01-21-2021, 01:47 PM
(01-19-2021, 06:45 AM)81alum Wrote: Something I have thought about is the effect of being on the road for months on Kate Paye and family. It has to be incredibly hard on coaches with kids. Do they take the kids on the road with them? Do you say goodbye to your children for months on end, not even coming home for Christmas? There can''t be a good way to handle it.
Now I don't know about the families of the other assistant coaches, since they are new and have not been to the normal chalk talks. Not sure if Katy or Britney have children too.
I also wonder about the quality of the scouting reports. Kate is apparently an expert, as of course is Tara, but it takes assistant coaches some time to learn Tara's way of scouting another team. Katy tangentially discussed this at the virtual "behind the bench" as she marveled at Tara and Kate's scouting abilities. Who had the scout for Colorado? How about the film work and editing facilities? Is it possible under present conditions to do as thorough a scout and install it as would normally be the case? It certainly can't be easier than usual.
Something else that hasn't received much discussion is the cancelation of games creating competitive disadvantage. Kelly Graves spoke about it after his team lost to UCLA. UCLA had over a week to prepare since their game against OSU was cancelled. Same as with Colorado, their game against Cal was cancelled so they had extra time to get ready to play us. I would expect the rematch against Colorado to go very differently.
