There are a few perspectives to take here ... one is the take of a parent ... and the other is the take of a competitor.
To a parent, what Deion said was a complete dick-move.
To a competitor ... in a tough-guy sport like football, it was a 100% challenge to their manhood.
Guys who answer the challenge and stick around, they will be Deion's guys then. They will have earned his respect. The rest ... who cares.
When Ferentz took over ... there was quite a radical culture shift in the Iowa program. While Fry always had flash ... his guys didn't always exhibit consistency. Ferentz's embrace-the-grind, developmental philosophy is arguably one of the biggest reasons why a small-market program like ours had enjoyed such consistency with regard to winning football games.
It strikes me that Deion is trying to similarly separate the wheat from the chaff.
Is there a better way to do it? Probably ... but there are multiple strategies to accomplish the same thing ... and they each bring with them different "side-effects." I think that there is a method to Deion's madness ... and I don't think that it's necessarily a bad thing. I'm just happy that my kid wasn't in that room.
To a parent, what Deion said was a complete dick-move.
To a competitor ... in a tough-guy sport like football, it was a 100% challenge to their manhood.
Guys who answer the challenge and stick around, they will be Deion's guys then. They will have earned his respect. The rest ... who cares.
When Ferentz took over ... there was quite a radical culture shift in the Iowa program. While Fry always had flash ... his guys didn't always exhibit consistency. Ferentz's embrace-the-grind, developmental philosophy is arguably one of the biggest reasons why a small-market program like ours had enjoyed such consistency with regard to winning football games.
It strikes me that Deion is trying to similarly separate the wheat from the chaff.
Is there a better way to do it? Probably ... but there are multiple strategies to accomplish the same thing ... and they each bring with them different "side-effects." I think that there is a method to Deion's madness ... and I don't think that it's necessarily a bad thing. I'm just happy that my kid wasn't in that room.