College Coaches

Captain Planet

WC's Resident Samoan

All right so I was reading this article today, and I think it pertains to all collegiate sports. Garth Snow, the GM of the New York Islanders, said that Don Lucia, Head Coach of the Minnesota Golden Gopher Hockey Team, was a bad coach(Really? 12 straight years of coaching teams in the Top 25?) and not using the Islanders Kyle Okposo correctly. Okposo has been playing mostly Center this year as the Gophers are short on Centermen. Okposo is a natural winger. Snow doesn't feel that Okposo was getting "properly developed" playing at Minnesota. So here's the question... is it the College Coachs duties to Win? or to develop talent? I mean, Lucia's track record I think speaks for itself, he's a winner, but what should be their real duty?

Blitzkrieg

A college coach's job is to win. People get on Urban Meyer for using Tebow the way he does, but why wouldn't he? Most defenses can't stop Florida's spread offense, so why the hell would Meyer change things? Tebow said he's happy to be a Gator, he always wanted to be a Gator, his parents were Gators.. so I guess he doesn't care that this offense could potentially drop him in the draft, but there's also the possibility that it could help his status. If Florida ran an NFL offense and Tebow didn't play well, maybe it'd scare teams away.. Scouts and everyone else are still intrigued with the kid, so hey.. it must be working and like I said, the team wins. That's Meyer's job.