Margins?

All coach speak gets old after about 5 years if you aren't winning. No matter who or where you are.

I think what makes it really annoying is a lot of the time Campbell’s sound bites aren’t just coach speak. He constantly uses consultanty, corporate buzz words that you’d hear in any boring ass board room. Talk about winning in the margins, synergy, etc. It’s all crap you’d hear coming out of the mouth of any of the countless douchebag consultant wonks that I’m sure we’ve all had to suffer.
 
What exactly does this mean in the 5th year? That we will never have the players or coaches to not worry about the margin? What is the margin?View attachment 75490
Here let me translate:

We got our ******* asses kicked today and I'm going to stand up here and smiley glad hand you before I go into the locker room and scream the paint off the walls.
 
I think what makes it really annoying is a lot of the time Campbell’s sound bites aren’t just coach speak. He constantly uses consultanty, corporate buzz words that you’d hear in any boring ass board room. Talk about winning in the margins, synergy, etc. It’s all crap you’d hear coming out of the mouth of any of the countless douchebag consultant wonks that I’m sure we’ve all had to suffer.


Interesting. Let's take this off line.
 
I think what makes it really annoying is a lot of the time Campbell’s sound bites aren’t just coach speak. He constantly uses consultanty, corporate buzz words that you’d hear in any boring ass board room. Talk about winning in the margins, synergy, etc. It’s all crap you’d hear coming out of the mouth of any of the countless douchebag consultant wonks that I’m sure we’ve all had to suffer.
You think CMC may have taken a seminar from Frank Garza?
 
It's really just like a corporate slogan. I'll compare it to Google's "dont be evil".

Sometimes they work well and sometimes you see the opposite effects.
 
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The bottom line is that if CMC is this great CEO he's going to have to make some tough choices. The recruiting and time spent are there, but the strategy and offense XOs have not. Make the decision and changes to right the ship.
 
All coach speak gets old after about 5 years if you aren't winning. No matter who or where you are.

I agree if you aren't winning in your 5th year, don't expect to be around for many more years....It's not gonna happen...I would say in a coaches 5th year he should not be losing the home opener.....
 
If "winning in the margins" means not being outplayed at every single position group other than DL and having the other team coach circles around you, sign me up.

The only "margin" I saw in that game was an enormous margin in ability and preparedness between us and them.
 
Before we worry about margins, we need to tackle on special teams. There can’t be many teams to have a KO and Punt returned for TD’s against them in the same game. (Heck, that doesn’t even happen often in the same season)
THIS is absolutely poor coaching. ISU players consistently race down the field, overrun the play, stick out an arm for a tackle, and then have no chance of catching up as the faster player runs to the end zone.
 
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His coach speak is tiresome as we continue to struggle on the OL, special teams, play calling, etc. He’s now 26-26. CPR was 25-27 at the same time.

And CPR's teams played in a much tougher B12, when K-State, Baylor, Texas Tech and TCU were all Top 15 caliber teams...

I like Campbell, but I'm not sure the gap between what we see now and what we saw with CPR is as big as people may think. I think the level of competition has changed, though.
 
I think what makes it really annoying is a lot of the time Campbell’s sound bites aren’t just coach speak. He constantly uses consultanty, corporate buzz words that you’d hear in any boring ass board room. Talk about winning in the margins, synergy, etc. It’s all crap you’d hear coming out of the mouth of any of the countless douchebag consultant wonks that I’m sure we’ve all had to suffer.

It reminds me of some VC startup CEO trying to get a third round of funding when they have no positive financial data to back up their business model after 3 years.