OT: ESPN Article on Hoke's Start as Oregon DC
Pretty good article, and I think we should all wish Brady the best (unless, of course, UM is playing the Ducks).
http://espn.go.com/blog/pac12/post/_/id/98520/brady-hoke-will-want-to-h…
I have to admit I did laugh out loud when Hoke was quoted as saying: "“You’ve got to hear football,” Hoke said. “You’ve got to be out there and hear it. ... I think that’s a metric that’s measurable.”"
Maybe that explains the lack of a headset? He is some kind of football ninja that only needs his ears to measure football excellence, and therefore cannot be burdened with a headset?? :-)
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But he never did at Michigan. He came in touting that Michigan was going back to the Under front (the coverage was multiple). In his last year he talked freely about going to the Over front and running Cover 1. He knows his defensive schemes.
I wouldn't be worried about them getting in plays. Hoke is going up against this thing every day in practice, he knows he needs to get plays in, and the program knows this too. The way plays are communicated are going to come from the program, which isn't dictated by him anymore.
So I really don't see that as an issue. I think he processes which plays need to be called fast enough, as he was able to process everything Mattison did in real time and decide could decide if he agreed or didn't with the calls, and he called plays in his last year at Ball St.
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I think it just did.
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Your wrong.
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I see what you did there.
If so, it's fair game.
Agreed on good wishes to Brady Hoke.
A football question for people who played at a high level: is it possible to have practices be too intense with hitting? I'm too lazy to actually check, you know, facts, but it seemed like we had a lot more off-season injuries under Hoke than RR and current staff. Harbaugh has intense practices for sure, but we don't seem to have as many ACLs and busted legs (minus Mone who was half screwing around). Maybe "hearing football" contributed? Wouldn't know since Bo didn't want a 165 pound walk-on back when I was there.
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He went away from excessive hitting to keep his team fresh. Focused on repetition and scheme. Can't get away from hitting completely though. Also the difference with pros vs college kids who still need some fundamentals.
The excessive energy spent on hitting and "hearing football" was actually the final deal-breaker for me when it came to Hoke.
It's just pure chauvinism.
When he talked about "hearing football", admittedly, I was like, "awesome", football is a tough sport, and you need to be tough. But he literally fielded one of the softest looking Michigan teams I've ever seen.
We looked exhausted out there, flat out. And once I heard the quote of the players saying the same thing, I realized that Hoke was of the antiquated"if some is good, more is better" mindset. Which is old, out-dated thinking/reasoning.
The repeated hitting doesn't make you any stronger or tougher in the least.
Pushing 100% effort on 100% is the surest way to injury, exhaustion, and over-taxing your nervous system.
Regimenting practicing techniques at lower exertion levels, is the key to top-performance (to try to say as much as possible without exploding into the entire field/theory itself).
There's so much research showing how olympic athletes specifically focus on sub-maximum training and thus reserving full effort and power until competition time, so they can "peak" at the right moment, and not fry their nervous/cardiovascular systems before the "big day".
All performers do this, musicians, actors, runners, olympic lifters, military, even chess players, anyone involved in hi-po feats.
The downfall of Hoke, was his over-investment in tradition and unwillingness to see things otherwise, even when though times had changed. It's 2016, you simply HAVE to adapt your methods and practices when you are presented evidence that proves otherwise. Unless you want to get left in the dust.
Conversely, this is exactly what sold me on Harbaugh, his ability to adapt and change with new evidence/circumstance. He's really a case-study on his own, if you want to learn how powerful a proper mix of discipline and creativity can really be. He's always thinking, always planning, looking for new insights everywhere. Respecting everyone's experience and opinion. But, he's also not afraid of being unorthodox and experimental. Experimenting and observing, experimenting and observing.
That's why the common phrases you hear from so many recruits, and recruits parents, is that he's both "really, real with you" "his own person, honest", and also "crazy and fun".
You can see it in his eyes, his mind is always churning, he's always present. The biggest indicator is in his media interviews, he's sharp as a tack and calls out the interviewers for lazy/half-effort/inspecific questions (read: Nick Baumgardner).
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Very true, being excessive in the other direction is equally detrimental.
I apoligize for the poor communication. I didn't mean to sound like you wouldn't ever go "full speed" until game-time. You would have TONS of maximum effort reps throughout practices leading up to game-day. Thus, familiarizing yourself with peak-performance, in a very intentional way. But. You wouldn't just go "balls to the wall" all week leading up to a "big-game". You only have so much capacity. And high-level athletic training and research is showing that your capacity isn't just linear, like daily effort, or only caloric, but hormonal, psychological, weekly, monthly, athletic loads and recovery rates, stress, growth, rebounding, and everything in between.
And the more professionalized college sports becomes (just look at photos of CFB-players through the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, today), the more powerful/important these factors become, and awareness becomes pivotal.
It's sounds obvious, upon reflection, but older coaching methods, the intensity of the moment/rivalry/must-wins, tradition, and just the sheer amount of things that go into coaching student-athletes, plus the particular coach's mindset, it's much easier to see from a removed position, how many other things coaches/teams already have to juggle.
Hence why you see every single sports franchise hiring so many additional support-analytics-trainer-recovery-psychologists.
It's getting complex. And cool for dorks!
We didn't tackle to the ground in college during practice once the regular season started. Very quick whistle, but we had major depth issues.
In high school it was a different story - coaches loved to make us hit as often as possible, even did Oklahoma drill mid-season if they weren't happy.
Certainly there were more injuries in HS practice, probably due largely to hitting. However, i know our college team was damned bad at tackling so if you can afford it perhaps the practice injuries are a cost worth paying.
something something something those kids something something something compete
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Clap, clap, point.
Brady listens to football, but he doesn't really hear it.
So Brady Hoke is like a husband during his 20th year of marriage, and football is his wife?
To steal a line from South Carolina's governor: If you're already tuning her out and you're only engaged, Bless your heart...
No worries. The good news is there is over a 50% chance you'll be divorced by then.
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The wind...whispers...Mary.
Is he going to call Oregon State, "Oregon"?
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MSU isn't our biggest rival. Oregon State is Oregon's biggest rival.
Stay classy, wd.
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Google knows, man!!
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