Odds are Herm still employed after today...

[DeezNutz]

Originally Posted by KC Fish

BS. If the players give up after an 0-4 start because they're scared of the possibility of a new coach the season after, then I don't want a single one of them on the team. You really believe they play with that attitude? You really think their egos are so brittle that they can't handle losing unless the head coach is guaranteed to be there the next season? That seems absurd. If they hire a new coach and still go 0-4, will it be that different simply knowing the coach's job is safe?

The idea that a team can't or won't play hard or play together unless the coaching situation is guaranteed long term is just stupid.

That's not my point.

It's not about playing hard. It's about listening to the coach and buying into what he's telling them to do.

If players think Herm is full of crap, and there's a faction of players on every team that thinks this about their coach, and they also think they're going to be with KC longer than he is, what do you think the situation will be like?

This has nothing to do with effort or being scared and everything to do with buying into the "plan" that any coach has to sell to his team.

When players start saying, "**** you. I'm doing it my own way.", there's trouble.