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Handsome Squidbum said:
I guess the one upside to having low expectations about UM football is that within the span of half a day, I worked through all the phases of grief and quickly moved onto acceptance. I'm not even mad anymore.

[BGCOLOR=initial]Nothing much has changed. I knew from the beginning that Cristobal isn't a good game day coach. His mission is recruiting. He is getting paid 8 million to build a team that is so good, it beats the GTs of college football by 2 TDs, and there is so much breathing room even his bad coaching can't f#ck it up. And his friends with money are going to play a very big part of that - he needs outrageous amounts of money now to pay the sky high suck tax. [/BGCOLOR]
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I hope we have the money, because we had a lot of recruits in attendance and I’m sure they were not impressed with that performance.
Any good will or momentum this program had left the building the moment Chaney fumbled.
God, it sucks being a fan of this team.
Can we just one year beat the teams on our schedule that we are suppose to beat and not continue to embarrass ourself every year. Is that too much to ask?
 
Handsome Squidbum said:
Im going to try and rationalize this. I've personally had terrible f*ck ups a couple times in my life. Just horrible public failures. Can't hide from it. Can't go back in time. All you can do is own it and learn from it.

The worst thing Cristobal can do is just pretend like it was just a bad beat and roll into next week's practice. He has to call a team meeting and with tears in his eyes, apologize to the team for robbing them of a victory. I'm sure he's told his players he understands when they make mistakes and all he asks for is honesty. It's a two way street. Be honest with the players and acknowledge he has to earn back their trust. And I guarantee they will respond to the honesty and will play their hearts out for him against UNC.
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This 1000%. If he keeps up with his tough guy bravado and doesn’t address his ***** with personal accountability up he will lose this team.

If he looks the team in the eye and takes responsibility for the call they will rally and fight for him.

But he has to take responsibility for it and not act like it wasn’t his fault.
 
This was an epic failure at all levels and, deservingly, the news cycle will have a field-day with not kneeling. However, the outrage should also be extended to the patently negligent officiating at critical moments throughout the game.

Hopefully our guys can move beyond this undisciplined and embarrassing performance, tune out the noise, and seek vindication through a better performance in 6 short days at Chapel Hill.
 
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BoxingRobes said:
Just think of all the embarrassing losses and moments we have had over the past 20 years.

Last game at the OB. NED and the FIU fight. Losing to MTSU, FIU, LaTech, Peach Bowl, Wisconsin in the Pinstripe Bowl...sheesh...could probably start listing a few dozen more embarrassing games.

And its 2023 and its still happening.
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As bad as all of those losses were, this one feels infinitely worse. There’s actually nothing that even compares to how bad this was.
 
Canesrule230 said:
This 1000%. If he keeps up with his tough guy bravado and doesn’t address his ***** with personal accountability up he will lose this team.

If he looks the team in the eye and takes responsibility for the call they will rally and fight for him.

But he has to take responsibility for it and not act like it wasn’t his fault.
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Coaches have massive egos. It's not a given that he'll tell a bunch of college kids that the loss is 100% his fault and he's personally responsible for the international ridicule he brought upon them.

If he's honest about his responsibility and if he's brought the right culture, TVD should then stand up and say it was his own fault for being an INT machine. Chaney will say it was his fault for putting the ball on the ground. Every player involved will stand up and confess his own role in the failure to show the HC that it's not his burden to bear alone. That's how Cristobal wins back the locker room. But it has to start with Cristobal humbling himself.
 
I can’t imagine waking up and being Mario. He has everything to prove now. It’s not going to be easy I’m sure he lost the trust of quite a few, from players to coaches to fans and to recruits. It’s all uphill again from here. It’s going to take a very special effort from a very thick skinned person to right this.
 
The canesman said:
I can’t imagine waking up and being Mario. He has everything to prove now. It’s not going to be easy I’m sure he lost the trust of quite a few, from players to coaches to fans and to recruits. It’s all uphill again from here. It’s going to take a very special effort from a very thick skinned person to right this.
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I’m not sure with his smug attitude he can. He is just not very bright.
 
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Anyone know mailing address for Hecht? Got a book for the crew

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BoxingRobes said:
Just think of all the embarrassing losses and moments we have had over the past 20 years.

Last game at the OB. NED and the FIU fight. Losing to MTSU, FIU, LaTech, Peach Bowl, Wisconsin in the Pinstripe Bowl...sheesh...could probably start listing a few dozen more embarrassing games.

And its 2023 and its still happening.
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And the difference this time is that we paid a $100 million for this clown performance
 
Handsome Squidbum said:
Coaches have massive egos. It's not a given that he'll tell a bunch of college kids that the loss is 100% his fault and he's personally responsible for the international ridicule he brought upon them.

If he's honest about his responsibility and if he's brought the right culture, TVD should then stand up and say it was his own fault for being an INT machine. Chaney will say it was his fault for putting the ball on the ground. Every player involved will stand up and confess his own role in the failure to show the HC that it's not his burden to bear alone. That's how Cristobal wins back the locker room. But it has to start with Cristobal humbling himself.
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Yup this is where we’ll see what type of man and coach Mario is.

I think the team will respond and back him up if he humbles himself and takes responsibility.

If he lets his ego get in the way and doesn’t address the mistake or worse yet blames the players - he will lose the team.
 
Why would Mario apologize to the team when in his postgame presser he basically laid the blame on Dawson and Chaney?

He is not a good coach

A youth league coach knows to take a knee in that situation

Mario thinks he “knows it all” - my wife kept saying take a knee - why are we handing the ball to Chaney?

Mario should be fired - plain and simple
 
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stormsurge said:
it's up to mario and this team whether this will define them

but he has to be brutally self-honest and be willing to correct any- and everything
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He can start by correcting himself out of the Hecht Center. He just nuked his own team. The players were devastated. Don’t think anything can bring this team back from this.

The fuggen Tar Heels are gonna wreck us next Saturday. It’s gonna be ugly.
 
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