GrizLA said:
It is true, that your tirades against the present coach are tiresome and repetitive and not worth reading, for the most part.
This thread is a good example. I pointed to an interesting study that shows that new coaches have substantial recruiting success their first year. Another poster pointed to a study that shows that in the longer run, new coaches don't generally change program directions. It was an interesting connection that great recruiting success apparently doesn't make coaches and programs "better" as an inherent result. You may not be interested in "football" or sports in that manner, but I am.
And notice who and how it became a "tirade."
The difference between you and me is that I don't gratuitously follow you around snarking on your every post and repeatedly comment on a "jock sniffing" agenda.
See how that works?
The fact is, as usual, forthright commentary got derailed by one of the trolls who just CAN'T STAND that someone has a different opinion than they do and, in this case, he was so derailed by an inherent frustration, anger, and resentment, that he felt compelled to derail the thread and make it a personal attack, in the process, becoming so unhinged that he finally was compelled to claim that he knows what "Haslam
knows!" about all of this as though in permanent communion with the Athletic Director. Yes. That's "unhinged."
Look at that thread topic. We were having a discussion about how "first year" is statistically a very good one for recruiting for first year coaches in general. I made the following comment about Stitt, the only one on the entire thread, and it was on the point of the commentary and thread topic.
Stitt was given a lot of credit for his recruiting when in fact, statistically, it had more to do with the fact that he was the new coach than that he was "Bob Stitt." Now, in recruiting he is burdened with the fact that he is "Bob Stitt," the new-coach smell is gone, and a disastrous last half season is out there ahead of him.
All true.
CopperGriz goes nuts because the thread topic offered a short paragraph summarizing the connection between two published studies, the thread topic, and reality at UM. This is what GrizNation has become: a bunch of buttercups sounding more and more like Bobcat Nation with rampant hyperbole about recruits, "Next Year!" and above all, "Please do not discuss the actual coaching." Rob Ash is the best coach we've ever had! National Champions!
As with Engstrom, the facts are not pretty here. Losing a game at Fargo because we used the same center tap every play, and the newspapers play up the chortling by NDSU players about how stupid our offense was by repeatedly using the same signal. Losing to the Cats when the opposing Coach can point to the fact that our line coach doesn't know that the two point stance opens up the attack, and makes a very public deal out of the apparent fact that our DII staff has never played at the D1 level, and continually shows it. Losing to the bottom team, a first year coach, a teenage quarterback in his first season, in WaGriz isn't a fluke; it's a symptom. Trying to pretend it isn't is your problem, not mine.
I don't like seeing the players play without "Fire," as their biggest critic, the Coach, publicly whines. I don't like public attacks or innuendo by coaches about the team, players, former players, or former staff. I know exactly what it means when players come out "flat," and play "flat" and don't get fired up whether they are ahead or behind. And do so, game after game, including the most important ones.
You can like all of that. You can claim it's what makes you a fan. You can take the players hostage to support for this coach if it makes you feel superior somehow. But don't condescend and lecture me on what I see and what I can post, on a thread exactly on point. I want to see the kids WANT to play for the University of Montana Grizzlies. I do not ever again "want" to see what you defend, this last half season.
What did you think you would read on a thread entitled, "When will the griz get back to where we used to be?" Stitt gets high pay to coach a successful team. He's a big boy. If this kind of record and this kind of a disastrous year does not invite scrutiny and introspection, then its because of a fan base that by tolerating and protecting failure, invites it.
