bearcrawls said:
If I have to hear the phrase "Buy-In" one more time I'm going to vomit. Enough is enough with that phrase....maybe because when I hear it, it reminds me of a sales scam.
Anyway, I found it interesting when they talked about Walker and Bumpas having a great game Saturday, the Coach immediately said "That's cause they have bought in!" Oh so it's not because they MIGHT be great athletes, it's because of YOUR system. Really coach, you're going to take the credit?
btw.....the new found spread is on the offense side of the ball. Your defense runs a standard 4-3-4 Cover 2 scheme. They have been playing that since youth football, so what is your defense's excuse? Oh that's right the excuse on that side of the ball is that they are young, oh they are inexperienced....yeah so is most FCS teams that run 2-deep and 65 scholarships. AND count your blessings because your team for the most part is pretty healthy compared to others.
Ok Coach, you have had all spring and summer to evaluate your players, so please tell us right now before Saturday's game what players have bought into your system? Go ahead....name them! Yeah, don't wait until they have a great game then say it's because of your system.
The fact remains you blame the players for the team's failures and you take all the credit for individual successes. Really coach? Have you EVER once said that the struggles of your team is the responsibility of the coaching staff? Will you ever take responsibility of your team or only when you win?
Coach....you and your staff (very young and inexperienced I might add) clearly do not have kids of the age that they are playing competitive athletics, if you all did, you would never lay blame on your players. When you all experience the competitive environment with your children down the road it will open your eyes and you all will change for the better when it comes to your players. Until then you and your coaching staff need to grow up alittle.
btw....I read the tribune article today and I will post my many thoughts on that later.
Please don't, because no one cares what you have to say and honestly you have no idea what you're talking about. You have something personal against coach Collins? From reading your comments, it sounds like you do. Downing is that you? :lol:
You want to be fair and honest? Ok, UNC has sucked for the past what? 6+ years now, I can't even remember when they had a decent season. Through the Downing era, he only won 9 games, in five years. Oh ya Downing and his staff had least experience than the current staff when they first started out. Downing's head coaching record 0-0, and ended 9-50 something. With no improvement what so ever. I said this in another thread, and I'll say it again. If Downing was still the coach, we would be have a similar type season. There's a lot of things wrong with this football program that never got addressed over the Downing era. And you expect Collins to come in here and produce a winning season? Not going to happen, matter of fact whats going on now, magnifies how bad the Downing era was.
UNC is young, and lacks talent. Some of the players haven't bought into the system, and my question is, why? I remember last year, when the season was coming to a close, a lot of people that post on this board and claim to be close to the program, were saying the kids were ready for change. Well this it. I don't know why these kids wouldn't want to buy into the new program. It's not like what was happening with the old way actually worked.
Downing got 5 years to really produce nothing. Collins hasn't even gotten one yet. I'm as frustrated as the next person watching this team loose. But I have realized and everyone else needs to as well, that this is going to be a long process. I don't see them winning a game this year. But what we can hope for that we see a steady improvement over the rest of the season.
