Funny, delayed gratification is an adult expression based on the need to delay satisfaction in order to control appetite, and lose weight -- largely resulting in yo-yo weight gain and loss. That has been another proven myth that you need to diet in some puritanical effort to lose weight. Is that really the expression you were looking for!
If I delay a payment, I will have more money...
If we borrow more money now, we can dig ourselves out of our debt....
Really, doesn't life tell you to react more rationally when your head is getting kicked in by the mugger; and, that he isn't borrowing the money! It isn't a fricking loan.
'Doing it right' is a euphemism for we haven't a clue how to salvage year one.
Instead of improving the seniors and juniors, they are putting all their effort into working with the underclassmen.
To me, that is tantamount to negligence of management. Giving up on the upperclassmen to improve future years is stealing from this year in the hope that it works out better in the end. It is irrational thinking, even mystical thinking to think this is a good course of action. This week our BCS rank is 118th. Did we really lose so many seniors last year that we have dropped by 30 positions to the very bottom? I don't think that is a rational drop. It is a drop based on some other factor, namely coaching.
Two years ago, we had an offensive line with problems. Some guys graduated, and the line started awfully last year. But, as the season progressed, the line progressed and became more dominating. This year we have started off slowly along the line. But, there is zero evidence that their performance is improving. Some are blaming the players. It isn't the players, it is the staff who has trained them poorly. Just because a coach is loved at practice, instructs them, and puts them through the motions repeatedly, does not mean the training is effective right now. It obviously isn't working because it isn't translating to the field of play.
And, again, we are to believe that this staff will train up the near rejects of a recruiting class coming in to make our team better down the line. If they can't do it with what we have now, how is it that it will be done in the future? That is a rational expectation and has yet to be explained how exactly that works THIS YEAR and NEXT. How will next year produce better results than this year? How!?!?!?!?!?!?!? Train em up is a theory. What evidence does anybody have that it will occur in future years with this staff?!?!?!?!?!?!? It isn't happening right now because nobody has shown any evidence statistical or otherwise that it is working other than the immaterial "the players love them" argument and the "practices are so well run" canard; or the 'we ran the kickoff to the house one time this year', wink wink, hope we have another soon!
What exactly is Kills plan to do things "right"? The usual GH trash is that he is chasing down players to go to class (not his job, but oh well, he's doing it anyway!); strength and conditioning (oh my, we have won the 4th quarter battle, even though we are down a collective 100 points by then); fitting the right players into his system (damn, these 2 star guys can tackle, run, and score in high school!!! They have football heart and balls and gee their from homey Minnesota by the way -- where all the men are good looking and the women strong!); and that final gem, our guy knows more than their guy!"
I hate mystical thinking. I hate jackass Americans who practice mystical thinking day after day.
I wouldn't profess to want short cuts, I want immediate corrective action. The bow is underwater and people are calling for a new ship to be built out at the docks! F-ing amazing thinking and they call it short cuts!!! We, in the life jackets, we will just hope we won't be consumed by sharks before then; because we most certainly will be swimming next to them for the next few months.
