Was never ecstatic about the choice of Flood - his selection carried the aroma of desperation - the winner by default... but still one could hope - hope that he might emerge from obscurity and be wise & inspiring. Well, hope got washed away by the tide of mediocrity and repeated evidence that Flood is comprehensively clueless - especially in areas that he has not witnessed others deal with numerous times before - essentially, when faced with a challenge that he would have to figure out on his own - look out, disaster looms! When facing situations with little precedent, Flood veers toward poor decision making.
A huge, huge turning point in my impressions of him was in the email/grade situation - the inquiry was wrong - but understandable & probably forgivable - - but when Flood planned out the various step to meet the instructor - carefully selecting a remote location, carefully selecting his non-identifying attire, and all the time blatantly and willfully ignoring the blunt advice and cautions of the academic support staffer - During all of this, a voice should have been going off in Flood's head - a voice should have said "What I am planning to do is flat-out WRONG, it violates conduct standards and I must stop" -
The other point is now a bit like a flash-back ... it annoyed me at the time, but it seemed then to be just a moderate annoyance. However, it has stuck in my head - and after revisiting it, it now really turns my stomach ... This set of comments from Flood about the QB decision - and the tone / message from Flood starkly suggests some fundamental common sense flaws in how he analyzes things & expresses himself
What nauseated me can be found in this September 7, 2015 article:
http://www.nj.com/rutgersfootball/i...hayden_rettig_named_rutgers_starting_qua.html
SPECIFICALLY THIS SECTION:
So, what more could Rettig have done to win the starting job?
"It's not about what more anybody could have done," Flood said. "Ultimately I've got to look at the body of work and make a decision based on what gives our team the best opportunity to be 1-0, just like we do at every position."
Flood said the body of work was the deciding factor in the choice, but he didn't elaborate on what specifically separated Laviano from Rettig.
"I wouldn't want to do that because I don't really want to share what we see as a staff as maybe the deficiencies of any of our players and give those thing up in game planning to our opponents," Flood said.
I can remember reading this and thinking 'Flood is an idiot .. and a malicious one!' Instead of simply tap-dancing his way out of the conversation, saying ' we are blessed with two great choices, but we had to pick one & we are going with Chris and are delighted to know that Hayden is poised to lead the team at a moment's notice' .. noooo ... he stupidly had to wander off into making some ambiguous insinuation about some sort of 'deficiencies' that Rettig had - 'deficiencies' that apparently were quite evident in Flood's head - and entered into his thinking. I thought - wow, what king of a jerk coach throws a kid under the bus like that?
Ultimately with Flood, we have
'to look at the body of work and make a decision based on what gives our team the best opportunity' - we have to get beyond the W-L and look at the quality of the vision & the decision making & the probability of future success. When it comes to Flood - the quality is just not there.
