Butchisms

I don't think players would keep tweeting it out if they thought it was lame. I remember Pete Carroll throwing a dummy off the roof and doing all sorts of quirky stuff at USC to keep them motivated, loose and together.
Coaches will do anything. Most don't publicize it.

 

No I use them for science experiments.

 

of course, but he is early in his career and you are comparing his motivation techniques to those that have won a lot of games, conference and national championships. Of course Saban doesn't have to sell anything. Butch does. Once you get to that level of Saban, etc, it's about motivating the coaches to keep up the work and not fade, as we did after '98.

 

i assure you pete carroll didn't have any props.

 

show me the props saban, or any of the coaches i just listed, used early in their careers.

 

Bama does a thing very similar to the fist up defense with their bench/sideline. It's super corny.

 

Ben Franklin, Alabama's recruiter of the year.

 

there is a difference between the "4th quarter is ours" or whatever other team unity thing you do occasionally and having half a dozen of these things. i don't really give a crap if he wants to do it, just don't tell me it's going to do anything.

 

Huh? He was always doing something off the wall while at USC and the dummy in the USC #25 uniform being thrown off the roof seems like a prop to me. And it seems to me like he is still full of mantra's and cliché's as well, though coaching men instead of college kids. He did the same things while in college.
http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.co...-not-simply-wednesday-in-pete-carrolls-world/

 

A quick search brings up his use of posters, a book writing mentor to help motivate, etc. Like I've said, all coaches use various tactics to try and motivate.

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/28153-alabama-football-nick-sabans-process-continues

 

Saban just wears his championship rings on his fingers and toes.

 

http://www.thepostgame.com/blog/dish/201301/harbaughs-unique-motivational-tactic

Harbaugh just recently stuck high school football pics in the lockers of his pro players as motivation

 

of course he does now, but when he got there, he tried several different tactics. Personally, I don't know what the big deal about motivation or cliché's is. I've been around sports for 36 years and it's never changed.

 

I don't either.

 

Saban doesn't strike me as the type of guy that ever really did corny things. Not because they don't work, but because he is too uptight.

Everyone else does, to a degree.

But it is really the degrees that matter. I don't mind the corny, so long as it is limited. Kind of how we have limited examples for lots of big name coaches, and tons of examples for someone like Dooley.

A happy in between is fine by me, and Jones seems to be more on the less side, for now.

If he has tens of examples a year by year three, I'll be disappointed. But first year? Gets a pass from me.

 

The brick by brick thing is a recruiting catchphrase. Last I checked he's doing okay there.

So why does it matter?

 

Didn't Mike Price, I think, use a pick ax at UTEP? So there's that.

 

People are worried that it reflects an attitude toward gimmicks. And gimmicks are typically short lived theatrical crutches used to hide or mask a weak spot.

 

Perfect. Kids of all ages can sniff out a fake.