Other than Fred Warner ...
Posted: Tue Oct 10, 2017 8:00 am
Is there an emotional sparkplug on the team? Someone who shows up to play every down? Who is the team leader?
Before the USU game I listened to an interview with their coach, he said, "Coach-led teams can be good teams. Player-led teams can be great." I agree.
Is there a leader on the BYU sidelines? Mangum? Karoma? Pau'u? It seems to me that each of them have stepped back instead of stepping up. Maybe that is the problem with Kalani's mantra of everybody doing their 1/11th on the field. I know he's trying to get the message across that they are a team and win or lose as a team and everybody just needs to do their assignment (try to do too much and you make mistakes at your own spot), but right now they are in desperate need of someone stepping up, putting the team on their back and saying, "Come on, boys! This way to victory!"
Last year there were a few who did, and could do that. This year ... there are those that probably could, but I'm not seeing the leadership coming through the players. Who do you see as the player leaders that are taking over and making this their team?
Before the USU game I listened to an interview with their coach, he said, "Coach-led teams can be good teams. Player-led teams can be great." I agree.
Is there a leader on the BYU sidelines? Mangum? Karoma? Pau'u? It seems to me that each of them have stepped back instead of stepping up. Maybe that is the problem with Kalani's mantra of everybody doing their 1/11th on the field. I know he's trying to get the message across that they are a team and win or lose as a team and everybody just needs to do their assignment (try to do too much and you make mistakes at your own spot), but right now they are in desperate need of someone stepping up, putting the team on their back and saying, "Come on, boys! This way to victory!"
Last year there were a few who did, and could do that. This year ... there are those that probably could, but I'm not seeing the leadership coming through the players. Who do you see as the player leaders that are taking over and making this their team?