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About f'in time!!
ckparrothead said:I don't know how much of all of this is going to translate out onto the field but I think we do have to breathe a sigh of relief a little bit because it DEFINITELY could have been a lot worst.
These are established veterans with an established system and an established style of coaching, regiment, structure, etc. Saban comes in with a reputation for being a hard-@ss. The question is, could this have ended up like the Giants' situation in 2004? Coughlin's being such a hard-@ss gave him a reputation that preceded him in NY and the initial reaction to him among the players was pretty much a polar opposite of what we've seen here. They talked about how his training camps were ridiculously grueling and unnecessary, how being hard for the sake of being hard is stupid, etc. There was dang near a locker room revolt before season started.
I think Saban walked in here with that same kind of Coughlin reputation. Remember months ago before he got here when Zach and JT and Jay Williams were going to the press and talking about how stupid it is to have a coach that is tough just for the sake of being tough and how veterans don't need to be "rah-rah"d like college players, etc. Now they actually get a taste of his coaching and we've heard from several sources now that the veterans are impressed, rather than disgusted. I think this is significant, because I really do believe it could easily have been the other way around. These players don't HAVE to be making these statements, nobody is putting a gun to their head, and pro football talk had rumors of private veteran rumblings about how impressed they are with Saban's structured system even before it was coming out in the herald (waaaay before, too).
ckparrothead said:I don't know how much of all of this is going to translate out onto the field but I think we do have to breathe a sigh of relief a little bit because it DEFINITELY could have been a lot worst.
These are established veterans with an established system and an established style of coaching, regiment, structure, etc. Saban comes in with a reputation for being a hard-@ss. The question is, could this have ended up like the Giants' situation in 2004? Coughlin's being such a hard-@ss gave him a reputation that preceded him in NY and the initial reaction to him among the players was pretty much a polar opposite of what we've seen here. They talked about how his training camps were ridiculously grueling and unnecessary, how being hard for the sake of being hard is stupid, etc. There was dang near a locker room revolt before season started.
I think Saban walked in here with that same kind of Coughlin reputation. Remember months ago before he got here when Zach and JT and Jay Williams were going to the press and talking about how stupid it is to have a coach that is tough just for the sake of being tough and how veterans don't need to be "rah-rah"d like college players, etc. Now they actually get a taste of his coaching and we've heard from several sources now that the veterans are impressed, rather than disgusted. I think this is significant, because I really do believe it could easily have been the other way around. These players don't HAVE to be making these statements, nobody is putting a gun to their head, and pro football talk had rumors of private veteran rumblings about how impressed they are with Saban's structured system even before it was coming out in the herald (waaaay before, too).