My Observations From Today's Practice

[JughedJones]

They wouldn't let me in. "I'm an IE mod" didn't seem to impress them....

What is the world coming to?

 

[Old Man Mike]

Well, OK, STL, but "documentaries" are "managed news". Having lots of real time access to practices and potential loose cannon media commentary about what they just saw is not. The regularly aired Nolan episodes pleased all of us on IE and I feel that there is a strategic reason why Kelly wants as much closed time as possible.

Here are a couple of things off the top of the head: yelling at certain players without any more restraint than necessary; occasional internal fisticuffs between team members; nuisance injury possibly real and possibly irrelevant; false assumptions about potential doghouses and playing time; --- we could invent more.

All sorts of coaches prefer closed practices at least some of the time, and "control" over practices all of the time. I was once run out of the field house when a volleyball coach who didn't know who I was went paranoid about maybe me spying on strategy. This stuff happens especially with sports people.

 

[dublinirish]

Jack Nolan dosen't get out of bed for less than 10k an episode. pay up Swarbrick!

 

[Bogtrotter07]

Well, OK, STL, but "documentaries" are "managed news". Having lots of real time access to practices and potential loose cannon media commentary about what they just saw is not. The regularly aired Nolan episodes pleased all of us on IE and I feel that there is a strategic reason why Kelly wants as much closed time as possible.

Here are a couple of things off the top of the head: yelling at certain players without any more restraint than necessary; occasional internal fisticuffs between team members; nuisance injury possibly real and possibly irrelevant; false assumptions about potential doghouses and playing time; --- we could invent more.

All sorts of coaches prefer closed practices at least some of the time, and "control" over practices all of the time. I was once run out of the field house when a volleyball coach who didn't know who I was went paranoid about maybe me spying on strategy. This stuff happens especially with sports people.

Add Bob Diaco's comments about "flying around the field like Freddy Krueger." And then when asked about them denying it, until they explained in was captured in the locker room part of a game production . . . I always thought that some bad mojo was stirred up then. It will be interesting to see if anything comes out of the locker room this season!

Secret Marine Camps; made me laugh. For some, basic training was in San Diego, at MCRD. It sits on a peninsula with the Naval Base and Lindbergh Field, the airport. The west gate is where we watched Gomer Pile march every week. Some of those quonset huts were still there, but most were gone by the time I was in. Anyways, San Diego stretches up from the bay in a bowl shape, so all day at MCRD you can stand behind concertina wire and watch the whole city go about its business around you. Then in those days Phase 2 took you up to Edson Range at Camp Pendleton. The big thing about that was there were "no officers" to keep your drill instructors from laying you out! Of course that was not true. Their were cities up so far in Pendleton, whole communities, like at Lake O'Neil. It was so beautiful looking through the mountains toward the Pacific there!

You don't mean the secret marine camps in Nicaragua, Angola, or Thailand do you?