slugboy" data-source="post: 913431" data-attributes="member: 282"><p>We have some natural assets and some drawbacks too. In a lot of cases, we make too much out of both of them. I'll use other schools as a comparison.</p><p>[I'm not picking on you MountainBuzzMan, you have great points here, and these bullet points are also other things in this list]</p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Asset-We live in the middle of a recruiting hotbed of talent: Ga State is within 5 miles of us, so they do too. They have the majors like "education" and "criminal justice" and so on that we say attract athletes. They are not turning away 5* athletes. Majors may be A factor but they're not THE factor. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Limitation-We aren't in the SEC: Clemson does OK with this, and so do FSU and Miami. Vandy is in the SEC, and so is Missouri, and they aren't pulling the same classes as the big fish in that conference. Judgement: Yeah, it's a factor, but it's not as big a factor as being a "cool" school to play for. We should focus on what we can control and be a place worth playing. (Collins tried to be the cools, but it looks like he had the wrong idea and the fun stuff got in the way of actually building a winning team). </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Limitation-We can't spend what other schools can spend: From what I understand, our players are mostly living in nice off-campus places and have nice cars to drive. We aren't spending what Texas A&M is spending, and we won't--unless we get a bunch of donors who can and will spend money like nothing we've ever seen, we won't keep up. But teams with fewer resources and less money than us do compete. We can field a really good team, maybe even a great team, but we're not going to follow Alabama's blueprint exactly because it's based on a different landscape. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Asset-We have history, and our campus can be a great place to be: the problem is that players are too young to remember Bobby Ross or even much of the Gailey days. This is something that Cabrera CAN work on and make the campus a better place for all students. I'm not saying make students "soft", or turn us into a party school, but make sure the students are in a good place where they're not miserable and that there's no fun at all. </li> </ul><p></p><p></p><p>I think this is right-on. One reason I do like coaches with schemes is that they have some passion about what they do. Leach was at least throwing a few (metaphorical) haymakers against UGA on Saturday. He coaches the little brother school in Mississippi, and he's at least fighting UGA in an unorthodox way. He didn't have much of a chance, but he looked better than most of their opponents.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="slugboy, post: 913431, member: 282"] We have some natural assets and some drawbacks too. In a lot of cases, we make too much out of both of them. I'll use other schools as a comparison. [I'm not picking on you MountainBuzzMan, you have great points here, and these bullet points are also other things in this list] [LIST] [*]Asset-We live in the middle of a recruiting hotbed of talent: Ga State is within 5 miles of us, so they do too. They have the majors like "education" and "criminal justice" and so on that we say attract athletes. They are not turning away 5* athletes. Majors may be A factor but they're not THE factor. [*]Limitation-We aren't in the SEC: Clemson does OK with this, and so do FSU and Miami. Vandy is in the SEC, and so is Missouri, and they aren't pulling the same classes as the big fish in that conference. Judgement: Yeah, it's a factor, but it's not as big a factor as being a "cool" school to play for. We should focus on what we can control and be a place worth playing. (Collins tried to be the cools, but it looks like he had the wrong idea and the fun stuff got in the way of actually building a winning team). [*]Limitation-We can't spend what other schools can spend: From what I understand, our players are mostly living in nice off-campus places and have nice cars to drive. We aren't spending what Texas A&M is spending, and we won't--unless we get a bunch of donors who can and will spend money like nothing we've ever seen, we won't keep up. But teams with fewer resources and less money than us do compete. We can field a really good team, maybe even a great team, but we're not going to follow Alabama's blueprint exactly because it's based on a different landscape. [*]Asset-We have history, and our campus can be a great place to be: the problem is that players are too young to remember Bobby Ross or even much of the Gailey days. This is something that Cabrera CAN work on and make the campus a better place for all students. I'm not saying make students "soft", or turn us into a party school, but make sure the students are in a good place where they're not miserable and that there's no fun at all. [/LIST] I think this is right-on. One reason I do like coaches with schemes is that they have some passion about what they do. Leach was at least throwing a few (metaphorical) haymakers against UGA on Saturday. He coaches the little brother school in Mississippi, and he's at least fighting UGA in an unorthodox way. He didn't have much of a chance, but he looked better than most of their opponents. [/QUOTE]
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