*sigh* Just when I thought we were starting to get along.
Hunter86;1661823 wrote:Why didn't we beat the teams we were supposed to beat when we went 0-10 ? (Team spirit that's why).
The seniors in our 0-10 year (less one outstanding RB & our quarterback) killed our team spirit.
Why ?
Because they got tired of all the BS.
First, I have to ask how you know that this is the reason, and it's not just the reason given.
Second, while I have no dog in the fight, I can't see why the (essentially) same team in back to back years suddenly is able to cope with what they couldn't cope with the prior year.
Don't get me wrong. I don't really know Coach Zuercher. I mean, he's been around awhile, and I played against him (though we never spoke), but he seems to have too many years peppered with success to be drawing such hostility.
Every coach has years where their team doesn't do well. The truth is that it could be any mix of reasons, with any range of degrees. If a coach shows that he can get the most out of any of his teams, which I'd be willing to say Zuercher has done during some of his years coaching, then he's competent enough to be a good coach. That doesn't mean he won't make bad decisions. I can think of decisions toward the end of Schrock's career that, in hindsight, might have played out better if he'd chosen differently. That doesn't mean he wasn't a good (or even great) coach. Just meant he wasn't perfect.
Hunter86;1661823 wrote:If the kids don't believe in themselves whose fault is it ? (Hint maybe the (dare I say it ?) coaches fault ?)
I really don't think this is the case a lot of the time. If a kid believes in himself, then he believes in his potential to be good and help the team, and that exists regardless of in-game decision-making. I suppose that a coach could affect it if he were to say negative things about the team, but I think that whoever is communicating something negative to the kids ... someone they trust ... would be having an effect on their lack of confidence.
However, it's counterintuitive for a coach to do this, because it isn't even self-serving to do so (in fact, a case can be made that it's self-defeating). I'm sure it happens, but it doesn't seem like it would be common because of that fact.
Hunter86;1661823 wrote:Yes I don't like our current FB coach.
This is evident, but it sounds as though you're making no attempt at being objective. That makes it difficult to view your statements as carrying weight. Sometimes those involved, or having been involved, are the hardest to trust for an objective take for this very reason.
Hunter86;1661823 wrote: Why ? It started long before my son played for him. (keep in mind that prior to this time I didn't even know who he was)
Your dislike for the coach started long before your son played for him? And yet, prior to "this time" (presumably when your son played for him?), you didn't even know who he was? Would you mind elaborating?
Look, you've got a veteran coach who has seen success coaching your program. Since the start of the 2007 season, the Bears are 37-33 in regular season play (above .500). There are three playoff appearances since that time (though, admittedly, only one in which they got out of the first round). There are 5 winning seasons and 2 losing seasons in that time, as well.
There are, in fact, schools that would give a lot to have a coach with such a record.
Now I'm not an insider in the Waynedale program. I've never been watching to make sure freshmen were allowed in locker rooms or whatever. I'm merely someone who sees them a week or two a year, who is looking at the metrics of their body of work in recent years, and who isn't involved in their program enough to have an agenda. So take that for what it's worth.
