"I’m kind of very interested according to the ability of the players to morph into a little bit more of what we might can do. I’m excited and have been looking at that for a bit. We certainly have to establish an identity and the identity has to be a blend of a system of what the players are comfortable with and good at. I think that’s coaching. You take your talent and you make sure it’s the right fit for the system. Then you adapt that system as best you can to the team."
We’ve had really good runners in our program. Tailbacks. We have four of them that are on a wall back in Oregon State that combined for a total of 16,000 yards.
(On staffing) they have to have two qualities. They have to be experts. If it’s a linebacker coach, then that’s got to be his expertise and he has to be good at it. And the other thing to be the right guy is that he has to treat people right.
I think overall the preparation for football, the ability to recruit and to fit in the talent of our team with what we do will give us a great opportunity to win.
In the end, what a player wants is two things, to be treated right, and have a fair chance to play.
And from Cavanaugh (paraphrasing) - I like what I have in my room, we were never able to field two complete lines at Oregon State.
We’ve had really good runners in our program. Tailbacks. We have four of them that are on a wall back in Oregon State that combined for a total of 16,000 yards.
(On staffing) they have to have two qualities. They have to be experts. If it’s a linebacker coach, then that’s got to be his expertise and he has to be good at it. And the other thing to be the right guy is that he has to treat people right.
I think overall the preparation for football, the ability to recruit and to fit in the talent of our team with what we do will give us a great opportunity to win.
In the end, what a player wants is two things, to be treated right, and have a fair chance to play.
And from Cavanaugh (paraphrasing) - I like what I have in my room, we were never able to field two complete lines at Oregon State.