[Austroturf]

Lol.  Please give me one example of a press conference that has made an iota of a difference on someone’s legacy.  I get the frustration with the press conferences.  If he is not going to be fired (he won’t), then he should at least be forced to endure some punishment, even if it is self-flagellation.  I mean, if we are forced to endure the last four football games, he should at least be forced to endure a verbal tirade of some sort, amiright?

Every job has box-checking exercises that people think are pointless but have to do anyways. Shaw views press conferences as a box-checking exercise, and no amount of petulant complaints about his demeanor here are going to make him embrace his inner Jim Mora.

https://youtu.be/Tie0tz7jGDI

BC

Box-checking exercise, yes.  But it is also a messaging opportunity (and the legendary Mora press conference is a messaging opportunity gone awry!).  In my view, Shaw failed that messaging opportunity.  What he said made me grimace and shake my head in disbelief, and I am not the only one, evidently. His tone and demeanor killed any empathy or support I might have mustered for his current plight (because he clearly doesn't see 3-9 as a plight).  In short, he made me like him and the program he runs even less than I did before the press conference.  Failed messaging opportunity.  Instead of getting the audience on his 2022 turnaround bandwagon, he made us feel as if we just aren't smart enough to understand how awesome he and the team already are.  I mean, look at those ten best plays every game.  Can't you see that we are really excellent?  Self-flagellation doesn't serve any purpose; but a realistic framing of the status quo and his commitment to improving on it would buy him a lot more support and goodwill.

[Austroturf]

Lol.  Please give me one example of a press conference that has made an iota of a difference on someone’s legacy.  I get the frustration with the press conferences.  If he is not going to be fired (he won’t), then he should at least be forced to endure some punishment, even if it is self-flagellation.  I mean, if we are forced to endure the last four football games, he should at least be forced to endure a verbal tirade of some sort, amiright?

Every job has box-checking exercises that people think are pointless but have to do anyways. Shaw views press conferences as a box-checking exercise, and no amount of petulant complaints about his demeanor here are going to make him embrace his inner Jim Mora.

https://youtu.be/Tie0tz7jGDI

BC

Box-checking exercise, yes.  But it is also a messaging opportunity (and the legendary Mora press conference is a messaging opportunity gone awry!).  In my view, Shaw failed that messaging opportunity.  What he said made me grimace and shake my head in disbelief, and I am not the only one, evidently. His tone and demeanor killed any empathy or support I might have mustered for his current plight (because he clearly doesn't see 3-9 as a plight).  In short, he made me like him and the program he runs even less than I did before the press conference.  Failed messaging opportunity.  Instead of getting the audience on his 2022 turnaround bandwagon, he made us feel as if we just aren't smart enough to understand how awesome he and the team already are.  I mean, look at those ten best plays every game.  Can't you see that we are really excellent?  Self-flagellation doesn't serve any purpose; but a realistic framing of the status quo and his commitment to improving on it would buy him a lot more support and goodwill.