Rob Howe gets it

I agree that we need some shuffling in the coaching ranks...but I've got to place Saturday's debacle squarely upon the players. Vandenberg was pretty atrocious at crunch time, and the receivers and tight ends weren't helping matters. 4 turnovers that kill scoring drives or lead directly to points is gonna get you beat just about every time.
 
528646 said:
I really like Rob, but I'm not sure what he's getting at with the "effort" part of his comments. I guess I haven't really seen anything on-field that makes me question effort.

Have I seen some gameday things that I question a little with this staff? Yeah, sure - but I don't think that gameday coaching has ever necessarily been this staff's strong suit, and they've had a good deal of success living without it.

What I see out there this year is a relatively talent-depleted team (especially on the defensive side of the ball - the Hyde-Bernstine-Prater combo is a pretty good one, but even Prater has had a bit of an up & down year). If you are going to critique the staff on anything, it would be on recruiting/player retention.
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Maybe offensively gameday coaching hasn't been a plus, but there was a time that going against Norm's defense, halftime was night-night time.

I could be wrong, but I seem to remember for a stretch it was score early and often against Iowa, cause it ain't happening in the second half.
 
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528646 said:
I really like Rob, but I'm not sure what he's getting at with the "effort" part of his comments. I guess I haven't really seen anything on-field that makes me question effort.

Have I seen some gameday things that I question a little with this staff? Yeah, sure - but I don't think that gameday coaching has ever necessarily been this staff's strong suit, and they've had a good deal of success living without it.

What I see out there this year is a relatively talent-depleted team (especially on the defensive side of the ball - the Hyde-Bernstine-Prater combo is a pretty good one, but even Prater has had a bit of an up & down year). If you are going to critique the staff on anything, it would be on recruiting/player retention.
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You really dont understand his effort comment? Wow are you watching the same games we are. No some players are playing great, yes. But when you have everything on the line saturday and come out as flat as we did then the effort is just no there. The passion is just not there. The team did not come ready to play and it showed, that is effort. This team does not play with emotion at all. Look just like they are going through the motions. Is there exceptions to that, yes some players are playing their hearts out (Coker & McNutt). But as a collective whole, they look lifeless out there.
 
Watched post game interviews with the players on the local newscast and the common theme was 'we were not ready to play'. In fact, those were the exact words that came out of Mcnutt, Nielsen and Hyde's mouth.


At times it does seem like their is a bit of a disconnect between the coaching staff and the players.
 
trj said:
Watched post game interviews with the players on the local newscast and the common theme was 'we were not ready to play'. In fact, those were the exact words that came out of Mcnutt, Nielsen and Hyde's mouth.


At times it does seem like their is a bit of a disconnect between the coaching staff and the players.
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This scares me if true. What are they doing during practice? Playing Modern Warfare over XBOX live?
 
How do you not get up for a game with a potential conference championship on the line? I think the blame can be spread equally between the coaching staff and the players. Rob's partially right. The philosophy we have chosen both on offense and defense leaves very little margin of error. And in down years, when talent is a little thin, that margin of error become harder to overcome. It requires an higher amount of mental preperation than physical. I think this goes for the coaching staff as well. They don't seem to believe that adjustments in areas of weakness are necessary. When your game is as predictable as ours, can you imagine how easy it would be to catch the opposing team by surprise, by throwing a few wrinkles in our game? But then again, maybe the coaching staff feels this team isn't mentally tough enough to handle that either.
 
iowaboy85 said:
You really dont understand his effort comment? Wow are you watching the same games we are. No some players are playing great, yes. But when you have everything on the line saturday and come out as flat as we did then the effort is just no there. The passion is just not there. The team did not come ready to play and it showed, that is effort. This team does not play with emotion at all. Look just like they are going through the motions. Is there exceptions to that, yes some players are playing their hearts out (Coker & McNutt). But as a collective whole, they look lifeless out there.
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Agree. Sparty's first play from scrimmage, they got eight yards on a simple dive play. Sure, that happens, but how it happened was our guys looked surprised that they snapped the ball and just got pushed out of there. Yes, we are undersized, but that was just horrid. Go back and watch it, it's only a few minutes in. Wisconsin's defenses have historically not been much more athletic than ours have, but they realize that if you're not trying to penetrate and create lost yardage and turnovers, you might as well not be there.
 
Hawkfromnorwalk said:
This scares me if true. What are they doing during practice? Playing Modern Warfare over XBOX live?
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But we can't question the great one, "KF"...Pathetic, not having a team prepared is completely and totally on this coaching staff, listening to sound off defending them is sickening....
 
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