Quote Originally Posted by smootness View Post
No one's saying the coaches are above reproach. But ours have proven they can develop talent and develop leaders. Suggesting that if one guy doesn't have the light come on while a ton more do, then it's 'on the coaches' is absurd.

Do you think all of our players show up with their heads on straight? I guarantee you that some of our best guys and best leaders have had to have some adjusting along the way. But we do generally look for character and leadership ability in our recruits. When you do that, it allows you to take a couple of chances on guys knowing that even in a worst-case scenario, they won't ruin the locker room. But that doesn't mean a good coach can take anybody and turn them around.

Every program and coach in the country has had guys that never got it, regardless of talent level. We have had extremely few. So I'm not going to jump on our coaches if we have one or two.
compare Dak's coach and family atmosphere to James's coach and family atmosphere. One had a hard ass coach that hated him and sent him to alternative school and the other was a father figure. One was treated "as the program" while the other was treated "as a nuesance to the program." in short, one grew up as the answer and the other was the problem. To say our staff is succeeding with all players because they succeed with guys like Dak is extremely short sided. Based on what I've seen from Turner, we've lost Quay, lost Washington, Autry was largely unproductive, Eulls and PJ haven't lived up to expectations, and now he's ripping James, a kid that has a fragile ego, in public. it's pretty apparent to me that it's being mismanaged.