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[QUOTE="Zelda Zonk, post: 5547852, member: 966"]
I’m not even saying this was universally or consistently the case. But even though my memory is cruddy, I remember very vividly some Lawrinson lounge conversations after games where we talked about how other teams played like they needed it and we would come out like we were expected to win. And then we’d ‘turn it on’ and win, and then it was like, ‘wish we came out like that.’

Had many conversations with my co-worker who was a rabid St John’s fan/alum, about the same things in the 90s. He pretty much would say something like ‘Can’t argue with the number of games he’s won. But, you always think there should have been more.’

I don’t know about “work ethic.” I wasn’t at practices. Effort is hard to define—I don’t even criticize the effort from these last two squads. Some players look like their hair is on fire and some are smoother. When I played football as tailback, I felt like I was in max-effort, full sprint, but coaches/dad said it looked like I wasn’t running hard. Even though no one was catching me. On our team, some players actually have a chance to defend if they’re right on top of an offensive player, some need to have space to react. Then there’s the ‘perception’ aspect. A lot of our fans thought Jason Hart was an incredible defender. I thought he was a paper tiger—all the motions and postures, but those weren’t actually doing anything….
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