[NU Sports] Get over it!

[DPENDERG at aol.com]

Whatever Fitz's recruiting skill, continued poor, even  embarrassing 
performances on the field will diminish our appeal to  blue-chip prospects.
 
 
In a message dated 10/23/2006 6:24:12 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
johnadeg at bellatlantic.net writes:

I the  recruiting has improved over the past couple of years, which it 
seems to  have, the credit doe got to Fitz.  That is one of his real  pluses.

John DeGroat

Jeff Beamsley wrote:

>I've been  saying for months that this was going to be a difficult season  
for
>us.
> 
>IMHO there was WAY more good news coming out of  yesterday's game than bad.
> 
>We have a QB who can run the O and  score some points.  We may not win
>another game this year, but we  will score some points and prove that we are
>dangerous.  Without a  QB, we are toast regardless of how well everyone else
>plays.  With  a QB we can have a team next year that can be competitive.
>  
>Surprised and disappointed at the weak D and special teams?   Where you been
>the past seven years?  Tell me what sort of magic  was going to turn these
>historic weaknesses to strengths particularly  this year.  The issues we have
>been dealing with may have  something to do with coaching, but as I've posted
>before, play on the  field is only part of their job.
> 
>Substantive change in the D  is going to come from better recruiting as well
>as better  coaching.  From what I've read, we ARE recruiting better.   Who
>gets the credit for that?  Might be these same guys getting  toasted for the
>team's poor play.
> 
>IMHO what happened on  Saturday was a young team (and a young coaching staff)
>finding  themselves way ahead in a game they weren't supposed to win.   They
>didn't know what to do and played the second half worried about  losing
>rather than playing to win.  This was a BIG learning  experience for
>everyone, but particularly Fitz.  I suspect no one  is hurting more than he
>is.
> 
>At the end of the day, the  coaches lost this game because the kids weren't
>prepared for playing  with a big lead.  But it is this sort of experience
>that most BT  coaches bring to the job with them.  In our case, we've got  a
>great HC who is going to be gaining some of this experience on the  job, but
>I sense he is the sort of guy who will use this loss to win a  lot more games
>in the future.  
> 
>Jeff
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