Charlie Mcbride podcast on Big Red Cobcast

One of the less interesting tidbits was Frost asked McBride to talk to his team in August. McBride was busy and when he suggested TO, Frost was hesitant since he thought TO was probably busy and didn't want to bother him.

The way Diaco sidelined the assistants and didn't allow individual group coaching of fundamentals is nuts. Diaco's coaching leaving the assistants confused is not surprising. I wonder how long Diaco keeps coaching before he exits via the FCS ranks.

 
There are some pretty damning quotations from Charlie regarding Riley and his staff's coaching ability:

9:28: McBride asks Riley why the scout team defensive players weren't actively trying to strip the ball from the offensive players during practice. Riley's reply was "I'll have to look into that"  :facepalm:

10:15: McBride asks Cavanaugh why he only played five offensive linemen during games: "Because I only get five guys ready to play" says Cavanaugh, which McBride links to the Pro mentality of coaching 

There's other gems in here as well, like the lack of time in the practice schedule for individual work/fundamentals work (literally zero time according to what Parella told McBride) and the staff wasn't used to coaching 100+ players (the point that Riley routinely did not have a full compliment of 85 scholarship players at Oregon State also came up, but I'm not sure if that's valid...)

All in all, seems like the past three years were a waste of time, resources, and (most importantly) these kids' ability. 

 
VectorVictor said:
All in all, seems like the past three years were a waste of time, resources, and (most importantly) these kids' ability. 
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Absolutely. I think it hurts our program's reputation too. Knowing that if you come to Nebraska you'll get top notch coaching should always be one of our draws.  Recruits know that the current coach may not be the one they finish their career with. Having confidence that the school will hire a solid replacement would help. Hopefully Frost works out for the long term and this is forgotten.

 
Cliff Notes:

  • McBride talked to Parrella and he told Charlie that they didn't have any individual time during practice to "teach" techniques etc. He also said their D line technique was to bull rush and knock the ball down if they could, per Diaco
  • McBride also told Riley in a practice he visited that he didn't feel the scout team defense should go half speed. Riley said "I'll have to look into that"
  • He said this past staff was just more about running plays in practice and not working on technique, unity, work ethic etc. 
  • When McBride coached it was more about lining up and telling the offense to move the ball on them instead of trying to over think and confusing people
  • Charlie felt that Diaco tried to coach the coaches on every move. Said that Tom Osborne never did that in his career. Diaco blamed the players many times that they couldn't catch onto his defense
  • Good quote Charlie made "Players win. Coaches lose" 
  • Said Frost was probably the most competitive QB he remembers. Frost had a calm confidence that he thinks helps him in coaching 
  • He thought coach Cav was a pretty good coach, but wasn't impressed with the run blocking while he was here 
  • Talks about how he never made over $100k when coaching besides the time they got bowl bonuses 
  • Tells a story when Auburn had recruiting violations in front of his face 
  • All and all this last staff ran things like the NFL and had a soft mentality, ran easy practices without team cohesiveness 
 
Running plays over and over...that is bad coaching 101 (When I got stuck coaching offense for 3 seasons it is what I did...we were horrible.  I had so many other other coaches I knew tell me to drill-drill-drill but of course I thought I knew best and all we did was run plays over and over...we sucked)

 
Thanks for the Cliffs Notes version.  I will try to listen to the pod soon.  It's amazing how the old staff was so clueless.  Ugh.  I hate Cavanaugh so much.

 
Seeking wise counsel from McBride is wonderful...we are going places now, stoked!!!

 
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4skers89 said:
FIFY. You might be mislabeling some good coaches.
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No wonder the defensive assistants wanted nothing to do with Disco Bob.

How did Eichorst think that Diaco was the best coach at the University?  I would really be interested in hearing Eichorst's go into detail on what he did at NU.

Mavric said:
I've been saying for awhile that after the previous staff was gone, we were going to hear more stories of how completely dysfunctional they were as a group, adding the the couple of stories that had already leaked about Banker.

And here we are.
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And I am going to enjoy every story that comes out.  Hearing this inside information, even after the fact is so interesting to hear.

 
VectorVictor said:
9:28: McBride asks Riley why the scout team defensive players weren't actively trying to strip the ball from the offensive players during practice. Riley's reply was "I'll have to look into that"  :facepalm:

10:15: McBride asks Cavanaugh why he only played five offensive linemen during games: "Because I only get five guys ready to play" says Cavanaugh, which McBride links to the Pro mentality of coaching 
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Un-*******-believable. Seriously.

This goes back to the assumption that I put together as this season unfolded - It was a top-to-bottom deficiency of both work effort and focus on competition.

I grow tired of having so many discussions on this board revolve back to a comparison against our program to the nineties, as their are umpteen other great examples to compare against...but just get your head around all of this. This is nothing like the program that McBride & Tenopir were involved with. 

A complete failure to compete.

 
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