I have heard a few different times from a few different people that George has a rather unique philosophy. It is that each game is its own season. Hmm. Let’s think about that for a minute. Sounds interesting. Maybe even smart. Once a game is over, move on. We’re 0-0 this week. Don’t worry about last week. Don’t worry about that Miami or Texas game later on either. Worry about this game and this game only.
However, this philosophy can also lead to some of the things I believe plague O’Leary. For instance, GOL’s seemingly defiant insistence that Calabrese is his starting QB even though he sucked last week. So all of last year and two weeks into this year, we had to sit here and wonder why he keeps getting starts over better QBs. Well it all makes sense now. Last week was last year. This is a new year. Calabrese is the starter. Period. That is how he can start vs. Samford and score 0 points in almost a half, then Hodges comes in and we score 28 the rest of the way, but then next week, Calabrese starts again. On the road. In a C-USA eastern division game. A team we have to get past to get to the Championship game.
You see folks, every game is not a season. Losses hurt. Those are games you don’t get back. You have to learn from them. You can’t pretend they didn’t happen and keep repeating the same mistakes over and over. This musical QB thing didn’t work last year. Why would we think it would this year? Well guess what. It didn’t. And it cost us a very important game. And because of that game, this week’s game has taken on that much more importance. You see that game does have an effect on this one. These games do not stand alone. It’s why we keep records. It’s why we keep stats. It’s why we keep score. We don’t run a play and then say, well that one’s over. Nothing we can do about it now, let’s start over.
We need to start looking at seasons as seasons. We need to have goals. Jerry O’Neill stated that he believes UCF should compete for the Eastern Championship EVERY YEAR! I agree with that. Our stated goal every year should be to win the C-USA east. If we don’t win it every year, but we are at least in the running until November, we can live with that. But I don’t want to be 2-7 and have GOL tell me that this week’s game is it’s own season and if we win we can all celebrate. No. No we can’t. You wouldn’t be telling us to jump off a cliff if we were 7-2 and then lost in week 10.
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