Gotta love the guy. He's a great ambassador for his university.
I'm serious.
But, that was a principals speech at a high school pep rally before the first football game.
Why promise a championship season when no one is expecting one?
Maybe he expects that much out of himself.
If so, I honestly have no problem with the speech.
He has his right to dream as much as anyone else. And the right to have goals.
I'd much rather have a coach with an attitude like that than someone who say's.."we've got a long way to go".
Just think about it, if you can, from a Mississippi State perspective rather than a Bama perspective.
They truly need a coach like that. Gives them hope.
But talk about digging a grave....lol...wow..
They better get way better in a hurry.
If not...that speech next year...is going to be a tough one.
sip
The problem, as Sip points out here, is that if you start predicting championships before you have even had a winning season, then you have put yourself on the spot. Anything short of a championship can easily be seen as a failure, and probably will be seen that way. And if you don't even win, say, seven or eight games, you are really in the soup.
The way Bear Bryant did it was to tell his players they were playing for a national championship, while telling the public things like, "I don't know how our little boys can stand up to those big fine guys we are playing Saturday."
Maybe this is what has always stood out to me so much about Les Miles. What you portray to the PUBLIC can be turned on you in a minute if you don't match what you say with your actions on the field. It is better, I think, to try to pump up your constitutency without all the predicting. Let the team win a few, and THEN, MAYBE, hint at a championship. But you stand to be seen as a big windbag if you get too cocky before the Public.
The psycholist will tell you that the person who is without hope is in trouble. As a matter of fact, a big part of Aristotle's philosophy was about striving for the goal, the END. If you as a football player, or as any person in this life, don't have a goal, then you have a big problem. But if a head coach tells the world that his team is going to beat everybody in the West and 'go to Atlanta,' he has already put himself, at least somewhat, on a hotseat, when it wasn't at all necessary.
