Doc Awesome
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People get do down and so critical of the coaches and players and while losing games is tough, I give Lovie a ton of credit for the way he's going about building his program.
He is putting his butt on the line with the kids he recruited. He is playing his guys, no matter how young. There's going to be no, well he's winning with the previous coaches players. He's truly BUILDING a program from the ground up and he's not going deviate from his plan. He knows that they are going to take a beating this year playing so many freshman. He's willing to invest in "his guys" now, with dividends paying off next year and the year after. He's also selling playing time as freshman to future recruits. You're not going to build a winning program and make it sustainable by peppering the lineup with a Juniors and seniors at the expense of the freshmen he's bringing in. You hope for a Cubs/Astros type rebuild where you take lumps early with playing young guys and watch them mature physically and mentally over the next three years. Then, bring in another crop of young talent to piggy back this group and so on. I wouldn't focus on wins and losses THIS year. The day of reckoning will come in two years when this current group of freshmen are Juniors and he's had two of his own classes behind them. I suspect you'll see a much better product. They won't fade in the second half from bring physically worn down and there will be a lot more chemistry, knowledge and experience to draw from. He's taking full ownership of his program with his guys, being coached by his staff and he'll live with the results, good or bad, in a couple of years. I commend him for that. It took a few years of bad program management to get us this point and it will take a few years to build up and get us out of the disaster previous regimes put us in.
I got two words to sell you:
Chip Kelly.