...and that starts with ME.
So I am DONE: I am getting off the “F*** Grantham”-Bandwagon. At least the loud and persistent, repetitive sloganeering aspects.
I mean, “OK—His contract is up after this season. Mullen stuck with him this year after a historically BAD 2020, and this is the longest he (Grantham) has been with ANYONE since an Assistant with Virginia Tech, his alma mater.”
Our Coach DOESN’T publicly pass-the-buck, so when it comes to “The Future”, we’ve got to just more or less ACCEPT a certain silence and seeming inaction as far as his plans for AFTER this one.
Unless there is some kind of sudden, startling wave of dramatic improvement (starting with a big win on Saturday, and carrying this team satisfactorily through the rest of 2021), there will no doubt be SOME sort of CHANGE—And it will BEGIN on Defense.
Either way, for now it’s clearly “wait-and-see” time. I’m not sure exactly when or how it will materialize, but it IS on the way.
Sure: By now we are impatient for it—I mean, we’ve watched in frustration and disappointment as our whole season, entered with such hope and anticipation, quickly and steadily deteriorated...Dreams gone, at best “put-on-ICE” for ANOTHER year—by early OCTOBER!
“Now what?!!”
Well, we are about to find out...
But it won’t likely BE in any kind of “quick fix” fashion: Not our Coach’s “Way”.
I suppose I am finally resigned to “riding this out”—mainly because we have little CHOICE:
That’s the way he is going to do this—HIS way.
So “here we go”. “Who” we are and “Where we’re going” to be determined as much by events and changes ongoing NOW—“behind the scenes”, as they say...and soon to be viewed “at a stadium-near-YOU” (Um, well, you get the idea...”a TV near you”, at the very least!).
I’m sorry to sound flippant; but a certain “patient resignation” is about the best outlook I can manage right now—Otherwise I’d be ready to throw-in-the-towel entirely! Fact is, I was already THERE, and felt it was time to either find some way OUT of the “downward emotional spiral”.
So here we are. No predictions, dire or otherwise.
“Let’s see what HAPPENS” the rest of the way—and what in fact ensues as a result, in the aftermath of all that.
So I am DONE: I am getting off the “F*** Grantham”-Bandwagon. At least the loud and persistent, repetitive sloganeering aspects.
I mean, “OK—His contract is up after this season. Mullen stuck with him this year after a historically BAD 2020, and this is the longest he (Grantham) has been with ANYONE since an Assistant with Virginia Tech, his alma mater.”
Our Coach DOESN’T publicly pass-the-buck, so when it comes to “The Future”, we’ve got to just more or less ACCEPT a certain silence and seeming inaction as far as his plans for AFTER this one.
Unless there is some kind of sudden, startling wave of dramatic improvement (starting with a big win on Saturday, and carrying this team satisfactorily through the rest of 2021), there will no doubt be SOME sort of CHANGE—And it will BEGIN on Defense.
Either way, for now it’s clearly “wait-and-see” time. I’m not sure exactly when or how it will materialize, but it IS on the way.
Sure: By now we are impatient for it—I mean, we’ve watched in frustration and disappointment as our whole season, entered with such hope and anticipation, quickly and steadily deteriorated...Dreams gone, at best “put-on-ICE” for ANOTHER year—by early OCTOBER!
“Now what?!!”
Well, we are about to find out...
But it won’t likely BE in any kind of “quick fix” fashion: Not our Coach’s “Way”.
I suppose I am finally resigned to “riding this out”—mainly because we have little CHOICE:
That’s the way he is going to do this—HIS way.
So “here we go”. “Who” we are and “Where we’re going” to be determined as much by events and changes ongoing NOW—“behind the scenes”, as they say...and soon to be viewed “at a stadium-near-YOU” (Um, well, you get the idea...”a TV near you”, at the very least!).
I’m sorry to sound flippant; but a certain “patient resignation” is about the best outlook I can manage right now—Otherwise I’d be ready to throw-in-the-towel entirely! Fact is, I was already THERE, and felt it was time to either find some way OUT of the “downward emotional spiral”.
So here we are. No predictions, dire or otherwise.
“Let’s see what HAPPENS” the rest of the way—and what in fact ensues as a result, in the aftermath of all that.