Hope to have Mike Martin in practice today. He was limited last week in practice and that is why they held him out in the game after hurting his other ankle.
Denard is sore but should practice today. Fell on his hip on the sideline, his knee bruise and his shoulder has been bothering him the past couple of weeks.
Will be sending in the personal penalty on the kick off to the Big Ten office this week.
Will try to help scheme with the defense this week. Trying to simplify the defense so they can play faster.
On offense they can add a new play a week, can't do that on defense.
Need faster and more athletic guys on defense.
Illinois is one of the most athletic teams in the Big Ten. They are playing their best football right now.
No changes on the defensive staff. Just met with the defensive staff for 3 hours. Heard about the rumor, which was un-true.
It's not the scheme on defense it's the execution.
Need to try to get Craig Roh more involved.
Greg Banks:
- Spirit still seems to be high
- Need to have upperclassmen step up
- Defense needs to make plays and play together as a unit
- Haven't looked at Illinois much yet. Will look at film today
- Need to improve tackling and 3rd down stops.
- Going to hit practice hard this week
- Trying to improve this week
- Hadn't heard about the Robinson rumor
- Thought Ray Vinopal was a little wide eyed but had a good week in practice last week
- Has moved past the Penn State game, now focusing on Illinois
- Tries to avoid ESPN, SI and the Blogs. (what?)
- This group fights and hungry
- Practicing agaist Denard will help preparing for a similar offense in Illinois
- Playing a lot of freshman, which are improving daily and will continue to get better
- Attitude adjustment can't be half assed
- Losing isn't good and looks bad. We have worked to hard and come to far.
- I am going to do everything I can do (to show leadership)
- We have the ability, effort is no problem, it's the mental aspect.
- The mental part can come in days or weeks. It's an acquired talent
- We are moving toward the place we want to be, were just not there yet.
- We are a team and we won't point fingers
- Practices are intense
- He doesn't pay any attention to the Coach Rod Hot seat talk. Doesn't read or watch the media and will do anything for this team. "This is my team!".
3 comments:
RR is a failed grand experiment. He's the best OC in the country. As a head coach, he should probably be in the WAC, or maybe the Big East. Not at Michigan.
And, no, I do not want to go through "another painful transition." But the fact is, we will be. So the question to ask ourselves now is, will this painful transition be easier on the team, the program and the fans if we start it at the end of this season, or go through this another year.
You all know where I stand on that question.
Here is my take. David Brandon better have someone already signed up at the end of the season like a Harbaugh or Gruden (someone similar) if the are going to fire RR.
I don't want to go on another Bill Martin Fishing trip for coaches like he/we did 3 years ago. That search was a complete mess. It was like he was surprised that LC retired.
If we can't get a top guy, I say let the RR - Denard experiment go one more year with a new DC. RR needs to live in Florida in the off season and bring as many kids as possible to A2 to play on defense.
FIRE GR AKA COACH PISS POOR and watch things change.
When the offense comes to the sideline after making mistakes they fear RR. When the defense come to the sidelines after making mistakes, they don't worry what coach piss poor thinks.
coach Piss Poor does not have the respect of his players,PERIOD. If RR fires him now and heads the defense the players will be a whole lot different.
better analogy: RR is the daddy and GR is the moma, need i say more.
We are on the verge of doing the right thing by getting rid of GR aka COACH PISS POOR. LETS DO IT.
LET'S GO BLUE
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