[Redrum]

It's great to "sell the product"  but  of all the venues to sell in, the media days are among the lower ranked.  ( Nice turn of phrase:  "Mutually assured boredom." )  Media days are fueled by the media's needs,  not the needs of the players, football programs or the schools.  I don't even think the fans care all that much except many are hardwired to react like excited Labradors anytime anything football related comes within sight or hearing.  In many ways, the clunkiness of past Pac-8/Pac-10 media days were refreshing compared to the Roman circus that was and is the SEC Media Days.  Watching some of that makes you cringe like one does when watching those TV reality shows where 4-year old girls compete to be "crowned" the most beautiful, charming and talented.

Shaw evidently sells the product well with recruits.  Well, so far he has.  His charisma is all short range,  working best sitting in a recruit family's living room or across a desk in his office.  There are guys like Les Miles,  Nick Saban and in his day  Pete Carroll whose charisma can blow down walls from a distance.  That's not Shaw.  But as long as he can sell the product where it counts : in the locker room/ sideline  we'll be OK.   

[Redrum]

It's great to "sell the product"  but  of all the venues to sell in, the media days are among the lower ranked.  ( Nice turn of phrase:  "Mutually assured boredom." )  Media days are fueled by the media's needs,  not the needs of the players, football programs or the schools.  I don't even think the fans care all that much except many are hardwired to react like excited Labradors anytime anything football related comes within sight or hearing.  In many ways, the clunkiness of past Pac-8/Pac-10 media days were refreshing compared to the Roman circus that was and is the SEC Media Days.  Watching some of that makes you cringe like one does when watching those TV reality shows where 4-year old girls compete to be "crowned" the most beautiful, charming and talented.

Shaw evidently sells the product well with recruits.  Well, so far he has.  His charisma is all short range,  working best sitting in a recruit family's living room or across a desk in his office.  There are guys like Les Miles,  Nick Saban and in his day  Pete Carroll whose charisma can blow down walls from a distance.  That's not Shaw.  But as long as he can sell the product where it counts : in the locker room/ sideline  we'll be OK.