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How can you improve a coach's "game management" skills?
Posted on 11/25/09 at 2:36 pm
Posted on 11/25/09 at 2:36 pm
So far as I can tell, being a good game manager requires a coach to think quickly, clearly, and creatively under pressure. It requires him to rapidly determine how to properly adapt to fluid, changing circumstances.
As we all witnessed Saturday, Miles doesn't appear to have that ability. In a critical situation when the game was hanging in the balance, Miles panicked, for lack of a better term. He got flustered, lost track of time, and let the victory bleed away.
How can Miles learn to be a good game manager?
It's an honest question.
Should he hire a consultant, like a sports psychologist, to work with him?
Should he simulate game conditions in practice and make clock management decisions in that setting? Who will vet his performance?
Should he be forced to play EA NCAA 10 on Playstation 3 while some coonass from St. Martin fires a shotgun over his head?
Seriously, how do you teach a coach to make the right decisions under pressure? Isn't that simply an instrinsic quality that a grown man either lacks or possesses by the time reaches his fifties?
Ultimately, that's why I still find the Ole Miss experience to be so disheartening. It's not as if Miles made an ill-advised strategic decision where there was some remote or arguable justification for his course of action. This wasn't a matter of choosing the wrong scheme or consciously taking a risk. Instead, he quite literally froze. His mind apparently went blank as the seconds drained into oblivion. Then he failed to even anticipate the possibility that we might catch the ball in-bounds after gaining a first down. That just never even occurred to him throughout the entire duration of that final timeout, though even the fans in the stands and the announcers on TV were contemplating that very contingency. Then his mind apparently was absent again during the melee preceeding that fateful final second.
How do you remedy that? How do you teach someone to be decisive and cogent in emergency situations? Is there a way to do it?
As we all witnessed Saturday, Miles doesn't appear to have that ability. In a critical situation when the game was hanging in the balance, Miles panicked, for lack of a better term. He got flustered, lost track of time, and let the victory bleed away.
How can Miles learn to be a good game manager?
It's an honest question.
Should he hire a consultant, like a sports psychologist, to work with him?
Should he simulate game conditions in practice and make clock management decisions in that setting? Who will vet his performance?
Should he be forced to play EA NCAA 10 on Playstation 3 while some coonass from St. Martin fires a shotgun over his head?
Seriously, how do you teach a coach to make the right decisions under pressure? Isn't that simply an instrinsic quality that a grown man either lacks or possesses by the time reaches his fifties?
Ultimately, that's why I still find the Ole Miss experience to be so disheartening. It's not as if Miles made an ill-advised strategic decision where there was some remote or arguable justification for his course of action. This wasn't a matter of choosing the wrong scheme or consciously taking a risk. Instead, he quite literally froze. His mind apparently went blank as the seconds drained into oblivion. Then he failed to even anticipate the possibility that we might catch the ball in-bounds after gaining a first down. That just never even occurred to him throughout the entire duration of that final timeout, though even the fans in the stands and the announcers on TV were contemplating that very contingency. Then his mind apparently was absent again during the melee preceeding that fateful final second.
How do you remedy that? How do you teach someone to be decisive and cogent in emergency situations? Is there a way to do it?
This post was edited on 11/25/09 at 2:38 pm
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Posted on 11/25/09 at 2:40 pm to The312
I think a coach either has it or he doesn't. Miles has demonstrated this lack of awareness in many other situations over the last 5 years. This time it was egregious, cost LSU a win and went viral nationally. It will happen again guaranteed. How catastrophic it will be is yet to be known.
Posted on 11/25/09 at 2:41 pm to The312
Put him on a high dosage of Adderall.
Posted on 11/25/09 at 2:41 pm to The312
Doesn't Univ of Fla have an online continuing education class for football 101?
Posted on 11/25/09 at 2:42 pm to The312
I don't think you can. The last game was no different from other games in that he got caught short this time. How many time outs were used at Ole Miss to avoid delay of game? we should have had a time out left.
Posted on 11/25/09 at 2:43 pm to The312
Hell yes it can be learned.
Just has to take the time to go through multiple end of game/time constraint scenarios and fashion a response/game plan.
Just has to take the time to go through multiple end of game/time constraint scenarios and fashion a response/game plan.
Posted on 11/25/09 at 2:44 pm to The312
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How do you remedy that? How do you teach someone to be decisive and cogent in emergency situations? Is there a way to do it?
Cut our ties with someone with this H.C. and what he gets paid. Hire a H.C. that has this ability already built into their football consciousness. If you are serious about: componere lite
For our Seniors and the rest of our talented football players playin this last game in T.S. on Senior night....
Posted on 11/25/09 at 2:47 pm to jesterJ
Get someone with a higher IQ to help him out. The state trooper has no clue.
Posted on 11/25/09 at 2:49 pm to The312
How do you fix his game management skills?
Prepare, prepare, prepare, prepare, prepare, and right when you think you are ready, do it all again.
The problem with Miles and his coaching is the same with Miles and the LSU players. They/he do not seem prepared on a game to game basis. I am certain that they THINK they are, but the proof is in the pudding.
You must be ready to perform and react like it is second nature.
It is the that way with ANY high pressure job, you dont have time to take into account and stop and figure out what to do in many positions out there.
Thank God football coaches do not hold folks lives in their hands, because most of them are not ready to make the pressure decision..although we fans react like it is life or death
The real positions that hold grave consequences have mandatory training that prepares them to make quick, accurate decisions.
IMO that is the only way to see improvement in Miles. And if he was gonna approach it that way we would already see positive changes.
Prepare, prepare, prepare, prepare, prepare, and right when you think you are ready, do it all again.
The problem with Miles and his coaching is the same with Miles and the LSU players. They/he do not seem prepared on a game to game basis. I am certain that they THINK they are, but the proof is in the pudding.
You must be ready to perform and react like it is second nature.
It is the that way with ANY high pressure job, you dont have time to take into account and stop and figure out what to do in many positions out there.
Thank God football coaches do not hold folks lives in their hands, because most of them are not ready to make the pressure decision..although we fans react like it is life or death
The real positions that hold grave consequences have mandatory training that prepares them to make quick, accurate decisions.
IMO that is the only way to see improvement in Miles. And if he was gonna approach it that way we would already see positive changes.
Posted on 11/25/09 at 2:50 pm to The312
He's been a HC for 9 years and OC for 4. He's almost 60... it's not like he's a young up and coming coach who is just learning the kinks. If he hasnt got it by now he never will.
Posted on 11/25/09 at 2:50 pm to Ethan Martin
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The state trooper has no clue.
that was hilarious, do you think every now and then the State Trooper gets on the headset?
That could explain what the hell is going on.....is it bring your Trooper to work year.
Posted on 11/25/09 at 2:56 pm to The312
Usally you take a learning job. It's best to start at a crapy school like OK State. Once you prove you're a good coach, then a big-time school like LSU will hire you for 3.5 million a year. Then you can start running that program into the ground!
Posted on 11/25/09 at 2:56 pm to tigerfoot
Trooper could probably put together a better game plan . . .
Posted on 11/25/09 at 3:05 pm to The312
I don't think he can do it on his own. You either have it or don't. Perhaps hiring a Great OC and a good quarterbacks coach will help.
Posted on 11/25/09 at 3:26 pm to Weaver
Ultimately it's on Miles.
Answer me this, how in the world didn't one of the asst coaches, Grad Asst, or even the players start going bat shite crazy telling Miles that the clock was still running after the failed 3rd down screen?
I know it's on Miles. Still, you would think that someone besides Miles would have all but tackled him and told him the clock was running.
I'd really love to have seen video of the sidelines right after Ridley was tackled to see if Miles or another coach asked the Ref for the TO.
Answer me this, how in the world didn't one of the asst coaches, Grad Asst, or even the players start going bat shite crazy telling Miles that the clock was still running after the failed 3rd down screen?
I know it's on Miles. Still, you would think that someone besides Miles would have all but tackled him and told him the clock was running.
I'd really love to have seen video of the sidelines right after Ridley was tackled to see if Miles or another coach asked the Ref for the TO.
Posted on 11/25/09 at 3:33 pm to The312
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How can you improve a coach's "game management" skills?
You just have to put him thru the Kobayashi Maru scanario a few times. That'll whip him into shape.
Posted on 11/25/09 at 3:36 pm to DanglingFury
1) Put him on a high dosage of Adderall, for better attention and focus to detail.
2) Little poon night before of game, just to take edge off...
Posted on 11/25/09 at 3:44 pm to spinoza
Auburn has Trooper Taylor............We have "The State Trooper"
Posted on 11/25/09 at 3:48 pm to Sid in Lakeshore
Posted on 11/25/09 at 3:49 pm to ROUSTER
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Answer me this, how in the world didn't one of the asst coaches, Grad Asst, or even the players start going bat shite crazy telling Miles that the clock was still running after the failed 3rd down screen?
what I feel happened with the time out was that the play to ridley was called to try and get 5-10 yards in hopes of fg range. FG team was ready on the sideline at that time per people at the game. Once that play lost yardage and it was 4th and 20+, it was felt that we have one more play to score and the decision to throw a hail mary was made. fg team then wasn't still on alert. For a hail mary does it really matter if you have 1 second or 20 seconds...not really.
Nobody looked at the possibilty of getting a first down without scoring which is what happened. I think that if we had been 4th and 5, but out of fg range, the coaches would have jumped on the ref for a timeout quickly. With it being 4th and forever they didn't appreciate the value of every second. When danielson was saying either throw hail mary or the lateral play, I was saying bs, throw a post for a first down and run the fg team out. 9 seconds is enough time for that.
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