Root Cause
Originally Posted by
budwom
Cut DID make some painful decisions after last season, canning the OL coach (we know he's faithful to his staff) and effectively demoting his #1 assistant and Associate Head coach...so I imagine this season has been especially hard on him.
The offense he chooses to run seems quite predictable and stale to this layman...so I suspect the changes he chose to make were perhaps necessary but insufficient. Who knows? He did state last year that he needed to re-look at everything they do...
I have such high regard for Coach Cut that I want to remain respectfully hopeful. The changes Cut made seemed absolutely necessary but evidently they were not sufficient. Struggling leaders [executives, coaches, etc.] often make significant changes but without the essential core insight: As the top leader, what am I doing or not doing that render the changes I make -- positive and sensible in themselves -- destined to fail. Looking squarely in the mirror is wrenchingly painful. Each of us, including me, can look at our own leadership and realize how hard it is to acknowledge...it's me. But it is absolutely essential to get to root cause.
Seeing the offense that has resulted from Coach Cut's changes -- which gave him more direct control of the offense -- does not in itself make me optimistic. Keeping an ineffective OC for so long was also worrisome and instructive. But I still hope. Sometimes, when things get bad enough, leaders with integrity will finally look long and honestly enough in the mirror to change...themselves. Sometimes really good friends can help a leader make the necessary changes. Maybe Coach has some friends like that.
“I love it. Coach, when we came here, we had a three-hour meeting about the core values. If you really represent the core values, it means diving on the floor, sacrificing your body for your teammates, no matter how much you’re up by or how much you’re down by, always playing hard.” -- Zion