(06-29-2017 11:11 AM)EagleTough Wrote:  

(06-29-2017 05:53 AM)ljmhurons Wrote:  I saw that Nigel Kilby has Garden City CC on his Twitter account. Not being an insider, I was hoping he'd still show up here. His leaving is a big loss.

I've always thought that improving the retention of players would was an obvious way to improve team performance. I don't know how CC is doing. Does anyone have any stats? The loss of Kilby and QBs is a problem for this season and the future.

Next man up. A single player out of 22 starters shouldn't be a big loss in any program with decent depth and coaching. Sure Kilby had a great future, but his problems were self inflicted, just like 99% of these kids. Now it's time for Kemp to step up, Gunnar Oakes to become the next Kilby, or Keen to figure out a way to minimize the loss. Generally, these kids today are more entitled, mentally weaker, and more apt to leave at the first sign of adversity. A couple of the kids that left this year simply didn't like being coached hard. It's just a sign of the times, in the social media addiction age.

Cleaning house of the QB's was actually a good thing, not a problem (unless Roback goes down in the first game, haha). Without going into detail, Porter absolutely had to go. Anybody else simply couldn't play. Opportunities now open for Stiebeling, Grissom, the new Juco QB, etc.

CC doesn't have any more or less of a retention problem than any other D1 coach. And contrary to popular belief, he's no more strict than most other coaches in the MAC, or D1 overall. Again, today, if you want to keep your job and win, you can't have a strict 1 strike policy. How many players do you think are on their 2nd or 3rd strikes across college football, for failed drug tests? Break down the statistics overall, and I bet close to 50% of any given recruiting class never makes it to graduation. Any kid that shows up as a true freshman, and graduates in 4 years, deserves a ton of credit....even if he rarely sees the field. Anybody that shows up, graduates in 4 or 5 years, while seeing significant playing time, deserves even more kudos.

Of all the issues facing Creighton and EMU football, player retention and running a clean program, are at the bottom of the list.

I agree.

And think of 'drugs'. A kid can fail a marijuana drug test and that drug is legal in a number of states.

If we'd recruit kids from Washington (state), Colorado, etc. we'd have big trouble. "Coach, I can do that?..."