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Random thought to kill time before kickoff (IS IT HERE YET??!?!?).

Anyone else notice that Lanning is starting to give one-word answers to certain questions? I get Crepa is a whole different animal to deal with but I'm loving Lanning with the media.

Much like Chip, Lanning clearly does not suffer fools. Although he does it with that Midwestern affability and a smile, vs. the cocky New England smirk and staring bullets through the reporter in awkward silence until everyone moves on to the next question.

We are going to have growing pains with Lanning but in reading the various background articles on his upbringing / college years / early coaching career by The Athletic, Canzano, Alger & Crepa he is clearly a driven, focused, REAL person who is constantly learning and trying to improve in all parts of his life from being a parent to being a coach. (Apparently his wife still drives the same car from when he was a coach at Memphis and he still organizes his High School reunions, even as a Power 5 Coach per the articles.)

(The fact he hangs out with all his old buddies from his early years that are now coaches and they all get together in the offseason is also a lot like Chip.)

- hotshot coordinator from clear across the country - CHECK (Chip might have been FCS and unheard of to fans but he was known in football circles)
- keeps tight with circle of friends from his youth that are involved in coaching from HS to the NFL - CHECK
- constantly learning and trying to improve - CHECK
- no time for idiots when dealing with the media- CHECK

Happy Friday everyone! T-minus 28 hours!

Also...F&*K The Huskies

Good points bdkipe, nice post.

I think their personalities are nothing alike but where they do have something in common is they have small school roots for the playing and early coaching jobs.

Crepea also asks terrible questions with how he phrases things, he is basically asking the coach to elaborate on his musings which nobody wants to do. (This is also a problem a TON of journalists have, "I have an observation, will you elaborate because I can't frame this in a question? - No")

Duck07 wrote:I think their personalities are nothing alike but where they do have something in common is they have small school roots for the playing and early coaching jobs.

Crepea also asks terrible questions with how he phrases things, he is basically asking the coach to elaborate on his musings which nobody wants to do. (This is also a problem a TON of journalists have, "I have an observation, will you elaborate because I can't frame this in a question? - No")

Coaches could be more straightforward and stop speaking in football platitudes. I find that far more distasteful than journalists trying to report nuance and intricacy. I often find Crepea using rhetorical devices to try to coax honest information form coaches otherwise unwilling to part with anything interesting whatsoever. Without the fans there would be no journalists, without the journalists there would be less fandom. It seems coaches forget this aspect of the sport.

AshlandDuck wrote:

Duck07 wrote:I think their personalities are nothing alike but where they do have something in common is they have small school roots for the playing and early coaching jobs.

Crepea also asks terrible questions with how he phrases things, he is basically asking the coach to elaborate on his musings which nobody wants to do. (This is also a problem a TON of journalists have, "I have an observation, will you elaborate because I can't frame this in a question? - No")

Coaches could be more straightforward and stop speaking in football platitudes. I find that far more distasteful than journalists trying to report nuance and intricacy. I often find Crepea using rhetorical devices to try to coax honest information form coaches otherwise unwilling to part with anything interesting whatsoever. Without the fans there would be no journalists, without the journalists there would be less fandom. It seems coaches forget this aspect of the sport.

If you can't ask good questions you shouldn't be there. I've heard enough of Crepea in pressers to know he can't ask basic questions to get those answers but instead has to say something divise before asking them to elaborate.

Crepea is awful. He has one objective when he asks questions and that's to trip up the coaches into spilling a little nugget to him.

The coaches all know his game. They were all told about him when they arrived. I had the opportunity to talk with one of them after spring football concluded and he said they know exactly what his objectives are, when he asks a question , it's just as I said, he's trying to bait them into saying something that they don't necessarily want to divulge.

He is also extremely rude. Listen to how he asks questions.
MC hated him.

Lanning right now is a bit more patient with him but that will not last for long. How many times did he ask DL about who was starting at QB???

I respect the media in general as they have a job to do and a right to ask questions. They also need to be respectful and Crepea falls way short of that.


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