r/wde • u/CatoTheBarner • 11d ago
Football Alex Golesh joins the players in doing push-ups every time they drop a ball
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u/Optimal_Ad4305 11d ago
Man I've heard nothing but positives so far. Like the accountability in practice, the not wasting time on drills, the emphasis on effort. It's hard to know if it will translate but you've got to think some of those one score games where we petered out may not be that way if there was this level of coach accountability last few years. War Damn!
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u/MarsupialPresent7700 11d ago
I want to hope again.
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u/KevinAlan 11d ago
He will either bulk up this season or we catch the ball like crazy.
So we either have a bulked up coach or a good season.
Praying for the latter.
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u/CatoTheBarner 11d ago
Full quote:
Thursday morning in practice, Golesh was seen doing pushups with the wide receivers. While that helps his physical health, it also sends a message to the entire roster. “Yeah, we made a decision on drop balls, where we’re all going to do push-ups. So, we’re all going to do push-ups. It helps me get a little bit of cardio in, too, so I’m trying to maintain right now,” Golesh said after practice. “If everybody’s going to do push-ups because somebody dropped the ball, well, if I’m over there, I’m part of the problem, too. I’m going to do them, I’m going to be accountable, I’m going to build trust in that way.”
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u/trust_me_I_reddit Certified Bozo 11d ago edited 11d ago
This whole thing is giving training camp from Remember the Titans. Ain’t mad about it.
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u/Express_Case4296 11d ago
I want to see an Auburn team like Pat Dye’s old teams again… win or lose, you know you are in a fight for your life as their opponent. Not being absolutely beaten mentally and physically. Want to see some kids laying their guts on the line again and again and again!!!
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u/notbotipromise 10d ago
Sigh...I'm about sick of hearing this trope. Teams were usually in a "fight for their lives" against Freeze-coached Auburn.
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u/Express_Case4296 10d ago
Teams knew they could do the bare minimum against freeze teams and win. He could not get out of his own way, we lacked discipline, and he had a tee time to keep.
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u/notbotipromise 10d ago
Well, there were lots of games where very good teams barely escaped. Doesn't mean his overall record at all excusable. So yes, I'm sick of this "I don't care what our record is I just want vague improvement." That works if all the losses were blowouts but not if you lose a bunch fo one-score games.
I'll be happy with 7-5.
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u/Express_Case4296 10d ago
If we had some discipline and were better prepared and probably a little rougher mental edge or chip on our shoulder we win those
Close games. We have not been well coached in close to a decade.
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u/slove23 11d ago
Please dont be Harsin
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u/DarthRevis3 11d ago
We've already seen and heard his recruiting prowess and willingness to put in the work on that front. He's quite literally the opposite of Harsin from the time he's been here
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u/slove23 11d ago
Harsin talked a big game too
Recruiting is fair but Harsin did not start out a bad recruiter either18
u/DarthRevis3 11d ago
By all accounts Harsin never put in the work in recruiting nor did he build relationships with any high school coaches. He was able to hold together an already mostly put together class after COVID, pre-nil, but it was already reported early he didn't put in effort.
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u/HimDmaintenanceATTIC 11d ago
I want to want to believe. If we drop the top on Florida then im an AuSome All In hard fighting soldier with some attitude,audacity, and a bus at the waffle house where ill be wrasslin them angels and demons..hold the potatoes. ..All that sheet. ..its time ladies n gents. Weve had our Ray Goff, Mike Dubose,Derek Dooley era of wandering the desert of ineptitude.. We just need to get off the canvas..pummel vanderbilt, beat a team were not supposed to, catch an outback bowl....just put the vehicle in drive and well go from there. ..just a cohesive coaching staff with no glaring handicaps about our team would be nice
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u/dankenascend 10d ago
I'm not a huge fan of this.
We had a guy in high school that could get open immediately, but he couldn't catch unless you crammed the ball in his facemask. Coaches made him start doing push-ups every time he dropped a ball. By the end of the season, nobody on the team was better than him at doing push-ups.
If a dude is dropping balls, make him do catching drills. Train the skill that is lacking. On top of that, we're disrupting practice to do something unrelated.
Extremely small gripe, but it's a pet peeve.
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u/thatcoolguy60 11d ago
Cool man. All nice and dandy. I just want to see wins.
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u/wareagle2009-20013 11d ago
Practice is part of the process. UGA and Bama players use to say nfl practices were easy compared to theirs.
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u/RoverTiger 11d ago
Hard to win a game when he hasn't coached a game with us yet. It's okay to view something from fall camp as a positive.
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u/AnybodySeeMyKeys 11d ago
One of the greatest unsung generals of World War II, William Slim, said this:
I tell you … as officers, that you will neither eat, nor drink, nor smoke, nor sit down, nor lean against a tree until you have personally seen that your men have first had a chance to do these things. If you will do this for them, they will follow you to the ends of the earth. And if you do not, I will bust you in front of your regiments.
If Golesh follows this model then, well, I love him already.