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Thanks, you just told me that you have no idea what "coach speak" is.
Coach speak is using vague catchphrases and euphemisms that have absolutely nothing to do with either reality or actuality. An attempt to sound generally positive, without giving away details or actually saying anything of substance. In common, non-sports vernacular, it's called "blowing smoke up your ***".
I'll reiterate. This staff doesn't engage in that.
He definitely does engage in coach speak. To say that he doesn't engage in coach speak means that he answers every question he gets with 100% accurate and meaningful responses and that he talks about the team exactly the same way to the media as he does to his staff and players. He doesn't do that, for a lot of good reasons. I do believe that when he makes specific positive comments about ISU players he is being genuine, but 80-90% of the answers he gives are vague and generically positive. Just in the handful of interviews I've listened to, he says the same thing in answering just about every question (he answers the vast majority of questions by either referencing the good work ethic and moral character of the players, or references to "the process"). And that's OK. For one, half the time the questions he gets have no real answer anyway, so he has to give a generic non-answer to a generic non-question. For another, he isn't going to say "Well, Player X really sucks this year. He's gotten lazy" even if it is true. We don't want him to say that. In private, he may rip that player a new one, but in public he's not going to put his own players or even players from other teams on blast.
Coach speak is necessary in a lot of situations. Some coaches do a bad job of it or try to pump up expectations just to drive excitement, which Campbell and his staff don't do. But, you can't say he doesn't do coach speak. He most definitely does.