OttoinGrotto
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We have a 30 game sample size right now. In marketing you'd start thinking the trend is pretty much established by this point, give or take. So sure, there's still some wiggle room but enough cases are mounting suggesting that this is what we've got. Doesn't look like the talent is getting better, heck, it might be getting worse. You say the system ain't changing. Well...There's a hell of lot more involved in building back this football program than keeping you entertained.
Not to the people that are needed to fill the Dome. But keep trying to convince yourself otherwise, or that fans shouldn't be as fickle as they are, or that people will come to the Dome because the coach says he needs them to and because the paper says that's why our recruiting isn't better.
I know people don't want to hear this but the program as is right now is completely failing at making a compelling case for 45,000 people to choose to spend their weekend at the Dome. That sure seems to me like a big part of the hell involved in building back the program, as you say. A lot of people here believe that there's a straight line correlation between winning and attendance - I don't think it's a straight line. I think the winning needs an aesthetic quality, otherwise the winning loses impact in the stands. We don't have that aesthetic quality. My personal belief is that people in this case would even prefer that aesthetic quality to winning if the choice is either or.
The good news is that it's not. I think in large part the coaching staff can choose how much of an aesthetic quality they provide by their choice of system. I'm very concerned that Marrone does not believe that the systems that flourish in college that are fan friendly is how football should be played though, and yes, I think the result is to the detriment of the program and that if he persists in using this "multiple system" he has and it proves ineffective, well, let's just call a duck a duck here.
Psst - I'm not talking about ducks. That is meant to be interpreted as let's call a meathead a meathead.
And who says the results won't change?
I'm going to make a prediction. The offense this season will continue to be subpar. However, much to the delight of the fans the offense will take the step forward from pathetic to average in the 2012 season thanks in large part to having a very seasoned starting QB. This step forward will be fool's gold. In 2013 the team will struggle to develop a new starting QB and will sorely miss the school's all-time leader in receptions and the offense will take a step backwards once again. There are two things that I think can change that outcome - either someone like West, Kobena, Gulley, AAM, Hunt, Cornelius, Macfarlane, etc. turn out be an all-world talent pretty quickly, or the staff looks around the country at the kinds of offenses that produce and they realize they can win and give the fans something fun to watch if they shake things up.
I'm not overly optimistic on either account. Would love to be wrong.