Pennmed Canefan
Sophomore
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- Nov 13, 2011
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I don't save posts or threads but one comment I made during the offseason was that I expected a large cohort of people predicting 6 or so wins to turn on Golden when it happened. The reason is that there is no way for 6 wins to look good. Thus you get the, "I don't care about losing, it's the WAY we lost" and all that other discussion. Realistically, 6 win teams don't go places like KSU and win. They get handled, like we did. They get handled by FSU, handled by VT. They eke out wins against bad teams like BC. That's what 6 win teams look like. The only other 6 win style is a team that really could win 9-10 games but underachieves (see us in 2010). Similarly, the fans turn on the coach because it looks bad. That's not us. We're the true, not-good-enough 6 win team. We're 2007, 1997 Miami.
I guess this will go on. People said this team would "take lumps" and yesterday was a lump but some people are losing it. These guys will probably phase in some young guys and phase out older guys (Moore/Ivery/Bush/Kirby etc in, Gaines/Robinson/Smith/Cornelius/Rodgers/Thompkins types out). They're going to take some beatings anyway. They'll simplify the D and get some younger guys more work on O. If they improve through the year and the guys keep trying hard, that is a good omen. If we stay stagnant, bad.
Bottom line, this year was not going to look good unless we won a lot more games than people were predicting. I'm not somebody who has 100% faith in Golden (it'd be hard to 1 year in), but this was going to be a 3-4 year project and that is for a reason.
I guess this will go on. People said this team would "take lumps" and yesterday was a lump but some people are losing it. These guys will probably phase in some young guys and phase out older guys (Moore/Ivery/Bush/Kirby etc in, Gaines/Robinson/Smith/Cornelius/Rodgers/Thompkins types out). They're going to take some beatings anyway. They'll simplify the D and get some younger guys more work on O. If they improve through the year and the guys keep trying hard, that is a good omen. If we stay stagnant, bad.
Bottom line, this year was not going to look good unless we won a lot more games than people were predicting. I'm not somebody who has 100% faith in Golden (it'd be hard to 1 year in), but this was going to be a 3-4 year project and that is for a reason.