Making the next right decision as a CFB head coach - December 5th 2024 4:25 p.m.
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We want to big, before we get into it, big shout out to Uncle Kev as we like to call him, Meyer Corken bottle, 13th in South, always good for him to come in and bring the vibe, great libations, and education on 30th Thursday, aka Eric Strickland, end of the week holiday. But me and Austin, we were old school, we were brought to you by the Mercado, Certified Piedmontese, special ingredients and butcher shop. 84th and Havillock, 30th and Yankee Hill, 85th and Andre Matt, and 168th and Maple up there in the O. Lot going on, obviously continues in Nebraska football, from the beginning of the week and so forth and so on. And then at the top of the five o'clock hour, we usually do whiteboard Wednesdays. Yesterday was National Signing Day, so we actually gracefully, we allowed the youngsters that's going to come in and change everybody's program, to take president, but we're going to do a whiteboard. It better make it worth it. It is worth it. It was a little bit extended version, and then we'll have some actually cooking here where we'll be able to, I'm working on trying to get a projector and a little pointer, work on some things, season and review, stuff like that. But the whiteboard would be good. Ever since Tony White is at Florida State, and Terrence Nightin left, everybody is up in arms or we're going to play a three man front, four man front, so I'm going to give you my review and show you, besides telling you, that there isn't a big difference or any difference at all. I played in all three defenses, so it's going to be three, three, five, three, or three, three, five, four, three, and three, four. I have a special picture of what makes the three, four work. As you see in Austin in that last email, and when I talk about this man, I talk about it with it because he was a great dude, taught me how to be a professional, and he helped me make some money. So, anyways, but now since we have about 10 minutes, a little bit of aftermath, you know, you've got 48 hours, you know, give or take, you know, Tony White decided to leave in 24 hours after Terrence Nightin left, and the same 48 hours that Dana Holerson was named as offensive coordinator, so forth, and so on. Obviously, a lot of transition got quite a few players that are in the portal. From Nebraska and across the nation, there will be even more through the weekend, especially after championship weekend, you know, how that all shakes out, and some kids want to get started on their next, you know, part of their career or where they're going to go next, even if their team is in the college football playoffs, which is, you know, odd to say, you know, you work all year and maybe put two years worth of work in, get a chance to be a part of something really special, the first one, and you're in the portal, but, you know, business is business and football is football. So, you know, back to Nebraska, I think, you know, we weren't on air on Tuesday, or at least I wasn't, I should say, but, you know, look, man, I mean, this is -- coaching is a business, and, you know, we have to get past, even if a player goes in the portal or anything like that, and there's different circumstances to every situation. We got to get past those, like, oh, well, you know, he hated it here, or it was, you know, X, Y, and Z, and if that -- there might be some of that to it, but -- looking for a place where you can grow a rewarding career, look no further. Spectrum, a leading connectivity company is hiring near you. Working here means connecting with great colleagues, interesting projects, market-leading benefits, and dynamic growth opportunities. That's why Forbes named Spectrum one of America's best large employers. We're currently recruiting for professionals in sales, finance, IT, engineering, and more. 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Visit ColoradoFirstStep.org to get started and claim your $115 now. Ultimately, when you make a move like that, you feel like you start the way. Look, first and foremost, you think about your family, right? That's before football. Your family, who you obviously love and care about. Then you're going to talk with them. Then you've got to look career-wise. What can you do? Where can you continue along the path of ascension through the ranks and then possibility? I'm assuming Tony White eventually wants to be a head coach to get there. He saw that as a good opportunity. We were fortunate enough that he was able to come to Nebraska and revitalize especially one side of the ball and do some stuff that nobody thought could be done, considering that at times, I do think the defense played well. There were three or four games under Bill Bush, but I think obviously the tenure before wasn't up to standard and he was able to change it. The one thing that I don't think he gets enough credit for is he didn't bat an eye coming in here. He didn't have to be stacked with talent. He developed guys. He got them better. He made a lot out of a little with some circumstances or some circumstances. Yes, circumstances and some players. You hate to see him leave, but then also you know that he's going to be on the, hopefully, not bigger and better, but in his case, bigger and better, but different. Then it's up to the coach rule. I guess Coach Butler is going to be the decordinator for the ball game. Then you've got to move forward and then you go from there. I think this thing right here, the way college football is starting to shake out when the 105 isn't official, but everybody knows it's officially unofficial. You've got to start making moves towards that and so do the players. It's going to be a transaction type of situation early. I think the coaches that look at it smartly are going to be able to hang in their tight even in some lean years and that's what the, whether you lose staff, support staff, add to your support staff, find unique ways to kind of maybe have a little bit of an old school type of mentality and a new age version of this thing of college professional sports and, you know, whoever has the bandwidth to think outside of the box will do really, really well. And I think that the best example of that is Kirby Smart right now, right? Talk about an old school mentality coming up at Georgia then with Alabama under Nick Saban, right? He knows the old school mentality, right? But he also knew to pass Nick Saban, to beat Nick Saban, right? Not just to compete with Nick Saban. Kirby Smart School, once he left Alabama, was to beat Nick Saban, to elevate Georgia from that nine and three, ten and two program to that next step. Kirby couldn't afford to do things the exact same way Nick Saban did. He had to take what Nick Saban did, but made him successful. Those principles figure out what worked for him, what worked for Georgia, what fit, but then what Kirby Smart did, I don't want to say better than Nick Saban, but what he gets some credit for is adjusting to the new age, right? Saban did it with his offense. He modernized when Lane went there and threw all the other different offensive coordinators. Kirby Smart did that from the get-go. Yeah. You know, the best coaches in college football innovate. It's not that they're just these scheme guys that never talk to their players, never have a relationship to sit alone in their office all day. The teams that win in college football either elevate or innovate in terms of scheme, in terms of player recruitment, sometimes legal, sometimes not legal, depending on the era, or in player retention and development. Yeah. If you're not innovating in at least one of those areas, you're probably not going to be a top 25 team consistently. Yeah, I mean, he's done it and the principles of Nick Saban, Kirby Smart, whoever wins this year, because when you look at the top 12 teams that potentially are getting in, they're all built the same. Those principles generally don't deviate off that path too far. And that's just, you know, obviously you got to be extremely physical, fundamentally sound, low penalties and turnovers. And then obviously you got to develop and have great athletes out there, but you got to have a big percentage of in well over 65% easily trending towards 75%. You know, obviously when we played it was more in the high 90s or mid 90s, or mid 90s percent of your team invested into the team, knowing that your individual stuff will come within that. And so I think it's generally the flip part of that 35% is where you need. And that's where you see the different teams, different teams every year. And then you get, you know, good, you know, two year run and then you got to keep that up. And I think it's going to be a two or three year run where you can be really, really good. You might plateau a little bit and then come back up towards top. And so a lot of that, you know, whether you dip or you're trying to get up into that, you know, position where you're, you know, eight to ten wins and then you can get a special year is, you know, also you can't panic, right? You can't scrap it every single time. Here's an example and I'll say this, you know, unfortunately for my dad, he didn't make it past the final 30, right? We had a long talk about it. And of course he's upset and, you know, as he should be, you know, it's definitely unbiased to think you should be in. And, but I had some ideas based on what he was doing to maybe elevate that. Roger Craig didn't get in either, which is the two most prominent multipurpose backs are not in. I think they both, they should combine forces. San Francisco, Viking fans, Nebraska fans, so forth and so on. Even Roger stretches up into Iowa. My dad's on the East Coast as well. My point is this. When you're frustrated and disappointed, right? Maybe at times during this year or at any team, right? You don't panic and scratch it and say we got to start over. You got this far for a reason for my dad. He's never been this far in the process before. So you're doing something good, right? Because you came three steps versus zero. So now let's see what we did with three to get the three. Tidy that up and then add to it by expanding what I call our bandwidth. And that's the same thing when you're thinking about. Say you had aspirations to like, like, if Ole Miss doesn't make it, right? They put a lot of money in NIL for their roster, probably second to, or maybe third to Ohio State, Texas A&M, they could go back and forth. I'm sure Texas has, but the ones that are out in front, right? So you can't say, okay, well, now, next year, we're not going to spend any. You know what I mean? You say, okay, well, maybe we need to find a way to spend the same or a little bit more, but more effectively. Maybe we need to, you know, fidget with the percentages to certain parts of our team. And then also really look at what's coming down the pipe based on the 105 and development. So, you know, I think that's, you know, kind of when you lose staff members or two coaches that are obviously very prominent, both in their production of being able to have, you know, good positions or good defensive group and good position group, is that you can't panic. You got to go out there and understand that, you know, you're doing some good things. Nebraska is a blue blood and appealing. And if you can get this thing back to where you're in this weekend or in this conversation of the final 12 or better yet, top 15, because I think you could be on the outside looking in. Some things happen, you can get in. That elevates you two or three times faster than going somewhere and panic or blowing it up and panicking and just coming in with a whole new crew. And that's where to use maybe a Nebraska example, the Marcus Satterfield and Dana Holgers and things, right? Some people said, oh, it's a panic move. Other people say it's a change move. You panic if you don't have a plan. You panic if you feel obligated to do something. Sometimes you just come to a point where you have to make a decision, right? Like you said, what you've done has worked to x degree. Let's get it to y degree because that has to happen. Change just for change looks like panic. It looks desperate. Smells desperate. It's usually easy to tell. But you also can't be afraid to make change because of how to proceed. Yeah. I mean, you just got to make the right decision. If you come to it sooner, grades, you come to it later. You're probably skating on some thin ice. But there comes a point where you have to recognize what works, what doesn't work, get enough input from the outside, but trust yourself at the same time. And the problem, I think, for a lot of coaches that they, I'm sure they recognize, but they don't have the time to slow down and think about, is that so many of their moves are graded by did it work or did it not work? Yeah. And not even to their standard, to the fan standard, to the outside perspective standards. Yeah. You can go through the perfectly 100% correct hiring process. Ask all the right questions. Talk to all the right people. Exhaust yourself doing all the research you can. You make the best decision. Yeah. It doesn't work. You get raked over the Colesport. It doesn't mean you were wrong necessarily. It just means it didn't work. The problem is, it's a result space business. Yeah. I mean, that's 100% factual. That's a great point, Austin. And there's other factors. And that's what, this is what, I like analytics. I think you run into trouble when you go to listen. Brandon Staley out there, he literally lost the job by analytics. Okay. And, you know, and how I, you know, we're kind of making an analogy towards coaching is that you only can make the decision at the, in that point in time for the, for that moment. You got to go through the process and you have to be very comfortable whether it works or doesn't work. What doesn't go into that is we can go back to on paper and this is not to, you know, this is not a jab at Scott, but I'm just saying this is Scott Frost. This is the realistically, the real 99.9% of the state probably hype 90%, 99% of the state. It was like, we have to hire Scott. It's, it's the perfect timing. It's, it's, he went, he was in Oregon, worked his way up, went there, got it, got turned around a program. So you can kind of, you figure like he can come in and turn us around, um, under chip Kelly with health record and all that turned down other places because you remember turned down Colorado state Florida, Florida, uh, tenant, all these schools that want them. So then he goes and then he comes here and then here's another factor that's not in any of the analytics, right? Because it doesn't matter who it was. You know, Kurt Herbsfield, Joe Klatt, Jay Forman, everybody thought, okay, this is it. Right? This is it. He's changed all this other stuff. Then you get here and then it's, it's the heart, it's the hardest job. It's a hard job if you make it because you got to be able to deal with the pressure. But if you deal with the pressure the right way, it's not as bad unless you don't deal with it. Right. You got a ton of media obligations, you know, for a small town like Lincoln, you probably have more coverage here than maybe if you were like, if I was the Minnesota gophers coach or, you know, like PJ Fleck, you know, he's only got to face a couple of guys, you know, Saturdays after the game and maybe once a week, it's like three, four guys, right? Because you got Minnesota and everything else. Those are the other factors. And when you're, when you're trying to make these decisions, like you're saying, whether it's Coach Holgerton or, or Satterfield, you got to make the best decision for right then. Then also think about long term with the university or the program, but then also let's not forget, Dana was here earlier in the year. And so the timing wasn't right. The timing became right. Maybe during the bi-week and you had to make a decision. It probably may be something that had been on the back of your mind for some time. And you know, it is what it is. And so, you know, you just got to get to, and it's a learning process, you know, everybody's starting over when you go to, you know, you could, you know, go to, you know, a different place. Like I could win, you know, I could be a very successful coach at just say South, or can't say South Dakota State anymore, but just say South Dakota State when they were a little bit lower. Right. Take my whole crew. Same thing. Same thing. And go to Oklahoma State. And it takes a little while to adjust to that type of, you know, big 12 and that magnitude. And that's why we're, Deon goes from Jackson State to Colorado and is working, it lets you know that, you know, you're able to trim the fat. So, you know, I think it's just part of the process and, you know, it'll be interesting with it higher. And it's pretty good, cool. I guess not cool, but it's good, good coincidence that we're going to do the white board Wednesday on today because then we could talk about the difference because when I think when I, you know, people come up to me all the time in high V, about three men in front, four men in front, three, three, five, we're going to do it. They forget that there's a thing called a third down and 11 personnel and sometimes 10 personnel and 12 personnel that they play what's called nickel defense, which is a four man front. So it doesn't really matter what we were playing against base. And they look at me like, you know, I'm talking a different language. So hopefully, you know, obviously online, they'll be able to see it. But nevertheless, it's, you know, we'll take a quick break and we'll, you know, I got to really go back and look at the class and I'm going to get my thoughts on what recruiting now, how that changes based on the 105 because it's interesting because you have to have a very unique and strategic process and point to it. So everybody's looking at, okay, we got every, you know, we got to get a bunch of Eric Dickerson's and all that. And, you know, we recruit 20 guys, 18 are going to be starting. I think you have to look at it a little bit differently as long as everything is everything and you're moving, you know, holistically as a team in the right direction. So we'll take a quick break, Jay Foreman, Austin Orman, we'll be right back. Professional spend nearly half the work week on written communication. So focus is important. With Grammarly is your AI writing partner, focus and quickly get through work with relevant real-time suggestions. 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