Regardless I could understand skipping Van Gogh class, Max Ernst class on the other hand…
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Ha that was @HiltonHeadHoo bringing it up. I happened to just see Icarus Landensburg tweet
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Weirdest thing about that Landesberg thread is it doesn’t really say anything. I can’t even tell if he’s saying somebody did something specifically wrong to him. He also vaguely acknowledges he has responsibility for his dismissal, but there’s zero in the way of specifics. I don’t know how anybody is really meant to make anything out of that other than I guess he feels he should have been treated a little more generously because he was a kid? Maybe, but without anyone knowing exactly what happened, how can you support or oppose that position?
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I think it is kinda the “i am 30 whatever now and have it all figured out” but I dont know him and when he is 40 whatever he will proly view it differently as well
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We tried that route and even managed to fuck that up.
Since George W we have tried:
- NFL guy
- FCS Champion Coach
- out of the box philosopher w great record
- top championship level assistant
I think we have tried everything at this point with minimal success. No clue where you turn from here. Gotta hope Tony E figured it out pretty quick.
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Service Academy coach.
Dude who has won 10 national titles in a row in some random lower division.
Throw Chris Long’s entire retirment fund at Wake Forest or JMU coach for salary and budget to buy portal players.
Fwiw it’s hard to tell coaching talent at FCS level. You can look at Mike London, for example, but I’m a JMU football fan and it leaves me really perplexed. Mickey Matthews won a title and elevated the program, but he was a shit coach and kind of an idiot. Everett Withers did great as coach at JMU, but has floundered since. Mike Houston is legit. Curt Cignetti (current coach) has done some really questionable things with stacked JMU teams … but this year the team is rolling.
All to say, JMU has stayed a powerhouse through 4 coaches now. There’s no way all of them have been great. I don’t quite know what to make of it, honestly.
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I have to say. At the college level I have no clue what makes someone a good football coach. None
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It’s all a crap shoot. Honestly a coach from any background, previous P5, First time, FCS, D2, Played Madden a bunch… they can all potentially work at UVa. It comes down to can the recruit (and even that narrative is shifting), can they relate to players?, do they have control of the Xs and Os.
Schools on the UVa tier are gonna have high highs and low lows and a select handful may snag a guy who can guide them for a long period and have measurable success. The rest float in and out of relevancy depending on who’s in charge of the ship at the current moment.
As far as the current regime goes, I’m not sure it’s a winner but I also think not enough credit is being placed on the players (under performing) and the opponents (overachieving). Cuse, Duke, Ill 13-2… that wasn’t supposed to happen. BA being flat out awful and Weeks walking around the field staring into the sky, that wasn’t supposed to happen. Was it coach? Probably was it a couple guys regressing to the mean? Also probably.
It is darkest just before the light. And joy comes in the morning. Saddle in and ride it out, got a feeling everything will work out.
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Nothing like a haiku by @BDragon to get me through a gloomy Monday afternoon!
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Thats right. The only thing I KNOW that has to happen is players have to almost unconditionally be loyal to their coach(es) for it to really go. And the coaches get that by the players knowing the coaches 100 percent have the players’ backs and best interest all the time.
Thats where when it is not that way it gets tricky
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Could not have said that better. Really comes down to culture. Coach sets the tone and the good teams have 100% buy in top to bottom. Culture eats strategy for breakfast.
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The one thing I’m not sure about from the Landesburg thread: was he a KID at the time? Need to make that point clearer.
Seriously, I do feel bad for him in that his past hung around his neck (and maybe still does) in a way that it doesn’t for most of us. I was a screwup in college too but when I graduated (whew) I didn’t have a “label” because I didn’t live in the public eye.
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Who was it said ‘find guys he can lose with before having guys he can win with’?
And to paraphrase Landesburg: I’m all grown up now and ready to accept my failures except that I was a kid and everyone bailed on me and it’s not my fault.
What a weird tweet thread to put out there.
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Winning, mostly.
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Great comment on youtube PG interview with Tony
“For years this organization has been hosting a postgame conference where the reporter’s questions cannot be heard, and no one in the entire organization has thought it worthy of addressing despite the continued pleas of the viewers. Years. And now we have a coach that elevates quickly to irritability, and looses his composure multiple times during the game that does not see, apparently, the connection of his actions to the multitude of on-field personal fouls, penalties, and mistakes. Everything is connected in an organization. Planning, preparation, strategy, composure,…all of these emanate from the top.”
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I wonder how Dabo and Saban get away with yelling at players every Saturday for 15+ years.
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do you think UVA fans should be able to hear reporters’ questions? do you think someone in the athletics office should have done something about it in the last ten years?
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For sure. Same with some of the CTB post-games too. We generally suck at all things media and marketing. Like 20 years behind and dumb.
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