Babers Reveals Existence of Cult

Dino Babers was interviewed on CoachingSearch.com about his off-season moves, particularly taking his DC and making him a position coach on the offense.  At the time, he said it was because he was getting guys into positions where they had historically coached, which I showed was pretty much not true for 3 of the 4 guys he was talking about.

New reason.

“Our offense is a system,” he said. “It’s almost like a cult. You don’t really bring new people into it. I was probably one of the last people brought in from the outside, when I was at Baylor.”

So, it's a cult now.  Or ALMOST a cult.  Anyway, I don't know when cults got to be a good thing (usually teams are described as families), but it goes back to my previous concern that when this cult moves to another commune, we're going to have to either find someone to coach from this tight little cult or change systems again and have an adjustment period.

Speaking of adjustment periods.  Coach has always. to be fair, said the offense would not gel into year 2.  (Switching systems and throwing a season away is on the AD).  Fortunately, for all of us, Babers is now ready to project the gelling time more closely:

"I’ve said this offense really takes off in the second year, between the second and fourth games.”

Presumably after spring ball and Fall camp we will be able to get this narrowed even a little closer, like 3 minutes into the 2nd Quarter of the Memphis game.