[81alum]

Ah, the hubris of fans saying that to the winningest WBB coach that a loss is not acceptable. 

That's the fun of being a fan.  You can cosplay being a hall of fame coach without any consequences to your strategy being wrong.  You can advocate for more mid-range jumpers without having to witness a game where we brick a bunch of mid-range jumpers and wonder why we weren't getting the ball inside to our all-American posts.

BC

Exactly.

I got interested in football in 1977, when as a freshman I went with friends to see our team playing with the new "Bill Walsh offense."  What made the game fun for us was sitting in the stands trying to guess which play Walsh was going to run, given down and distance and Walsh's "keep them off balance" philosophy.  When they came to the line I'd yell "Francis in the left flat!" or "Nelson up the middle" and some of the time I was right, and I felt as smart as the genius.  We had competitions to see who among us would predict the most plays in the game.  The truth is that we were all terrible, but was fun to play-act at being the play caller.

Now, as a much older man, I guess I'm doing the same thing with WBB.  No disrespect to the real genius, Tara, intended.

[81alum]

Ah, the hubris of fans saying that to the winningest WBB coach that a loss is not acceptable. 

That's the fun of being a fan.  You can cosplay being a hall of fame coach without any consequences to your strategy being wrong.  You can advocate for more mid-range jumpers without having to witness a game where we brick a bunch of mid-range jumpers and wonder why we weren't getting the ball inside to our all-American posts.

BC

Exactly.

I got interested in football in 1977, when as a freshman I went with friends to see our team playing with the new "Bill Walsh offense."  What made the game fun for us was sitting in the stands trying to guess which play Walsh was going to run, given down and distance and Walsh's "keep them off balance" philosophy.  When they came to the line I'd yell "Francis in the left flat!" or "Nelson up the middle" and some of the time I was right, and I felt as smart as the genius.  We had competitions to see who among us would predict the most plays in the game.  The truth is that we were all terrible, but was fun to play-act at being the play caller.

Now, as a much older man, I guess I'm doing the same thing with WBB.  No disrespect to the real genius, Tara, intended.