Zordich Presser this week
This was the first thing that reinstilled optimism in me following the end of this past football season. Zordich is usually tough and critical of his unit - but he speaks very optimistically about the corners and our back four in general. Ambry and Gray's play as well as Hill stepping up as a leader seems to have him feeling pretty confident.
Side Note - these coaches seem to speak like they have no idea what happened in the OSU game (see end of this presser). They say the prep was obviously there (which I do not doubt) but the players didn't execute. My thought - isn't a part of a coaches job not only setting the gameplan and coaching players on technique and prep but also the psychological aspect of the game? Obviously something happened playing on the road, big game environment - something happened to trigger the lack of execution. Part of the job of a coach is to make sure moments aren't too big, emotions don't negatively impact play, road environments are not too intimidating to effect execution. I really think this is an area the coaches can focus on and perhaps study a bit more.
April 19th, 2019 at 11:41 AM ^
There was a front page post with a transcript of the pressor earlier this week. This topic has been discussed already.
April 19th, 2019 at 11:43 AM ^
We should just do a Friday Posbang and get it over with
April 19th, 2019 at 12:11 PM ^
That youtube video has been up for more than 48 hours.
April 19th, 2019 at 12:41 PM ^
Wah, wah wah!
April 19th, 2019 at 12:55 PM ^
Quick, someone tell the coaches we say to study preparation more, it might work!
I had the opposite reaction to his optimism... I assumed that if he was critical of Long and Hill, then praise mumst mean doomsday is comnco.
Yes, Seems like Sims didn't appreciate constructive criticism for lack of any bettet explanation on his part. Next man up.
I think when he was critical of Hill and Long, it was because he thought that's what it took to motivate them. Maybe they were so good and comfortable they needed something to shake them up a little. With this group, maybe they need to be handled with kid gloves, and a little more back patting and positive reinforcement. One thing is, I'll never be worried about this group as long as Zordich is here.
I don't worry too much about the secondary until we play TUOS and they get exposed.
Poor execution is code for someone fucked up. From my chair it looked like Watson was often way slow to respond and was out of position or just plain took the wrong guy. But you have to also realize OSU had way more speed at WR than we had at DB. Our execution had to be perfect because of that speed differential.
His comment about lack of execution is actually quite interesting. When's the last time you heard a coach say that and not either say it was the coaches or just say something without substance? He's actually putting the blame on the players. Not on superior talent of OSU or superior game planning. And not on our game planning or coaching--it's player execution that gave up all of those points.
Personally I find that hard to believe when OSU's receivers were clearly faster than our players.
I was sitting 2 rows up from the Michigan sideline at The Game, and I wrote this in the forum last year...Zordich and Partridge were about ready to throw down in the 3rd quarter. I love both of those guys, but they clearly were not on the same page and had to be physically separated from each other.
Turning the page, it's great that Gattis is the new OC and throwing quick slants and uptempo at our D as preparation all season long.
You are partially correct. It's not all on the players. It's a team game, so the coaches and the players all bear some responsibility.
Ohio State's game planning was excellent. That being said, Michigan got pressure on the QB like twice over the course of the game. Watson in particular could not execute his jams on the receivers that he was covering and he got torched. Couple no pressure with missed assignments and you get got. It's hard to say what went wrong on the coaching side, because we only see what happens on the field, not in film and practice earlier in the week...but it seems like Don Brown does take responsibility for it.
Don Brown said that the coaches made mistakes and the issues were being worked on. I choose to believe that rather than these very odd bland remarks from Zordich.
I find Zordich's apparent attempt to place all the responsibility on the players or a select group of players to be extremely distasteful. I suspect he did not actually mean those statements the way I am hearing them. I suspect he meant to say blah blah blah coach speak. Which should be ignored.
At least, that is what I hoped he meant.
If anyone got caught up in the big game and froze it was Brown. OSU did the same thing over and over again and he made no adjustments on his part. Sometimes I see coaches out think themselves and screw with a good formula. So what OSU did to us the same thing until it gets stopped which we never did
Bring in Hoke Farley as a pre-osu motivational speaker?