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Message: [QUOTE="Cuseregular, post: 566015, member: 185"] is it ok to start critiquing JB yet? The other thread on it and leadership was nuked so I may have the answer already, but that's where I start (and Townie let me stop you before you start, none of this is asking for JB to go, he deserves to hang as long as he wants and when that time comes when HE decides he's had enough he has earned and is deserved of a - serious now - a royal sendoff). This issue has hit here on a recurrent basis and is the crux of why he's left himself open to the public debate and why we have to hear of the (very) good vs. great (elite) coach debate. When he has natural leaders, developed leaders, especially when combined with the grit and moxie others elsewhere have mentioned today, this is where he's second to none as no one knows more than him with the coaching of the game and is in large part as to why he's been so successful and we have a HOF coach here. Now when these attributes are lacking in his players he doesn't seem to be able to "fire up the troops" and do the cliche of, "making a average team good or a good team great." Or in the analysis of his "strengths vs. weaknesses" this is where his weakness is as I see it lays. Especially with todays Kids they need to be motivated positively in this day and age. In my college prof job we had to take a seminar on how to teach the "modern day student". Basically it was filled with a pathetic and ridiculous amount of positive reinforcement and affirmation. But it is what it is. For right or for wrong, this is lacking in JAB and when it is seen it's done old school in a negative fashion. Waters and Pitoniak have written volumes on why he is the way he is and it is in point of fact valid. So I'm saying this more as it simply is as it is and not as a harsh criticism. It's tough and unfair perhaps to get someone to try and be someone they are not. But I'm a firm believer that it is within this deficiency that opens up the whole dang good vs. great coaching debate. Today they needed a fire breather, or someone who on occassion could morph into a fire breather couched in a manner that ends up being a positive affirmation and fires them up. By all account from players this is what we may have with our new football coach. Anyway, we have a HOF guy whose second to none in terms of knowlege but he'd have done well at some point IMHO to have attempted as and old dog to learn new tricks. [/QUOTE]

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