I think we as fans (myself included) need to take responsibility for the false expectations we created. I was the biggest one. I expected a 10-2, 11-1 season.
It looked like the players bought in for 1 game against AtM despite some of their limitations. After that, the buy-in appears to have faded with a lot of players.
As much as we want to ***** about the coaching, 90% is the players failing to execute. Now, maybe you can say that's coaching as well.
However, since the AtM game, I've made it a point to watch film reviews from Coach Hayes and H1H on YouTube. What I realized both offensively and defensively on failed plays is mostly players not doing their responsibilities either because they don't know or they're freelancing.
The film doesn't lie. Coach Hayes can look at the film and know what scheme we're running and what each player's responsibility is. When a failure occurs, it's usually bad technique or freelancing.
Yea, that's coaching because it's their job, but the players are doing things in the games that they don't do in practice and that's where the lack of discipline comes in.
You can blame the coaches, but if the player isn't receptive to coaching and discipline from practice thru the end of the games, it's on the player and he should sit.
We as fans are losing our minds, but those in the know, know better. Coach Hayes said before the season started that that transitioning is not easy and he's seen it many times over. Preseason he said he didn't have any W/L records for Mario in year 1 and that whatever he does year 1 must have improvement in year 2 regardless of going 10-2, 2-10, or 11-1.
He pointed out preseason that a 10 win season becomes the bar for the next year. That was my expectation for this year. I realize it was unrealistic even with TVD as the program is/was not where it needed to be for a 10 win outcome. I've changed to have no expectation mostly because they are no longer obtainable, but were optimistic at best.
Miami fans have suffered long enough, but we expect too much too soon and sometimes you have to take 2 steps back to go a mile forward because you were on the wrong path.
I believe in Mario. I do feel he'll get us to championship level. He will bring in not only better players, but players that fit the program he wants to build. It's just going to take more time than fans expected.
In Mario we Trust. That's what fans said when he was hired. It shouldn't change now.
