It's odd that Briles, with his lack of leadership and continually taking risks on shady dudes helped crater the program, but the guy who comes to fix it gets so much flak on here.
Who knows the coaches better - keyboard warriors or the players?
"(Clay) Johnston's face lit up when he talked about messing around with
his former coaches in Indy. Those bonds are strong. There is a lot of love. "
Those guys are just so genuine and real," Johnston explained.
"Our first year we went 1-11 and people were questioning if we should be having these tougher practices or whatever, but
once the whole team bought in, that's why we were so good this year," Lynch said. "Everyone was on the same page. We became that family."
https://www.panthers.com/news/james-lynch-clay-johnston-baylor-combine-matt-rhule-phil-snowMatt Rhule hadn't been in James Lynch's house an hour and the new Baylor coach was telling Lynch his career aspirations.
They did not include growing old in Waco, Texas.
Rhule had just taken over the Bears' program from interim coach Jim Grobe, and Lynch had just had his scholarship offer rescinded from Southern Cal. Rhule cut to the chase during his first in-home recruiting visit as Baylor's coach.
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One of things he told me, he's like, 'I want to one day be an NFL head coach. And I'm telling you that now because I want to be straight-up honest with you in what I want. And I want you to be in the NFL,'" Lynch said.
"And that meant a lot to me. Because a lot of times in college I mean, I'd just had my offer pulled from USC so there's a lot of shady stuff that happens.
So for him to tell me straight-up honestly what he wanted, it gave me a little sense of trust with him that he's gonna be a straight shooter with me and tell me what he wants and what's gonna happen."
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/1730535/2020/04/07/could-history-repeat-with-baylor-dl-james-lynch-and-matt-rhule-in-charlotte/