AmherstCane
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Ain’t just a cliche.
Manny has taken a young team and gone toe to toe against two highly regarded coaching veterans.
Say what you want about Mack, but he won a national championship. And he was a great coach at UNC the first go around.
The new guy taking his licks from the old guy is a story as old as time itself (our stupid instant-gratification culture aside).
The only reasonable question is how quickly Manny will come of age as a HC.
In that paradigm, the first two performances should actually be encouraging. The offense improved light years from game 1-2. And even though the defense experienced a setback, it was related to a new and different challenge (a deadly accurate, confident, and decisive QB with a quick release). Our rush D was still dominant against NC.
We are playing at a MUCH higher level as whole team when compared to last year (defensive backfield excepted).
Manny will make mistakes, no doubt. Players who don’t really know what it takes to win in college will have lapses and growing pains in gaining that experience.
We lost a game everyone agrees we should have won.
But being smart and aggressive can substantially accelerate the maturation process. I believe Manny is both.
We set ourselves up to fail with absurd expectations for a first year HC, freshman QB, freshman O-line, and inexperienced secondary.
Manny himself is learning that winning is HARD.
Nobody wants a reality check. But the great ones learn and grow.
Let’s see if Manny has the potential to be great (in an almost absurdly short time window).
I, for one, think he does.
Even if you don’t, go support the **** out of this team. You just may be wrong. (And if you’re right, fly the banners next year on sound evidence that Manny ain’t got what it takes - like charmin-soft Coker, schematically and organizationally challenged Shannon, and stubborn *** Al Golden).
Manny has taken a young team and gone toe to toe against two highly regarded coaching veterans.
Say what you want about Mack, but he won a national championship. And he was a great coach at UNC the first go around.
The new guy taking his licks from the old guy is a story as old as time itself (our stupid instant-gratification culture aside).
The only reasonable question is how quickly Manny will come of age as a HC.
In that paradigm, the first two performances should actually be encouraging. The offense improved light years from game 1-2. And even though the defense experienced a setback, it was related to a new and different challenge (a deadly accurate, confident, and decisive QB with a quick release). Our rush D was still dominant against NC.
We are playing at a MUCH higher level as whole team when compared to last year (defensive backfield excepted).
Manny will make mistakes, no doubt. Players who don’t really know what it takes to win in college will have lapses and growing pains in gaining that experience.
We lost a game everyone agrees we should have won.
But being smart and aggressive can substantially accelerate the maturation process. I believe Manny is both.
We set ourselves up to fail with absurd expectations for a first year HC, freshman QB, freshman O-line, and inexperienced secondary.
Manny himself is learning that winning is HARD.
Nobody wants a reality check. But the great ones learn and grow.
Let’s see if Manny has the potential to be great (in an almost absurdly short time window).
I, for one, think he does.
Even if you don’t, go support the **** out of this team. You just may be wrong. (And if you’re right, fly the banners next year on sound evidence that Manny ain’t got what it takes - like charmin-soft Coker, schematically and organizationally challenged Shannon, and stubborn *** Al Golden).