Is there no press conference this week?
I'll give you the quotes that you may have heard -
We grew as a team at Tulane. If you can't see the growth it is because you are not there with them loving them, filling their energy buckets and tapping the rock alongside of them. This all part of the process.
The turnovers are a symptom and we need to inoculate the whole team against the disease. No one was down after the turnovers. No one quit. We were in this game until the end. We just need to keep tappin the rock.
Bye weeks are so very important to the process and growth. We are going to coach them up with love and positiveness. We are going to make sure that they win not only practice, but geeing out of bed, breakfast, lunch, dinner and going to class. If we just keep tapping the rock it is going to break.
How do I feel about the progress? Are you familiar with the story of the scorpion and the frog. A scorpion asks a frog to carry him over a river. The frog is afraid of being stung during the trip, but the scorpion argues that if it stung the frog, both would sink and the scorpion would drown. The frog agrees and begins carrying the scorpion, but midway across the river the scorpion does indeed sting the frog, dooming them both. When asked why, the scorpion points out that this is its nature. That is where we are at in the process today.
The process is working and you will see the positive results down the road when it all just clicks in. You tap the rock enough it will eventually break.