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I posted this on the basketball board as part of a separate discussion, but we will know a lot more about what Diaco can do with the program on September 13, 2015. Drop this game (or the Nova game) next year and it will be clear we have another dumpster fire on our hands.
And about this whole mess BS, I agree with everyone else on this thread: it's an excuse. You don't see Matt Cavanaugh going out there and saying "we're a mess". No. .
Agreed. As frustrating as 2014 has been, Diaco should (and will) get a 1 year mulligan. It's the 2015 season, right from the get-go, that he loses any sort of lengthy leash in inheriting a "mess" from the previous regime. Next year will be his team, with his QB, and over a year of practices to install what should be winning football attitudes and plays. The early schedule has two home games on it that we absolutely, positively MUST win: Villanova and Army.
I will break my self-imposed silence (which lasted all of 2 days) for this thread. I was waiting to see how Diaco would handle the press conferences following the Army game. The game already showed me the level of coach he is at this point in time (that is to say that he needs some obvious work from his first year, and maybe that was to be expected). But the post-game press conferences were going to show me what type of leader he was.
Well, if the quotes that Des has is all that he was willing to say, then I have my answer. The fact that he wasn't even able to own a single iota of the mess on Saturday is almost criminal. It really is. And look, I don't expect a first year coach to be perfect. But damn it, I expect him to be man enough to at least say, "I could have made some better pre-game preps and in-game adjustments." My goodness. Chandler was a leader. He owned a loss that wasn't his to own. It's time for Bob Diaco to step up and show the type of leader that HE is...
(I'll go back into my hole now)
The fact that he wasn't even able to own a single iota of the mess on Saturday is almost criminal. It really is. And look, I don't expect a first year coach to be perfect. But damn it, I expect him to be man enough to at least say, "I could have made some better pre-game preps and in-game adjustments." My goodness. Chandler was a leader. He owned a loss that wasn't his to own. It's time for Bob Diaco to step up and show the type of leader that HE is...
Somewhat true - but real men take blame - this was a 7 minute search - if you cant critique yourself and associate things you do wrong you will never get better - and sometimes putting it out publicly is a means to an end.To put it bluntly, if that's your standard, you'd be happy with maybe a half-dozen coaches in all of Division 1-A.
You'll never meet a more blameless lot than head football coaches . . .
He has worn me out so much with it that now I contemplate going every week; whereas in the past it was never a question.And about this whole mess BS, I agree with everyone else on this thread: it's an excuse. You don't see Matt Cavanaugh going out there and saying "we're a mess". No. He's getting his team ready to play game in and game out in the best hockey conference in the country. They might not win every game, but G damn it, you are going to have to earn those 2 points if you're going to beat UCONN (1 Penn State game aside). Kevin Ollie didn't use APR as an excuse in 2012-13. Nope. He got his team to beat a ranked Michigan State team in a high exposure game in Germany to start the season en route to winning 20 "meaningless" games (but convinced the team that playing for "UCONN" was motivation enough).
This whole "this program is a mess" BS needs to stop. First, you're going to get the kids who are in "this mess" to tune you out eventually. Second, we all know it. We don't need to be reminded of it whenever we lose to Tulane, Army or USF. What we fans want to know is what are we doing to turn it around. Dropping embarrassing games to Army is taking two giant leaps backwards. At some point, everyone in that G-damn room needs to be asked "when are you going to be tired of losing?".
That wasn't that bad, but he's gotten that message out plenty already. This is his program now. He and only him owns it going forward.
"We get better every day. We're a bad football team. We're just way less bad than we were when I got here in December, so, it was a giant mess, colossal. And now it's still a mess, but it's less of a mess, a lot smaller mess."
Way too soon to fairly judge BD, but these kinds of quotes have been worrying me since the summer. It's fine to say that you inherited a mess, but saying it weekly is counter-productive. We get it Pasqualoni left a mess, but this is your team now. Please stop telling me why the team failing to perform is not your fault, coach. It makes me fell like you are in over your head.