Best/Worse Cliché Offseason Stories

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What's the offseason story that makes you roll your eyes the most? Or one you look forward to?

My annoyed one is the annual "team chemistry" writeup about how the team bonds over bbq, bon bons, and bowling and is so much closer than previous years yada yada. I've experienced real comraderie centered teams and a team that would turn on each other quick. Coincidence or not, the team that would almost get in fights with each other was one of the best teams I ever played on.

I always got the sense from those stories that it made the team sound soft. Too nice to say the things that are needed to be vocalized when it comes to pushing each other in practice/conditioning/games. I think a team needs a few "bad guys" or "hot heads" that buck the trend and sparks team competition.

 
Team chemistry, the "stronger, better, faster" stuff about S&C, and the "simplifying" of schemes.

 
I'm more of a put up or shut up kind of guy but I understand that media relations and talking is part of the gig in a big time program. So I don't mind a little bit of chatter from the coaches and players and I definitely dig the positive vibes coming from the team right now. Still, it all don't mean a damn thing to me if they don't perform when it counts. So I guess by the end of the year I'll see how much all this off season stuff truly means.

I die get tired of the "simplifying" discussion, but that has nothing to do with this team or staff. I got tired of it because the last staff finally figured out how to tell the people what they wanted to hear. Yet watching the season unfold, it became pretty clear they were full of sh#t, especially on the defensive side of the ball.

 
Team chemistry and S/C stuff.

Actually, what I would LOVE...a reporter that would follow a player around for his 4 years...during the season, off-season, weekends, you name it. Nothing gets published until the kid is done/graduated...I would LOVE to read that stuff...

Kind of like what Hoop Dreams was.

 
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teachercd said:
Team chemistry and S/C stuff.

Actually, what I would LOVE...a reporter that would follow a player around for his 4 years...during the season, off-season, weekends, you name it. Nothing gets published until the kid is done/graduated...I would LOVE to read that stuff...

Kind of like what Hoop Dreams was.
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There was a walk-on lineman in the Solich/Callahan era who kept a journal during his years on the football team, and then he ended up having a book published about his time. It was an ok read.

Some of the pro-Callahan people during the Callahan years loved it because it kinda showed some negative things about the Solich-ran teams.

 
ColoradoHusk said:
teachercd said:
Team chemistry and S/C stuff.

Actually, what I would LOVE...a reporter that would follow a player around for his 4 years...during the season, off-season, weekends, you name it. Nothing gets published until the kid is done/graduated...I would LOVE to read that stuff...

Kind of like what Hoop Dreams was.
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There was a walk-on lineman in the Solich/Callahan era who kept a journal during his years on the football team, and then he ended up having a book published about his time. It was an ok read.

Some of the pro-Callahan people during the Callahan years loved it because it kinda showed some negative things about the Solich-ran teams.
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Yeah, I read that. It was pretty cool. It got a bit lame at some points but what do you expect.

They should do one on thug life in the beta house!

 
Getting back to fundamentals.

I mean, what team moves away from fundamentals in the first place?
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Mike Riley is "a breath of fresh air"

Sounds like a commercial tag line for a feminine hygiene product.

Or, "from WHYY in Philadelphia, I'm Terry Gross and this is..."

 
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1. What's the offseason story that makes you roll your eyes the most? Anything Bo related.

2. Or one you look forward to? Drinking Kool Aid.

 
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I don't like anything negative or anything positive.

I'll find a way to complain about either one.

If we are hearing good things about strength and conditioning, then I immediately question it and recall that we hear the same thing every year. Yet, if I heard nothing about strength and conditioning, my first comment on the board would be " Not hearing much about the strength program, that's probably not a good sign". Or, "I wish this staff was more informative on what's going on in the off season workouts".

I hate the fact that Mike Riley is a breath of fresh air. I mean, why do we have to acknowledge his positivity? Can't we just continue to float along like miserable turds?

I hate hearing any conversations about Bob Devaney, Tom Osborne, Frank Solich or otherwise.......they're not even coaches here anymore! Let it Bo!

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