Cajuns' loss raises more questions

[ULvictory]

Very surprised he didn't start Jordan. His play last week was one of our best QB performances over the past 2 seasons and should have been an easy call to stay with the hot player.

Amazing, isn't it? Hud loves him some quarterback carousel.

[DocCajun]

Amazing, isn't it? Hud loves him some quarterback carousel.

Gotta keep everyone on their toes!

In seriousness, as a workplace psychologist, manager behaviors that show a lack of confidence (i.e. micromanaging, keeping people guessing) or inconsistency (i.e. untrustworthy, not predicable) ALWAYS lead to poor individual and group performance. Let me stress the word, always. I have never seen a single exception to this in my career or in the research.

This is in contrast to the idea that putting pressure and introducing uncertainty among players breeds performance.

I am NOT an expert in sports team management but my educated guess is that it's very similar to other jobs, given that my findings are across ages, tenures, industries, job types, geographies, etc. Also, in college sports you have younger more immature players, which I would hypothesize exacerbates the impact of the "manager". i.e., a bad HUD has more negative impact on 18-21 year olds than on 22 - 65 year old working adults.

Based on Hud's words and apparent actions, he is what I would consider a "toxic manager".

[ULvictory]

Gotta keep everyone on their toes!

In seriousness, as a workplace psychologist, manager behaviors that show a lack of confidence (i.e. micromanaging, keeping people guessing) or inconsistency (i.e. untrustworthy, not predicable) ALWAYS lead to poor individual and group performance. Let me stress the word, always. I have never seen a single exception to this in my career or in the research.

1000000x

-Starting a freshman quarterback over one who just came off a career game the week before

-declining a first down penalty for a field goal down 17 points

But it's the team's fault for "not stepping up." Let me say this once more.......CHAOS......

[angeleast]

Gotta keep everyone on their toes!

In seriousness, as a workplace psychologist, manager behaviors that show a lack of confidence (i.e. micromanaging, keeping people guessing) or inconsistency (i.e. untrustworthy, not predicable) ALWAYS lead to poor individual and group performance. Let me stress the word, always. I have never seen a single exception to this in my career or in the research.

This is in contrast to the idea that putting pressure and introducing uncertainty among players breeds performance.

I am NOT an expert in sports team management but my educated guess is that it's very similar to other jobs, given that my findings are across ages, tenures, industries, job types, geographies, etc. Also, in college sports you have younger more immature players, which I would hypothesize exacerbates the impact of the "manager". i.e., a bad HUD has more negative impact on 18-21 year olds than on 22 - 65 year old working adults.

Based on Hud's words and apparent actions, he is what I would consider a "toxic manager".

Thanks Doc. One can only imagine how much this plays into our assistant coaching turnover rate as well as high player attrition

[ZoomZoom]

If someone other than Shultz is calling out HUD in the media, in the Lafayette media it usually means someone got “the wink”.

[Redgineer]

Gotta keep everyone on their toes!

In seriousness, as a workplace psychologist, manager behaviors that show a lack of confidence (i.e. micromanaging, keeping people guessing) or inconsistency (i.e. untrustworthy, not predicable) ALWAYS lead to poor individual and group performance. Let me stress the word, always. I have never seen a single exception to this in my career or in the research.

This is in contrast to the idea that putting pressure and introducing uncertainty among players breeds performance.

I am NOT an expert in sports team management but my educated guess is that it's very similar to other jobs, given that my findings are across ages, tenures, industries, job types, geographies, etc. Also, in college sports you have younger more immature players, which I would hypothesize exacerbates the impact of the "manager". i.e., a bad HUD has more negative impact on 18-21 year olds than on 22 - 65 year old working adults.

Based on Hud's words and apparent actions, he is what I would consider a "toxic manager".

I hope there's a "toxic manager" clause in his contract.

[CajunT]

If someone other than Shultz is calling out HUD in the media, in the Lafayette media it usually means someone got “the wink”.

It's definitely not Shultz, he is defending him. So I don't know who in the media is saying anything other than acknowledging the loss was not good and we need to win to become bowl eligible this week.

[ZoomZoom]

It's definitely not Shultz, he is defending him. So I don't know who in the media is saying anything other than acknowledging the loss was not good and we need to win to become bowl eligible this week.

Local media treats saying anything negative taboo unless the fat lady has been heard warming up.