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Former DC Kerry Coombs (Cincy Bearcats Interim Head Coach)

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bukIpower said:
I much rather Day over how UFM handled poor performance. I like that he is not sugar coating it because what good does that do? One thing about UFM that drove me crazy was he always talked a tough game overall but when tough decisions needed to be made he sort of had trouble making them.
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When you're hiring so many of your buddies, those tough decisions become tougher. Urban is a college guy who has many close relationships. Day cut his teeth in the nfl where it's cut throat, same as Saban. Hence why Saban has no problem replacing guys who can't cut it, and Urban took those moves and criticisms so personal
 
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pnuts34 said:
When you're hiring so many of your buddies, those tough decisions become tougher. Urban is a college guy who has many close relationships. Day cut his teeth in the nfl where it's cut throat, same as Saban. Hence why Saban has no problem replacing guys who can't cut it, and Urban took those moves and criticisms so personal
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The thing with Saban is his Analyst usually become his assistants eventually. I think Day would be wise to try to emulate everything Saban does lol.
 
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I think the problem became very clear during Day’s post game. He doesn’t want to be involved in the defense. He doesn’t want to be involved in the ST. He want to work with the offense. I personally was surprised to hear that so blatantly.

So what they need is a DC that can take charge of an entire defense. Combs is probably spending most of his time with the secondary and trusting the D line to LJ and the backers to AW. Two great coaches. None of the position groups are playing poorly individually. They just aren’t playing as a team. They don’t flow together or switch coverage or know what the other position groups are going to do. They didn’t change the scheme after all last weekend.

He needs to hire someone that can can take the defense and own it all. Great if combs can do that, but he hasn’t in 10 games.

Edit: just read a great analysis of the game and the linebackers were pretty consistently out of position not knowing their gap or assignment.
 
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TampaBuckeyes said:
I think the problem became very clear during Day’s post game. He doesn’t want to be involved in the defense. He doesn’t want to be involved in the ST. He want to work with the offense. I personally was surprised to hear that so blatantly.

So what they need is a DC that can take charge of an entire defense. Combs is probably spending most of his time with the secondary and trusting the D line to LJ and the backers to AW. Two great coaches. None of the position groups are playing poorly individually. They just aren’t playing as a team. They don’t flow together or switch coverage or know what the other position groups are going to do. They didn’t change the scheme after all last weekend.

He needs to hire someone that can can take the defense and own it all. Great if combs can do that, but he hasn’t in 10 games.
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Well his issue is he wants both. He doesn't want to be involved the D but also want to dictate the scheme. Ya can't have both. He should get out of the way and let scheme be decided by his DC.
 
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DaddyBigBucks said:
I have no idea what the proportions are because there’s no way of knowing

I did not claim there was a “silent majority” because I neither know nor care if it’s a majority

My point was that there was not unanimity on the other side. As to whether some people still haven’t decided about Day… I don’t know. If they’re not willing to voice their misgivings, who could possibly know?

There are hints though, I guess, now that we’re on the subject

This situation has brought up the discussion of whether Day is going to be willing to make hard decisions when it comes to his staff. People have discussed that openly, many have made the point that we don’t know how well he’ll handle it because he hasn’t had to yet

Considering the number of Buckeye fans I know personally who read Buckeye Planet compared to the number who post here, it seems safe to say that the vast majority are keeping their thoughts to themselves. This does not make them a silent majority; their silence means we can’t possibly know which side they’re on. And that is exactly the point of the original post.

We live in an age where people treat majority opinion as if it were evidence of something (or anything). Not only is majority opinion (even among the educated), meaningless, it is also unknowable. It is meaningless because there exists an objective reality that is in no way dependent on what anyone, including the majority, believes. It is unknowable because all “surveys” including even elections, have a built in bias because they are surveys of willing participants, and people’s reasons for not participating might be such that the vast majority of those who are unwilling to participate might have similar views, thus vastly skewing the results.

There is a way around this, of course. If you were able to get enough people to participate such that the number of non-participants could be added to the number who are in the minority and the sum would still be less than the majority.

The problem that leaves is that the majority is still meaningless. Majorities to the extent that we have known or guessed them, have been wrong many times in human history. Thinking that the people of today aren’t susceptible to that would be arrogant, but I’ve never asked people if they believe that because I honestly don’t care if they do or not.

In your last sentence you ask about who gets “exposed” if we pull the silent majority curtain back; I would hope that by now my answer to that is obvious. I don’t believe there is a practical way of pulling that curtain back, and even if we did, it would expose only what people believe. It would expose no one, because, as Dumbledore said of the Mirror of Erised, it (what the majority believes in this case) can give us neither knowledge nor truth
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I get your point, and I have no argument with it. It's the old six million (or however many) Frenchmen can't be wrong logic. I get it.

I guess I misread the multiple instances of "a great deal" and "a lot of people" in your original post. In my mind those words implied some kind of definitive "majority".

I'm putting "majority" in quotes. Just as in my first response. Point being, as you said, who knows how many are silent. Point also being that it's always easier to say "I knew it all along...". But, yes, there's risk and uncertainty and BP etiquette and the nacho lady to always bear in mind.

Hey... if you insist on bringing LoT into this thread, then I should be allowed to pull the curtain back on the nacho lady. Right? :wink2:
 
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shetuck said:
… Point also being that it's always easier to say "I knew it all along...".
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This is a very fair point, but that’s not the reason that I so rarely bring up such things after-the-fact.

The main reason that I usually keep my mouth shut about such things is that I DID NOT know all along. With Coach Coombs, my personally held position was that the jury was still out. Arguments based entirely on a lack of evidence might have merit, especially if your position is that there is a lack of evidence, but they’re not very interesting, not even for me.

I get that seeing people take unearned victory laps is tedious, and we certainly see plenty of it here. But this conversation started with an off hand remark about how we were all sure about Coach Coombs, and I pointed out that I wasn’t (and for what it’s worth, @RugbyBuck beat me to it). That’s not taking a victory lap, that’s having a conversation about the nature of evidence and the standard for proof. Truth is, it takes a lot for me to be sure of anything, so you’re very unlikely to see me take a victory lap about it. Being uncertain is my normal state; that which comes naturally is not something to be proud of. Quite apart from that, uncertainty has to be the lamest thing in the world to gloat about. Which is why I usually keep my uncertainty to myself, both before and after that uncertainty becomes more widespread.
 
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