kramerica.inc wrote: ↑Fri Sep 23, 2022 10:29 am
Sagittarius A* wrote: ↑Fri Sep 23, 2022 9:31 am
kramerica.inc wrote: ↑Fri Sep 23, 2022 9:07 am
PM is either MORE personal and likeable than he gets credit for, OR he wasn't as great of a recruiter as people say- i.e.- he was shooting fish in a barrel at Cornell, and got more credit for landing kids than he really played a part.
A lack of interpersonal skills is a killer for a coach. It just hurts you all the way around.
Maybe PM fades into the background and let's Crawley do the recruiting and hands-on coaching?
PM stopped writing weekly updates a while back, which is probably symptomatic of other problems.
If I were him I'd probably be looking for an exit strategy before his contract expires. Fading into the background and allowing the team to improve is, I think, the best option for him at this point.
Absolutely.
In today's game, you have to be able to explain "why" to players, recruits, parents, alumni and administrators. If you can't do it succinctly, you're time is limited.
There was an entire forum thread devoted to the last coach's sideline demeanor/behavior/interpersonal skills during games and all he did was routinely bring in top 5 and often top 3 classes in the nation. They were never going to be able to hire a coach that had the relationship w/the program, its history, its alumni, and many of you that Petro did. By hiring PM, a coach w/no history at the school the worldview of him is completely about what the program does on the field, here and now. For the last decade+ of the Petro era every failure, every loss, every busted recruit it was always "well but he won in 05/07 and he was a storied player at Homewood" w/PM for most of us-it's about today and tomorrow and that gets overlooked.
I find the d3 talk from enemy commenters hilarious considering how bad the big ten programs have been in football this year, how uncertain the future of the acc is given what the sec/big ten media rights deals look like, and how half the ivies have fallen into Vanderbilt land in the us news rankings.