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Is Tulsa Continuing Down The Wrong “Strategic” Road?

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Look at the continued “rinse and repeat” of revolving door of head coaches, assistant coaches and the mass exodus of players via the portal. There’s not much “critical, outside the box” thinking.

College football rosters have evolved into professional football rosters and the “smart” college football teams are emulating pro football structures. The bottom third of rosters are going to be turned over. Just like the NFL. Dion Sanders introduced the concept at Colorado. He was one of the first college coaches to look at the portal like a draft board. Moreover, Sanders had no salary cap.

From the WSJ this morning.

“Belichick spent the fall digging into the college game—with his son Steve, the defensive coordinator at Washington, and consulting other coaches around the sport. And what he soon discovered was a completely new landscape: all the new money pouring into players’ pockets meant that his experience in the pros was more relevant than ever before.

At the same time, officials at the University of North Carolina were watching their football program fall behind the times, according to people familiar with the matter. The Tar Heels had broadly failed to evolve from amateurism to a pro-style model where players get paid.”

Bill Belichick, love him or hate him, is no dummy.

Gundy flushing his staff? A prisoner of war exchange. Nothing more nothing less. No real original or critical thinking there.

I tip my hat to UNC and Bubba Cunningham. There’s discussion at Chapel Hill of bringing in Mike Lombardi to be a “defacto” GM for the Tarheel football team, and bringing in Matt Patricia and Josh McDaniel as coordinators would be a sea change.

Tulsa continues down the “weathered” road with grudging change. NIL.

There’s just not much original “critical” thinking.
 
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Look at the continued “rinse and repeat” of revolving door of head coaches, assistant coaches and the mass exodus of players via the portal. There’s not much “critical, outside the box” thinking.

College football rosters have evolved into professional football rosters and the “smart” college football teams are emulating pro football structures. The bottom third of rosters are going to be turned over. Just like the NFL. Dion Sanders introduced the concept at Colorado. He was one of the first college coaches to look at the portal like a draft board. Moreover, Sanders had no salary cap.

From the WSJ this morning.

“Belichick spent the fall digging into the college game—with his son Steve, the defensive coordinator at Washington, and consulting other coaches around the sport. And what he soon discovered was a completely new landscape: all the new money pouring into players’ pockets meant that his experience in the pros was more relevant than ever before.

At the same time, officials at the University of North Carolina were watching their football program fall behind the times, according to people familiar with the matter. The Tar Heels had broadly failed to evolve from amateurism to a pro-style model where players get paid.”

Bill Belichick, love him or hate him, is no dummy.

Gundy flushing his staff? A prisoner of war exchange. Nothing more nothing less. No real original or critical thinking there.

I tip my hat to UNC and Bubba Cunningham. There’s discussion at Chapel Hill of bringing in Mike Lombardi to be a “defacto” GM for the Tarheel football team, and bringing in Matt Patricia and Josh McDaniel as coordinators would be a sea change.

Tulsa continues down the “weathered” road with grudging change. NIL.

There’s just not much original “critical” thinking.
I think you may see more former pro coaches taking the dive into college football as they will understand how to navigate the egos and players being paid mroe than others. I suspect it is something Saban never enjoyed which is why he spent all but a few years in the college game vs the NFL. And why some pro coaches flamed out in college, pre-NIL days (Mike Sherman at AM, Bill Callahan at Nebraska, and many others). I think you will start to see a shift.

Now don't ask me why a pro basketball guy like Penny Hardaway is failing at Memphis...oh yeah, you still have to have a clue how to coach
 
Look at the continued “rinse and repeat” of revolving door of head coaches, assistant coaches and the mass exodus of players via the portal. There’s not much “critical, outside the box” thinking.

College football rosters have evolved into professional football rosters and the “smart” college football teams are emulating pro football structures. The bottom third of rosters are going to be turned over. Just like the NFL. Dion Sanders introduced the concept at Colorado. He was one of the first college coaches to look at the portal like a draft board. Moreover, Sanders had no salary cap.

From the WSJ this morning.

“Belichick spent the fall digging into the college game—with his son Steve, the defensive coordinator at Washington, and consulting other coaches around the sport. And what he soon discovered was a completely new landscape: all the new money pouring into players’ pockets meant that his experience in the pros was more relevant than ever before.

At the same time, officials at the University of North Carolina were watching their football program fall behind the times, according to people familiar with the matter. The Tar Heels had broadly failed to evolve from amateurism to a pro-style model where players get paid.”

Bill Belichick, love him or hate him, is no dummy.

Gundy flushing his staff? A prisoner of war exchange. Nothing more nothing less. No real original or critical thinking there.

I tip my hat to UNC and Bubba Cunningham. There’s discussion at Chapel Hill of bringing in Mike Lombardi to be a “defacto” GM for the Tarheel football team, and bringing in Matt Patricia and Josh McDaniel as coordinators would be a sea change.

Tulsa continues down the “weathered” road with grudging change. NIL.

There’s just not much original “critical” thinking.
The universities with the large NIL bank rolls will continue to stockpile the elite talent
while the mid-majors will occasionally develop an outstanding athlete who will get poached
the next year by the school with deep pockets . Earning a college degree and having school
loyalty means more to us than a lot of 18,19 & 20 year olds that want "instant gratification"
with the mindset of "what's in it for me" mentality .
Today's recruiting landscape is a cluster_ _ _ _ and little colleges like TU are at an even greater
disadvantage . Since supposedly TU has a 3 million dollar NIL budget , I hope they invest
in offensive and defensive linemen first.
 
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Didn’t TU just fire an old school football coach who resisted the changes in college football and replace him with a young coach who has turned around 2 different programs by using the portal?

Didn’t our new coach say it used to take 3 years to turn around a program, but now he believes it can be done in one year, with the portal and NIL.

Didn’t TU’s President, new (younger) AD & new (younger) football coach ALL say Tulsa is changing the way things have been done here & they plan on competing for championships, partially by embracing instead of fighting the new changes in college football?

It seems this thread made sense months ago, but not today.

If it turns out there’s more changes to make, we currently have an AD & a football coach that appear very willing to adapt as needed.
 
Didn’t TU just fire an old school football coach who resisted the changes in college football and replace him with a young coach who has turned around 2 different programs by using the portal?

Didn’t our new coach say it used to take 3 years to turn around a program, but now he believes it can be done in one year, with the portal and NIL.

Didn’t TU’s President, new (younger) AD & new (younger) football coach ALL say Tulsa is changing the way things have been done here & they plan on competing for championships, partially by embracing instead of fighting the new changes in college football?

It seems this thread made sense months ago, but not today.

If it turns out there’s more changes to make, we currently have an AD & a football coach that appear very willing to adapt as needed.
Exactly. I think some people post on here just to post nonsense (me included). This thread should probably be deleted.
 
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