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(01-06-2020 11:48 AM)Justanodufan Wrote:  

(01-06-2020 10:51 AM)T-Mac Wrote:  I had a similar discussion with another business owner in our field. She has very high standards that she expects her employees to meet before they can move up from very part-time (10 hours per week) to part-time (20-30 hours per week) to full-time (40+ hours per week). She complained to me that it was hard to find people willing to wait months to become full-time...which is why they're applying for the job in the first place.

I told her she has two jobs: 1) Find people willing to take the ACTUAL job and all it entails, and 2) Provide great services to her clients. If she can't do #1, she'll never be able to do #2.

I think this is applicable to JJ. He seems to have very high standards. High standards aren't necessarily a bad thing, IF you can find enough people to consistently meet those standards. The reality is that JJ has chased off as much or more talent from the program as he's retained. Clearly, if he can't keep players long enough to develop, his theoretical outcomes don't matter. Reality is all that matters.

JJ should HIGHLY consider taking a page out of Tom Coughlin's book. Pick your battles. Figure out when to cut some players some slack, and when to show tough love and hold their feet to the fire. Not every player will thrive in a super rigid system. Find the ones that can thrive in that environment, and adjust your style to those who won't thrive in that system.

Who do you think he has chased off?

Any and all transfers out of the program are in some capacity the coach's fault. Whether they were a bad recruit, weren't developed by the staff, didn't have the proper motivation or work ethic, or whether they were recruited over, it all comes back to the head coach. Turnover isn't necessarily a bad thing. Ideally every recruit is able to contribute at some point in their career and buy in to everything he has to do to help the team. Sometimes you're going to swing and miss, though. I don't mind the program losing the 1-3 players with the lowest ceiling every year. That's not what is happening, though. We're retaining our 1-3 worst players, and losing our 4-8 best players on a regular basis. That's a coaching issue.