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Conditioning/Endurance
A lot of people have pointed to the Bearcats' poor performance after halftime this year as evidence of Tubby getting outcoached/failing to make adjustments. I have another theory: I think this Bearcats team has the lowest physical endurance of any football team I've seen in a long time.

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1) Even early in the season we rarely had more than 2 tacklers on the ball
2) A complete lack of pursuit on defense, even in the first half of games (this is related to the first item, but has more to do with downfield tackles)
3) A pattern of small injuries, particularly in the 2nd half (my high school football coach always told us that this was evidence of a team that lacks endurance)
4) As mentioned: we get blown out in the 2nd half in every game

Basically every game this year we've looked like we did in the 4th quarter of the BYU game last year.

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11-25-2016 11:08 PM
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If what you say is true... Why is this season the first we're seeing of it? I can't imagine our conditioning program changed that much in the offseason. It also doesn't explain the Miami-OH, UTM, and ECU games.
 
11-25-2016 11:16 PM
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Jackie needs to weigh in on this. I have not seen the tempo of their practices.
 
11-25-2016 11:22 PM
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The defensive pursuit has been abysmal every year under CTT
 
11-26-2016 12:15 AM
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(11-26-2016 12:15 AM)bearcat72 Wrote:  The defensive pursuit has been abysmal every year under CTT

Our defense is our strong suit, according to Tubberville. We only gave up 611 yards tonight.
 
11-26-2016 12:22 AM
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well when practice looks like this, what do you you expect?


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11-26-2016 08:02 AM
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I've been critical of the conditioning for a couple of years. Last year I posted a lot of the turnovers and stupid penalties can be attributed to being blown up. When your body is fatigued you are more inclined to make mental mistakes.
 
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(11-26-2016 12:22 AM)vabearcat Wrote:  
(11-26-2016 12:15 AM)bearcat72 Wrote:  The defensive pursuit has been abysmal every year under CTT

Our defense is our strong suit, according to Tubberville. We only gave up 611 yards tonight.

I loved that. Said the difference in the game was we couldn't turn them over in the 2nd half. For crap's sake TT, you're plus 3 in the turnover dept. Ridiculous logic.
 
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Poor conditioning is the fault of the coaching staff.
 
11-26-2016 11:34 AM
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RE: Conditioning/Endurance
Poor results in the second versus first half are 3 C's:


Coaching
Conditioning
Character

In the final analysis all are the coaches responsibility.
 
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(11-26-2016 09:35 AM)CliftonAve Wrote:  I've been critical of the conditioning for a couple of years. Last year I posted a lot of the turnovers and stupid penalties can be attributed to being blown up. When your body is fatigued you are more inclined to make mental mistakes.

Agree you have been beating this drum, I've agreed every time. Don't think we've had a good one since Longo.
 
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(11-26-2016 12:00 PM)Crewdogz Wrote:  
(11-26-2016 09:35 AM)CliftonAve Wrote:  I've been critical of the conditioning for a couple of years. Last year I posted a lot of the turnovers and stupid penalties can be attributed to being blown up. When your body is fatigued you are more inclined to make mental mistakes.

Agree you have been beating this drum, I've agreed every time. Don't think we've had a good one since Longo.

I thought Longo and his sandbox was pretty weird. Sure hasn't prevented a spate of injuries and loses at ND the last few years.
 
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While at UC, Longo's players' bodies changed dramatically in season #1. The transformation was crazy. Whatever he did here worked.
 
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(11-26-2016 12:08 PM)rath v2.0 Wrote:  While at UC, Longo's players' bodies changed dramatically in season #1. The transformation was crazy. Whatever he did here worked.

He put them on diet that the players said consisted of leaves and nuts. Slimmed them down from the bulk they had for the dumbtonio/treadwell run game.
 
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