Dan Hawkins has never been afraid to defy conventions. This is the same coach who once used a scene from The Empire Strikes Back to motivate players, once said "I think of myself as indigenous," he says finally. "When people ask where I'm from, I like to say I'm from Earth," has his own blog (which is every bit as bizarre as you'd hope) and famously took his beef with a parent to the press, uttering "It's Division I football! It's the Big 12! It ain't intramurals!So it should come as no surprise that the man behind Hawk Love is trying something different with his quarterbacks this spring.
The Colorado QBs are strapping on helmet cams for certain drills which will allow players and coaches to improve the passers' field vision.
“The thing I need to work on the most isn’t so much my knowledge of the
playbook, but manipulating defenses,” junior quarterback Cody
Hawkins told
CUBuffs.com. “Working with the helmet cam, I might know that this is
my read, but say it is third-and-eight and we have to get eight yards, I need to
try and move the defense and find the weaknesses rather than just going through
my reads.”
It's an interesting tactic, one that on paper should help the Buffaloes staff stop the QBs from locking on receivers and could revolutionize the way QBs are coaches. Of course, it's a point of progress that's primed for disaster.
In the last week a Dallas officer resigned amid confrontation with a Houston Texans player outside of a hospital that was videotaped by a camer inside the police car that was installed to to keep cops safe. But that same camera has the ability to provide proof when an officer is overstepping his bounds/acting like a control freak with a gun. Likewise, putting a camera on a QBs head at practice is asking for a verbal catastrophe.
It's not hard to imagine a coach letting some racial/sexist or just plain insensitive words slip out during practice, which just so happens to be on tape. What's to stop a manager, a player or an assistant coach with an axe to grind from uploading that footage on YouTube, providing coach and program with instant controversy. And could there be a worse program to start the wheel of progress than Colorado, which has a coach who has no verbal filter?
Go ahead and mark it down, if Colorado continues to use this technology, Dan Hawkins will say something he shouldn't have said and it will land on the Internet, somewhere. After all, this is Division I football. It ain't intramurals, brother!
NOTE: The Señior is obligated to include two such references to Hawkins' most famous rant whenever including the Colorado coach in any future blog postings.
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