This is what every coach does early in the year. When things are going terribly, you can't get too down on your team. You say things like, "we're a few plays away from winning." When you're winning, you do what Fitz is doing. You get after the team and give them a laundry list of what went wrong so they know they still need to improve.
You work on confronting and correcting when you feel it will do some good. At this point e is basically saying "
on't get too high on yourself. We have a lot of things to correct.." We played great but there were a lot of mistakes that if we are going to go anywhere they need to correct.Hope Fitz looks in the mirror and emphasizes that he and his staff also need to come out hard next Saturday and put up 50 + on Eastern. Maybe the Stanley Cup will give then some incentive.
It is so predictable, kids just roll their eyes. They are motivated to be good or they are not. This comes back to recruiting. The days of firing on players and expecting them to all of a sudden care is over. Millennials do not react well to shenanigans unless they are highly motivated themselves. If Fitz is not satisfied the team needs to not be satisfied. In the past few years we had some guys who had their own agendas and it killed the team...,calling them out was not going to change that. The great thing about college football is you kind find a certain type of kid if you do your homework recruiting. Fitzy going all off in the media notwithstanding.
Weren't too many underachieving veterans on defense. Can anyone name one? Does anyone want to ? Must have been on offense. QB, check. Running backs, check. That leaves OL, WR and SB....
Because as Tom Hruby pointed out, these are 20 year old kids going into battle, essentially for my enterntainment.
No it's a really good idea, just not one that will be well received, to put it mildly.
IMO the principal reason for Fitz statements is that he doesn't want the team to get too high after a big win because there are still a lot of things to correct and areas that we need to get better and more consistent. He needs them to keep working on improving because our opponents will. Sort of "Enjoy it but realize we have a lot of work to do so don't get too full of yourselves"
We have a thread that some posters should be on a short leash. While it was a response to suggesting that Fitz should be on a short leash, I just think if we have that thread, we should include names. If that opens things up for personal attacks, then the thread should be gone. People are allowed to attack Fitz, the coaching staff, the players... I just think attacking the people that do that should be allowed.
I was partly kidding around on that one. It must be very difficult to maintain order when some people's personal identities hang on whether or not these 18-22 year olds perform as they expect them to, and often it seems more about us than about the team. At some time or another we're all easy targets.
You can think whatever you like, but I can tell you for a fact that personal attacks will not be well received . I strongly suggest that you attack the message and not the messenger, and don't press your luck.
In Wrassler's case you would have to unshort sheet his bed as that's the way he has his butler make it up every night, so that he is constantly vigilant.
