OT: Charlie Strong held some sort of emergency team meeting and allowed players to air their grievances

Submitted by FrankMurphy on

They've definitely had serious locker room issues since Strong's tenure began. Interesting strategy for turning things around. Let's see if it lights a fire under his team and helps him save his job.

http://texas.thefootballbrainiacs.com/2016/10/open-post-weekend-october-14th-16th/

No word on whether or not feats of strength were performed.
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1VaBlue1

October 14th, 2016 at 11:29 PM ^

Don't think so.  Bo got the team together right after we learned that Bill Frieder was going to Arizona.  He had said he would finish coaching Michigan through the tourney, but Bo (then the AD) had none of that crap.  That's when Steve Fisher took over, and they beat Seton Hall to win the whole thing.

But it wasn't a Festivus type of team get-together...

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LSAClassOf2000

October 14th, 2016 at 9:07 PM ^

There probably were, but a scaled down version since Stoops wouldn't actually come down to Austin to be wrestled to the ground. Had Texas actually won the Red River Showdown this year, I think that would mean the end of their Festivus.

In all honesty, I am trying to imagine Strong say, "....and as I repeatedly failed to stop them in the air, I realized that there had to be a better way"

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pmark1210

October 15th, 2016 at 10:31 AM ^

honestly, no. I don't want strong anywhere near the big ten. he is a winner. he will win wherever he ends up next year. if it's Texas, he'll go 10-2. if it's anywhere else, there will be significantly lower expectations, so they will give him the time he will need to build a winner. at either of those locations, he will have them winning and competitive within 3 or 4 recruiting cycles. okay, maybe not Purdue. But Minnesota? heck yeah he could.

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Danwillhor

October 14th, 2016 at 9:29 PM ^

No word of "let it all out" meetings but meetings are almost universally meaningless. Football is played by people, coached by people and ran by people. If those players have given up, aren't hungry to begin with, don't like the staff, staff knows they're out the door, etc, it's a useless meeting. Everyone will say what they want or stay quiet because they've quit and don't care. You can't make people suddenly care! I'm sure Texas has a lot of kids that see being at Texas as the final stop, the cherry on top. A kid from the gutter that busts his ass every day to make the league or a name for himself at Texas (Michigan, USC or anywhere) will NEVER get that kid that doesn't care to care as much as he does. It's the backbone of every "we need to recruit poor areas harder" argument - the belief (mostly fact) that a trust fund kid won't play as hard as a kid playing for his families future. However, I'm sure it's a bit of everything right now at Texas. Strong is gone.

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GWUWolverineFan

October 14th, 2016 at 10:07 PM ^

Wow. So explain to me again why poor people are thereby better athletes than those whose parents are wealthy?

You're a fucking idiot. The greatest athlete of arguably all time, Michael Phelps, comes from a decidedly upper middle class background.

One of the greatest Michigan Basketball players- Chris Weber- didn't grow up poor.

The vast majority of the current U of M team didn't grow up in abject poverty. And your assertion that is based upon because they are black therefore they are poor-given that you have no means to know the economic backgrounds of the 105 men on the team- is racist to the extreme and strikes me as simple SJW bullshit.



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YouRFree

October 14th, 2016 at 10:15 PM ^

Having some defensive guys starting or playing significantly with lack of effort and affecting the outcome of the game, is just bad coaching. then you want a meeting to fix that?

He's done at Texas.

 

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DrMantisToboggan

October 14th, 2016 at 11:12 PM ^

Does he? And what is better than Texas (aside from Michigan...)?

He may not have been given a fair shake...maybe...but if you can't win at Texas, I'm not sure where you can win. Who's got more money? Who's got more in-state talent? Who's got donors who are both wealthier and more obsessed with football success? Answer to all those is a resounding noooooobody!



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kehnonymous

October 14th, 2016 at 11:37 PM ^

"Players-only" meetings are the sports equivalent of "I think we should date other people for awhile" - inevitable harbingers that everything is doomed but no one's acknowledged it yet.

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