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<blockquote data-quote="strong90" data-source="post: 327982" data-attributes="member: 2326"><p>All this talk about poster credentials and player talent is malarkey: most on this board know enough about football and the players on our team to assess the effectiveness of our scheme. </p><p></p><p>Does coaching experience make one more informed than others? Perhaps, but it doesn't take a multi-year coach to see that our defensive scheme is ineffective and lacks innovation or aggressiveness---just watch the game tape. Plus, experience can be detrimental when one becomes reluctant to change as circumstances are changing all around them. Recently, my social justice warrior daughter humbled me by opining that just because my perspective on contemporary social issues has been shaped by a lifetime of experience, it doesn't mean that I'm right. Sometimes an outsider's perspective can offer enlightenment. </p><p> </p><p>The talent excuse frustrates me most. With some factory exceptions, the talent difference across P5 teams is marginal---most are 3-star recruits---and we are usually about average. Just like Nick Saban, we would like to have better players, but we already have talented-enough players to be better than we are, and we've even put a few in the NFL. Despite some modest improvements in recruiting, we linger around the middle-of-the-pack in talent but fall to near the bottom in results. Lacking any other metric, our defense should be equal to or better than our recruiting rankings.</p><p></p><p>Finally, if you have a perceived talent gap, the notion of playing a basic, vanilla scheme as a winning strategy confounds me. Scheme to mitigate personnel mismatches by doing whatever it takes to create havoc and force errors. Waiting on them to make a mistake only slows the inevitable and allows them to control the game. Our defensive success shouldn't be defined by their failure to execute.</p><p></p><p>So... after having written all that, I realize that I could have just said: 1) most on this board know a little about football and coaching experience doesn't mean you're right; 2) the talent gap is marginal and we are about average with sub-par results; and 3) if you think we don't match-up, then disrupt.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="strong90, post: 327982, member: 2326"] All this talk about poster credentials and player talent is malarkey: most on this board know enough about football and the players on our team to assess the effectiveness of our scheme. Does coaching experience make one more informed than others? Perhaps, but it doesn't take a multi-year coach to see that our defensive scheme is ineffective and lacks innovation or aggressiveness---just watch the game tape. Plus, experience can be detrimental when one becomes reluctant to change as circumstances are changing all around them. Recently, my social justice warrior daughter humbled me by opining that just because my perspective on contemporary social issues has been shaped by a lifetime of experience, it doesn't mean that I'm right. Sometimes an outsider's perspective can offer enlightenment. The talent excuse frustrates me most. With some factory exceptions, the talent difference across P5 teams is marginal---most are 3-star recruits---and we are usually about average. Just like Nick Saban, we would like to have better players, but we already have talented-enough players to be better than we are, and we've even put a few in the NFL. Despite some modest improvements in recruiting, we linger around the middle-of-the-pack in talent but fall to near the bottom in results. Lacking any other metric, our defense should be equal to or better than our recruiting rankings. Finally, if you have a perceived talent gap, the notion of playing a basic, vanilla scheme as a winning strategy confounds me. Scheme to mitigate personnel mismatches by doing whatever it takes to create havoc and force errors. Waiting on them to make a mistake only slows the inevitable and allows them to control the game. Our defensive success shouldn't be defined by their failure to execute. So... after having written all that, I realize that I could have just said: 1) most on this board know a little about football and coaching experience doesn't mean you're right; 2) the talent gap is marginal and we are about average with sub-par results; and 3) if you think we don't match-up, then disrupt. [/QUOTE]
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