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Post by Tom on Mar 1, 2020 15:42:39 GMT -5
BTW, they did not offer Q/A yesterday...Nelson said he had to get to the team to prepare In the past, wouldn’t one of the assistants meet in the Bud Ryan room with members of the Hoop Club to chat about the game that night and do some Q&A? Does that still happen? That was way back in the Regan era
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Post by Tom on Mar 1, 2020 15:46:29 GMT -5
IIRC, the experts and the public both expected Kearney's 2009-10 team to be pretty good and finished near or at the bottom of the league (but did win an unexpected tournament game before bowing out). The small uptick at the end of the year seemed to be attributable to the players demanding to play the defense they played for Ralph. Kearney's man-to-man was, as HC87 might say, a disastah. re)? So if Nelson replaced Ralph with his vanilla man to man defense , then would we had expected a team mutiny back then against him ? Possibly. Especially if Coach Nelson was lacking in other aspects of the job, like knowing how to run a practice.
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Post by bringbackcaro on Mar 1, 2020 15:58:29 GMT -5
We have heard Nelson evaluate the current players and incoming recruits, but I’d be curious to learn his take on the coaching staff and a self-evaluation of himself. What did he learn after year one of running a program? What does he believe his strong suits are and what are areas for improvement? Beyond bringing in some more talent, what does he need to do in order to get HC to the top of the PL? What’s his philosophy on scheduling? Does a brutal OOC schedule help or hurt? Where does he need to grow as a head coach? Wonder if he has an alarm system at his house? Maybe you could break in and steal his diary?
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Post by Sons of Vaval on Mar 1, 2020 16:06:23 GMT -5
We have heard Nelson evaluate the current players and incoming recruits, but I’d be curious to learn his take on the coaching staff and a self-evaluation of himself. What did he learn after year one of running a program? What does he believe his strong suits are and what are areas for improvement? Beyond bringing in some more talent, what does he need to do in order to get HC to the top of the PL? What’s his philosophy on scheduling? Does a brutal OOC schedule help or hurt? Where does he need to grow as a head coach? Wonder if he has an alarm system at his house? Maybe you could break in and steal his diary? Nope. Just trying to get a glimpse into Nelson and his ability to run the program beyond 45 second interviews with Dick Lutsk pre and post game and coach-speak quotes to Jen Toland. Don’t think that’s unreasonable. Nelson keeps saying “culture” but we don’t really know what that means or anything beyond that. Maybe we should bring back “12 Questions with Brett Nelson”?
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Post by longsuffering on Mar 1, 2020 18:40:09 GMT -5
Feeling good about the recruiting class, but hoping culture doesn't mean Nelson's way or the highway. High School students grow when they go to college and just because they are all in on the culture now, their thinking may evolve and Nelson has to be able to adjust to that.
Basically he needs to treat them as extremely valuable people for six years. Two years in HS and four years in college. In general HC needs to get four years of progressively improving play out of each recruit to succeed out of the PL.
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Post by bringbackcaro on Mar 1, 2020 18:51:50 GMT -5
Wonder if he has an alarm system at his house? Maybe you could break in and steal his diary? Nope. Just trying to get a glimpse into Nelson and his ability to run the program beyond 45 second interviews with Dick Lutsk pre and post game and coach-speak quotes to Jen Toland. Don’t think that’s unreasonable. Nelson keeps saying “culture” but we don’t really know what that means or anything beyond that. Maybe we should bring back “12 Questions with Brett Nelson”? Some snipets from his introductory press conference, and all still apply: -“But in a perfect world, offensively, we want to play with great pace, have great spacing, be very unselfish, have the ball find the best shot. And number one, be in attack mode with everything that we do.” -“Defensively, at my core, I'm a man-to-man guy. There are three things that are going to describe our defense: We're going to be aggressive, we're going to be disruptive, and we're going to be disciplined. But more than anything, we're going to play with great effort.” -”Self-evaluate – we have to look in the mirror every day as a coaching staff. We have to continue to grow and get better. What are we doing well, can we do it better? Or we're not doing this well enough – I'm humble enough that I don't have all the answers. We're going to need help, and we're going to need to continue to grow. So we have to evaluate every day where we're at as a program.” -“The second thing we have to develop our players, I have to develop my staff. And that's an ongoing process.”
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Post by lou on Mar 1, 2020 18:56:52 GMT -5
Nelson started to talk about some traits that begin to define his idea of a culture. I remember mindset & consistency were the first mentioned
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Post by HC92 on Mar 1, 2020 20:49:45 GMT -5
BTW, they did not offer Q/A yesterday...Nelson said he had to get to the team to prepare Imagine how much we would have lost by without that pre-game prep!
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Post by longsuffering on Mar 1, 2020 21:02:46 GMT -5
I think Ralph assigned one assistant to spearhead the preparation for each opponent. Obviously RW had final say, but I always thought that was a good technique for staff development.
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Post by rickii on Mar 2, 2020 13:36:14 GMT -5
Going 3-10 OOC, 7-11 PL, 0-1 PLT in 20-21 would representative marked improvement for me. That's still a lowly 10-22, but +7 over this disaster. I take it you've seen the 20-21 OOC sked, yes ?
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