Iowa state vs. Iowa

[#1CoyoteFan (Admin)]

Iowa state blew it tonight. I don't care if it was in Iowa city, the clones choked. Clyburn didn't show up and the young Iowa state forwards have to grow up fast. Way too many I-boards for isu.

Very disappointed, but I will admit I am wrong. My challenge to coyotefan is to one day admit when he is wrong. Guess that's the day the Mayans predicted to be the end of the world.

[Coyote Fan]

I will always admit when I am wrong. I predicted wrongly the first two Summit games this year for the Coyote Men Basketball team. I predicted incorrectly that the Yotes would beat Western Illinois in football. I think in every other game I predicted the football team right. I am not sure about the Illinois State game though. I am not off to a very good start in general in the Summit basketball pickem contest.

Knowing ones weaknesses and admitting what one does wrong is a very important part of correcting things that need to be corrected. I think some of the best coaches in the game know what they or their teams don't do well. Having too much pride and backing up a losing process is not a good formula for success. I think that is what we are seeing and saw with the football team. When we made the change to Glenn we didn't turnover the whole process but kept some of the wrong parts in place. This year we have a chance to correct that wrong and make it a right but I don't believe that is happening.

As I said I have absolutely no problem admitting being wrong. No problem at all.

As a matter of fact I have kind of a formula that will tell you what kind of a fan you are with your own team.

Here is how it goes. The most knowledgable fan or fan that "gets it" the most will be the one that can predict closest to zero regarding his/her own teams.

Here is how it work.

Lets take USD as an example.

If you pick USD to win or lose their game correctly you get a (0) score.

If you pick USD to win but they lose you get a (+1) score

If you pick USD to lose but they win you get a (-1) score

Over time the closer you are to zero means generally that you are an unbiased or objective thinker when it comes to your team.

Over time the more your score gets too high the more of a homer you are and probably need to get a little more realistic (this is probably where most fans would fall)

Over time the more your score gets too low (or in the negative) the more of a negative or pessimist you are towards your team. Most people will not fall here.

If people would put me in this table I would have finished a +1 on the football season depending on how I picked the Illinois State game which I don't remember. So I am very much closest to the objective side but still a hair closer to being a homer fan. The only way anyone could have come out as a -1 would be had they picked the Coyotes to lose every game.

I challenge everyone to pick as objectively as they can or go back and try to remember where you as a fan would have fallen had you followed this example with who you picked during the season.

So far in basketball I have really only picked the Summit games so far. I got a (-1) and a (+1) so I am at a zero which is where everyone should want to land on the homer scale. Of course I was 0-2 which isn't very good. I just picked the Yotes to split the wrong way.

[#1CoyoteFan (Admin)]

With the way Glenn is recruiting, you have been wrong in that assessment so far

[#1CoyoteFan (Admin)]

Oh, and the fact that you think you are the only usd fan that gives a damn a that your opinion is the only one that's ever right....

[Coyote Fan]

I don't think my opinion is the only one that is ever right but I do have confidence in my opinions. I just put much more time into my posts than most people are willing to spend. I went 10-1 in predicting the football team this year and I don't think many other Coyote fans could claim to be better. I am not bragging about that but the bottom line is that I picked the Yotes to lose when a majority of them picked USD to win more often.

I am not happy to be right I would certainly rather be wrong and the Yotes be playing winning football but that isn't the case. I have a better feel for the pulse of the program and the reason isn't because I am closer to the program than most. In actuality it is the exact opposite. I keep a far enough distance to be able to keep a level of non biased observations. It's because I don't get invested in personal connections, wasn't a former player, don't know any of the coaches, admin, fans etc. People that get too close let personal relationships play too big of a role in decision making.

I still have alot to learn about sports but I have been around and followed the Coyotes closely for many years. The decision making has not been good with the program and we are heading in that same direction now just at a higher level now.

Just to put it out there this is what I see for next year. I think the Coyotes will improve but will do so mainly because it's hard not to improve on where they were this year. We can say recruiting is going well, and maybe it is (I sure hope so) but the recruiting season is for the eternal optimist. Every recruit signed is going to seem like a great one for the home team. We have to wait and see how they all pan out first. No one would have ever thought Joe Glenn would be 1-10 this season so I guess that kind of means anything is possible when it comes to the low depths possible with this program.

I want the Coyotes to win badly, that has never changed but no sence of passion is going to get in the way of what I think the right and wrong thing to do when it comes to off season and arm chair quarterbacking.

I think alot of people think I get joy in predicting losses or get joy in being right that I predicted a loss or not such great things. That is the farthest thing from the truth. Passion for the Yotes which I have and many on this board have as well is a good thing as long as it is used properly.

Lets take Joe Glenn as an example of an extremely passionate Coyote Alum and current coach. No one is going to disagree with this. This is what I think is and has been going on for about a year. Joe Glenn before he set foot on campus as head coach surely wouldn't have thought that half of the current coaching staff already in place were the right guys moving forward. What happens is he gets on campus sees alot of fire and passion and alot of Coyote loyalty with Beschorner and Triplett to name two good examples. He sees them as former Yotes or having ties with USD in some way. He probably listens to everyone else around campus that is saying great things about these coaches. That is fine and dandy but what that does is makes it difficult to make honest and objective decisions but instead decisions based upon the emotion of the moment so to speak. He probably made too many decisions base on people that are on the inside, have biased towards everyone already in the circle and probably didn't use as much logical reasoning as he should have. I hope that is not the case, but I suspect it was and is the case.

So in a way we could have made a mistake with the assistant coaches before Glenn even got cooled down from his opening and introductory press conference. Sayler appeared to have wanted to go in a different direction with some of the assistants but for whatever reason his mind was changed. That is why I am saying that an outside perspective can often be best. Sayler was kind of that outside perspective because he was still kind of new to the job. I think these same tendencies played out when it came to player personell as well. Sticking with Josh was simply not a good move. I don't care what he does in practice or what kind of a leader he is or isn't but my eyes did not fool me in what I saw from him which was a very poor ability to be a cerebral and passing type QB. Kevin Earl was and kind of is still an unknown but he deserved a much bigger shot to see what he could do on the field than the chance he got. With the kind of season we had going it wasn't just out of convenience but vital that the Yotes put Earl in the game enough to see what we had in him. If he couldn't play I think people needed to see that first hand. It's not like the Yotes had anything to lose.

I know that one or more people that are reading this board probably know some more inside info than what we have been given. There has not only been no news but almost no talk what is going on behind closed doors with how the team plans to proceed moving forward. I sure wish that if someone knew something that they would post it, or at least PM me the info. I have always shown realiable in the past when it comes to trustworthiness of information.

I think I better repost most of this in a football thread.

[#1CoyoteFan (Admin)]

I don't think you put in more thought into your posts...just more ramblings and words. Most of your posts 75-90 percent fluff and no thought.