Bear Spray said:
Well, when you have a chef who's fakes it till he bakes it, you get fake cake. Bad hires have set this program back a decade & the only way out is to tear it down and build it the right way. That takes time, patience, & competent committed coaches. Griz Nation's been patient and the staff's had plenty of time. What was the third thing needed again...?
First, You messed up editing the quote tags and in your reply.
Second, you’re demonstrating exactly why no decent up-and-coming coach would come to Montana. Stitt faked his way into being the head football coach at UM?
That’s just dumb.
You’re partially right though in that the program is in need of a rebuilld. When it comes to Stitt though, for some reason, fans like you either don’t understand or won’t admt that Stitt was doing exactly that. He was in the midle of a rebuild when his contrat wasn’t renewed after the 2017 season.
Stitt turned over the roster and shaked up the coaching staff after the 2015 season. And he was rebuilding the program primarily by recruiting out of high school. That takes time, especially considering he didn’t have all the scholarships to work with when he started.
And it was exicting to see the players he was bringing in (Gresch Jensen, Samori Toure, Sammy Akem, etc.). And yes, 2016 was difficult, but 2017 was better. You could see a young team working through adveristy (losing Phillips to career ending injury) and learning to compete (losing close games late to EWU, Weber, and State).
But people like you who are calling for a rebuild now won’t acknowledge the rebuild that was taking place back then. Instead, you throw out petty insults and make insulting personal attacks.
Which is all well and good, but then ask yourself — If you were an up and coming college football coach, why on earth would you uproot your family and leave a good job as a D1 coordinator or a D2 head coach to risk your entire career trying to rebuild a program like Montana’s?
The administration and boosters demonstrated they have zero loyalty. And “the greatest fans in the FCS” will jump on-line and social media to attack you personally because they think they know more about football.
So why would you come here?