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I don't care about anyone else, I care about CU. If the goal for football and basketball programs is mediocrity then it has already failed.
"Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it."
And that's why I said it would be very difficult to achieve in Boulder. It starts at the very top. If mediocrity is accepted at ANY level along the way, that's what will be achieved. If mediocrity is a reality in Boulder, then change that reality. Otherwise, all the discussions and disagreements on this forum mean nothing.
No, but I would fire that person if their goal was to sell as many cases as they did last year and the year before.
Listen, I get it. Especially after reading some of the comments here. The problem runs all up and down the line, starting with Boulder. However, if mediocrity is acceptable to you or anyone else here, that's exactly what you'll get. And you'll like it.
By that measure, you'd be putting Bill Belichick on the hot seat right now for going from winning a SB to losing a SB to looking like a 4-seed.
And you think Belichick's yearly goal is NOT to win a Super Bowl? Also, can you please post the year that Tad won a championship? Or perhaps you're talking apples to oranges here, no?
Then CU has achieved it's desired success. I guess we should have never removed MM because things were going as expected.
Here's what I don't think you do get.
We funded the hell out of the football program, gave the coach a pay bump to top half of the conference, and funded the hell out of the assistant coaching pool with increased pay to market rate & multi-year contracts. After that, he had 2 straight losing seasons.
Perhaps, but it's also possible to get a coach in here that defies expectations of mediocrity and takes it to a new level of success. At which point, the "problem children" that hinder the success of these programs will eventually relent and begin to support them.
Championships should be the goal of EVERY athletic program. Period. If the goal is to sustain mediocrity then there's no point in arguing, you've already won that argument.
When you set goals, do you not expect to meet them? Setting a goal means you expect to meet said goal, no? Do you set goals expecting NOT to meet them? Wouldn't that be setting goals with the expectation of failure?
Ok, in terms of Tad, where is the improvement since 2011? What has he done to prove the program is improving? Looking at his record and recruiting since that time, please point to an upturn of success. Because, I don't see any, I see mediocrity at best.
Are you sure about that? Knowing our place and having a set ceiling sound pretty damn bad to me. If that's the case, why even bother playing? Sorry, not trying to be a prick about it. It's just, that outlook, will go nowhere fast. Hopefully, they learned something today. SHOW THE **** UP, I don't give a rat's nasty ass who you play.
Until it is supported at a higher level, consistently getting to the post-season is what we should be thankful for. We will have some highs mixed in there.
Sure, but is this the pinnacle of success for the CU basketball program? We good? Are we happy with mediocrity?
Congrats on posting the same thing 20 times in 2 hours. That's gotta be nearing record territory. Championship quality posting.
Sweet. See, it pays to expect excellence. Now, where's my trophy, Ice?
Ripp. This team is still really young. Relax. Unless you’re willing to go the Sean Miller/Dana Altman/Andy Enfield route, you have to be content with developing young, less touted players.
