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Grading The Coaches

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It is usually easy to see player performances and make a grade on how well or poorly they did. Coaches from the Head coach down to the individual group coaches are harder to evaluate. The obvious grade is wins and losses, but apart from that I would be interested in hearing what other attributes of a coach makes him(her) a great coach.

  1. How prepared is the team in the first quarter.
  2. Half time adjustments.
  3. Use of personnel and dealing with personalities.
  4. Player development.
  5. Use of timeouts and in-game strategies.
  6. Creativity.
  7. Public speaking. Are their answers thoughtful or just clichés? Are they monotone and have no fire?
  8. Dealing with adversity (Gase gets an A+ for last year).
(Just talking out loud)
 
1. Discipline. Reflecting back on Shula sucess and now Bellicheat I would say team discipline. That may sound a bit old school but Shulas team won many a game against superior teams just by making fewer mistakes compared to big plays. Listening to what I have heard of Billicheat he has the same policy. Saban at the college level has had a lot of success with the same too.
2. Adjustments. I think though with the great coaches they make in-game adjustments instead of just halftime adjustments.
3. Team development instead of just player development. Every 2 to 3 years a great coach needs to devise different perspectives on their team emphasizing different approaches on how to win before opposing teams have opportunity to design strategies on beating them.
 
Number of wins. (Thats what we look at when analyzing the team performance each year). Lots of the lists above are needed as part of the equation in assessing coaching but an empirical measure like #wins also comes into it in grading the coaching performance.

Another measure would be to look at the performance of each player on the roster and ask the question - Did the player improve or not over the season? If the majority of players deteriorated then it reflects poorly on the coaching. This could be broken down by position to assess the DBs coach, the Linebackers coach, the D-Line coach, etc.
 
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McMichael said:
most of your criteria is important but I dont think number 7 matters even a little bit....look at guys like Belichick, parcells, Saban, and more
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I agree with your statement, but it is refreshing to hear Gase speak (in comparison to Philbin) and be able to express his ideas as well as his frustrations. I am a Gase supporter and believe he is our next long-term Coach. I hope the Dolphans don't come out with pitchforks with every twist and turn of the season.
 
Well, coaching matters of course. Time will tell if we have the right combination of players/coaches in the building. Time will tell.
 
Very difficult to answer. Gase pushed all the right buttons in his first season, got the team to overachieve and make the playoff despite a rash of injuries. Obviously, year two was not so kind.

Loved the game plan against New England, but Miami came out flat way too often and hasn't had the kind of offense you'd expect from someone with Gase's background. The bottom line for me is that Gase is learning on the job and getting his type of players. But making it simple he is 16-17 in two years which is league average for now.

I wasn't real happy with Burke early in the season, especially how he was using the secondary essentially giving up the big cushion for easy completions. That improved as the season progressed and loved the defensive game plan against New England.

Lots of new hires. I am real interested to see how the offensive line coach does. A player like Tunsil could really benefit there.
 
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