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Coach Allen gets it
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These comments finally gets to the root of the issues. He directly calls out the practice effort from last season. The blind leading the blind (Goodwin and staff is my take). I think he mentions he’s working on post practice accountability with the staff. I’m thankful he was so honest about the prior year observations. He basically validated the theory the team was playing soft because the staff was training them poorly. He also validates how important outsider leadership can break through the morass of prior coaching. Dabo needs to be thanking him for being so honest publicly. That’s basically the opposite of Dabo walling off the program from an ugly message getting out.
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Re: Coach Allen gets it
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Mar 6, 2025, 9:05 AM
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The way he's going about making the effort to not only uderstand the problem, but also how it came to be will give him a great deal of credibility with the players and will get their complete buy-in.
He's correctly identified the root of the problem and knows how to fix it. I think we'll see a much improved defense this year!
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Re: Coach Allen gets it
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Mar 6, 2025, 9:47 AM
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He certainly seems to know what's been going on. I'm looking forward to seeing a much improved defense as well this season. Go Tigers!!!
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Game Changer [1750]
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Re: Coach Allen gets it
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Mar 6, 2025, 9:13 AM
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And the team will "get it" very quickly.
The tone he's setting is contagious. Young athletes focused on success mirror the traits and habits of leadership, good or bad.
A great football mind does not always make a great football coach. Knowing it and teaching it are two different things.
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Re: Coach Allen gets it
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Mar 6, 2025, 9:20 AM
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^^^^^^^^^^ Nailed it!
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This reminds me of when Chad Morris was hired.
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Mar 6, 2025, 10:29 AM
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He immediately noted that our team was soft, and needed to be tougher and more aggressive. That attitude shift not only improved out offense, but the approach of our entire team.
Not surprisingly, that year we made a huge jump as a program which laid the foundation for our elite run which followed.
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I love it.
So excited to see what 2025 brings!
Go Tigers!
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Re: Coach Allen gets it
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Mar 6, 2025, 9:22 AM
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I think we'd heard hints of this from former players that transferred. I still believe this was part of the mass decommits we had last cycle. We've never seen that problem on defense. It was rare to have a defensive recruit decommit.
It's nothing against Wes, he knew the "what " so to speak, just didn't know the how. Just how Luke is transformed the oline, Allen will do the same for the defense. Good stuff.
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Absolutely!!
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Mar 6, 2025, 9:32 AM
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So glad our defense has new leadership!!!
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Mar 6, 2025, 9:47 AM
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A comment that wasn’t in this clip also stood out. Allen is watching the guys in the weight room. He said he watches while getting in time on the elliptical. He then said he goes down and corrected things he didn’t like. From watching last year’s film he knows talented players showed up in August with bad weight. I think he rightly was suspicious of what is going on with Batson and staff. Saying a championship season is built between January and August is coachspeak. Making sure it actually happens is coaching leadership. So excited to see how he impacts the team beyond the defensive staff.
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Mar 6, 2025, 9:55 AM
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I hope his eye for conditioning carries over to the OL as well. Our OLs have put on a few pounds in the belly over the past few years. A few years back when we were running HUNH they looked like athletes - now not as much.
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Re: Coach Allen gets it
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Mar 6, 2025, 9:49 AM
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Wow! Thanks for the share - great stuff!! I’m excited to see how the defense responds, and performs next year.
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i get it.. we all want that blood and guts hard nose coaching
Mar 6, 2025, 9:51 AM
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but this isn't 2015.
If these kids get their feelings hurt they will bolt. Some 1 will take them if they are talented.
Kirby Smart proved you can be a horrible coach and still win a NC if you just stock pile talent. He uses the CHinese/Russian method of attack. Throw enough bodies at bullets and eventually you will win.
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You are calling Kirby Smart a horrible coach? Seriously?***
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Mar 6, 2025, 10:31 AM
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look.. i'm not Archimedes. i didn't figure out the fact that 2+2 = 4
Mar 6, 2025, 11:05 AM
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but i do repeat it.
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Talked to a PSU dude.. he says Allen is an absolute maniac!
Mar 6, 2025, 10:25 AM
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And I say good!
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Wow, that is alarming.
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Mar 6, 2025, 10:27 AM
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We pay our staff incredibly well, but as many of us have been saying, they have fallen well short of expectations as a unit.
This is what happens when you hire friends who are unqualified coaches, rather than trying to get the best coaches you can.
Allen seems like a winner, and I am glad that we hired him.
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Maybe Porkchop just needed...
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Mar 6, 2025, 10:41 AM
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another 10-12 years to get his players in and establish his winning style of defense. After all, we only gave him two years. I can think of coaches who were mediocre after 6-7 years, but Clemson kept giving them another chance.
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Well, our football program has done the opposite.
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Mar 6, 2025, 10:43 AM
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It went from elite to far from it over the course of one season, and maintained that lower standard for four years now.
Maybe we should give Dabo more time to figure it out.
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Put him on the 16 year plan.***
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Within seven years...
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Mar 6, 2025, 10:49 AM
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of being hired Dabo Swinney was coaching a team that would appear in a national championship game. By year ten he had won two national championships, and since then has appeared in another. Your apples are quite different from those oranges.
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Tiger Titan [49610]
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No one is debating that.
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Mar 6, 2025, 11:10 AM
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The point is that all of our coaches, even our best one, are being given time to fix things despite being in very different situations.
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Re: Maybe Porkchop just needed...
Mar 6, 2025, 11:17 AM
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another 10-12 years to get his players in and establish his winning style of defense. After all, we only gave him two years. I can think of coaches who were mediocre after 6-7 years, but Clemson kept giving them another chance.
Just to confirm, you think our football and basketball programs are on equal footing so standards and expectations should be the same?
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I'm saying competent coaches get results
Mar 6, 2025, 11:39 AM
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Some take 5-7 years to reach the national championship; some take 15-16 years just to build a program that is at least competitive at the highest level.
Incompetent coaches are usually revealed pretty quickly. Some may even become the blind squirrel who finds a nut, given enough chances.
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Re: Wow, that is alarming.
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Dabo made to many questionable hires in a short period. He's correcting it now.
When people get to comfortable they get content and lazy. That's what made Saban great for so long. He kept everyone uncomfortable and striving to get better.
Dabo has this program heading back to the top.
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Coach Allen gets it & we are back
Mar 6, 2025, 10:51 AM
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Coots everywhere know it’s coming and all they can do is lay eggs!
Go Tigers 🐅
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Mar 6, 2025, 10:59 AM
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Man , this guy is intense. If our players take on the traits of our coaches as widely believed we are going to be just fine on defense. We are well on our way of getting our " swag " back.
He loves Ben. Our defense could be a
" Boulware in the China shop " and just wreck the place when they're on the field
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Dynasty Maker [3574]
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He's alluding to something that I heard last year about our defense...
Mar 6, 2025, 11:23 AM
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...which is that the installs and assignments were too complicated for our guys. They were having a tough time zeroing in on their assignments for any given play because they had to go through too many checks in their heads pre-play instead of just being like "my job here is to put a hat on that guy there."
Apparently it's something that Boulware noticed right away but only a few days before the UGA game when he came in as an assistant and was observing. I heard he mentioned it to Dabo, but by then, they were too far committed to the UGA plan to try and shake things up drastically.
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Fast forward to today, where Boulware is now the LBs coach, and the DC has been replaced, and the new DC's comments in that video -- and it all starts to line up.
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