How Alabama coach Nick Saban used psychology to build a football dynasty
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We need a wizard dude.
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"Rosen emphasized that the average play in the football game lasted about seven seconds," Burke writes. "The players would concentrate only on winning those seconds, take a rest between plays, then do it all over again. There would be no focus at all on the scoreboard or on the end results."
This explains so much
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Psychology huh? Well, that and a team full of 5 star recruits...DerekJohnson said: -
Uh, yeah, there are tons of teams filled with 5-star recruits. That's the doogliest dooging to ever take place, 'the bullets are the thing that matters'. It turns out it's both! So weird, right?!?!? Both chef *and* ingredients matter! Whoa!!!RaccoonHarry said:
Psychology huh? Well, that and a team full of 5 star recruits...DerekJohnson said: -
USC before & after Pete is a prime example of this.Dennis_DeYoung said:
Uh, yeah, there are tons of teams filled with 5-star recruits. That's the doogliest dooging to ever take place, 'the bullets are the thing that matters'. It turns out it's both! So weird, right?!?!? Both chef *and* ingredients matter! Whoa!!!RaccoonHarry said:
Psychology huh? Well, that and a team full of 5 star recruits...DerekJohnson said: -
Could use a number of programs as examples including Alabama between Stallings and Saban. Coaching matters BFT.CFetters_Nacho_Lover said:
USC before & after Pete is a prime example of this.Dennis_DeYoung said:
Uh, yeah, there are tons of teams filled with 5-star recruits. That's the doogliest dooging to ever take place, 'the bullets are the thing that matters'. It turns out it's both! So weird, right?!?!? Both chef *and* ingredients matter! Whoa!!!RaccoonHarry said:
Psychology huh? Well, that and a team full of 5 star recruits...DerekJohnson said: -
Seven out of the last 10 seasons have ended with either Nick Saban or Urban Meyer winning it all - and they've both done it at two different schools. Yes, coaching matters.Southerndawg said:
Could use a number of programs as examples including Alabama between Stallings and Saban. Coaching matters BFT.CFetters_Nacho_Lover said:
USC before & after Pete is a prime example of this.Dennis_DeYoung said:
Uh, yeah, there are tons of teams filled with 5-star recruits. That's the doogliest dooging to ever take place, 'the bullets are the thing that matters'. It turns out it's both! So weird, right?!?!? Both chef *and* ingredients matter! Whoa!!!RaccoonHarry said:
Psychology huh? Well, that and a team full of 5 star recruits...DerekJohnson said: -
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As long as our wizard shows up with fuckpiles of roids.79smoothdawg said:We need a wizard dude.
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This is all the psychology you need in 'Bama:
"Son, run fast, hit hard and score some touchdowns, y'all get some of this:"
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Wood smash.PurpleThrobber said:This is all the psychology you need in 'Bama:
"Son, run fast, hit hard and score some touchdowns, y'all get some of this:" -
Completely agree. @Dennis_DeYoung and @CFetters_Nacho_Lover nailed it. It takes a chef to make the ingredients work. Saban and Meyer are two of the best.AlCzervik said:
Seven out of the last 10 seasons have ended with either Nick Saban or Urban Meyer winning it all - and they've both done it at two different schools. Yes, coaching matters.Southerndawg said:
Could use a number of programs as examples including Alabama between Stallings and Saban. Coaching matters BFT.CFetters_Nacho_Lover said:
USC before & after Pete is a prime example of this.Dennis_DeYoung said:
Uh, yeah, there are tons of teams filled with 5-star recruits. That's the doogliest dooging to ever take place, 'the bullets are the thing that matters'. It turns out it's both! So weird, right?!?!? Both chef *and* ingredients matter! Whoa!!!RaccoonHarry said:
Psychology huh? Well, that and a team full of 5 star recruits...DerekJohnson said: -
"Give me a team that has a business-like attitude, a team that can deal with adversity when it comes. ... The most destructive phenomenon in sports is relief. It's typically followed by a decrease in performance."
Totally agree with this. You see this phenomenon in most sports. It's why Chip Kelly was smart to continue to run up the score when ahead by two touchdowns. If you let up, you allow the other team to come back. -
I never thought about relief in regard to blowouts. It seems like the mediocre coaches usually whine about the successful ones running it up. The Hawks just smashed the Cardinals a few years ago. Pete Carroll never really let up. They called a fake punt on fourth down (over the line IMO).Dardanus said:"Give me a team that has a business-like attitude, a team that can deal with adversity when it comes. ... The most destructive phenomenon in sports is relief. It's typically followed by a decrease in performance."
Totally agree with this. You see this phenomenon in most sports. It's why Chip Kelly was smart to continue to run up the score when ahead by two touchdowns. If you let up, you allow the other team to come back.
If you think about it, you had better want/demand that the second string to play their best. They're a bad ACL away from starting. If they score TDs, so what? They aren't going to take a knee on every play. -
I remember what are you talking about. I think it was against Buffalo. Carroll afterwards said it was his fault, he "forgot to signal his players to not go for the fake". You know that was BS though and he wanted to do it.Fire_Marshall_Bill said:
I never thought about relief in regard to blowouts. It seems like the mediocre coaches usually whine about the successful ones running it up. The Hawks just smashed the Cardinals a few years ago. Pete Carroll never really let up. They called a fake punt on fourth down (over the line IMO).Dardanus said:"Give me a team that has a business-like attitude, a team that can deal with adversity when it comes. ... The most destructive phenomenon in sports is relief. It's typically followed by a decrease in performance."
Totally agree with this. You see this phenomenon in most sports. It's why Chip Kelly was smart to continue to run up the score when ahead by two touchdowns. If you let up, you allow the other team to come back.
If you think about it, you had better want/demand that the second string to play their best. They're a bad ACL away from starting. If they score TDs, so what? They aren't going to take a knee on every play. -
Trying to talk football herePurpleThrobber said:This is all the psychology you need in 'Bama:
"Son, run fast, hit hard and score some touchdowns, y'all get some of this:"
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They had seen something on tape that they knew they could exploit, so if the other team lined up a certain way it was an automatic fake (like the fake FG against GB). Pete didn't explicity tell them not to fake it if they were up by 40. "Whoops".SteveInShelton said:
I remember what are you talking about. I think it was against Buffalo. Carroll afterwards said it was his fault, he "forgot to signal his players to not go for the fake". You know that was BS though and he wanted to do it.Fire_Marshall_Bill said:
I never thought about relief in regard to blowouts. It seems like the mediocre coaches usually whine about the successful ones running it up. The Hawks just smashed the Cardinals a few years ago. Pete Carroll never really let up. They called a fake punt on fourth down (over the line IMO).Dardanus said:"Give me a team that has a business-like attitude, a team that can deal with adversity when it comes. ... The most destructive phenomenon in sports is relief. It's typically followed by a decrease in performance."
Totally agree with this. You see this phenomenon in most sports. It's why Chip Kelly was smart to continue to run up the score when ahead by two touchdowns. If you let up, you allow the other team to come back.
If you think about it, you had better want/demand that the second string to play their best. They're a bad ACL away from starting. If they score TDs, so what? They aren't going to take a knee on every play.
