I tend to feel he likes to be a lightning rod for controversy. I think he has gone overboard with knocking Tiger. The entire 'F' grade thing made him come off real bad.
I don't think he is for whatever works. I think he is for what he believes works.
I agree with him to a degree on Charlie Wi. He's not a good ballstriker. But, I don't see where Charlie has ever been a good ballstriker, so the S&T people (and I'm not one of them, contrary to popular belief) could argue that they improved his ballstriking enough to the point while he's a mediocre ballstriker, it improved enough to keep him on Tour.
Meanwhile, they've worked with JJ Henry and Alex Cejka who are very good ballstrikers. The S&T technique I'm not the largest fan of because I think it leaves the shoulders too closed, too much secondary axis tilt combined with a punch elbow makes me think it's better suited for higher handicappers than Tour players because it teaches how to hit a push-draw and shallow out the shaft plane which is what high handicappers struggle with.
On the flip side, somebody like Daniel Summerhays who is steadily becoming one of the best ballstrikers on Tour uses Trackman, high speed video, force plate data, and my statistical analysis to help him develop. Before working with Grant Waite and myself, Daniel was one of the worst drivers on Tour. Now he's ranked 32nd out of 180 players in my Driving Effectiveness rankings. He's become one of the best on Tour from 175-225 yards since 2012 (admittedly, he's struggled a little there this year, but he's trending better).
And since I've joined the fold, his earnings per event has gone up by 394%.
All of those things are something that Brandel has railed against. I've never heard him point out to the effect 'I don't like video and Trackman, particularly before an event. But here is a player that uses all of them and they work well for him.'
Instead, he talks about how this is 'ruining golf' (his exact words about Trackman).
For me, I'm more interested in what Frank Nobilo, Tripp Isenhour and Notah Begay have to say. They are less vendetta driven, very open minded and they simply don't have that ego where they think they always know best.
3JACK