you only get 1 wish.
I posted this deep in another thread and have been thinking about this for some time now....i guess if enough people have seen it, it will quickly fall off the page.......but anyway......If I could change 1 thing over the next year it would be the following:
I think a lot of problems with the program right now are mental --not athletes, not coaching--mental. we have good athletes, good enough staff and coaches, good facilities. as a program, good enough to stay top 10-15 consistently. we execute very well at times which shows what is possible(even maybe normal), and then predictably melt down when a slight headwind comes along which exposes mental weakness.
I wonder (even dream)what it would be like if Tom and Bo decided to fix just one thing in the offseason. that one thing would be the mental makeup and mental response of the program to everything from top to bottom.......how bo handles the press, how he handles the fans, how the team/Bo views and deals with adversity. if his team had the mental makeup of TO's teams...not the athletes, just the mentality, i think we win a couple of big 12 championships, we beat NW, play closer with Wisky this past season(they probably still beat us as they are a good football team, but dont beat us near as bad), play closer and very possibly beat Michigan, and play closer and very possibly beat SC(in a better bowl). maybe we are 11-2 and looking at a top 12 ranking, played in a B1G championship, and in a bcs bowl. easier recruiting and better offseason....instead we may be out of the top 25 and are becoming much more nervous about our future...
Maybe just fixing one thing...and its a tall order...would fix a lot of things.
ok, back from laying on my back staring into the sky just dreaming the day away...
.....but thats what i would do...
what would you do?
I posted this deep in another thread and have been thinking about this for some time now....i guess if enough people have seen it, it will quickly fall off the page.......but anyway......If I could change 1 thing over the next year it would be the following:
I think a lot of problems with the program right now are mental --not athletes, not coaching--mental. we have good athletes, good enough staff and coaches, good facilities. as a program, good enough to stay top 10-15 consistently. we execute very well at times which shows what is possible(even maybe normal), and then predictably melt down when a slight headwind comes along which exposes mental weakness.
I wonder (even dream)what it would be like if Tom and Bo decided to fix just one thing in the offseason. that one thing would be the mental makeup and mental response of the program to everything from top to bottom.......how bo handles the press, how he handles the fans, how the team/Bo views and deals with adversity. if his team had the mental makeup of TO's teams...not the athletes, just the mentality, i think we win a couple of big 12 championships, we beat NW, play closer with Wisky this past season(they probably still beat us as they are a good football team, but dont beat us near as bad), play closer and very possibly beat Michigan, and play closer and very possibly beat SC(in a better bowl). maybe we are 11-2 and looking at a top 12 ranking, played in a B1G championship, and in a bcs bowl. easier recruiting and better offseason....instead we may be out of the top 25 and are becoming much more nervous about our future...
Maybe just fixing one thing...and its a tall order...would fix a lot of things.
ok, back from laying on my back staring into the sky just dreaming the day away...
.....but thats what i would do...
what would you do?
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