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Message: [QUOTE="DoctahLexus, post: 4206934, member: 6798"] It will be easier to make definitive judgements about Gait's coaching when he has been in the driver seat for a while. Some choices early have been ugly, or at least the results are ugly, and there is no denying that. A few of you seem to be taking it a step further and act like it will ALWAYS be this bad if we roll with Gait as head coach. Understandable that there is frustration after that display yesterday, but it is still the beginning, and it is still with the same players who have been failing to get it done at the highest level the past 2-3 years. As said after the Army game, losing our three best distributors in one season has been a nightmare. Yes there is talent, but is what we saw yesterday really that out of character for this group? I said from the very beginning that this hire felt like a gamble. Yes he is the GOAT as a player, but he has never coached D1 men's lax. The film he has been carefully studying for the past 14 years is women's D1 lax. That's been the majority of what he has studied since 1995 (when he first started as MD women's assistant coach). I'm sure even those who were instantly thrilled with the new hire must have expected some sort of learning curve. What I really want to see from Gait this season is a willingness to change. Will we see him move away from this strategy of running our offensive starters into the ground? They aren't good enough where it is worth it to run them into the ground. In every game so far this year, some of the more promising moments on offense have come from the young guns or guys who play relatively few mins. I'm still giving him time. I still think it is silly to judge him without giving him more time. Nothing I have seen so far is extreme enough for me to think that this is a bad hire that will only continue to churn out bad results. That is too much doom and gloom. It is too early in his D1 men's lax coaching career for him to be set in his ways. [/QUOTE]

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