I'm just saying, would it KILL you to step off the ledge every once in a blue moon and say "Hey, Gus Malzahn (or Trooper Taylor, or Tracy Rocker, or Tommy Thigpen, or who the fuck ever) was a great hire by Chizik. He just may possibly prove me wrong yet." Or maybe, "Hey that Emory Blake kid was a great pickup. I can see him stepping up and being an asset next year." No, instead it's "Oh my God, he's from TEXAS?!?!? WHAT THE FUCK ARE WE THINKING!!! IT'S THE END OF THE WORLD!!!!"
You're Chicken Little. When everything's a disaster your opinion becomes null. Hell, even the bammers on this board can find SOME compliments on SOME aspects of the staff hires and recruiting efforts (the only things Chizik can rationally be judged on thus far).
Everything HAS been a disaster of some scale since Franklin came on board. Since then it's been pretty much balls up. Football program's gone from being widely considered one of the top ten in the country to just a notch above Tulane. I see people already writing off the next three or four years so Chiz can get his own players in there. I want to kick the living hell out of them.
When you have to qualify every so-called success with a "considering" or "if you ignore..." then you're already in a hole. Do you realize how far some of you have had to stretch to make a positive out of it?
Somebody's got to balance the couple of Chizloons here. BTW, it's the same few who had screaming red-in-the-face meltdowns when I had the audacity to suggest that the Franklin plan was an express train to hell. The fact that it's those same people now who have strokes when I criticize the hire or Chizik, well....
I don't care what Bammers on this or any other board think. I had plenty of nice things to say about Shula, too.