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What Mack said. Until and unless an abused child learns that it was not their fault (VERY difficult) their brain and mind are warped. Some abused do well, others never do. I've seen two sisters who were abused and one "gets" it and the other doesn't. LP never did. Very sad. What is even more sad is the number of the abused in jail who could have been helped with treatment and were not.

HARD to believe those two are in the same universe, world, profession or what-have-you. Night and day, or, as BP used to say, "black and white.".

Big Red may have to rely on some of that offensive genius that Mike Riley has as described by Mack Brown if we do not develop a qb with the qualities the coaches would like to have.

OWH Hate to see them miss those open quarterbacks. [i'm sorry.]

Defense is generally ahead of the offense. But not since BC have we seen totally new systems. So, this will be interesting. It is likely that those of us who NEED to have a top ten football team, we may have to learn patience.

I get what you are saying but in Pelini's defense when he had people running his defense the way he wanted, it was very good despite its complexities.If you're a coach, then you're a teacher. You'd better be able to teach. To say Pelini's defense was "very good" despite it's complexities is probably true, if he got 11 guys to execute it consistently, it probably would be brilliant. 2009 showed that. Ndamukong Suh makes a lot of defenses look pretty good though. Same could be said for LaVonte David when he came into the picture. The point is though, as great as Bo Pelini's defense is -or that image of what he wanted them to be that was trapped inside his head - it all meant nothing. Zip. Zero. Garbage. None of it matters if you can't teach your players to execute it. As we saw, they rarely did execute it and Bo told us as much on a weekly basis. So what kind of idiot watches his team not execute week after week, yet changes nothing? Stay the course Bo.....good for you, look what it got ya. This new staff are teachers first. These guys are real coaches. They realize these players aren't pons on a chess board. This is football. I'd only question the term "idiot" and maybe suggest "stubborn . . . something or other". And add, that the same could be said for using the same signal for the snap that the defense was reading.

I get what you are saying but in Pelini's defense when he had people running his defense the way he wanted, it was very good despite its complexities. Or, in his words, when the players executed, it was golden.

Can we say "most"? Presuming the guys who posted the vitriolic videos were not enamored of him.

And all the while the players, as near as we can tell, to a man loved their coaches. How does that work? Some in-depth interviews by Jack Stark may be in order.

It is probably very easy to complain about the bosses that are gone in order to explain why, in this case, guys on the team didn't play. That is even more true today when the sense of entitlement to "what you want when you want it in the color and texture you want it, never mind whether it is deserved or not" is rampant. But there are beginning to be a LOT of indications that "coaching up" players did not occur as we might have hoped. Joe Keels is quoted, my translation, as not knowing why he didn't get on the field. It reminds me of Osborne saying that all players were graded when on the field for game or practice. There are indications that did not happen under the two previous coaches. This is very interesting..

I've been trying to find the words to express the difference between the feel or attitude of HCMR and his staff compared to HCBP and his, and don't know where to begin. There is a sense of "we're all in this together", "I don't know all the answers", "we have a plan based on thinking and experience that may change here and there", and, perhaps most of all respect for the press, fans and all involved. Simply amazing. .

My impression of Bear Bryant was not that he was a caring, sympathetic coach who cared about ALL the players. I'm glad to have HCMR correct that.

If little things add up, having experts as assistant coaches ought to add a good deal to the team. Looks to me as though we have a pretty knowledgeable set of guys teaching the football team.

Adding in what Joe Ganz is quoted as saying about quarterback struggles rather adds to the picture of a staff trying to force players into roles for which they weren't exactly suited.

PRICELESS!!!!!