I keep seeing in Meyer's pressers that various players "grade out a champion" and scores such as 89 or 97 percent. I've searched the googles and can only find refrences in his press conference accounts. Does anyone know how the scale works, what the minimum score is for 'champion' and what eh reward is for the grade?
Thanks!
All I've heard is that it is a different score for different positions... And I'm surprised how often cornerbacks and safeties grade as champion, given how many big plays are given up. He seems to emphasize that grading champion as an offensive lineman is very difficult in his press conferences.
I'm still shocked Guiton didn't grade out as a champion this week.
Guiton threw an int on one deep ball and missed an open Devon Smith on another. If you take out the context of his throws (game winner!!!) and just evaluate each run read and pass read/throw, he didn't actually play great. What made it a great performance is that when it truly counted he did everything right to win, and did it despite having to come off the bench.
I can see why he wouldn't grade as a champion.
I am surprised the safeties grade out well so often. The CBs are very very strong- most what they give up is because of the scheme, which I have always thought requires them to give up padding to make up for lack of faith in the safeties. Clearly there is more going on than that since the safeties keep grading well.
I'd love to know the grading system, but I suspect its pretty technical on a play by play basis, and has almost nothing to do with the result of the play itself- just the player's technique on his specific task.
We played nickel a ton on Saturday from what the commentators were saying. Was Doran Grant on the field for a ton of snaps? Don't remember his name being called at all
No, Orihan Johnson moved down to Star for most of the game with the return of Barnett at Safety I believe. I like OJ at star, I think he is a better tackler than Grant, just wish he wouldn't taunt his man after every tackle
Sorry Urban, Woody is still my favorite
Basically this was something Urban and his staff used at Florida. Anyone who grades out a champion gets to eat at the Champions dinner each Sunday. That is the reward for preparation and performance.
They also use it as a "movtivating factor" for those who do not grade out as champions. The goal here would be to have an entire unit grade out as champions.
I think the minimum grade to be a champion is 88? I am not 100% sure on that but I thought that was the champions line. And I have no idea what the grading criteria are, but ther are several factors that go into it.