Below is the best reply I've heard that puts into perspective how we need to look at this. I didn't write this but I couldn't have said it any better.
"Repeat this to yourself. A million times, if necessary. "We are who we *thought* we were!"
Everyone knew prior to the season that it was going to be a rough year. Not a single person thought we'd win more than two games; and for those who dared to hope for even a pair, they did so with fear and trepidation.
Now comes the season, and fans are "surprisingly" disappointed.
Wait, what?
If Beaty had solid players at every position he could have run his offense and ran Memphis back to Tennessee cursing and crying. But the cupboards were bare when he got here. Add to that a list of defections and injuries during the spring and summer, and Kansas was much worse off than when they began, if that's possible. MUCH worse. And the beginning under Beaty was not promising from any realistic point-of-view. A bad football team + a new system - good players + small roster = crapola.
But perhaps it is the nature of human thought when confronted with the reality *actually playing out* that we feel a license to complain about how absurdly terrible the football is. Yes. They are terrible. But we are who we thought we were. No surprises here. Cozart was never the QB that some dared to hope he had become, and I'll spoil the ending for you: he will never be "that guy". He is who we thought he was.
Listen up and listen well. Your hopes for this season should be less than modest: that we learn the system so returning players have something to go on when next season starts; that experience will translate into a better feel for the game; and that the coaching staff matures by observation and learning from mistakes. If you are hoping for more than this then you are as good a thinker as our football players play football. Yes, I wish I could have Mangino back but it's not happening. And even for him it took some lumps before his teams got up and going. So we find ourselves under major reconstruction. In the meantime please spare our ears the wanton dreadfulness of your afflictions.
And saddle up, because playing the Big 12 schedule this year might produce some 75+ -point losses, unless the other teams are merciful. This loss to Memphis will prove merciful by comparison. We're trying to change Pee-Wee Herman into Rocky Balboa here. (Yo ADRIEN!)
We are who we *thought* we were."
"Repeat this to yourself. A million times, if necessary. "We are who we *thought* we were!"
Everyone knew prior to the season that it was going to be a rough year. Not a single person thought we'd win more than two games; and for those who dared to hope for even a pair, they did so with fear and trepidation.
Now comes the season, and fans are "surprisingly" disappointed.
Wait, what?
If Beaty had solid players at every position he could have run his offense and ran Memphis back to Tennessee cursing and crying. But the cupboards were bare when he got here. Add to that a list of defections and injuries during the spring and summer, and Kansas was much worse off than when they began, if that's possible. MUCH worse. And the beginning under Beaty was not promising from any realistic point-of-view. A bad football team + a new system - good players + small roster = crapola.
But perhaps it is the nature of human thought when confronted with the reality *actually playing out* that we feel a license to complain about how absurdly terrible the football is. Yes. They are terrible. But we are who we thought we were. No surprises here. Cozart was never the QB that some dared to hope he had become, and I'll spoil the ending for you: he will never be "that guy". He is who we thought he was.
Listen up and listen well. Your hopes for this season should be less than modest: that we learn the system so returning players have something to go on when next season starts; that experience will translate into a better feel for the game; and that the coaching staff matures by observation and learning from mistakes. If you are hoping for more than this then you are as good a thinker as our football players play football. Yes, I wish I could have Mangino back but it's not happening. And even for him it took some lumps before his teams got up and going. So we find ourselves under major reconstruction. In the meantime please spare our ears the wanton dreadfulness of your afflictions.
And saddle up, because playing the Big 12 schedule this year might produce some 75+ -point losses, unless the other teams are merciful. This loss to Memphis will prove merciful by comparison. We're trying to change Pee-Wee Herman into Rocky Balboa here. (Yo ADRIEN!)
We are who we *thought* we were."
