Got in on this late but here goes.
Culture cannot overcome a lack of talent or skill. A team that is small and slow but has great culture is still going to lose to at team that has talent and skill even if that team doesn't have quality culture.
Culture makes all the difference when teams of relatively equal talent and skill are competing. Culture is what determines if the members of a team are giving their full efforts and if those efforts are coordinated or directed towards the success of the team over the benefit of the individual.
Prime and his staff have brought in significantly more talent and skill than we have seen in Boulder for a long time. For the first time in years we won't go into virtually every game knowing our opponent has better players than us
Now the task for the coaches is to get those players functioning as a team and working toward team goals over individual goals.
Nebraska can talk about culture but the fact is that they will be at a significant talent disadvantage to the majority of teams on their schedule. When putting in your best effort and still losing becomes commonplace it is normal that individuals lose interest in team goals and instead focus more on their own goals or simply lose focus on goals.
Nebraska carries over enough players from prior years that have done exactly this that it won't take much, a couple of solid losses, to quickly move that team into the downward cultural spiral.
Culture cannot overcome a lack of talent or skill. A team that is small and slow but has great culture is still going to lose to at team that has talent and skill even if that team doesn't have quality culture.
Culture makes all the difference when teams of relatively equal talent and skill are competing. Culture is what determines if the members of a team are giving their full efforts and if those efforts are coordinated or directed towards the success of the team over the benefit of the individual.
Prime and his staff have brought in significantly more talent and skill than we have seen in Boulder for a long time. For the first time in years we won't go into virtually every game knowing our opponent has better players than us
Now the task for the coaches is to get those players functioning as a team and working toward team goals over individual goals.
Nebraska can talk about culture but the fact is that they will be at a significant talent disadvantage to the majority of teams on their schedule. When putting in your best effort and still losing becomes commonplace it is normal that individuals lose interest in team goals and instead focus more on their own goals or simply lose focus on goals.
Nebraska carries over enough players from prior years that have done exactly this that it won't take much, a couple of solid losses, to quickly move that team into the downward cultural spiral.
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