I really don't care what he says to the media. He could come and leave every interview giving the Marcus Hall Double Salute, and I could care less. I rate politicians as better people than journos.
What gets me is that no matter how you slice it, the defense just isn't up to snuff.
Whether it's development or scheme... it's hard to say that year after year it's all on the players who have "failed" to develop, rather than on the coaches responsible for developing them. These are all kids recruited during Fickell's time as well. So we can't use the time-old "not his guys" excuse.
But, honestly, I believe it's a myriad of issues -- execution, scheme, development. The execution isn't 1 or 2 outliers either, it's systemic.
I don't pretend to have the solutions, but barring an unlikely complete reversal in the next 2 games... it seems that something needs to change.
None of the following is about Fickell specifically -- just my musings on Coaching positions in general...
It seems to me that football coaching is highly susceptible to Peter's Principle. Namely, that people are promoted until they reach the level at which they are incompetent. However, failure is also punished harshly in the sports world, making it difficult to find new employment at their "incompetent level" or go back to the highest level of their competence. We see this all the time as countless Coordinators become HCs and then bounce around at that level until they're finally flushed out of the system or develop some coping skills to reach a basic level of competence. It's also quite evident in the public sector where, invariably, almost all civil servant positions are filled by incompetent people who have risen to their level of ineffectiveness -- including Universities.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Principle
It seems to me, an organization which can avoid the issues with Peter's Principle will have a significant advantage in hiring coaching staffs.
What gets me is that no matter how you slice it, the defense just isn't up to snuff.
Whether it's development or scheme... it's hard to say that year after year it's all on the players who have "failed" to develop, rather than on the coaches responsible for developing them. These are all kids recruited during Fickell's time as well. So we can't use the time-old "not his guys" excuse.
But, honestly, I believe it's a myriad of issues -- execution, scheme, development. The execution isn't 1 or 2 outliers either, it's systemic.
I don't pretend to have the solutions, but barring an unlikely complete reversal in the next 2 games... it seems that something needs to change.
None of the following is about Fickell specifically -- just my musings on Coaching positions in general...
It seems to me that football coaching is highly susceptible to Peter's Principle. Namely, that people are promoted until they reach the level at which they are incompetent. However, failure is also punished harshly in the sports world, making it difficult to find new employment at their "incompetent level" or go back to the highest level of their competence. We see this all the time as countless Coordinators become HCs and then bounce around at that level until they're finally flushed out of the system or develop some coping skills to reach a basic level of competence. It's also quite evident in the public sector where, invariably, almost all civil servant positions are filled by incompetent people who have risen to their level of ineffectiveness -- including Universities.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Principle
It seems to me, an organization which can avoid the issues with Peter's Principle will have a significant advantage in hiring coaching staffs.
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