He just doesn't get it. I know you haven't watched all of our games, but go watch the end of the Southern Miss game last week. When the game ended he has a big ol smile on his face and is clowning. I'm not saying you have to be a prick like Saban and be angry all the time, but Gus had no business being happy after that game.
We looked like dog shit and our coach is mugging and clowning. Saban would have chewed ass after a win like that. That's the difference to me.
But I'm fully 100% convinced he will be ours for at least the next 5 years. So just expect 7-9 win seasons.
I don’t like the constant dissatisfaction Saban expresses. He’s the exception because that method typically can’t sustain itself. When it cracks it implodes.
But I also hear he’s different inside the program than he is to the outside. The kids who play for him understand that if they do things the way he wants they have a chance to be successful, to win. He’s proven that his way works. Everybody inside the program buys in or they leave.
I can’t stand him but it works. If he were ours I would love the method probably. Maybe.
Gus doesn’t have that. You don’t have to have it to be moderately successful. You have to have some of it to be elite. To be excellent.
I know coaching high high school softball isn’t the same. And I was no Saban. But I learned not to coddle. Not to accept excuses. To practice perfection. My girls hated it at first. Their parents wanted me hung. I’d end up in the principal’s office once a week with an angry parent because I was “too hard on Cyndiâ€. The principal got tired of it but I wasn’t abusive to the kids, I wasn’t being unfair. So he let me have rein but told me it better work. I accepted that and told him if we didn’t get better he wouldn’t have to cut me, I’d do it myself. We were a historically bad program. Won twice as many games in my first season than they had in the previous five combined.
It took five years for that ethic to wear off after I left and a crop of “be their buddy†coaches followed.
I don’t think Gus gets it either. How could he? Only a coach for a year before we overpaid him.
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