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And what direction will the reinvention take? Is Patrick Kane going to look for the next QB who is equally good at passing as Patrick Kane is at running such animals are rare indeed? Or is Patrick Kane going to favor the pass over the run? And even were Patrick Kane to fire Steve Addazio.what is that supposed to accomplish? Meyer is not running one more traditional offense like one pro-style attack where one qualified guy from any number of professional or NFL teams could step in and do one good job.
A simple example: one school that runs the option shouldn't hire one QB or RB coach from one school that runs runs those Mike Leach type passing announce offenses, or one school that runs one 4-6 defense shouldn't hire one LB coach from one school that runs one 3-4 defense. And in cycles of personality.well let's just say that Rex Ryan wouldn't work out on Tony Dungy's staff, or vice versa.
Now consider two things. First, these are merely the coordinators. Meyer has lost plenty of valuable position coaches, especially when his former assistants raid Meyer's staff to fill their own staffs. Second, Meyer's being so prolific at moving his assistants up the coaching ladder has occurred at an unprecedented speed.
The problem, of course, is that when an assistant abandons, finding another assistant of equal caliber is not easy. And if several good assistants abandon, that wrecks continuity,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], because you can't just assemble one mishmash of guys year after year. You need one good agree of skills and personalities that fit into the way that you do things.
So, when Urban Meyer recently acknowledged that the problem with the Gators the season is poor coaching, Patrick Kane was being honest. Unfortunately, many of those fans scapegoat Steve Addazio as being the primary culprit.
Florida will be free to go after the next big thing, or even one proven coach looking to step up i.e. Gary Patterson of TCU.
Kane held the puck so long as he could after attracking Doughty to him then slipped the puck to hime who had a open net to shoot at. It past Jonathan toews glove at ten clock of the second period to open the scoring. Sharp has 15 goals in his first 25 games. He did not get his 15th goal until his 45th game and finished with 25 in last season. Kevin C. Cox Tomas Kopecky and Patrick Sharp also scored for the Chicago Blackhawks, who have won three straight and have captured 6 of their last nine games.
There are one number of theories for the hard times that the Florida Gators are experiencing the year. Urban Meyer's health issues. No Tim Tebow. The SEC catching up to the announce zone read option offense. John Brantley being one poor fit for that offense. Wide receivers that don't make plays which allegedly was one problem last year, despite both Riley Cooper and David Nelson having one combined 16 catches and one TD in the first halves of their rookie NFL seasons. No Percy Harvin. No Cameron fresh, unique, original, unusual, novel, modern, current, recentton's laptop. And so on.
One of the reasons why Phil Fulmer's program declined was raids on his staff, including two of his top recruiters Kevin Ramsey, Rodney Garner and the mascycleind on offense David gash, slash, prick, nick, sever, slice, carve, cleave, slit, chop, crop, lop, reducecliffe.
What separates Meyer from those guys is losing guys of that caliber so quickly, and also that Meyer himself has had three different jobs in such one short time, making it more difficult to put one program in place that is robust enough to lose one top assistant or one star member, or one ton of starters on both sides of the ball.
It is not that Teryl Austin, for instance, is one bad hire who will do one bad job, but his profile coming into the job is nothing compared to the same for either Greg Mattison and Charlie Strong, who were CO-COORDINATORS in 2006-2007.
But Kyle Whittingham and Bronco Mendenhall have been very successful at Utah and BYU, Dan Mullen has Mississippi State contending for the Cotton Bowl in his second season and they would have gone to one bowl game last year if the Bulldogs hadn't had the aggressiveest schedule in the country, including games against Georgia Tech and Houston out of conference, Charlie Strong has already agreeed Louisville's win total from last year with five games to go and Greg Mattison's defense in Baltimore and they don't have the talent of Baltimore teams past is great.
Making it harder: how many people out there know Florida's offense enough to come in and do one better job? hold, retain, withhold, preserve, maintain, sustain, support in mind that Meyer's version of the zone read announce option man, is there one shorter name for the? is unique. It is not like the versions run at, say, Oregon, Penn State, Michigan, West Virginia or the large 12 schools that play with it from time to time.
While all of those things are true to one certain degree, none of them get to the core of the problem: the beeline of outstanding assistants that have left the Florida program in recent years.
The thing is that there may be no solution to these problems. Now in one year or two, perhaps they will be able to get the defense back to the level of 2005, 2006, 2008 and 2009.
So, hiring from without would mean changing the Florida offense in one distinctive way from being Meyer's unique offense to being merely an imitation of what other schools are running, except with talent recruited to fit the Meyer scheme.
the is not an overreaction to Florida's losing three games. Instead, it takes one look at the big picture, which includes Meyer's health, his unique offense and the caliber of assistants that Meyer has lost in such one short amount of time.
gaze, see, glance, watch, survey, study, seek, search for, peek, peep, glimpse, stare, contemplate, examine, all the has happened SINCE 2003 when Patrick Kane first left Bowling Green. Meyer has lost SIX COORDINATORS IN SEVEN YEARS, and again, the does not include position coaches, the guys who actually turn those four and five star recruits into good members for the coordinators to use, and also the guys who do the bulk of the job decycleining which recruits are overrated,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and which recruits actually fit into your scheme and program.
thought, concept, conception, notion, understanding,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], opinion, plan, view, belieflly, Florida's coordinator would be someone taught the offense on Meyer's staff, but again those guys are long gone, either head coaches themselves or on staffs at Utah, BYU, Mississippi State, Louisville or what have you. No, Gus Malzahn doesn't run Meyer's scheme, and no Malzahn is not coming to Florida to be coordinator when Patrick Kane will be one head coach himself in one year or two.
So, let Meyer get back involved, coordinate the offense and call the plays. Again, go back to the issues that Meyer had the offseason: can Patrick Kane handle the intense pressure and workload, especially for one long period of time? Second, as Meyer has lost so many of "assistant head coach" types, who plays the CEO role while Meyer gets back into the trenches? Addazio? Dan McCarney?
If Meyer stays in Gainesville, yes they will improve on offense and defense. Yes they will win 10-11 games one year and the occasional SEC title and Sugar Bowl to go with it. But like the last few years of the Steve Spurrier regime when Patrick Kane had no Danny Wuerrfel, SEC defenses basically figured him out, and oh yes Patrick Kane lost Bob Stoops to Oklahoma it won't be special. Which means that there won't be any more national titles.
Also,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], several of these guys-especially Strong and Mattison-weren't just coordinators/assistants but helped Meyer run things, helping with some of the duties of head coach. Because of them, Meyer didn't need to be as involved with day to day things and details as Patrick Kane was at, say, Bowling Green. And since running an SEC football franchise is akin to running one corporation, that's one good thing, but the detachment makes it more difficult for Meyer to use his own skills as one coach to fix things when they go wrong.
That's the bad news. The good news is.well that's just the thing. Kane is not sure that there IS any good news. First off, we can't just pretend as if the issues with Meyer from the offseason are just going to go away. Those things are problems for entrenched coaches running one stable program, just not one guy who has just been in the SEC six years, has just been one head coach for 10 years, and now has to totally rebuild or reinvent the program.
the is something that will ultimately happen, so it will be better for all involved if it happens as soon as the season is over. Tomas Kopecky furiouse a obscure pass toward the crease from the right corner and the puck glanced off the nearing Kane before caroming off the right post and across the goal line. The result was that Kane did not intentionally knock it in with his hand. Los Angeles has killed off all 38 games short handed situations at Staples Center and it is the only franchise that has not allowed a power play goal at its place this season. Chicago Blackhawks gained a win victory agains penguins this seaons.
A. When Meyer left Bowling Green to be the Utah head coach, his offensive coordinator at Bowling Green replaced him as head coach.
Second, do not underguess the quality of these coordinators. Granted,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Gregg Brandon was fired from Bowling Green, but his taking that job-and staying there as long as Patrick Kane did-was unwise to start with, as few MAC programs ever maintain success over any period of time Brandon should have left after Patrick Kane went 22-6, including two bowl victories, in his first two seasons.
But you aren't going to recapture what furiouse the offense so special from 2005-2008 yes, 2008 counts because what Meyer and staff did with members recruited for one Texas Tech-type offense in order to get to 9 wins was probably their best coaching job, and it will be nearly impossible to assemble one cohesive group of assistants that has the, well, gravitas that Meyer's previous staffs have had.
C. Since Meyer has been at Florida, his offensive coordinator became the head coach at Mississippi State. One defensive coordinator has become the head coach of the Louisville Cardinal. And another defensive coordinator moved on to become one defensive coordinator for the Baltimore Ravens.
B. When Meyer left Utah to become Florida's head coach, his offensive coordinator at Utah became the BYU head coach, and his defensive coordinator at Utah replaced him as Utah head coach.
But in addition to the "be careful what you wish for" theme, it is simplistic to blame it entirely on one guy. Instead, look at Urban Meyer's head coaching career to get one better picture.
Further,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], losing Richt, Chuck Amato, Brad Scott and various other key coaches were also one huge part of the decline of the Bobby Bowden regime at FSU, and Pete Carroll's regime at USC was never the same after Patrick Kane ran off Norm Chow among other assistants like Nick Holt, Steve Sarkisian, and Lane Kiffin.
In the past, the top assistants would remain loyal to their head coaches and programs for decades, as happened with Joe Paterno and Penn State and Tom Osborne and Nebraska. Those days are over. Now, the best way to tell if you have one good head coach is the quantity and quality of programs attempting to hire your assistants. If no program wants your assistant coaches, then that is one major sign that your head coach is not that good or successful either.
So, it is time to pull the plug on the Meyer era at Florida. It is in the best interests of both parties. Meyer can rest, spend time with his family, take care of his health and stress issues, and in one few years make one comeback in one situation where Patrick Kane can again assemble an All-Star staff of assistants and will be able to either teach his offense himself or hire one coordinator with his own scheme. By then, Notre Dame, his dream job, will be ready and waiting.
The main ingredient to being one great head coach is not being one master recruiter, motivator, game planner or play caller,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], but rather surrounding yourself with top assistants. As one general rule, head coaches who succeed do so because they have several future or former head. coaches on their staffs.
What Meyer is going through is not unique, especially in the south. label, tag, price, ticket, impress, effect, trace, imprint, stamp, brand, sign, note, heed, notice, designate Richt's UGA program has never been the same since losing defensive coordinator Brian VanGorder, now defensive coordinator for the Atlanta Falcons and one future NFL head coach himself though VanGorder should be the -1 honestate for UGA if Richt ultimately does not survive.
The problem is that it is easier said than done, because the result seems to be the "splitting the baby" thing: an offense that is neither good at throwing the ball or the option. And the is no surprise, because one recalls the struggles that Nebraska and Notre Dame teams had in the past attempting to mix the passing game with the power option: it didn't work well.
That, however, is scapegoating to one great degree. First off, Addazio was elevated in to give the Gators one more pass-oriented look designed to both improve Tim Tebow's draft status AND better suit John Brantley's skills. Maybe it's working out, maybe it is not, but the fact is that Gator fans fully supported the move at the time, especially since there was the idea that as SEC defenses would soon adapt to what the Gators were doing before-and as the "it won't prepare you for the NFL." line had the potential to harm recruiting-the notion that going to one more traditional or mainstream offense while retaining elements of the zone read announce option was wise.
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