UMGriz75
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I was originally "high" on the guy. Stuck up for him when others decried the "meltdown" in 2015.
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He made the odd observation that "his" strategy was in place for the first three games, but that he was forced to abandon it thereafter. Claiming Cal Poly and Liberty as "success" stories led me to begin questioning Stitt's overall judgment.
[tweet]https://twitter.com/ajmazzolini/status/664500061070430208[/tweet]
Finally, after three quarterbacks, the pattern emerged. I ran a lot of numbers and they all pointed to a continuing decline, the longer players played under this coach. It was a statistical pattern, but one that was firmly established.
The process, art, and science of coaching is improving these young men, play after play, practice after practice, game after game, season after season. Under Stitt, the opposite was happening and it was too much of a pattern to call it anything else.
That is also when I went back and looked at the "Mines" record and realized it was not "as represented." That is when I finally questioned whether a DII coach with 15 years of fourth-place conference finishes could coach a DI program in a reasonably competitive conference of reasonably experienced DI coaches. At that time, I concluded that I did not think the Griz could be successful under this coach
Looking at the pattern of continuing decline in team performance, I saw nothing that offered the prospect of change. After that, the humiliating loss to NDSU and Stitt's bizarre pre-and-post game comments. Then, this season and the precise team decline that I saw the year earlier, even worse because it showed in player's attitudes, as the Coach himself loudly complained of.
The trend established last year continued downhill this year. It was predictable, and it was predicted.
For next year, the Griz are handicapped by the DII DC. I don't see any reason how he can suddenly perk up and obtain the kind of experience he clearly lacks at this level without ... getting the years of that kind of experience. He needed to spend more time as an assistant DC somewhere at DI. Losing Gregorak was Stitt's biggest mistake so far. That's been shown to all but the blind and hermetically sealed. I don't know that can be fixed without Stitt admitting he put Semore in too soon too high. I don't think he can.
What I initially interpreted as a positive self-confidence I now see as an unjustified self-reverence. He will not second-guess himself, despite his mea culpas at his Sally Fields Press Conference.
That leaves the OC. Maybe Stitt can overcome the problem of what is primarily himself with somebody else who has the flexibility and experience at the DI level, and doesn't approach every game and every second half with a "deer in the headlights" reaction to BSC and DI football.
But without that "needed improvement," talent will simply go to waste. It doesn't matter who the "recruits" are, and especially now that every competing coach is pointing to ... Stitt's record.
Stitt needs to send a clear signal through staff changes that there will be ... change.
Then, Stitt started trashing the team.
[tweet]https://twitter.com/ajmazzolini/status/664499813723979776[/tweet]
He made the odd observation that "his" strategy was in place for the first three games, but that he was forced to abandon it thereafter. Claiming Cal Poly and Liberty as "success" stories led me to begin questioning Stitt's overall judgment.
[tweet]https://twitter.com/ajmazzolini/status/664500061070430208[/tweet]
Finally, after three quarterbacks, the pattern emerged. I ran a lot of numbers and they all pointed to a continuing decline, the longer players played under this coach. It was a statistical pattern, but one that was firmly established.
I'd never seen three reasonably talented quarterbacks have successively worse games playing under a coach. Just never seen anything like that.
The process, art, and science of coaching is improving these young men, play after play, practice after practice, game after game, season after season. Under Stitt, the opposite was happening and it was too much of a pattern to call it anything else.
That is also when I went back and looked at the "Mines" record and realized it was not "as represented." That is when I finally questioned whether a DII coach with 15 years of fourth-place conference finishes could coach a DI program in a reasonably competitive conference of reasonably experienced DI coaches. At that time, I concluded that I did not think the Griz could be successful under this coach
Looking at the pattern of continuing decline in team performance, I saw nothing that offered the prospect of change. After that, the humiliating loss to NDSU and Stitt's bizarre pre-and-post game comments. Then, this season and the precise team decline that I saw the year earlier, even worse because it showed in player's attitudes, as the Coach himself loudly complained of.
The trend established last year continued downhill this year. It was predictable, and it was predicted.
For next year, the Griz are handicapped by the DII DC. I don't see any reason how he can suddenly perk up and obtain the kind of experience he clearly lacks at this level without ... getting the years of that kind of experience. He needed to spend more time as an assistant DC somewhere at DI. Losing Gregorak was Stitt's biggest mistake so far. That's been shown to all but the blind and hermetically sealed. I don't know that can be fixed without Stitt admitting he put Semore in too soon too high. I don't think he can.
What I initially interpreted as a positive self-confidence I now see as an unjustified self-reverence. He will not second-guess himself, despite his mea culpas at his Sally Fields Press Conference.
That leaves the OC. Maybe Stitt can overcome the problem of what is primarily himself with somebody else who has the flexibility and experience at the DI level, and doesn't approach every game and every second half with a "deer in the headlights" reaction to BSC and DI football.
But without that "needed improvement," talent will simply go to waste. It doesn't matter who the "recruits" are, and especially now that every competing coach is pointing to ... Stitt's record.
Stitt needs to send a clear signal through staff changes that there will be ... change.
