BleedGopher
Well-known member
- Joined
- Nov 11, 2008
- Messages
- 63,028
- Reaction score
- 20,710
- Points
- 113
per Joe:
Gophers coach Jerry Kill said this week that he learned something from Duke basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski with regard to handling first-year players.
“I listened to Coach K in news conferences,” Kill said. “And he said, ‘We don’t talk about them being freshmen. The more you talk to them about freshmen, the more they play like freshmen.’”
Kill has tough decisions to make about whom to redshirt in this year’s freshman class, and he is speeding up the usual timeline to make those decisions. With the season opener coming Sept. 3 against TCU, he wants those who are going to play to have more time to prepare.
So instead of just having the freshmen face freshmen in drills, Kill has interspersed them with the upperclassmen more often than usual for the first two days of camp.
“We’re just throwing them in there, just throwing them to the wolves and letting them figure it out,” Kill said Saturday. “So they’ll make mistakes, and we’ll coach it on film. That’s the only way you can learn. You can’t learn standing on the boundary.”
Among the players with a chance to play as true freshmen are linebacker Julian Huff, offensive lineman Tyler Moore, safety Dior Johnson and wide receiver Rashad Still.
http://www.startribune.com/gophers-coach-k-learns-from-coach-k/321152871/
Go Gophers!!
Gophers coach Jerry Kill said this week that he learned something from Duke basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski with regard to handling first-year players.
“I listened to Coach K in news conferences,” Kill said. “And he said, ‘We don’t talk about them being freshmen. The more you talk to them about freshmen, the more they play like freshmen.’”
Kill has tough decisions to make about whom to redshirt in this year’s freshman class, and he is speeding up the usual timeline to make those decisions. With the season opener coming Sept. 3 against TCU, he wants those who are going to play to have more time to prepare.
So instead of just having the freshmen face freshmen in drills, Kill has interspersed them with the upperclassmen more often than usual for the first two days of camp.
“We’re just throwing them in there, just throwing them to the wolves and letting them figure it out,” Kill said Saturday. “So they’ll make mistakes, and we’ll coach it on film. That’s the only way you can learn. You can’t learn standing on the boundary.”
Among the players with a chance to play as true freshmen are linebacker Julian Huff, offensive lineman Tyler Moore, safety Dior Johnson and wide receiver Rashad Still.
http://www.startribune.com/gophers-coach-k-learns-from-coach-k/321152871/
Go Gophers!!