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Originally Posted by jwinslow
Craving success (goals) and demanding success (expectations) are two very different things.
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I'm fully aware of the difference.
I have no earthly idea what the stated goals of the AD are to his employees. I suspect they are nothing less than what I have been saying. They shouldn't be.
Likewise I have no idea what the expectations levels are within the athletic department to quantify a job well done or something worse.
As a fan my personal expectation level is that we should be able to field a team that can beat a school like Siena without it having to be comprised of a once in a decade or more recruiting haul. From even a quick spin around the interwebs it seems I am not alone in this belief but even if I were I wouldn't care. There is no excuse for losing to a team like Siena with the resources availible to a coach at a school like
OSU.
You have gone out of your way to stress the difference between goals and expectations. Now consider I feel just as strongly that there are always
reasons for failure but no
excuses for failure.
You are responsible when stuff goes wrong and if it brings short term rebuke to an overall great long term run then thats just the way it is whether it be a coach at
OSU or a guy running a division in a large corporation or an officer in charge of a military unit.