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BigSeph

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In the grand scheme of things I doubt we were going to go undefeated and win a ship this year with this squad. Talent is improving but I don't think it's there yet.

Mario will lose this team if he doesn't take responsibility. Sometimes the hardest thing to do as a man, especially a proud man who is in charge of leading others, is to humble yourself and admit you screwed up and you screwed it up for everybody.

The team hung in there, got the lead, and the defense got the ball back for the offense when it counted.

Did Chaney need to have better ball security and just go down? Sure.

Did our secondary need to let receivers behind them on prevent defense? Absolutely not.

But the shot of Matt Lee crying on the bench says it all - he fought all game and the team had the game won, and suddenly he saw everything he worked for vanish due to BAD COACHING.

This is how teams mentally check out. This is how teams tune out a head coach, the coaching staff, everybody just gets muted and they sleepwalk through the rest of a season.

Mario HAS to walk into that locker room, gather this team together and say

"Guys, I know how hard you worked and I know how much you wanted this win and I messed it up for you. I'm sorry. I promise you right here tonight that I will never let that happen again. I want you to learn from mistakes and I preach it every day but this is my mistake and I own it. We aren't going to watch film of that game ever again. I don't want anybody in this room to spend another moment reliving it. I'll watch that tape, I'll study my mistakes, and I promise you that I'm not perfect. Nobody is. I'm working hard to build this program but sometimes I focus so much on the big picture that I suck at the little things and I'm going to improve. Hang in there with me and let's keep building.

Together."
 
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BigSeph said:
In the grand scheme of things I doubt we were going to go undefeated and win a ship this year with this squad. Talent is improving but I don't think it's there yet.

Mario will lose this team if he doesn't take responsibility. Sometimes the hardest thing to do as a man, especially a proud man who is in charge of leading others, is to humble yourself and admit you screwed up and you screwed it up for everybody.

The team hung in there, got the lead, and the defense got the ball back for the offense when it counted.

Did Chaney need to have better ball security and just go down? Sure.

Did our secondary need to let receivers behind them on prevent defense? Absolutely not.

But the shot of Matt Lee crying on the bench says it all - he fought all game and the team had the game won, and suddenly he saw everything he worked for vanish due to BAD COACHING.

This is how teams mentally check out. This is how teams tune out a head coach, the coaching staff, everybody just gets muted and they sleepwalk through the rest of a season.

Mario HAS to walk into that locker room, gather this team together and say

"Guys, I know how hard you worked and I know how much you wanted this win and I messed it up for you. I'm sorry. I promise you right here tonight that I will never let that happen again. I want you to learn from mistakes and I preach it every day but this is my mistake and I own it. We aren't going to watch film of that game ever again. I don't want anybody in this room to spend another moment reliving it. I'll watch that tape, I'll study my mistakes, and I promise you that I'm not perfect. Nobody is. I'm working hard to build this program but sometimes I focus so much on the big picture that I suck at the little things and I'm going to improve. Hang in there with me and let's keep building.

Together."
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If he were to do that, it would go so very far in our recovery as a program.
 
BigSeph said:
In the grand scheme of things I doubt we were going to go undefeated and win a ship this year with this squad. Talent is improving but I don't think it's there yet.

Mario will lose this team if he doesn't take responsibility. Sometimes the hardest thing to do as a man, especially a proud man who is in charge of leading others, is to humble yourself and admit you screwed up and you screwed it up for everybody.

The team hung in there, got the lead, and the defense got the ball back for the offense when it counted.

Did Chaney need to have better ball security and just go down? Sure.

Did our secondary need to let receivers behind them on prevent defense? Absolutely not.

But the shot of Matt Lee crying on the bench says it all - he fought all game and the team had the game won, and suddenly he saw everything he worked for vanish due to BAD COACHING.

This is how teams mentally check out. This is how teams tune out a head coach, the coaching staff, everybody just gets muted and they sleepwalk through the rest of a season.

Mario HAS to walk into that locker room, gather this team together and say

"Guys, I know how hard you worked and I know how much you wanted this win and I messed it up for you. I'm sorry. I promise you right here tonight that I will never let that happen again. I want you to learn from mistakes and I preach it every day but this is my mistake and I own it. We aren't going to watch film of that game ever again. I don't want anybody in this room to spend another moment reliving it. I'll watch that tape, I'll study my mistakes, and I promise you that I'm not perfect. Nobody is. I'm working hard to build this program but sometimes I focus so much on the big picture that I suck at the little things and I'm going to improve. Hang in there with me and let's keep building.

Together."
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Praying OP is CMC 🙏
 
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Agree with everything. And beyond the blunder (which is obviously the deciding factor), if TVD doesn’t get back to form, this season is donezo anyway because any offense with a pulse beats us easily.
 
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Next week will tell you everything you need to know. Either Miami comes back humbled and fired up or Mario lost the locker room and we get obliterated by UNC. No in between.
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Exactly

If we get blown out it’s over. Might as well end the season

Very very curious to see what happens.

Players are obviously crushed right now and they should be. Their fearless leader just ****ed them

But there’s a lot of games left to play
 
Nah. This is the breaking point. Months spent fixing the “culture”. Just flushed every bit of it down the drain. 6-6 absolute best case scenario. And that’s only because some teams we are playing are absolute dog ****.
 
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BigSeph said:
In the grand scheme of things I doubt we were going to go undefeated and win a ship this year with this squad. Talent is improving but I don't think it's there yet.

Mario will lose this team if he doesn't take responsibility. Sometimes the hardest thing to do as a man, especially a proud man who is in charge of leading others, is to humble yourself and admit you screwed up and you screwed it up for everybody.

The team hung in there, got the lead, and the defense got the ball back for the offense when it counted.

Did Chaney need to have better ball security and just go down? Sure.

Did our secondary need to let receivers behind them on prevent defense? Absolutely not.

But the shot of Matt Lee crying on the bench says it all - he fought all game and the team had the game won, and suddenly he saw everything he worked for vanish due to BAD COACHING.

This is how teams mentally check out. This is how teams tune out a head coach, the coaching staff, everybody just gets muted and they sleepwalk through the rest of a season.

Mario HAS to walk into that locker room, gather this team together and say

"Guys, I know how hard you worked and I know how much you wanted this win and I messed it up for you. I'm sorry. I promise you right here tonight that I will never let that happen again. I want you to learn from mistakes and I preach it every day but this is my mistake and I own it. We aren't going to watch film of that game ever again. I don't want anybody in this room to spend another moment reliving it. I'll watch that tape, I'll study my mistakes, and I promise you that I'm not perfect. Nobody is. I'm working hard to build this program but sometimes I focus so much on the big picture that I suck at the little things and I'm going to improve. Hang in there with me and let's keep building.

Together."
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But that would be a lie. It will happen again.
 
After hearing his postgame comments, I don't think he got my message.

I didn't hear much in the way of taking responsibility or falling on the proverbial grenade. He actually said

"we fell short in so many different ways"

"didn't have a great first half"

"at the end of the game a chance to put it away, should have just told him to take a timeout right there, recalibrate, and take a knee."

"we gave them a chance, they took advantage of it and scored"

At no point did he OWN ANYTHING. He did not say "I" or "me" or "my" at any point. He even made it sound like someone else is in charge of taking timeouts.

His comment about "we talked about 2 hands on the ball" was absolutely disgusting. Know what's more foolproof than 2 hands on the ball?

Victory formation + QB kneel.

He is not going to win back this team talking like this. He's going to learn humility one way or another. After this game or after he gets fired from his dream job. Rather he learn it now.
 
BigSeph said:
After hearing his postgame comments, I don't think he got my message.

I didn't hear much in the way of taking responsibility or falling on the proverbial grenade. He actually said

"we fell short in so many different ways"

"didn't have a great first half"

"at the end of the game a chance to put it away, should have just told him to take a timeout right there, recalibrate, and take a knee."

"we gave them a chance, they took advantage of it and scored"

At no point did he OWN ANYTHING. He did not say "I" or "me" or "my" at any point. He even made it sound like someone else is in charge of taking timeouts.

His comment about "we talked about 2 hands on the ball" was absolutely disgusting. Know what's more foolproof than 2 hands on the ball?

Victory formation + QB kneel.

He is not going to win back this team talking like this. He's going to learn humility one way or another. After this game or after he gets fired from his dream job. Rather he learn it now.
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Guy did not take full responsibility and even tried to do math talking about the clock. What a **** coach.
 
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