Head Coach Pete Mangurian's Twitter feed, (despite the occasional hack... believe me, he's NOT sending you weight loss advice or gossip), is a great idea. You can follow him at @PeteMangurian.
His latest legit Tweet promises info very soon on three recruits who have just put in their deposits. Hopefully we'll get those names today or tomorrow.
And while you're at it, follow ME too at @jakejakeny. I will use Twitter from now on when I have breaking news and don't have time for or access to this blog. It'll be just a quick headline or two to keep everyone in the loop.
4 comments:
Puzzling tweet from Coach M today about talking outside the family, schemes and the possibility of injuries leading to the trifecta. Can one of you Mangurian watchers translate this for me?
Old Lion, To explain the tweet. There is information from practices and meetings that is supposed to stay in the practices and meetings that is being made public. This is an issue that has been addressed in the past and remains as a problem. It undermines the team, the coaching staff and the program in general. It's a breach of trust and that cannot happen. Personnel, schemes, and injuries staying under wraps are key to the success of this first season and every season after this. If any opponent finds out any of this information they can plan for it starting now, which makes it that much harder on us. By keeping everything "within the family" we eliminate that possibility. Two of those three have now been exposed. The element of surprise can be the difference between a win and a loss in football. If you were competing for a product in business would you tell your competitors your plan and the weaknesses of your product? No. If you did you might even be fired. Same concept applies to football. That combined with a lack of trust can be devastating to any program in any sport at any level, but especially in our situation. We are laying the foundation for this program, trying to build an identity, and a tradition of winning. All of that starts with trust, which means putting the team's needs before your own. There's no room for personal agendas with Coach M or any good coach for that matter. Like Coach M said in his blog "...leave your baggage outside the door... we are moving on." That baggage includes personal agendas.
To Anonymous: ( sunday April 15), we keep reading about "personal agendas". Please explain, with examples as how this pertains to the team.
Thanks for the explanation of Coach M's tweet. I am fully in accord with the message.
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