Jesus Gray, I pray to the good Lord you’re right and the detractors wrong. But a lot of disappointing, tepid, muddy water has flowed under the bridge …
44,
Kennedy stood for having a man on the moon in this decade. We didn’t have the technology to do it. It was a bold stand and we achieved that goal. Whether you liked Kennedy or not, that’s leadership. Doeren stood for something when he said we’d win a natty. We very little in place to achieve that goal. That’s bold stand, friends.
Debbie Yow stands for our athletic department being in the top 25 for the Director’s Cup. Another bold stand. As the saying goes, “The faint of heart never won fair lady.” Debbie and Dave both set bold goals. If you are going to have goals, have goals worth the effort and goals worth failing trying to achieve them. Conversely, Chicken Sh!t goals produce Chicken Sh!t results.
The only reason the water that flowed under the bridge was tepid and muddy is our expectations. We were told Doeren was a good recruiter and our interpretation of “good recruiter” was very unreasonable. We thought Dave would come in and blow the competition away with slick talk. It doesn’t work that way.
We expected Dave to make shinola with you-know-what. The cupboard was bare but we expected more. Why? Because TOB had a good season in 2012. You can’t play in 2013 with players who used up their eligibility in 2012. 2014 and 2015 were OK considering what we had to work with. 2016 was disappointing with a run of bad karma in the kicking department.
Here we are in 2017 and half of us are looking in the rear view mirror. Stop it. Look our the windshield of don’t look at all. Either way is alright. Me? I’m standing for 2017 being the breakout year we’ve been waiting for. Stand in the misery of the past or stand in the future. Choose. It really is your choice. (While I’m responding to you, 44, I’m not really talking at you.)
