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I love the good is the enemy of great quote.

If you're not getting better, you are getting worse.

"If you're so good, why haven't you beat FSU in four years?"

Hurts to hear, but it's the truth. If you want to come to an elite school and be elite players in the NFL, your play has to be elite as well.

We will see what happens this year. First game can't come fast enough.
 
Love the honesty and don't disagree with him but we need results. I fell for the last guy for too long and we all know how that turned out!


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calinative umstudent said:
Well yeah, but what you’re trying to do is get those guys uncomfortable with being good players. Good is the enemy of great. Yeah, OK, congrats. You’re a good player.

“If that’s all you want to be, that’s all we’re going to be. A good program — 8-4 is a good year. You’re trying to break them of that. It’s way harder to get from good to great than it is from bad to good.”

IMO this is probably the most important quote. I think this is the mentality that Golden has left in them, not just the defense, but the entire team. If we can make them strive to be great and work their *** off to achieve it, I don't think it'll matter what schemes we run, the talent we have will win us more games than we ever did with Golden. We've always been the most talented team in the Coastal division, and always will be. Soon we will be the most talented team in the conference as a whole, it's just a matter of if the players will go out there and take the championship.
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"It’s way harder to get from good to great than it is from bad to good."

this is AG in a nutshell. He couldn't make the next jump. We have some talent if not depth at certain positions. DL and S are deep, LB and CB are shaky, but i'm most concerned about LB. Defense will be good otherwise.
 
The Franchise said:
He's right that the players have to get tougher and play harder. But he better get it done too. It's not all on the players.
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The very next paragraph he mentions it's the same for coaches.



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Unlike the previous "problem" he's referencing, he's honestly answering the question without a bunch of quotes and slogans some Hallmark card design team wrote. We know we are better and will be better. The problem to recruiting was removed after the clemson slaughter.
 
Let's hope he coaches as good as he talks. He is right, he you lose to Noles 4 years you were a mistake -- coach or player.
 
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Unlike the previous "problem" he's referencing, he's honestly answering the question without a bunch of quotes and slogans some Hallmark card design team wrote. We know we are better and will be better. The problem to recruiting was removed after the clemson slaughter.
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Did not intend to down vote this...
 
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Good is the enemy of great. And that is one of the key reasons why we have so little that becomes great. We don't have great schools, principally because we have good schools. We don't have great government, principally because we have good government. Few people attain great lives, in large part because it is just so easy to settle for a good life.”
― James C. Collins, Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't

A quote from one of my favorite books
 
The Franchise said:
IndayArtHauz said:
The Franchise said:
He's right that the players have to get tougher and play harder. But he better get it done too. It's not all on the players.
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The very next paragraph he mentions it's the same for coaches.



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I read it. He spent 10 minutes railing the players and 2 seconds saying, "yeah, and the coaches are held to a standard too."
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To be fair, our current coaches haven't lost to FSU for the past five years so his statement isn't wrong.
 
None of that struck me as a guy trying to buy more time if his defense doesn't perform. What I think he is doing is trying to shock this team into realizing that just being good won't cut it or be tolerated anymore. He's not trying to rationalize a potentially sub par performance. He is embracing the high standards and expectations that the alumni, fans etc have for this program. By virtue of doing that he is simultaneously putting his own head on the block.


I like it and this is what this team needs. He's throwing a bucket of cold water on them to awaken them to the fact that Golden's way left with him and we are back to expecting excellence from everyone. Failure to achieve that standard is not an option and if there is failure there will be consequences and you will be replaced. It seems to me that Diaz is acutely aware of not only what is expected of this program but also what this means in terms of his career. I think it's stands to reason that Diaz is properly motivated. If he fails here it certainly won't be because of a lack of effort or urgency.
 
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