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I don't know how you can watch him talking about Leach's coaching style and not take that as a bunch of digs at Shaw.

KJ is a competitor and appreciates the aggressiveness of Leach's offensive philosophy of always attacking. In addition, he also has pointed out  the work ethic of his new teammates. You can take those as digs against Shaw, but I don't read too much into that. He is complementing Coach Leach's system and enjoying playing in the most QB friendly system in the country. The comments about the players working harder and being more aggressive are more worrisome to me.  Is our program filled with a lot of players who just care less about football and aren't putting as much into it? I hesitate to raise the question as I know the Stanford players are grinding and working hard, but elsewhere are the players working even harder because it means more? 

Yes. It’s a simple equation. Guys who are 100percent football put more into it. By definition the Stanford model doesn’t demand that all the guys to be 100percent football. 

This has always been the issue at Stanford. Our best teams have had maybe 75 percent of guys who are 100 percent all in. The other 25 percent skip practice or go light on weights so they can attend lab or lecture. 

Those 25 percent? They are your hungry scout team players in other models. THAT’s why KJ is saying MSU goes harder in practice.  The only way Stanford ever got that in practice was to go ones vs ones, and that isn’t good for your starters’ health Or your young guys’ development. 

Oh, and it used to be that “full contact” practices that were carried out softly or with people not going all out actually increased injuries. Nowadays who knows, since practices are pretty soft all the time now.

[PersonalLegend]

I don't know how you can watch him talking about Leach's coaching style and not take that as a bunch of digs at Shaw.

KJ is a competitor and appreciates the aggressiveness of Leach's offensive philosophy of always attacking. In addition, he also has pointed out  the work ethic of his new teammates. You can take those as digs against Shaw, but I don't read too much into that. He is complementing Coach Leach's system and enjoying playing in the most QB friendly system in the country. The comments about the players working harder and being more aggressive are more worrisome to me.  Is our program filled with a lot of players who just care less about football and aren't putting as much into it? I hesitate to raise the question as I know the Stanford players are grinding and working hard, but elsewhere are the players working even harder because it means more? 

Yes. It’s a simple equation. Guys who are 100percent football put more into it. By definition the Stanford model doesn’t demand that all the guys to be 100percent football. 

This has always been the issue at Stanford. Our best teams have had maybe 75 percent of guys who are 100 percent all in. The other 25 percent skip practice or go light on weights so they can attend lab or lecture. 

Those 25 percent? They are your hungry scout team players in other models. THAT’s why KJ is saying MSU goes harder in practice.  The only way Stanford ever got that in practice was to go ones vs ones, and that isn’t good for your starters’ health Or your young guys’ development. 

Oh, and it used to be that “full contact” practices that were carried out softly or with people not going all out actually increased injuries. Nowadays who knows, since practices are pretty soft all the time now.