- December 14th, 2011, 11:55 am
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Gill has a lot of problems, too numerous to list, but I will try to list a few.
He has ZERO discipline, on or off the field. In fact, he festered a Club Med, Las Vegas vacation atmosphere in the program with no accountability.
As of November, 53 players had at least ONE F. 53. And this is from a man who claims to care about his players, and most of these guys are his recruits.
Drug Test failures are rampant. I know these are kids and drugs will always be an issue, but not to the extent that Gill allowed. Sometime you have to set examples and boot players, Gill didn't have the stones to do it.
KU players were severely out of shape (maybe the party/drug atmosphere?). KU players seemed to get fatter during the season. Gill fired the old Strength and Conditioning coach and hired an obese new one. The players openly mocked the new program as it was a joke. The S&C coach brought McDonalds to work and fell asleep in his office. KU was the weakest and worst shape team in the country.
Gill is not organized, at all. He struggled with the mundane to the significant tasks in running a program. He struggles with just organizing a practice.
Gill bases his hires on religious beliefs, not competency.
Turner Gill's actual hands on fundamental and X and 0 coaching is severely, severely limited. He must rely on his staff to do it all. He was hired at Nebraska as a figurehead only and given little to no actual coaching responsiblity. His job was to be Turner Gill and impress recruits coming in, he was never a coordinator anywhere because he is not capable of being a coordinator. When he eventually figured out Nebraska wasn't taking him serious, he moved on to Buffalo. He wasn't a coordinator there either. He is not capable of being a coordinator and I doubt he even knows the names of any plays. This lack of general football knowledge is critical because when there is a problem, he has no way to even identify what the problem is, let alone fix it.
In Gill's entire career, he lucked into ONE decent season in which he finished tied FOURTH in the MAC, but because UB was in the by far weaker division (and because of a hail mary win), they got a chance to play in the MAC title game wherein they pulled a huge upset because the opposing team turned the ball over something like 7 times. That UB team had a NFL QB and RB (I don't think he recruited them) and that was the secret to success, not TG. They went back to normal the next year. Then the new coach came in and found the program in a mess, he didn't leave much behind.
For some reason Gill receives, and has always received, a lot of publicity from that win (season) and his subsequent pretend job interviews at Nebraska and Auburn (and Charles Barkley's comments). He seems like a nice guy so a lot of people want him to succeed.
Gill is a horrible public speaker, like the worst. He will install no public confidence in his message because he is not capable of articulating a message or plan. He might fool you the first time you hear him, but if you really listen he is beyond horrible. He will throw out random meaningless phrases like 'from that standpoint' and 'per se' at will, and you better get ready for the word 'there' because he says it every third word, said it around 80 times per television show.
He is supposedly a great recruiter, but I don't think a lot of people buy it. His classes at UB were really bad and towards bottom of conference. He brought in some skill talent at KU (sounds like a lot of it is being kicked out anyway for grades/drugs). However, the reason KU brought in recruits is because KU bought Gill several recruiting wizards as assistant coaches for around $2 million dollars, particularly Reggie Mitchell and Darell Wyatt. I doubt Liberty can afford to do that. I don't think Gill can recruit, but if he does have a strength, this is supposed to be it.
Gill makes insane silly rules that get ridiculed by the media and rivals. He does silly things that don't matter, like taking the names off the backs of the jerseys (to show team?) and not allowing girl sleep overs, yet he doesn't pay attention that they don't go to class?
I could go on and on, but this is start. Turner Gill is the most incompetent person I have ever witnessed coach. I'm not exaggerating. I would not trust him to run my high school and that is not hyperbole. If you are not very bright, you have to be very organized and goal oriented. He is none of those things.
Oh, I didn't even get into game play. No clue on time out or clock mangement. regularly burn at dumb times for not having enough guys on field. One time had to call a TO on the SECOND play of the game. Several members of the coaching staff wear their hats on backwards on the sidelines, totally unprofessional looking.
Players quit on Gill very quickly, probably in at least half the games he coaches. One team had their backup QB in a game against Gill in the 2nd quarter . . . never seen that before. KU was setting national records in futility under KU and was joke on espn and other broadcasts 'stuff like, well at least it is not as bad as KU'. Worst defense in the country and the offense wasn't much better. Lots of penalties. Horrible special teams, horrible. I think KU had 5 punts and FGs blocked his first year. Every week something new bad would happen, just like when it looks like it couldn't get any worse, fill in the blank happens.
Several teams facing Gill set all time school records against Gill.
Gill shows NO emotion on the sidelines and looks like he is about to fall asleep.
I could go on and on. I would really hate to see the guy fool another program.
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