Angry Lovie: "Are you freaking kidding me?..Lax with the football team?"
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https://twitter.com/IllinoisLoyalty/status/785544802209177600
Dan.... Do you have a link to the entire press conf. ?
Angry Lovie: "Are you freaking kidding me?..Lax with the football team?"
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https://twitter.com/IllinoisLoyalty/status/785544802209177600
[youtube]mH0an-ABC60[/youtube]Dan.... Do you have a link to the entire press conf. ?
Excessive celebrations, jumping offside, lining up in neutral zone, roughing the passer, targeting penalties have nothing to do with learning a new system. Things you learn from day one of playing football. That is what is simple.
Let's be fair, this idea has been thrown around these message boards. Many have said player X, after a stupid penalty, should be benched, only to be back on the field.
IMho, the sentiment, if not the exact question, is prevalent with fans, so it is not such a stupid question.
Telling response to a good question.
You don't touch a nerve like that if there's not a kernel of truth to it.
Lovie's gonna figure it out, but there's some stuff not working right now.
I had the same impression.....IMHO.. the question implied that ..Lovie was not in control, so the question ( as you state)....went directly to the idea of...." Gee...do you have any idea how sloppy and out of control YOUR football team is?". Nice to see some fire from the coach....Respectfully disagree... The situation with excessive penalties and celebrations was covered in Lovie's opening statement. Perhaps with not enough fervor for many, but 'low-key' Lovie did point out that this was unacceptable, and that those things had to be fixed....
My take after viewing the entire presser, was that the 'nerve' it hit had more to do with a challenge to Lovie's personal character, or at least a challenge to his ability and professionalism as a head coach....
Perhaps if the question had not contained the word 'lax'.... it might have been answered differently. That word implies 'You're not doing your job' or 'You don't know what you're doing'... IMHO
Excessive celebrations, jumping offside, lining up in neutral zone, roughing the passer, targeting penalties have nothing to do with learning a new system. Things you learn from day one of playing football. That is what is simple.
Let's be fair, this idea has been thrown around these message boards. Many have said player X, after a stupid penalty, should be benched, only to be back on the field.
IMho, the sentiment, if not the exact question, is prevalent with fans, so it is not such a stupid question.
Excessive celebrations, jumping offside, lining up in neutral zone, roughing the passer, targeting penalties have nothing to do with learning a new system. Things you learn from day one of playing football. That is what is simple.
Let's be fair, this idea has been thrown around these message boards. Many have said player X, after a stupid penalty, should be benched, only to be back on the field.
IMho, the sentiment, if not the exact question, is prevalent with fans, so it is not such a stupid question.
his work ethic as a coach was called into question
So Maryland dropped 50 on PU before we played them. Now UM just dropped 78, that is 78, on a woeful Rutgers team that we now play next. Anybody want to take a guess on what's going to happen to us this week?
I personally think we were the better team last Saturday and would beat Purdue 7 or 8 times out of 10.
Have we had an update on Lunt?
I think it's a little silly to interpret the question that way.
Here's an update: he's struggled in every game that hasn't featured Mike Dudek.
Again... I respectfully disagree...
I listened to the presser again, and the question clearly was, 'given the penalties, do you think YOU'VE been too relaxed, or YOU'VE taken it too easy . . . '....
Now, I admit that I'm older (near 80), and perhaps a little thin skinned when frustrated... However, after listening again, and again, I don't think it's silly to interpret the question that way at all.... I think it's perfectly normal...
I think a better way to ask it would have been something like, "Is the atmosphere too relaxed?" etc. When you start asking a coach if they're lax, you're basically asking them if they're being lazy. Every coach in the world is jumping on that question like a starving lion.
If this was any other coach or say Beckman - he would be getting killed in the media by now
Which is why he's so valuable.
Our coaching on defense and special teams is poor right now. It's not just the horses he's been given, the transformation you would have hoped for and expected for those units is not happening and in fact appears to be going in the wrong direction.
Lovie has the credibility to address the situation and have people be patient with him.
We could go 1-11 and dump our entire defensive staff plus Ligashesky and go into the assistant market with confidence and assertiveness that this is a stable situation with solid leadership and long-term commitments in place. The financial commitment doesn't hurt either, obviously. We could probably even do that again at certain positions if there are coaching issues next year (let's hope we don't have to test that theory).
When the initial Beckman staff broke down in 2012, the Beckman administration was dead before the changes were even made. He was a fired man from about 5 games into his tenure, which weren't so much worse than what we've seen so far this year.
That's the Lovie credibility factor, and it's HUGE.
(And, as a sidebar, the fact that this staff was hastily assembled in March should mean some offseason changes get understood even without needing to lean on the Lovie factor. If a move gets made on Nickerson that would raise a few eyebrows, but shuffling some of the position coaches ought to have been the anticipation all along. It was for me.)
+1 Lovie has been blessed with 2 chances to hire the right staff without killing credibility. Had he found the EXACT right staff last offseason (from the slim Pickens that were out there) he would be 1 year ahead of the curve. He is lucky that he can be first into the coaching carousel with a large pocketbook this year.
Plus, the rebuild really begins next year when he can actually play some of HIS players and start to actually "rebuild". We are not rebuilding this year. We are simply putting up scaffolding and accumulating tools to start a massive project next year. From the coaches to the players, the real show starts this offseason.
Try to think of it as Lovie being the very very first coach on the 2017 carousel instead of last on the 2016 one.
Blown out is an understatement. 78-0? I guarantee you we won't be that bad when we play Michigan.
+1 Lovie has been blessed with 2 chances to hire the right staff without killing credibility. Had he found the EXACT right staff last offseason (from the slim Pickens that were out there) he would be 1 year ahead of the curve. He is lucky that he can be first into the coaching carousel with a large pocketbook this year.
Plus, the rebuild really begins next year when he can actually play some of HIS players and start to actually "rebuild". We are not rebuilding this year. We are simply putting up scaffolding and accumulating tools to start a massive project next year. From the coaches to the players, the real show starts this offseason.
Try to think of it as Lovie being the very very first coach on the 2017 carousel instead of last on the 2016 one.