It is a System
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Agreed, its only a system if everyone buys in. I think Coach Odom is changing the culture around the locker room, winning attitude, and more of team first before ego. Look at our captains, every game they show out not only for themselves but for other players as well
I think it’s more than a system. It’s a foundation for an actual program. Which should yield more consistency year to year.
They need to extend him now before the season ends & secure a larger buyout. There’s no way he won’t be at the top of the list for many schools looking for a HC this off season. If he goes, think you hand the keys off to Marion. But this is what happens when you hire the right person. He changed the culture overnight and got guys to buy in.
Literally overnight. Lose your starting QB, Freshman takes over, bowl game. Second year, QB leaves mid-season, doesn't skip a beat. Two wins away from back to back bowl games for first time in program history. Controls their own destiny for CFP.
Overnight?
What you are witnessing is the brain child of slow growth and patience.
Built on the foundation of players built over the three years before from a different coach.
Arroyo had good players, he just showed when he had a 1-6 record to finish off the final 7 games of his final year that he couldn't coach the players up against better competition.
Players that couldn’t win …
… all of a sudden found success last season …
In his first season.
No slow growth. He took something that got a coach fired and turned it into something that won. Immediately.
One can coach.
The other wanted to be afforded slow growth and patience. He lined his pockets in doing so, but at the end, we were in no better shape than when he arrived and there were no upticks in his four years. Just four years of bad football and asking for more time. I get it, I want my salary too. But I’ll perform to get it instead of begging fans for patience and hoping other fans latch onto that philosophy … and then blame everybody else for my own failures as I head out the door kicking and screaming ….
Slow growth is an awful philosophy if you want to win. It just breaks the bank and fan spirits.
But, but … if we had just given him two more years, he’d have been ranked in the top 25, like Odom!
