02-14-2022, 06:33 PM
There's part of me that would love to have the lens that Coach Shaw has for looking at what's left of his once-dominating program. There's another part of me that, to paraphrase Princess Leia, wonders where he gets his delusions from (laser brains).
He still seems to think that some of those blowouts were just a couple of plays. I was at the ASU game. It wasn't. I was at the Utah game (well, at least the first half). It wasn't either. Ditto for UW. Stanford was dominated on both sides of the ball from the first play from scrimmage.
I know Troy's not the guy to engage in "fire the coach" talk but I think Coach Shaw had some splainin to do as far as standing pat on his staff after that disaster of a season. Were injuries a factor? Of course. They are a factor every season for every team. The question he should be asking is how they can be better prepared to deal with it than they have been in the four years since Turley left and injury rates have exploded.
Maybe Coach Shaw should be selling Mary Kay cosmetics to pig farmers, with a focus on lipstick.
I stand by what I said last fall. Coach Shaw has earned the right to try to fix his broken program. I hope I'm wrong, but I don't see where the path he's chosen is going to lead to a materially better outcome this year.
He still seems to think that some of those blowouts were just a couple of plays. I was at the ASU game. It wasn't. I was at the Utah game (well, at least the first half). It wasn't either. Ditto for UW. Stanford was dominated on both sides of the ball from the first play from scrimmage.
I know Troy's not the guy to engage in "fire the coach" talk but I think Coach Shaw had some splainin to do as far as standing pat on his staff after that disaster of a season. Were injuries a factor? Of course. They are a factor every season for every team. The question he should be asking is how they can be better prepared to deal with it than they have been in the four years since Turley left and injury rates have exploded.
Maybe Coach Shaw should be selling Mary Kay cosmetics to pig farmers, with a focus on lipstick.
I stand by what I said last fall. Coach Shaw has earned the right to try to fix his broken program. I hope I'm wrong, but I don't see where the path he's chosen is going to lead to a materially better outcome this year.