Effort

[GP1]

After watching the game on Friday, it is clear to me that the team continues to play hard even though they are not put in the best position to win and they do some really stupid things at times. In a season when everything goes wrong, people look for reasons why they happened. That's when bad sports cliches come out. Bad sports cliches include but are not limited to:"The coach has lost the team.""The players aren't listening to the coach.""They are playing not to get hurt.""We never make halftime adjustments."Observation is not enough to determine if any of these things happen because there are psychological components to them and we don't know what is in the heads of the kids. We also don't know what is talked about at halftime.What we can observe is effort. I did not see a lack of physical effort Friday. I did see a group of very talented kids giving good effort even though they were not put in the best position to win by their coaches. I do see kids giving 100% during a play and then doing something really stupid at the end of the play. I do see coaches hopelessly trying to make tactical changes in a strategy that is set up for failure and leads to failure (this is why JD should be fired). The Zips badly need a cultural change.

[Z.I.P.]

After watching the game on Friday, it is clear to me that the team continues to play hard even though they are not put in the best position to win and they do some really stupid things at times. In a season when everything goes wrong, people look for reasons why they happened. That's when bad sports cliches come out. Bad sports cliches include but are not limited to:"The coach has lost the team.""The players aren't listening to the coach.""They are playing not to get hurt.""We never make halftime adjustments."Observation is not enough to determine if any of these things happen because there are psychological components to them and we don't know what is in the heads of the kids. We also don't know what is talked about at halftime.What we can observe is effort. I did not see a lack of physical effort Friday. I did see a group of very talented kids giving good effort even though they were not put in the best position to win by their coaches. I do see kids giving 100% during a play and then doing something really stupid at the end of the play. I do see coaches hopelessly trying to make tactical changes in a strategy that is set up for failure and leads to failure (this is why JD should be fired). The Zips badly need a cultural change.

Even when the coach was Gerry Faust, and Akron was losing, the team was known for playing physical football -- especially on the offensive line. That hasn't been the case in many years. Akron is now known as a lightweight. I don't know how to change that, but it can be done -- no, it MUST be done! We keep getting beat like

[zen]

"effort"for some reason, that word grates on me a little bit.e f f o r thmph.I thought the kids who needed special coaxing to put in effort didn't play past high school.

[Lee Adams]

After watching the game on Friday, it is clear to me that the team continues to play hard even though they are not put in the best position to win and they do some really stupid things at times. In a season when everything goes wrong, people look for reasons why they happened. That's when bad sports cliches come out. Bad sports cliches include but are not limited to:"The coach has lost the team.""The players aren't listening to the coach.""They are playing not to get hurt.""We never make halftime adjustments."Observation is not enough to determine if any of these things happen because there are psychological components to them and we don't know what is in the heads of the kids. We also don't know what is talked about at halftime.What we can observe is effort. I did not see a lack of physical effort Friday. I did see a group of very talented kids giving good effort even though they were not put in the best position to win by their coaches. I do see kids giving 100% during a play and then doing something really stupid at the end of the play. I do see coaches hopelessly trying to make tactical changes in a strategy that is set up for failure and leads to failure (this is why JD should be fired). The Zips badly need a cultural change.

Even when the coach was Gerry Faust, and Akron was losing, the team was known for playing physical football -- especially on the offensive line. That hasn't been the case in many years. Akron is now known as a lightweight. I don't know how to change that, but it can be done -- no, it MUST be done! We keep getting beat like

this season is eerily like faust's last...he was able to charm the admins and alums to keep him longer than was appropriate...