Unless you're in Starkville or Oxford, MS, they don't pay coaches millions of dollars to be mediocre or even above average. They pay them these enormous salaries to be the best. So expectations are set very high but good night the compensation more than makes up for it. That's why I don't feel sorry for coaches when they talk about the stress of coaching. It's a game played by kids for the entertainment of society. If that's the worse stress they have then they're doing aight in my book.
Agreed. And they should expect that, if they fall short of those expectations, fans are going to gripe and complain on the radio and on message boards.
Should fans gripe and complain? Do we know what all goes into the work these coaches do? Of course not. But it is the nature of the beast and it amazes me that they seem shocked that it happens.
Florida sucked bad in 2010 precisely because of how poorly Meyer managed his roster and because he is a basket case. It should have come as no surprise and not even as a let down that the fans were upset with him.
Had he stuck with it.. had he kept working hard and turned that thing back around, he would have been worshipped today just like they still worship Spurrier. But no, he "got sick", retired, un-retired, went to work for ESPN, and then to OSU. Why would anyone think that Florida fans would love him after all of that?
