CIOFFI STILL CAN'T TACKLE
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Agreed. The season is over, let it go and wish him well in his future endeavors.
Wish the kid the best . This is a bad thread to call the kid out. He was just overmatched. By all accounts he's a good kid and gave his all to ru football
He is a great guy who gave his best effort.Thank you Anthony!
Classless post congrats on being a complete loser.
Great kid from a great family. Did anyone consider he didn't have much help in the secondary after the rest of them switched to prison stripes? Sure he had his share of miscues. And he has a serious problem with not wrapping up. But he always gave 100% on the field, regardless of talent. Classless post is right. Then again, most of you on here are all Americans. Smh.
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Thank the coach for teaching everyone how to tackle. AC was the first one "knighted" by the great former DC. If you guys want to pile on, Ash and staff deserves most of the credit.
I never understand ripping a player who plays his best. If there was a better guy they would play him. It's not his fault he's our best option. Why blast him? If he was lazy or had a shitty attitude fine, but he does what he can do. If Ash thinks there is a better guy play him. Until then we would be worse without him in the coaches view so STFU
Wait. Are you talking about our safeties or our punter or our kicker or our linebackers ?
If he had just PUSHED the runner....any runner out of bounds it would have been acceptable / an upgrade.
Good luck on his degree / Cioffi's restaurant (think his parents own an Italian deli?).
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IF any of you were there in person yesterday, you saw that outside of the Defense line,there are few individual players who can tackle in a one on one spot on the current defense. Fundamentaly RU is lacking in many areas but outside of bad Special teams and linebacker play,tackling is a continous serious problem at RU. What happened to the great Rugby techiques Ash and staff talked about at start of season???
Maybe you should call up the star ledger, ask them to may it a major headline.
i gree, the kid played as well as he could, none of them go out to look bad, he gave us 4 years, leave it at that
And I thought Ash was going to teach them how to tackle this year. Yeah right.
He is never playing here again be a fn' adult and let it go. This thread is an embarrassment.
Thanks for sharing this. Since the young man was a team leader the past few years, I suspected there was some issue like this.
He probably shouldn't even be out there, but he is giving his best to help his team. I suspect there are several guys in the same situation. Gentlemen, you have earned my respect.
Soon he will be tackling the meat cutter at Cioffis deli in Springfield.When we got him I had hoped for a John Lynch Harrison Smith type or one of those tough Italian or Polish guys that Paterno always recruited..Oh well.Good luck to he and his family .
AC played this season with a separated shoulder & elbow injury, he toughed it out since both Hester & Hampton had leg injuries & could not go, so Cioffi toughed it out for the team even though he could have sat out & gotten a red shirt. We have some clueless scumbag, so called fans, who run their mouths when they don't have any f...ing clue what the real story is.
Cioffi is a great kid and a Loyal Son. Unless a student commits an infraction or flunks out of class, I can't imagine why anyone would single out one of our own. This is not professional sports - these are college kids who are doing their best. I think that people need to vent their frustrations about the team in other ways besides calling out an individual student.
-Scarlet Jerry
-Scarlet Jerry
I agree, except if a kid flunks out, and couldn't handle the football and class work, I don't believe
he should be called out. This is one reason I didn't like using the 18 year old and burning
his red shirt over a hand few of appearances. It is very tough transition for these kids, and many
coaches believe more in the red shirt.
Too many guys playing hurt, little to no depth, hard bad habits still hard to break. etc, etc, etc.
I blame the previous coach who recruited him. You can't blame our current staff for not being able to make a bunch of Flood recruits play like superstars.
You also cannot blame the Flood recruits. These kids play football all of their lives and then get offered a scholarship to their state university. No player or parent is going to turn that down because they only have d2 talent.
This is all on Flood and his inability to recruit and coach.
Ash only had him for one year, Flood had him for a lot longer.
I think our fans need to educate themselves on rugby style tackling, the different aspects of it, and when it is used rather than as some punchline. The play in question wouldn't have called for a rugby style tackle. Also, calling out individual kids is not necessary.
At the risk of pushing this back to the top I will also ask what is the point of this trashing him (or any individual player) at this point in time. Let it go. Just wrong.
And don't be surprised to see him get an invite somewhere and show up. Wouldn't be the first time this has happened.
And lastly, the overall team's inability to improve tackling with all the hype, technique change, S&C work, and former DC as HC is the single biggest reason I have concerns about this coach. Saw NOTHING across the whole backside of this team. ZERO value added executional improvement (edit...in terms of tackling/getting off blocks/angle of attack..maybe I should have said everything except an improvement to defend the deep ball LOL)
And don't be surprised to see him get an invite somewhere and show up. Wouldn't be the first time this has happened.
And lastly, the overall team's inability to improve tackling with all the hype, technique change, S&C work, and former DC as HC is the single biggest reason I have concerns about this coach. Saw NOTHING across the whole backside of this team. ZERO value added executional improvement (edit...in terms of tackling/getting off blocks/angle of attack..maybe I should have said everything except an improvement to defend the deep ball LOL)
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And how long should it take for Anthony Cioffi and others to learn to wrap up around the legs?....Anthony's problem is the "macho".... I'm gonna bust him up with a high shoulder hit...when he did make tackles and he did...he wrapped the player up around the knees and ankles....the player that ran him over several years ago was able to do so because he was stronger and bigger....
Thank you A.C. for your years as a Jersey kid who stayed at RU amongst all the turnover,played whatever position he was asked and played 100% ! Not too many kids from Cioffis freshman class still on team that will graduate,most transfered,left football or were kicked off team.
Want to knock a player, knock the players on roster who play the same position but can't beat out the player you're bashing.
If he's the best RU has and doing his best, support his effort and blame the coaches ( past and/or present) for the position being a weakness.
If he's the best RU has and doing his best, support his effort and blame the coaches ( past and/or present) for the position being a weakness.
