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Message: [QUOTE="SWC75, post: 1868110, member: 289"] Here's a comment I just made on Bud and the Manchild: this was the most efficient-looking SU team I've seen in a long time. They weren't mistake-free but we are used to double figures in penalties, 2-3 turnovers from the first team, being unable to run ten plays in a row without a drive-killing mistake, blown coverages on defense etc. I did't see that on Friday, (yes it's against Colgate but we've done those things against FCS teams, too). I think the difference is that we got not just a head coach but the nucleus of a staff that has been successful at two other schools and absolutely believe that they will have the same success here. They've probably simplified and taken the rough edges out of their system. It think the player enjoy playing in this system, find it relatively easy to learn and absorb the confidence their coaches have in what they are doing. Bud said that the players said that the coaches didn't just tell them what to do: they tell them "If you do this you will win." I think it makes a huge difference. We've been firing coaches, (or losing them and their entire staffs to the NFL), and having to have a new guy cobble together a staff with whoever is available after a season. We get guys who have recently been fired or part of a fired staff or guys promoted to what might be their level of incompetence. We get guys from all over the place who have coached in different system and have different philosophies. The new guy often finds that the guy he was able to get isn't really the guy he wants and changes get made. These coaches see something other schools are doing and decide to try to copy it without having coached in that system before. The result is a group of players who are trying o see if something works instead of doing something that they know will work. [/QUOTE]

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