In Reply to: I can see Chip back in college posted by ThunderRoad on November 07, 2025 at 09:57:06
The players are eager beavers, willing to please the coaches. So they do what they're told and run through brick walls to get on the field.
Chip will have much better compliance on the pillars of his operation with college kids: sleep monitoring, hydration monitoring, workload management to prevent soft tissue injuries, 150+ snaps per practice (ie, highly elevated pace of practice)
NFL players are GAM and have the Union pushing back on intrusive practices. I don't think the NFL teams have team-wide off-season conditioning programs...unlike cfb teams, which do.
Chip's O works best with a lot of interchangeable parts...2 or 3 backs to share the workload, a bunch of possession receivers to catch mostly intermediate to short passes. His year at tOSU was an anomaly...he had a home run hitter in JJ Smith, and I was frankly pretty surprised that Smith put up the numbers he did, because we just hadn't seen WRs in CK's O have dominant seasons.
I guess Jake Bobo had a pretty big year. It was down from his previous year at Duke, where he caught 75 passes, but Bobo's one year at Ucla was = J.Mike's 2 years. (Very disappointing result.) True, only one of those years was with CK...the other was with EB. I also thought Ford Rampage was going to put up big #s at Ucla...but Logan Loya seemed to have the knack of getting open more regularly. (It helps to be the slot player in CK's passing concepts.)
Another thing about CK's system that is better suited to cfb: CK's run game DEMANDS that WRs block their A's off to make the run game go. NFL WRs...lol. You think I'm going to go in motion and then wrap into the B gap to lead block on an LB or a S? lololollololo