Whaler had it, he needs to keep the players. He pretty much offered the 4th and 5th year guys a public apology. If this gets turned around under him those guys need to be celebrated big time. Home some fans come for senior day.
I'll be there for practice against SMU in December. LOL. I'm always there.
He's a strange cat, this coach, and there is no underestimating the difficulty and breadth of what it takes to turn around the social/psychological/emotional and mental condition this program was in, and he's done a phenomenal job with that. No doubt.
But when you line up on Saturdays, or weeknights on ESPN for the AAC game of the week, you got to get good base of support, get your ass down, your head up, your knees bent, a flat back, and then keep your head head up, and get leverage, and go knock the guy across from you that you're supposed to hit - knock him down.
I'm not so sure, that he's not overthinking this whole rebuild. We need to develop 22 players, quick, that can be relied upon to do that, we need 105 of them for the future, not now.