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<blockquote data-quote="ilovetheoption" data-source="post: 272403" data-attributes="member: 1414"><p>Whoooo, depends who you ask (as with most things in life). Different groups have different thoughts.</p><p></p><p>Group 1) He inherited a team that simply could not be expected to be anything other than awful. The OL had fallen into a shocking state of disrepair, and Mike London's complete lack of competency had rendered the team with a mindset and culture of losing, a lack of accountability, an overall softness, compounded by having not had solid coaching had hindered their development. The program was at nothing better than ground zero, and perhaps worse. A complete, head to toe overhall is required, and frankly, it may be a few years before we approach competitive.</p><p></p><p>Group 2) Mendenhall's a good coach, but he stepped into a WHOLE different world from what he's used to. He has no recruiting connections in the area, he's used to a bunch of 24 year old dudes who are married, and who want nothing more than to play for the Notre Dame of their faith. He may eventually get his guys, and make it work, but he showed up thinking he was going to turn the ship around quickly (he said he thought the team would be bowl bound this year) and got a hard slap in the face. He's a systematic guy, and we have confidence in the dude to make changes, but, he's going to have to make changes if this is going to work.</p><p></p><p>Group 3) Guy's an assclown. He speaks in corporate catchphrases to hide the fact that he really doesn't have much to say. He's a corny, phony balogna doofus who wants to have some 80's sports movie idea of being a team where a bunch of white (and, randomly, polynesian) farmboys come together and go to church and do community service and learn the value of sticktoitiveness and in the end win the title before going off to be missionaries in Brazil, only this isn't the 50's in Indiana, it's 2016 and your main areas of talent are A) the DC area, and B) Hampton Roads, and to quote drexl Spivey, IT AIN'T WHITEBOY DAY. It worked at BYU because BYU recruits itself, and he got EXACTLY those sort of dudes, and all he had to do was show up and say "ok men, try harder than everybody else, because you're playing for the pride of your faith".</p><p></p><p>We're a pretty divided fanbase, and it's made worse by the fact that Fuente came in at VT and had them looking fantastic in HIS first year. Yeah, we know, bud foster, and they were better to begin with, and etc. etc. but they beat us 52-10, and it could have been 80. They took it easy on us. We were probably the 4th best team in the state this year behind Richmond and JMU and THAT, my friends, burns when you're the flagship university in your state, founded by Thomas Jefferson and view yourself as among the elite of the elite.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ilovetheoption, post: 272403, member: 1414"] Whoooo, depends who you ask (as with most things in life). Different groups have different thoughts. Group 1) He inherited a team that simply could not be expected to be anything other than awful. The OL had fallen into a shocking state of disrepair, and Mike London's complete lack of competency had rendered the team with a mindset and culture of losing, a lack of accountability, an overall softness, compounded by having not had solid coaching had hindered their development. The program was at nothing better than ground zero, and perhaps worse. A complete, head to toe overhall is required, and frankly, it may be a few years before we approach competitive. Group 2) Mendenhall's a good coach, but he stepped into a WHOLE different world from what he's used to. He has no recruiting connections in the area, he's used to a bunch of 24 year old dudes who are married, and who want nothing more than to play for the Notre Dame of their faith. He may eventually get his guys, and make it work, but he showed up thinking he was going to turn the ship around quickly (he said he thought the team would be bowl bound this year) and got a hard slap in the face. He's a systematic guy, and we have confidence in the dude to make changes, but, he's going to have to make changes if this is going to work. Group 3) Guy's an assclown. He speaks in corporate catchphrases to hide the fact that he really doesn't have much to say. He's a corny, phony balogna doofus who wants to have some 80's sports movie idea of being a team where a bunch of white (and, randomly, polynesian) farmboys come together and go to church and do community service and learn the value of sticktoitiveness and in the end win the title before going off to be missionaries in Brazil, only this isn't the 50's in Indiana, it's 2016 and your main areas of talent are A) the DC area, and B) Hampton Roads, and to quote drexl Spivey, IT AIN'T WHITEBOY DAY. It worked at BYU because BYU recruits itself, and he got EXACTLY those sort of dudes, and all he had to do was show up and say "ok men, try harder than everybody else, because you're playing for the pride of your faith". We're a pretty divided fanbase, and it's made worse by the fact that Fuente came in at VT and had them looking fantastic in HIS first year. Yeah, we know, bud foster, and they were better to begin with, and etc. etc. but they beat us 52-10, and it could have been 80. They took it easy on us. We were probably the 4th best team in the state this year behind Richmond and JMU and THAT, my friends, burns when you're the flagship university in your state, founded by Thomas Jefferson and view yourself as among the elite of the elite. [/QUOTE]
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