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This would give them more of a bird's eye view of what is going on. It would also take a lot of the on field emotions out of the decisions and would allow you to be more objectively strategic especially on defense. Might be worth a try.

SMU 86 wrote:This would give them more of a bird's eye view of what is going on. It would also take a lot of the on field emotions out of the decisions and would allow you to be more objectively strategic especially on defense. Might be worth a try.

As I said in the other post, sometimes the coordinators are down on the field because they want to be a head coach and need face time... other times it is because they are used to being a position coach and don't want to leave the field because they want to correct individual players.

I think we are probably dealing with the latter. Unfortunately, we don't have a lot of experienced coaches that can go up in the booth in their stead. I think it is a factor.

It's hard to tell from the sidelines the defensive and offensive structure and what to attack or address. When all of us are screaming about one LB in the box and 4 down linemen but the coaches aren't adjusting to that, it is a symptom of the problem...

one big difference is that with modern technology, they can get instant birds eye views on the field on the handheld device of their choosing. i don't know with 100% certainty, but i assume there are formations from above being sent the second the ball is snapped to someone on the sideline. NFL teams used to have huge printers on the sideline actually hard wired to computers in the box that would print out paper images and a runner would take them to the appropriate coaches - was one of the oddest things when i first saw it, but made total sense. now you see all the NFL coaches w/ their Microsoft sponsored bright blue surface tablets rather than a binder full of every formation that had been run.

with as young and dialed in to tech as this staff is, i am sure they've got them beaming down on a closed channel hotspot on the sidelines - maybe even to their phones in their pockets. someone else i'm sure knows this info.

JasonB wrote:

SMU 86 wrote:This would give them more of a bird's eye view of what is going on. It would also take a lot of the on field emotions out of the decisions and would allow you to be more objectively strategic especially on defense. Might be worth a try.

As I said in the other post, sometimes the coordinators are down on the field because they want to be a head coach and need face time... other times it is because they are used to being a position coach and don't want to leave the field because they want to correct individual players.

I think we are probably dealing with the latter. Unfortunately, we don't have a lot of experienced coaches that can go up in the booth in their stead. I think it is a factor.

It's hard to tell from the sidelines the defensive and offensive structure and what to attack or address. When all of us are screaming about one LB in the box and 4 down linemen but the coaches aren't adjusting to that, it is a symptom of the problem...

FWIW I remember a comment from the days when the new staff was being assembled to the effect that there were a lot of young guys who were very savvy and would relate as recruiters but too few experienced old head X and O men to direct the show and it may be what JasonB is saying.

That's something I'll leave for others to debate.

Dutch wrote:one big difference is that with modern technology, they can get instant birds eye views on the field on the handheld device of their choosing. i don't know with 100% certainty, but i assume there are formations from above being sent the second the ball is snapped to someone on the sideline. NFL teams used to have huge printers on the sideline actually hard wired to computers in the box that would print out paper images and a runner would take them to the appropriate coaches - was one of the oddest things when i first saw it, but made total sense. now you see all the NFL coaches w/ their Microsoft sponsored bright blue surface tablets rather than a binder full of every formation that had been run.

with as young and dialed in to tech as this staff is, i am sure they've got them beaming down on a closed channel hotspot on the sidelines - maybe even to their phones in their pockets. someone else i'm sure knows this info.

Right and there are some good coordinators that stay on the field. I believe Kirby Smart and Rhett Lashlee stay on the field as well as others. Not to say that they should not try going to the booth but what Dutch says makes sense.

Phil Bennett stays on the field

never mind