Pete Golding spent part of his Vanderbilt preview explaining a structural change to defensive football, and it is the best answer anybody has given for why this Ole Miss defense keeps coming apart mid-drive. The green dot cuts off at fifteen seconds. Golding says offenses are now built to beat that: huddle operation, everything under fifteen, snapping the ball at eight or nine seconds. His phrase was that it takes the game off the sideline and leaves eighteen to twenty-three year olds to communicate after a shift in motion. He says Vanderbilt will do exactly that on Saturday - that they will not snap a ball with more than fifteen seconds left. His answer is to simplify: it might not always be the best call, but everybody is on the same page. Second segment: Golding was asked about fining players. He said they fine for plenty, but not for missed tackles. Then he described what he thinks a staff owes a player before getting rid of him - call him in, tell him it is not okay, tell him the expectation, and clearly define it. He built that into the week too. Nothing is set until Friday. Safeties who started the year at safety are starting at corner. And if the same man is the problem every week, Golding says that one is on the staff. The honest counterweight: describing a fair process is not running one, and a coach saying the right things in October is not a defense doing them on Saturday. Accountability or patience? Tell me in the comments. More at OleMissHub.com and in the Discord: https://discord.gg/KF3dtcQJhC Locked On Ole Miss Hits — quick takes on the Rebels every weekday. Subscribe and hit the bell. Hotty Toddy. #OleMiss #HottyToddy #SEC #CollegeFootball #RebelNation #Adidas #OleMissFootball
Pete Golding spent part of his Vanderbilt preview explaining a structural change to defensive football, and it is the best answer anybody has given for why this Ole Miss defense keeps coming apart mid-drive.
The green dot cuts off at fifteen seconds. Golding says offenses are now built to beat that: huddle operation, everything under fifteen, snapping the ball at eight or nine seconds. His phrase was that it takes the game off the sideline and leaves eighteen to twenty-three year olds to communicate after a shift in motion.
He says Vanderbilt will do exactly that on Saturday - that they will not snap a ball with more than fifteen seconds left. His answer is to simplify: it might not always be the best call, but everybody is on the same page.
Second segment: Golding was asked about fining players. He said they fine for plenty, but not for missed tackles. Then he described what he thinks a staff owes a player before getting rid of him - call him in, tell him it is not okay, tell him the expectation, and clearly define it.
He built that into the week too. Nothing is set until Friday. Safeties who started the year at safety are starting at corner. And if the same man is the problem every week, Golding says that one is on the staff.
The honest counterweight: describing a fair process is not running one, and a coach saying the right things in October is not a defense doing them on Saturday.
Accountability or patience? Tell me in the comments.
More at OleMissHub.com and in the Discord: https://discord.gg/KF3dtcQJhC
Locked On Ole Miss Hits — quick takes on the Rebels every weekday. Subscribe and hit the bell. Hotty Toddy.
#OleMiss #HottyToddy #SEC #CollegeFootball #RebelNation #Adidas #OleMissFootball