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Originally Posted by 3074326
I think it'll be more interesting a couple years down the road when Rodriguez gets his players with some experience.
I don't think he's going to be an epic failure. He's the coach at scUM - not really a program like WVU or Tulane. He's going to have more talent than he's had in previous years. I [censored]ing hate him, but I think he'll win.
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Oh, he'll win... you bet 'cha. But, they will win while knowing:
1) They sold their souls to do it,
2) The average net increase in wins will likely be 1.25 games per year,
3) ... and they sold their souls to do it.
Like it or not, and personally I like a tsun program who runs the B10+1 up until the last game each year, they are tsun. They ARE going to win. But at the end of the day, when t s u n looks back at what it took, they will all wonder if it was really worth it.
Others have said it, and I've said it before. They have hired their Coop. We let go of a real Ohio Man in EB and sold our soul for a Johnny-come-lately (sorry for the pun) who on ONE occasion demonstrated that he could take tsun to task before he was hired. Had he not won that bowl game, I would suggest, he'd never have been our coach.
That all said, Coop did a -- for the most part -- fine job at tOSU. He recruited very well. His teams won a heck of a lot of games. He, in a lot of ways, set the stage for what we are enjoying now. So, in the end, really no hard feelings. But I challenge any of you long time fans to recall the Coop years, and ask yourself... did you, at any time during his tenure, ask yourself if it was really worth it? I know I did. Just the same way that I expect tsun to look back in a few years and ask themselves the same.
Personally, I was ashamed of a lot of the things that went on with the team outside the lines. Had it not been for a few select schools in FL who had bigger issues to take us out of the spotlight, we'd have been known as Thug-U. And even then... I'm sure that we gave more than a college try at being Thug-U of the North. (Not that JT has had a perfect record either, but anyone would be hard pressed to suggest that he's not taken notes and learned as a result.)
Let them have their coach. Let them win some games. But also let them do so in knowing just how far off their own pedestal they have fallen to do so.
