Imagine you’ve headed to the ballgame for the weekend, ready to watch your highly funded, highly ranked home team go up against a perceived hapless opponent in conference play with their new head coach in their first road contest.
Imagine at the end, this is what the stadium looks like, and not in a good way.
After the game, this is what Mike Elko had to say after his yearly head-scratchingly odd loss when no one expected it:
At the end of the day, we didn’t have them ready.
This starts with me and I accept accountability.
We’re going to learn from this.
And so on. It’s as predictable as the day is long. Somehow, though, being a highly paid coach with a highly paid and deep roster doesn’t seem to make sense to fans who are being asked to carry a higher contribution and ticket price to experience this, so it falls on deaf ears, at least to me. How anyone in this day and age with a staff of nearly one hundred people using state of the art technology can be unprepared is beyond me.
For today’s Musing – what’s the thing you want to hear from a coach after a crappy loss like this? Does anything make it better…is there anything that could be said that actually makes you believe in the adjustment?
Discuss.
“Execution? I’m in favor of it.”
Running drills during timeouts > cashing checks when it comes to winning. The Los Angeles Trolley Dodgers are about the only team that does something with the highest payroll. Kirby has the guys tuning out their hanger on, child talent trafficker parents and understanding NIL is pennies on the dollar compared to getting that $ECOND National Football League contract. Also, when the NIL bubble bursts (and they all do except for my ego), Kirby will be right where he was before ready to position his 7-5 teams to be physical, disciplined and connected. Not only for the Tennessee State games, but the 15 after!
#GoDawgs
“I lost this one — Im giving back 10% of my salary to the fans” 🤑
I think he said it perfectly. Wouldn’t change a word.
We’ve been on the wrong side of enough of these over the years.
19 and 20 year old kids are unpredictable. You lose their attention. They lose focus and this is what you get.
Personally, I wouldn’t want to have to make a living dealing with the whims of these players.
One thing I know is this: as a Georgia fan from 1978- I ain’t feeling sorry for those miserable aggie fans. They ain’t seen shit!
I’m paid $40 mil…I’m a man! You reporters and fans sit in the comfort of your metal bench seats in the blazing sun able to criticize every move my staff makes while I’m on that sideline having to check texts from Jimmy Sexton about my buyout and who’s in or out of the transfer portal at halftime. You don’t want the pressure of sitting on a 20 point lead at the half and telling your OC to just run clock. You’re happy to avoid telling your DC to play soft zone in order to give that opposing QB some Heisman glory talk. You want me on that sideline! You NEED me on that sideline! You’re damn right I called that double reverse flea-flicker on 4th & goal from the 2 with a minute left in the game when we could have just punched it in to win!
“Werk hoard and git butter”
Coach Goff’s had the market cornered on this one…
“We’ve got to get bettuh”