Indeed it is. Gotta have hope though.Originally Posted by SWarner63
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Indeed it is. Gotta have hope though.
That's like hoping you win the lottery when you didn't buy a ticket. We can't improve if we don't make some changes.
There will be changes. Every year is a different team. We have a year to figure it out.
What kind of changes are you referring to, other than the obvious change of losing some players to graduation and gaining some new freshmen? It sounds to me like there isn't going to be much, if any, change other than that going into next season. From what I saw this past season, it's going to take a lot more change than that. If we're going to "figure it out" in the next year, we better get started right now because we have quite a bit of work to do.
Yes, new players. Then all the young guys will be learning from their mistakes (watching film). Targeted fundamental work. Brain-storming for offensive ideas (maybe a TE next year, a FB maybe, maybe both). It's just a whole new dynamic and the coaches have a much better idea of what our personnel is capable of and where we can improve.
Dude!
I'm afraid T1 is giving us a look into the thought process of our head coach.
Good old Memorial Gym
I have heard its a straight pass through from one ear to the next with no impediment at all. It's a quick process.
Re: Shreveport Times article
We're in a conference where any team could be the stand out each season. Just because your team is bad one season doesn't mean they're gonna continue to suck. Did many people think Rice and Tulane would be at the top of our conference while teams like Tulsa were near the bottom? No! Each year is a new year and hopefully 2014-15 will be ours.
Unfortunately you are 100% correct. Holtz will never improve our football team because HE DOES NOT KNOW HOW! He is full of "we are inexperienced", "we lost xx seniors", etc and we will hear more of this all of next season. But T1 will still be singing Holtz's praises from 2008 while more Tech fans lose interest in our stagnant program.
If a guy recruited to play football doesn't arrive knowing how to condition himself on the track and in the weight room, he probably was a mistake when recruited. Natural ability and conditioning to build on whatever is already there can be motivated, but desire to excel dictates that the talent will develop itself if allowed to. What year did Tech first hire a 'conditioning coach"? There were no coaches in the weight room in the attic of that old gym in the 1959-64 years. Just a bunch of committed athletes competing with themselves and their team mates to get stronger and quicker, etc. But just being able to do more reps with more weight was never enough. Guys who understood the game and believed they could excel were the key to winning. The great ones were born with special bodies and skills or they were born with less of that but were self-motivated to compete with the 'naturals.' When I would work out up there I was in awe of players who weren't nearly as strong as I was. I coached a lot of kids in later years and saw the development as the motivated ones grew to outperform some of the 'naturals' for various reasons. Question is can Lou Holtz boy motivate or gather help to motivate the ones he has on the team and can he 'recruit' with confidence. Not a good time to criticize. Just advise. Oh, why was I working out? Mostly to try to paddle as well as my pirogue buddy, future chemistry PH.D. Ed Green, during hunting and fishing seasons and try to run the hurdles without being embarrassed by my night-time track buddy, C.B. Coburn, who could have been on the track team with his high-school track times but was studying to excel in zoology. I'm not even convinced colleges should be allowed to 'recruit.' People who live nearby and show up and enroll and happen to have athletic skill as well as academic skill and can do both simultaneously should represent the college in athletics. Louisiana produces an enormous number of excellent athletes with the ability to succeed in college, top 5 in the U.S. according to a popular sports commentator, so Lou's boy might just need to hire some duck commanders to 'recruit' and spare the expense of national travel.
Didn't know you had that in you Aub.
I'm afraid T1 is our head coach
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm....makes you wonder??!!
Didn't we just have a thread on who T1 was?
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