ba·ber·do·ci·o
noun
- boastful and outlandish statements from a Midwest Football Coach
Just a couple check-in posts this week...first with football. This is a very different off-season than last year, when we feel in for a massive, high-profile hype campaign about Falconfast that included videos showing the coach changing all the speed limit signs, etc. As the defending champions, there were high expectations.
Of course, those expectations were not met. The team went from the best team in the MAC to the 4th or 5th best team in the MAC...from 3rd in the MAC in scoring offense to 8th, from 1st in the MAC in scoring defense to 8th, all while losing all our cross-over games and taking the worst defeat in the history of the MAC title game.
I predicted that the off-season would be quieter and I think I was right. And I think that was the right way to go.
After the last off-season...the manic press conference following the Indiana win, then the excuse-making, insincere reasons for why coaches were moved, etc, people were not going to be in the mood for more Baberdocio. They were going to be in the mood to see results.
I thought about that again when I saw a report on AZZ.com on the Falcon promotional caravan around Ohio. Babers is reported to have said:
- The defense will be better because of the new DC he hired.
- We have the best backup QB in the country.
- The offense will be electric
- The only rookie in the offense is the QB
Those are good examples. Just to run them down in order:
- If they are, given the losses they have, he is a genius and it will be far and away the biggest thing he has done in coaching
- No comment
- It better be
- And if Johnson isn't good we have a ready-made excuse ready
Anyway, the point is I think we are immune to the jabber right now. Let's see it work.
One thing he is reported to say that I agree with is when he urged fans from outside the immediate area to focus on the three Saturday home games for attending, and not to worry too much about the weeknight games, which are hard to do if you are out of town. I thought that was a smart piece of marketing.
Last year the entire focus was on going fast. That's fine if you also score, but when you go 3 and out the vast majority of the time it just precipitates losing football more rapidly. How about #FalconFirstDown and #Passesbetween1and50yards? It's not like the Baylor philosophy can't win, and it's probably more exciting than Clawson-ball when working smoothly, but when you won a championship playing a certain way there's the expectation that the new changed way would be equal or better. It most certainly wasn't, and here's hoping that changes in 2015.
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