I don't think our roster was handled very well. By handled, I mean everything from creating physical advantages to fostering mental advantages within the player as well as providing a learning environment conducive to each individual player on the roster.
Physical advantages could have been created by higher quality strength and conditioning, which potentially could have made Banderas a better player by simply making him faster. Everyone has a ceiling, but I don't think the last staff had Banderas anywhere near his.
Mental advantages could have been created by having a scheme designed to fit the abilities of the players rather than forcing a scheme on players who may not have the physical or mental capability of executing it. It wasn't enough to just hope that you could get players to fit your scheme, there's a lot of risk in that option because you leave it open to the option that you may not have players capable of executing your scheme. So further, I don't think Banderas was capable of executing Bo's scheme, and he wasn't the only one guilty of that. So, if your players can't execute your scheme, who's fault is it? Kind of like what knapp says to problem posters on the board, "If a lot of people have problems with you, perhaps it isn't them who are the problem."
Finally, I don't think the last staff created an environment conducive to learning for all the players. I don't think they understood how a single coaching style could be interpreted differently by individual players. Yes, the variability in the personalities of the team and the resultant responses to coaching are complex, and designing an environment that allows each player to learn how he can be successful on the field in his own way is difficult, but that's your job as coaches. You're teachers, and teachers need to have different methods of teaching kids who learn differently.
What Bo did with Banderas is akin to teaching a class with an auditory-learning focused style, and then being upset that kids who learn better visually did poor on the test; then despite this apparent difference, continuing to teach class with an auditory-learning focused style. Of course the visual learners are going to be less confident, they did poor on the test! But they weren't given the best opportunity to succeed and to them, it doesn't look like they will be given an opportunity to succeed on future exams.
