Pichael Thompson said:
OP's point is valid... ignore the crying pumpers
What's even more interesting is towards the end of the season when Elko was asked about finishing & how he preached it all year he backed away from the mantra...
I forget how he phrased it exactly but from his point of view they had already finished & now they were moving into the championship arena to compete for a title...
My assumption is he didn't want the kids to be overwhelmed by the enormity of what was at stake, but from a layman point of view it didn't make much sense to completely abandon the approach that you got you there
It really isn't that valid. He's basically asking why is there any hope after year two, a year in which we improved by quite a bit from year one.
There are questions to be answered, concerns to be had, and we fell short of our ultimate goal. But to basically say there's really no reason to even be slightly optimistic about our future under this staff seems a bit over the top, no?
This isn't to guarantee some kind of success, but there are more good things about Elko's tenure right now than bad. Many on this board don't seem to think so. But if some can't see that, that's on them imho. That doesn't mean the bad won't eventually outweigh the good and lead to another staff firing. More coaches than not are fired, so it isn't exactly being bold to make that prediction. So very few, including myself, are going to sit here and pretend that everything will work out and we are about to win a national title. No one has any clue to be quite frank.
But again, at the end of the day, the OP is asking why we should have any optimism when we just clearly improved from year one to year two, which is basically the number one goal (by far) of any program in the first two years. Just about every eventual NC coach has won more in year two than year one. Not all, but most.
Very few eventual NC winners have had better year twos than Elko just had.
