Kids dont love it

Nothing unique about a player supporting their coach and being emotional in the situation at hand. I’ve seen the exact response from adults when said person didn’t get the job or promotion or what not. In the end, sometimes you don’t realize it can or should be better until the next guy comes in and shows you.
 
Let the players get it off their chest, but remind them it’s a double edge sword. If you announce to everyone you’re giving up, people will move on without you. That’s true in any organization. Early step for Key and remaining staff will be figuring out who’s still in.
 
andrew said:
The players probably also know him on a personal level and know he's a good guy who cares about them and is having his life turned upside down. I'm sure they also know they are partly at fault for his failures, and feel like öööö about the whole thing. I'ts not fun to realize you suck.

Then they go online and see people talking about how if he takes the buyout we should drag Collins outside and physically beat him, how they're going to take a picture of Collins to the firing range and aim for his face, etc. The natural reaction to that isn't going to be, "Oh yeah, he deserves that because we didn't play well enough", it's going to be to defend him.

I don't care if it would be worse at other programs, the personal attacks we're making on Collins right now are ridiculous and frankly an embarrassment to a fanbase that likes to talk öööö about how other fanbases are full of assholes. Neither Collins nor the players are above criticism, and they've certainly earned plenty of it, but the way we're attacking our own is unacceptable.
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Collins is walking away with well over 11 million dollars for failing for 3 1/2 years. I have no sympathy for his feelings.
 
BigDanT said:
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It helps you to develop as a player. It helps the athletic association avoid financial ruin. It helps the Institute in terms of financial donations. It helps your conference not to have one of its members get shellacked by a G5 opponent (after setting the record for unfavorable betting line between a G5/P5 game).

I’m not a win at any costs kind of guy. But an attitude of “I’m ok, you’re ok” won’t enable you to achieve anything in a competitive environment.
 
WracerX said:
Unfortunately for Thomas, those years under CGC probably cost him the opportunity to hear his name called in the draft.
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Yep. I blame coaching and S&C. I bet he would have been several ticks faster in the 40 had he had a S&C program focused on making him a better DB as opposed to making him big.
 
WracerX said:
Unfortunately for Thomas, those years under CGC probably cost him the opportunity to hear his name called in the draft.
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Juanyeh posted last year that the problem wasn't his position coach, now is defending the guy who fired his position coach and kept the DC, so Juanyeh what do you think IS the problem? The fans? Actually that IS who he's criticized on social media: the fans, for wanting to see good performance. öööö Juanyeh, the further we can get that guy from the program, the better. He's toxic.
 
JJacket said:
Yep. I blame coaching and S&C. I bet he would have been several ticks faster in the 40 had he had a S&C program focused on making him a better DB as opposed to making him big.
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Not just that, but critical feedback is needed to correct mistakes. Don’t dwell on your past mistakes, but you damn sure need more than “we’ll get them next time”. Thomas should have had more film of him getting interceptions and breaking up passes. Instead, there was a lot of film of the safeties and CBs pointing at each other post touchdown.
 
WracerX said:
Seriously, is there a better example of “spare the rod, spoil the child” axiom for coaching than Collins? He idolized O’Leary who was his exact opposite.
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Pretty sure Collins thought the saying was "spare the rod.... the sweeter the JUICE"
 
BainbridgeJacket said:
Juanyeh posted last year that the problem wasn't his position coach, now is defending the guy who fired his position coach and kept the DC, so Juanyeh what do you think IS the problem? The fans? Actually that IS who he's criticized on social media: the fans, for wanting to see good performance. öööö Juanyeh, the further we can get that guy from the program, the better. He's toxic.
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If Collins was so great, why didn't Juanyeh's brother end up at Tech?
 
Architorture23 said:
I think it existed a bit (athletes vs academics) but Gef has been all about "us vs them" with other students, alums, and fans definitely being "them." He trashed the former coach, trashed some of those players, trashed traditions, gave smirks instead of answers to good questions, etc. Absolutely no respect for the people in the stands.
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So you in turn trash the current players. Smart move douche.
 
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