CANE4LIFE
Im a Political Refugee...
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The old "True Fan vs dem ingorant haters with no life" argument.
The last resort of the bitterenders.
The same case was made by the Coker holdouts, and just this t time of year in 2010 with the Radio diehards, after his exact same dissapointing season and total collapse in a minor bowl game.
There will be much fewer Golden fans about four games into 2014, I predict.
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Having been one of the early Coker critics, I can tell you that the two situations (Coker and Golden) are in no way comparable. The state of the team at the starting point of each coach's tenure could not have been any more different.
THIS. And one reason Im so sick of being called a Blind Homer or Golden Slurper. I was a huge early Coker critic AND Shannon critic. EVERYTHING with Coker was headed in the absolute WRONG direction in this program. With Shannon, I gave him his time, but it was clear that after his first good recruiting year, everything was headed straight down hill as well. In contrast to those two, AG took over a team in total shambles. A roster that was a mess, a disasterous recruiting class, and then got slammed with a disasterous NCAA investigation, 2 years of bowl bans, and all for a salary that is comparable to Wake Forest. AG has many faults, and has a lot to learn. There are definitely some major issues, and some troubling signs. But he's also little by little improved our record every year. Recruiting has also improved consistently. Conditioning is also much better under AG. So is the perception of the program. We had our highest ranking in almost a decade this year before things fell apart. Im not ready to write this off yet. There is no "sure fire" silver bullet solution for this program beyond Golden. Not right now. Not that is realistic anyway. We went 9-4 this year with a lousy QB, and some pretty poor talent and depth on defense. Does this mean we are going to become great? No. But Id like to see what we look like in a year or two of brininging in the type of talent we are starting to recruit and bring in. People were ready to lynch "Botch Davis" in 98 and 99, and yet 2 years later, the guy was a Diety around here. I think the jury is still out, and people need to chill the f*ck out. Everything in this program is NOT headed in the wrong direction.
