Two words: preparation and adjustments

[18IsTheMan]

These two things have stuck out to me as the glaring deficiencies in Beamer's tenure. We have just seen too many performances like ODU and Ole Miss where we come out looking utterly unprepared, as if we had practiced to play a different team or maybe just hadn't practiced at all. That the Ole Miss performance was on the heels of a bye week only compounds the travesty of lack of preparation. Shoot, we had ALL summer to prepare for ODU but looked like we hadn't seen or touched a football since November.

That leads to adjustments. Let's face it, sometimes one team just does a better job of pre-game preparation (see Bama vs UGA). Sometimes you plan and prepare a certain way but the other team just has a better game plan. That's where adjustments come into play (again, see Bama vs UGA). UGA was absolutely dead in the water against Bama. Bama and Milroe were doing whatever they wanted. UGA adjusted and essentially shut down Milroe and Bama's offense and, inexplicably, came back to actually take the lead in the game. Yes, they lost, but it was a MasterClass by Smart in making adjustments. Obviously their pre-game preparation was all for nought, so he had to come with new game plan on the fly, and he did a masterful job. I just honestly can't recall us ever doing that under Beamer (or Muschamp while we're at it). We just don't adjust to what's going on in the game when we aren't having success. For that matter, I really can't recall many in-season adjustments. Last year, whatever we sucked at in Week 1, we pretty much sucked at in Week 12.

Look at the Ole Miss game, we had FOUR offsides against the hard count. Ok, I'll give you one. No more should happen. Then a second. At that point, it should have been obvious what the plan was. Do we adjust? No, we go on to commit 2 more.

This was Game 5 of Year 4. Not Year 1.

 

[PrestonyteParrot]

I agree with the above.
Also, I think the week off actually hurt us as we just seemed mentally off.

 

[18IsTheMan]

I agree with the above.
Also, I think the week off actually hurt us as we just seemed mentally off.

I noted in a previous thread that I didn't even catch the game until about 9 minutes left in the 3rd. I told my wife "it looks like we're playing playground football." We just looked like a discombobulated mess.

 

[Piscis]

These two things have stuck out to me as the glaring deficiencies in Beamer's tenure. We have just seen too many performances like ODU and Ole Miss where we come out looking utterly unprepared, as if we had practiced to play a different team or maybe just hadn't practiced at all. That the Ole Miss performance was on the heels of a bye week only compounds the travesty of lack of preparation. Shoot, we had ALL summer to prepare for ODU but looked like we hadn't seen or touched a football since November.

That leads to adjustments. Let's face it, sometimes one team just does a better job of pre-game preparation (see Bama vs UGA). Sometimes you plan and prepare a certain way but the other team just has a better game plan. That's where adjustments come into play (again, see Bama vs UGA). UGA was absolutely dead in the water against Bama. Bama and Milroe were doing whatever they wanted. UGA adjusted and essentially shut down Milroe and Bama's offense and, inexplicably, came back to actually take the lead in the game. Yes, they lost, but it was a MasterClass by Smart in making adjustments. Obviously their pre-game preparation was all for nought, so he had to come with new game plan on the fly, and he did a masterful job. I just honestly can't recall us ever doing that under Beamer (or Muschamp while we're at it). We just don't adjust to what's going on in the game when we aren't having success. For that matter, I really can't recall many in-season adjustments. Last year, whatever we sucked at in Week 1, we pretty much sucked at in Week 12.

Look at the Ole Miss game, we had FOUR offsides against the hard count. Ok, I'll give you one. No more should happen. Then a second. At that point, it should have been obvious what the plan was. Do we adjust? No, we go on to commit 2 more.

This was Game 5 of Year 4. Not Year 1.

It is obvious to everyone now that Beamer is in way over his head. He can't make adjustments because he has no idea what to do and the coordinators he has hired know less than he does. The preparation issue is the same issue, he doesn't know what to do to prepare.

Beamer is a nice guy and apparently "wants to be here" and that seems to be enough for most of the fans. I find it baffling that the BOT and Tanner thought coaching ability was a genetic trait and that was enough reason to hire someone as head coach. Some UGA fans have told me that Kirby basically ran Beamer off because Beamer wasn't fully committed and focused enough to fit in to Kirby's staff and how he wanted his staff to coach. It appears Beamer does have something of a lackadaisical approach to coaching. We are at game 5 of year 4, what we see with Beamer is what we've got and what we are going to have.

 

[LonghornsGamecocks]

Some UGA fans have told me that Kirby basically ran Beamer off because Beamer wasn't fully committed and focused enough to fit in to Kirby's staff and how he wanted his staff to coach. It appears Beamer does have something of a lackadaisical approach to coaching. We are at game 5 of year 4, what we see with Beamer is what we've got and what we are going to have.

Sadly, the real-world results lend support to the rumors wrt Kirby squeezing Beamer out.

After the ODU game, I wrote in my group chat, "mark my words, that was the beginning of the end for Shane Beamer."

 

[PD-Cock]

Kirby spent quite a few years @ Alabama. 1st as position coach on defense, moved to defensive coordinator's position for 8 years. ESPN article (I believe it was) said of Kirby, "he knew the inner workings of every position, was a dog on recruiting trail.
Point being, Alabama gets everyone's best & beating Alabama, for any coach, lucky enough to win against Alabama, ultimately becomes legendary long after "that" coach hangs up his cleats. Kirby lived it. Best wasn't good enough.
Spent 8 years under the most demanding head coach, I'll submit, of any program playing football. Kirby could write novels on adjustments. An experts, expert I'll argue,, on in-game adjustments. Also an expert on selecting position coaches. Primarily because of who he answered to.
I'll let y'all compare & contrast differences in the two programs. Just remember, we were close, so very close to never having to have this discussion. Dang it!!