Former Texas Tech coach giving away signals?

[badboy]

Interim Texas Tech DC Mike Smith believes former TTU DC Matt Wallerstedt is giving away the team's defensive signals to opponents since he resigned.
"I don’t want to get into what’s going on with all that, but it’s not right and, to me, it’s not fair to the kids," Smith said. "I sure hope I don’t run into him anytime soon." The team started shielding defensive play callers last weekend against Oklahoma by holding up towels. The Red Raiders have given up 306 points in seven games since Wallerstedt's "resignation."

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[Playoffs]

Report: Texas Tech fired defensive coordinator Matt Wallerstedt for showing up to campus under the influence

 

[WolverineFan]

Pretty crappy thing to do but uh..............new DC = new signals.

It's not rocket science.

 

[xtruroyaltyx]

Pretty crappy thing to do but uh..............new DC = new signals.

It's not rocket science.

Hard to do in the middle of a season.

Most times you promote from within and that guy is just going to mostly be using the same stuff until he gets a chance to change it.

 

[WolverineFan]

Hard to do in the middle of a season.

Most times you promote from within and that guy is just going to mostly be using the same stuff until he gets a chance to change it.

Why fire the guy and then run the same exact defense?

It is hard on the players to adjust midseason but if it's not working.....

 

[xtruroyaltyx]

Why fire the guy and then run the same exact defense?

It is hard on the players to adjust midseason but if it's not working.....

Doesn't appear they fired him for performance. He came to campus under the influence.

But still...most times a guy gets fired, the whole system isn't going to change in the middle of the season.

If it does, it will likely be to something really basic with a lot of the old concepts still sprinkled in.


All that said, there is an easy solution to this without having to cover guys with towels. My Highschool figured it out. I've seen several college teams do it. If Mangini thought Belichick was stealing signals, he could have done it....

You have multiple people send signals in. Let the QB or defensive play callers know which one is hot before every series. He's only paying attention to one guy. But it's harder for opponents to know which signals mean what because they don't know who's giving the actual signals.

Even if you know what the signals mean, you don't know which one is giving the real signals.

 

[badboy]

Can the departed be charged criminally or civilly for theft of product or something? I am thinking that a terminated employee at a company cannot take company property elsewhere or something like that. Maybe though he developed the playbook prior to Texas Tech.