So Scott Frost has stated publicly, almost as if he is bragging about it, that he estimates that there are 15-20 instances per practice of offensive lineman vomiting. He says the players are in shape but that they are just being worked that hard by Raiola.
Sorry coach but this is not something to brag on. It is shameful and the fact that Frost cannot see it as shameful is, sadly, one more indication that he is not fit to be a head coach. He is not fit to be a head coach for allowing this to happen in the first place. And he is not fit to be a head coach since his "better judgement" told him this was something that it was okay to brag about publicly. It shows he is clueless and arrogant. Still. After four years of clueless arrogance.
If we end up having a break out season I will be thrilled. Dancing in the aisles and kicking up my heels. But even if we do, I will still feel disgust in my stomach that this overgrown child is still our head coach.
Pennsy, let me float this by you and the others, see if it makes any sense.
First of all, when you have athletes competing at a high level, its important to test their ability to work, and work hard.
I doubt many of us on this forum are surprised at the amount of vomiting, as Frost said, it amounts to about once per player.
THEORY: Through last season, by some accounts, Frost and Austin did not see eye to eye regarding techniques the OL used and were being taught. Frost, likely was more "pro aggressive" and Austin was more "pro patty cake."
If and when Frost decided to fire Austin and hire a new OL coach, it's possible that interview process spelled out that the now fired OL coach did not have the kids reach full potential in either physical or technique areas. It is "possible" Frost said who ever gets hired will be expected to "work the piss out of them" and be way more aggressive.
So, IF, and this whole post is about me speculating, so it's just an opinion. So, the numbers have shown SOME of these OLmen have doubled their last years physical performance. Depending on the metrics Frost was using, it would bear out that Austin ran a pretty loose ship.
We all know, athletes don't make large increases unless they are really physically stressed. And it looks like that is exactly what Raiola has been doing. In athletics, there is what's known as supercompensation.
IF, as the RUMOR flowed yesterday, there was in fact a shouting match between Frost and Raiola, could it be that one or the other reached the point of saying this is too much, we can't push these kids any harder? I don't know if anything like that occurred.
Spreading this rumor even farther, maybe word got back to Trev about players loving it or hating it, and Trev taking an opposite opinion. Again, pure speculation on my part. If an exchange happened between Frost and Trev, or Raiola and Trev, and his support or disapproval spurred the exchange?
In the event, Frost came down on Raiola for working these kids too hard in drills they were less effective when moving to the practice field, its possible Raiola reminded Frost of what he was expected to do when he was hired. None of us know, I certainly don't know.
We probably won't get the entire truth of what happened, but if it comes down to he said/he said, I'm gonna side with Raiola as I feel Frost is not a trustworthy person, his character has borne that out for a lot of years. But a blow out among the head coach and position coach 10 days away from the opener, is not a good look.
Feel free to agree or disagree. This is nothing more than a post of speculation.
