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<blockquote data-quote="altgeld88" data-source="post: 1659060" data-attributes="member: 2886"><p>While I dislike the quote intensely: "You go to war with the army you have." That's where we are right now. Changing the culture of a football program requires replacing bodies and molding attitudes. It's like turning around an oil tanker while it's churning through the waves at a brisk clip.</p><p></p><p>Someone in the post-game comments yesterday claimed that BB had lost the team. That seems wildly inaccurate. As you note, he clearly sees a cultural problem. He was obviously angry at the lack of discipline, but that's a holdover from Lovie. I recall what Barry Alvarez inherited at Wisconsin in 1989: the program had won seven BT games in the preceding five seasons. He went 1-10 and then had two 5-6 seasons, then went 10-1-1. He said of his initial season there (as I recall) that the team had relatively few players suited for D-1 ball. IIRC, he gave 1994 Rose Bowl rings to each of those players who gutted out that initial disastrous season, forming the foundation for the program he would build.</p><p></p><p>I'm not foolish enough to draw a direct analogy to what we might expect, but really does anyone on this board feel worse about our long-term prospects under this coach than at the outset of any initial season of any coach we've had in, well, decades? I feel a great deal better with BB compared with all his predecessors going back to Mackovic.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="altgeld88, post: 1659060, member: 2886"] While I dislike the quote intensely: "You go to war with the army you have." That's where we are right now. Changing the culture of a football program requires replacing bodies and molding attitudes. It's like turning around an oil tanker while it's churning through the waves at a brisk clip. Someone in the post-game comments yesterday claimed that BB had lost the team. That seems wildly inaccurate. As you note, he clearly sees a cultural problem. He was obviously angry at the lack of discipline, but that's a holdover from Lovie. I recall what Barry Alvarez inherited at Wisconsin in 1989: the program had won seven BT games in the preceding five seasons. He went 1-10 and then had two 5-6 seasons, then went 10-1-1. He said of his initial season there (as I recall) that the team had relatively few players suited for D-1 ball. IIRC, he gave 1994 Rose Bowl rings to each of those players who gutted out that initial disastrous season, forming the foundation for the program he would build. I'm not foolish enough to draw a direct analogy to what we might expect, but really does anyone on this board feel worse about our long-term prospects under this coach than at the outset of any initial season of any coach we've had in, well, decades? I feel a great deal better with BB compared with all his predecessors going back to Mackovic. [/QUOTE]
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