mathman wrote:Stallion wrote:A few years? No we are no where close unless a few means 4-5. We are going to have to really upgrade recruiting for Jones to beat TCU before he retires in 5 years.
Isn't that what most of us expected? You guys can rag on TCU all you want, but they did, and are continuing to do, what is necessary to upgrade their program and win games. We are starting to move in that direction. We have hired a good coach, but more importantly we have elimimated a lot of the recruiting inequities we placed on ourselves. I am not writing the season off just yet. Went to the Tech game and going to the Navy game. I am going to enjoy the ride even if it kills me.
The perfect attitude. It's going to get worse before it gets better especially when this staff is turning the program completely inside out.
And I don't about the close games we lost last year. We still LOST.
Some of you have to decide if you are going to be in this for the long haul or if you're going to bail out.
I think a lot of you talked yourselves into thinking this was going to be Hawaii II because of how close some of the losses were last year. Some of you who are bemoaning the JW decision were the ones who were patting June on the back because he suspended star players in his first year at Hawaii.
Again, I'm really indifferent about this. Justin Willis is our best QB. But what's done is done. And I don't see him getting on the field any more this season. We're four games into moving on.
When you're doing this much, you're going to take a step back.
We might complain about Mitchell, but I sat next to some TCU fans who know how good their defense is. They were impressed with how well Mitchell hung there, kept getting and doing his job.
When a program changes philosophy, you have to get everything internally resolved before you get everything on the field solved. If you don't, then success will never happen.
By Jones doing what he did with JW, that was a reminder of doing the necessary internal things to create a cohesive program.
It's painful but we have to see where this leads us. For those who are loyal to the program, we don't have any other choice.