I hope our new Oline coach who has never coached the Oline before knows what he is doing
Q. Going back to changing the climate,
what has Scott Shafer done to change the
climate in the locker room with you, and talk
about going through the first season with
Coach Joe Adam.
SEAN HICKEY: I feel Coach Shafer really
wants us to take control of our own team rather
than in the past where everybody -- this was
Coach Marrone's team. He ran the ship every
way, shape and form it was his team. Coach
Shafer has taken a little different approach. He
wants us to take a little bit more ownership in what
happens and us police our own -- whether it comes
to people like missing class or whatever, like us to
police it and hold our players accountable rather
than the coaches holding us accountable.
So I would feel that's the one thing Coach
Shafer is trying to bring to the table more.
Coach Adam, he's done a great job for making the
transition between like his last job and this one.
He's done -- like I said earlier about Terrel
demanding respect, Coach Adam has demanded
respect since he got here, and listening to him talk
about football, then you start to respect him
because he understands he knows what he's
saying even though he's been a defensive coach
for a while. He does bring a aspect to the game
that you want to learn from, and the thing I've got
to see is I got to see three different O-line coaches
in three seasons. I had Greg Adkins for my first
three years here, then last year I had Pat Perles
and this year I have Joe Adam, so you get to see
all kinds of different coaching philosophies and
how they view certain technique things so I can
pick and choose from each one, which one has
helped my game the best, and then I can apply say
I like something from Coach Adkins and I like
something from Coach Perles and I like something
from Coach Adam, I can like morph it. To keep
getting exposed to things like that, his type of
coaching, just helps you become an overall better
player.
