Player Development

[WilsonHog]

At least not very easily.

I was listening to talk radio this morning and one of the SEC media guys was talking about practice under Saban versus under Butch Jones. When the guy went to cover Alabama's practices, there was no dead time; every minute was geared to teaching and getting as many players as possible repetitions. When he visited Tennessee's practices, he saw just the opposite: to much dead time, too much time spent standing around, too much time devoted to the team watching two guys go at it.

What does that translate into? Player development, and the lack thereof. Time is a limited and precious resource. Players develop under Saban. They develop under Mullen. They didn't under Jones, and he was fired. They haven't under Bielema, either.

I believe Malzahn is a detail guy. I hope that Mike Norvell is as well, if those are the two we are down to. Whoever we hire is going to have to be able to develop players once they get to campus.

[Paul]

Butch's players did "mental reps"

[Dwight_K_Shrute]

I believe a former Arkansas player came out this week and said BB's practices were way too casual and disorganized.  On the flip side have always heard that BP's practices were scripted scheduled from the get go and no minute was wasted. Could be why BP got more from his players even though his recruiting rankings and BB's were in the same band.

[Rzback]

Good Stuff!!!