Ianello calls out his players

[ZachTheZip]

http://www.cleveland.com/sports/college/in...timism_for.html

State of the Zips: Akron (0-3, 0-0) has been outscored, 114-50, by teams picked to finish at the bottom of their respective conferences. Another one is on the ledger this week at Indiana. Just one year ago, the Zips went into the season expected to contend for a Mid-American Conference title before starting QB Chris Jacquemain was dismissed from the team and senior WR Deryn Bowser broke his leg.

After three games, how does new coach Rob Ianello see his Zips?

"Well, we've made progress in three games," the coach began. "But we've certainly not made enough progress by what you are measured by, which is the score. I thought there were some things we did better Saturday night [in a 47-10 loss at Kentucky], but we did not do consistently like I hoped we would do after three games.

"Certainly I thought we would tackle a lot better. Certainly I thought, when put in position to make some plays, I thought we would."

Certainly.

[ZippyforPresident]

Well, he sure needs to do something...

Although I was only able to watch the Kentucky game on the Fox Sports South feed that FSO picked up, I thought I saw a Zips team that was fired up in the first few minutes. I'm hoping that somehow that intensity can stay consistent throughout a game. Why not fire it up against the "who's yours?" (lame pun). Even if the team can't get the W on Saturday, it would be very reassuring to see a team that is pumped up for an entire game and has faith in a game plan to such an extent that they genuinely believe that they can win. That would be a very big positive for coach rob ianello if he can keep this team believing. I think that is a huge coup, especially on the verge of conference play.

Lets start it up "warriors bold!" I have to believe that there is yet a "fight to behold" with this team. Lets dominate these wimps, afterall, we were favored in this match up but a season ago. Indiana stinks, it's time to grow a pair Zips. You should easily be able to compete with this team with the right focus and mindset.

- Lets Go Zips!

[Captain Kangaroo]

http://www.cleveland.com/sports/college/in...timism_for.html

State of the Zips: Akron (0-3, 0-0) has been outscored, 114-50, by teams picked to finish at the bottom of their respective conferences. Another one is on the ledger this week at Indiana. Just one year ago, the Zips went into the season expected to contend for a Mid-American Conference title before starting QB Chris Jacquemain was dismissed from the team and senior WR Deryn Bowser broke his leg.

After three games, how does new coach Rob Ianello see his Zips?

"Well, we've made progress in three games," the coach began. "But we've certainly not made enough progress by what you are measured by, which is the score. I thought there were some things we did better Saturday night [in a 47-10 loss at Kentucky], but we did not do consistently like I hoped we would do after three games.

"Certainly I thought we would tackle a lot better. Certainly I thought, when put in position to make some plays, I thought we would."

Certainly.

I've seen more aggressive "calling out" of players in my lifetime.

Also - if any of our defensive players watched the game tape, they'd see that they looked like a more like kickers and quarterbacks making tackle attempts. We hit soft, shied away from contact, over-pursued and took bad angles.

Some of that can be blamed on the offense never giving them a break. What's the old saying..."Fatigue makes cowards of us all"? But not all can be blamed on our 3-and-out offensive machine.

The defense has regressed since week #1. That is certain.

[Buckzip]

http://www.cleveland.com/sports/college/in...timism_for.html

State of the Zips: Akron (0-3, 0-0) has been outscored, 114-50, by teams picked to finish at the bottom of their respective conferences. Another one is on the ledger this week at Indiana. Just one year ago, the Zips went into the season expected to contend for a Mid-American Conference title before starting QB Chris Jacquemain was dismissed from the team and senior WR Deryn Bowser broke his leg.

After three games, how does new coach Rob Ianello see his Zips?

"Well, we've made progress in three games," the coach began. "But we've certainly not made enough progress by what you are measured by, which is the score. I thought there were some things we did better Saturday night [in a 47-10 loss at Kentucky], but we did not do consistently like I hoped we would do after three games.

"Certainly I thought we would tackle a lot better. Certainly I thought, when put in position to make some plays, I thought we would."

Certainly.

That's not calling out his players. Calling out your players is actually naming names or at least naming positions.

"Nicely needs to complete those passes to open receivers", "Waller needs to stop missing tackles"

"our receivers need to catch the ball", "our linebackers need to tackle", etc. He didn't call out anyone really.

[skip-zip]

http://www.cleveland.com/sports/college/in...timism_for.html

State of the Zips: Akron (0-3, 0-0) has been outscored, 114-50, by teams picked to finish at the bottom of their respective conferences. Another one is on the ledger this week at Indiana. Just one year ago, the Zips went into the season expected to contend for a Mid-American Conference title before starting QB Chris Jacquemain was dismissed from the team and senior WR Deryn Bowser broke his leg.

After three games, how does new coach Rob Ianello see his Zips?

"Well, we've made progress in three games," the coach began. "But we've certainly not made enough progress by what you are measured by, which is the score. I thought there were some things we did better Saturday night [in a 47-10 loss at Kentucky], but we did not do consistently like I hoped we would do after three games.

"Certainly I thought we would tackle a lot better. Certainly I thought, when put in position to make some plays, I thought we would."

Certainly.

That's not calling out his players. Calling out your players is actually naming names or at least naming positions.

"Nicely needs to complete those passes to open receivers", "Waller needs to stop missing tackles"

"our receivers need to catch the ball", "our linebackers need to tackle", etc. He didn't call out anyone really.

I agree, and I am not sure why some people here bring up the "well..you might hurt their confidence" excuse. This is football. It's a tough game that needs tough people in order to succeed. For instance, in this article a far more experienced coach like Solich directly called out his team's QB play, after his two QBs completed half of their passes against Ohio State's defense. A little harsh considering the opponent? Maybe so. But, I don't think we'll get better unless we hold our players to much higher standards, and I sure hope we aren't talking to our players as softly as we appear to communicate our problems to the media.

[Buckzip]

http://www.cleveland.com/sports/college/in...timism_for.html

State of the Zips: Akron (0-3, 0-0) has been outscored, 114-50, by teams picked to finish at the bottom of their respective conferences. Another one is on the ledger this week at Indiana. Just one year ago, the Zips went into the season expected to contend for a Mid-American Conference title before starting QB Chris Jacquemain was dismissed from the team and senior WR Deryn Bowser broke his leg.

After three games, how does new coach Rob Ianello see his Zips?

"Well, we've made progress in three games," the coach began. "But we've certainly not made enough progress by what you are measured by, which is the score. I thought there were some things we did better Saturday night [in a 47-10 loss at Kentucky], but we did not do consistently like I hoped we would do after three games.

"Certainly I thought we would tackle a lot better. Certainly I thought, when put in position to make some plays, I thought we would."

Certainly.

That's not calling out his players. Calling out your players is actually naming names or at least naming positions.

"Nicely needs to complete those passes to open receivers", "Waller needs to stop missing tackles"

"our receivers need to catch the ball", "our linebackers need to tackle", etc. He didn't call out anyone really.

I agree, and I am not sure why some people here bring up the "well..you might hurt their confidence" excuse. This is football. It's a tough game that needs tough people in order to succeed. For instance, in this article a far more experienced coach like Solich directly called out his team's QB play, after his two QBs completed half of their passes against Ohio State's defense. A little harsh considering the opponent? Maybe so. But, I don't think we'll get better unless we hold our players to much higher standards, and I sure hope we aren't talking to our players as softly as we appear to communicate our problems to the media.

Again, I don't consider that harsh either. It doesn't matter who the opponent is. I think it's good that a coach criticizes even against a BCS team. I don't want a coach saying hey we gave up 600 yards of offense, but because it was Florida it's ok.

I get your point though.

[skip-zip]

http://www.cleveland.com/sports/college/in...timism_for.html

State of the Zips: Akron (0-3, 0-0) has been outscored, 114-50, by teams picked to finish at the bottom of their respective conferences. Another one is on the ledger this week at Indiana. Just one year ago, the Zips went into the season expected to contend for a Mid-American Conference title before starting QB Chris Jacquemain was dismissed from the team and senior WR Deryn Bowser broke his leg.

After three games, how does new coach Rob Ianello see his Zips?

"Well, we've made progress in three games," the coach began. "But we've certainly not made enough progress by what you are measured by, which is the score. I thought there were some things we did better Saturday night [in a 47-10 loss at Kentucky], but we did not do consistently like I hoped we would do after three games.

"Certainly I thought we would tackle a lot better. Certainly I thought, when put in position to make some plays, I thought we would."

Certainly.

That's not calling out his players. Calling out your players is actually naming names or at least naming positions.

"Nicely needs to complete those passes to open receivers", "Waller needs to stop missing tackles"

"our receivers need to catch the ball", "our linebackers need to tackle", etc. He didn't call out anyone really.

I agree, and I am not sure why some people here bring up the "well..you might hurt their confidence" excuse. This is football. It's a tough game that needs tough people in order to succeed. For instance, in this article a far more experienced coach like Solich directly called out his team's QB play, after his two QBs completed half of their passes against Ohio State's defense. A little harsh considering the opponent? Maybe so. But, I don't think we'll get better unless we hold our players to much higher standards, and I sure hope we aren't talking to our players as softly as we appear to communicate our problems to the media.

Again, I don't consider that harsh either. It doesn't matter who the opponent is. I think it's good that a coach criticizes even against a BCS team. I don't want a coach saying hey we gave up 600 yards of offense, but because it was Florida it's ok.

I get your point though.

On the other hand, if you are not a good enough player to get the job done, screaming and yelling and criticizing can only do so much. But, I'd sure feel a lot better if we were lighting a significant fire under these some of these guys at this point.

[Dr Z]

If you guys are replying to a post right above your new post, can you use the (add reply) button instead of the (reply) button. It's just cumbersome to page down over 2 foot of repeated text just to read a few new sentences. Thank you.

If you don't know what I mean, see here.

[Dave in Green]

Coaches publicly dumping on players can be counterproductive. If the players aren't tackling or making plays, a lot of good coaches tend to deflect criticism away from the players by saying publicly that the coaching staff needs to do a better job of preparing the players. What's most important is how the coaching staff is dealing with the players in private.

[cornbread]

If you guys are replying to a post right above your new post, can you use the (add reply) button instead of the (reply) button. It's just cumbersome to page down over 2 foot of repeated text just to read a few new sentences. Thank you.

If you don't know what I mean, see here.

You didn't call people out for this on a thread about calling people out?

You can also click the "quote" button under any post, then click "add reply" for precision, shock and awe replying. Not like I have to tell you. Just throwing it out there.

[akron football]

That's not anywhere near a calling out. Listen these players watched the film on accountability Monday or something like that whatever Coach I said he called Mondays. See ball catch ball,see runner tackle runner. This game is a gutcheck and they need to have a sense of urgency going into the MAC schedule. We can all complain because that's what we do but until they can make routine plays,catches,tackles on a consistent basis we are in for a long year.

[ZachTheZip]

I've seen more aggressive "calling out" of players in my lifetime.

Unfortunately, I think this is the closest we'll ever get to seeing actual "emotion" from Ianello. He'll never call out an individual player to the press, he'll never have an angry rant of a press conference, he'll never make a joke.

This is the limit of his urgency.

[zipboy]

It is not a bad thing to not publicly call someone out. And I don't think that it is bad to always be under control with the media. I don't see Nick Saban going nutso with the media. How Ianello handles things in the locker room is more important.

[Dr Z]

It is not a bad thing to not publicly call someone out. And I don't think that it is bad to always be under control with the media. I don't see Nick Saban going nutso with the media. How Ianello handles things in the locker room is more important.

Right on ZB, have you ever listened to the "media" ask questions at a press conference? It's almost embarrassing how collectively silly they are. Then people read their articles and believe it as fact. Some sports fans don't believe things until they read them in the PD. Of course there are many exceptions to this, but most of the sports media are.... I would play it just like Belichick does with the media.

[Buckzip]

Saying your entire team sucks and you don't know if you will ever win a game is calling your team out.

Was it Bobby Knight that did that? I can't remember who it was.

[Dave in Green]

I've seen more aggressive "calling out" of players in my lifetime.

Unfortunately, I think this is the closest we'll ever get to seeing actual "emotion" from Ianello. He'll never call out an individual player to the press, he'll never have an angry rant of a press conference, he'll never make a joke.

This is the limit of his urgency.

Personally, I prefer focused urgency to scattershot venting. I'd be more than happy if iCoach developed into a cold-fish winner in the Belichick mold. On the bright side, he already has the first half of the equation down pretty good.

[RACER]

the bottom line is we don't have talent to compete at the mac level.we have no business playing any bcs teams

next year.i think the loss at g.w. showed how bad we are. the coach can yell,and scream all he wants.right now

we have db's that cannot cover anyone,and wr's that drop balls thrown right to them.GP thinks we can compete in

the mac.i hope i am wrong and he is right.maybe things will get turned around once mac play starts.no mac schools

have the talent of indi,cuse,or ky.it's the loss to g.w. that scares me.