While reading the many comments supporting Bob Stitt and the future of our program, it has become obvious that there are two camps in Griz Nation. One camp seems to be satisfied by taking baby steps toward being a national power once again, and always seems to find positive things from losses like the Weber game, even though the game was over at halftime, and we still lost by 14.
The second camp wants to see us go deep into the playoffs this season, and to return NOW to being a national power once again.
My question is..... which camp are you in? If you are in the first camp, are you willing to accept the fact that we are not, nor are unlikely to be, a national power in the near future? If expectations for the fan base becomes mollified, I assure you the program will seek that level and stay there.
Until we demand a better product on Saturdays, nothing will change. We enjoy way too many recruiting advances to be sitting as the #6 place team in the big sky, and unrated nationally. But if that is good enough for the masses, then that what we will continue to be.
While watching the Weber game, I could not help but notice the many empty seats in their glorified high school stadium, and the fact that they were able to recruit athletes to play in that stadium which were good enough to beat us by 14 points was very troubling to me. It is the same situation all over the Big Sky. Yet we continue to remain a middle-of-the-pack team. We are either being out-recruited for talent, or being severely out-coached (or both). Until Griz fans come to terms with these facts, nothing will change.