To me it doesn't matter if we have one assistant in charge or if it is spread over many coaches - the fact is what we are doing isn't working and needs to be addressed.
Special Teams Coach?
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People are putting words in Campbell's mouth and misinterrupting that quote. Read it again. Nowhere does he use the term unlucky. He's acknowledging special teams are off, and the possible contributing factors he's offering are the "who" (i.e., players and their execution) or the scheme. And Campbell thinks the inches they're off are in player execution, not scheme. Can someone prove him wrong?
In my opinion, that was a frustrated coach acknowledging a lack of player execution without explicitly throwing his players under the bus. I wouldn't be shocked if we see some personnel changes in ST for Kansas.
The "who" is the staff.
6 years of player execution problems is coaching. He should be a frustrated coach for still not knowing how to teach ST play. Instead he alludes to the scheme being good and as though they've been good on ST before. It's been not good enough for ball control his entire time here.
demoncore1031
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demoncore1031
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It would be hard to snag a guy away from his alma mater, but this is the guy we need to be going after....
CMC just needs to give up on the special teams by committee thing. He has a DB coach and a Safety coach. Keep the best one of them and go hire the best special teams guy from the MAC. Heck, I wouldn't mind if they hired Snyder's son. He always had good special teams. No idea where he is at now.
Kick the ball out of bounds every time - the opposing team taking over at the 35 or 50 - the defense might not stop them every time but there's a chance. i feel like its a better chance than trying to cover a kick.
We don't have to prove him wrong. The point is special teams have been a disaster for several seasons under his watch, often costing us games. If it is the scheme then that's his fault. If he had the answers to fix the scheme it would already be fixed. Same goes with the personnel choices.
The Clones have many of the same issues: poor punting, poor coverage, fielding issues etc on special teams as they have in past seasons. If we had the answer on this staff we wouldn't be having the same issues reoccur (repeatedly). He needs to shuffle his staff and bring somebody in that can take right the ship and preferably take over recruiting for special teams positions.
It's inexcusable to have a single facet of a team sabotage the results repeatedly. Those that defend Campbell are either doing so out of blind faith or simply don't have the capacity to comprehend the severity of the issue. Campbell's been great for the program, but just because we "are better than we ever have been" doesn't mean he shouldn't be held accountable for the STs debacle.
It's sad ADs don't have the balls to make dictations when the coaches don't have the stones to jettison their friends. That's what happens in the real world.
This. Figure out the best way to juggle other responsibilities on this staff and go out and get a STs guy to fix the problems and recruit the kicking positions. We clearly don't have the answer to our issues on this staff. It's about time he acknowledges that.