Yeah, so much more logical to blame a coaching staff four games into taking over a program that has averaged 7-5 every year the past 16 seasons (went into season 118-85 since the 2005 Peach Bowl, 28-24 since Richt's 10-0 start in 2017 and 21-15 under Diaz—which could've easily been 11-25 if King and Van Dyke didn't play out of their minds; beat NCST, Pitt and GT by combined 8 points last year—beat UVA, Pitt and V-Tech by combined 9 points in '21.)
C'mom now. Program three years removed from losing to FIU, getting beat at Duke by double-digits and shut out in bowl game by Louisiana Tech. Players are still posting images on social media from individual plays in lopsided losses; wearing jewelry while Alabama, Clemson and North Carolina were kicking they teeth in.
This program has been loaded with lazy, entitled clowns for years—and you get these two quotes after losing to Middle Tennessee State last week:
“We… I say we, everybody, because we’re all in this together. We looked at that team ‘Oh, we’re gonna win this game’,” said offensive lineman Jalen Rivers postgame. “So we came in obviously unmotivated, kinda slow and we had to ramp things back up when we got punched in the mouth.”
There was also center Jakai Clark, who stated, “We weren’t as locked in as we should have been pregame. During the week we had a good week of practice, but pregame…me personally, I feel as though we weren’t as locked in as we should have been,” while also calling his team’s attitude “lethargic”.
You have Stevenson blogging about having zero clue why Miami lost or where it went wrong, telling the head coach:
“I talked with coach Cristobal on Sunday before a team meeting, he just ran into me. He just asked me, `What happened? What do you think happened?’ I said I don’t know, you just have to get back to the drawing board and see the holes that we’re missing and we just have to start plugging them in with the right players and the right mindset. He thought I had an answer, but the answer is `I don’t know, coach, we just have to get back to work, figure out what went wrong, where the holes are and keep working and try to improve in those areas.’”
You think the coaching staff wasn't up their asses to be on guard against MTSU after the aTm loss—yet Clark and Rivers still talking about not being ready to play?
Did coaches throw two interceptions (including a pick-six) to start the game, followed by a fumble on the next drive? Are coaches out there staring down receivers and not going through progressions? Throwing balls behind receivers who can't get open against a scrub defenders?
Coaches are to blame for the defense giving up 507 yards and getting beat on deep touchdown of 69, 71 and 98 yards—and an 89-yarder that led to a score?
These coaches are hardly knocking the cover off the ball, but ridiculous to say players don't deserve their share of the blame—especially in an NIL era where they're now taking a check for services rendered.
A lot of blame to spread around and these players need to have more heart and pride than was shown last week.
Coaches shouldn't have to "motivate" these donkeys to merely "show up" to play a MTSU team rolling in looking for an upset. The entitled mindset amongst these players is cancerous and has been for almost two decades now.
