You'll find this out when you have kids. Bo's not throwing the team under the bus-he's just telling the truth. You can coach a kid til you're blue in the face but if they don't do what you've coached them to do then what can you do? When you tell your kid, 'Don't touch that hot stove, it will burn you!' and they turn around and touch it, what can you do? So how is it Bo's responsibility to get them to play like he coaches them? He can't go out on the field and hold their hand! My point is this: At some point, these kids are going to have to be accountable for what they are taught in practice. They are going to have to be responsible for their mistakes. No one says anything when these kids do what they were coached to do. Everything is fine then. But when they don't execute it's all the coach's fault. I'm sorry, I don't buy that. Do we have problems? Yep. But can we really blame all of this on the coach?
To quote a contemporary of Vince Lombardi. He said Vince could take his player and beat yours, then turn around, and take your players and beat his. Simply put, it IS the coaching. It IS the coaches responsibility. Tom Osborne never spoke ill of his players in public. The coach is always the face of the program. The players win and lose the games on the field, but the coaches determine the outcome by how well the players are taught to deal with the different situations that may arise during the game. If they are prepared, they will respond as taught. Plus, it is not valid to compare a 5 year old to an adult. Yes, these players are adults, and so are the coaches. This is big boy football, not pee wee league. Ask Jason Peter, ask Grant Wistrom, ask Tommie Frazier what it means to be well prepared for a game. These players are not well prepared. And, not to mention, we are being out coached when it comes to half time adjustments.