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New Fish
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Steven Pyeatt
The sad nature of "the grass is always greener". Don James wouldn't have lasted long in todays climate. His first 4 years 6,5,7,7 wins. In his first 14 years he had 7 seasons with 5,6, or 7 wins.
Fans would have started eating him alive after 5 years of "mediocrity" which were followed by 21-5 record and 3 straight Rose Bowls.
The reason teams never have the long term success that Coach James had is because they will shoot their Coach after they fail to meet unrealistic expectations.
Coach James did great things for this program, but to get it to the high level of success that we consider "the standard" now didn't happen overnight. It also wasn't a constant stream of succes, it had up's and downs. The key is that Coach James was humble enough and smart enough to look at what has to be done and do it. Many Coaches are stubborn and won't change no matter what, both Sark and James have the same attitude of self reflection and adaptation.
While I hoped Lambo could keep the program at that high level, and hoped that Neuheisel would be able to have sustained success, I never saw the others as anything but stop gap measures. Not until Sark have I see what I saw in Coach James, a man who can, and will, lead this program back to where we want it *IF* we can keep from running him out of town like we did every other successful Coach except Don James.
The more you learn about Sark, the more you see that he isn't just giving lip service to why he came here and what his goals are for himself and this program. Just having a Coach with his mindset is rare, to give him the time to get the job done is almost impossible in todays "win now or get lost" menality.
I am not willing to settle for long term mediocrity, but I am also realistic enough to know that if we change horses at this point we will get another decade of exactly what we don't want... and we will deserve it because we were not smart enough to know when we have the perfect fit for our program.
38 minutes ago · Like · 1
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tl;dr = Don James had an easy schedule and didn't have to be a good coach to win 7 games a year.
Funny enough, this fucktard is in the minority on Softy's page after last weekend.
Steven Pyeatt
The sad nature of "the grass is always greener". Don James wouldn't have lasted long in todays climate. His first 4 years 6,5,7,7 wins. In his first 14 years he had 7 seasons with 5,6, or 7 wins.
Fans would have started eating him alive after 5 years of "mediocrity" which were followed by 21-5 record and 3 straight Rose Bowls.
The reason teams never have the long term success that Coach James had is because they will shoot their Coach after they fail to meet unrealistic expectations.
Coach James did great things for this program, but to get it to the high level of success that we consider "the standard" now didn't happen overnight. It also wasn't a constant stream of succes, it had up's and downs. The key is that Coach James was humble enough and smart enough to look at what has to be done and do it. Many Coaches are stubborn and won't change no matter what, both Sark and James have the same attitude of self reflection and adaptation.
While I hoped Lambo could keep the program at that high level, and hoped that Neuheisel would be able to have sustained success, I never saw the others as anything but stop gap measures. Not until Sark have I see what I saw in Coach James, a man who can, and will, lead this program back to where we want it *IF* we can keep from running him out of town like we did every other successful Coach except Don James.
The more you learn about Sark, the more you see that he isn't just giving lip service to why he came here and what his goals are for himself and this program. Just having a Coach with his mindset is rare, to give him the time to get the job done is almost impossible in todays "win now or get lost" menality.
I am not willing to settle for long term mediocrity, but I am also realistic enough to know that if we change horses at this point we will get another decade of exactly what we don't want... and we will deserve it because we were not smart enough to know when we have the perfect fit for our program.
38 minutes ago · Like · 1
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tl;dr = Don James had an easy schedule and didn't have to be a good coach to win 7 games a year.
Funny enough, this fucktard is in the minority on Softy's page after last weekend.
