Five months to improve the team. Plus there will be freshman to evaluate. Too early to panic, but panic early if you must.
Typical year-in year-out condescending strawman "panic" nonsense.
People aren't panicking. They are recognizing that this team has a ton of deficiencies and does not have the coaching staff to mask them.
Every year posters wish away the glaring problems and dole out wishful spin jobs asserting that "if" this player can step up or that player develops we'll be fine. Ignoring wishful thinking is not panicking. .
This. Stop being enamored with potential and practice reports. Stop going off of the stars and hype that everyone gives these kids. With this staff, all that potential is bull ****. You have 5 years of data and results to analyze. **** is not getting better. I have zero faith that this staff will improve anything in 5 months if they haven't done it in 5 years.
Exactly. It's all "maybe the light bulb has turned on for this guy" and "hope this guy develops". Golden and his band haven't created the culture it takes to win at Miami. He's a career .500 coach. Nothing more. The guy he's joined at the hip with says "yards don't matter". He should've been perp walked out of the Hecht immediately after that comment. Tells you all you need to know.
I'm not here to tell anyone how to be a fan because all that does is lead to salty dialog and frayed feelings. We're all here for the same thing--strong heterosexual bonding.
Having said that, it seems that a fan without hope is no longer a fan. Hope is our bond. Hope fuels us. Hope strengthens our ties to our beloved team and, in turn, energizes those young men that we love platonically to strive for greatness.
When we focus on only the traditional metrics of winning, such as the final score, we become fans of winning, not fans of the kids and the program.
Call me old fashioned, but I'm going to change my perspective a bit and focus on all of the minute to minute victories that my program achieves and not just the traditional, antiquated, and toxic metrics like the final score of a single game.
What about the less traditional and more growth-centric indicia of victory like giving effort, being a good teammate, being a good student, helping the community, and smiling? Those are victories that often go uncelebrated while we hyper-focus on scores.
There are 12 to 14 chances to win the scoreboard per year. There are millions of chances to win life moments per year. I'm a fan of those life moments.
