alabamagrizzly said:
Ya but the loudmouths opinions are the only ones that matter.
The only one that matters: Bob Stitt! What a loudmouth! To his credit, he finally takes the responsibility that many of his jejune fanboys cannot, including the seers who now pretend to know what "most fans" believe; the same seer who's significant predictions the past two years have been wrong just about every time.
To his credit, Bob Stitt is far more honest, finally, than his indefatigable band of mindless acolytes. Here's the "loudmouth" in his own words.
With a crushing loss to the rival Bobcats still weighing him down, Bob Stitt settled behind a lone microphone to address the eager media for his post-season press conference Monday. With a half-dozen cameras rolling and a horde of reporters and nearly the entire Montana athletic department front office present, Stitt began trying to explain Montana's disappointing football season.
Stitt faced the firing squad for a half hour and accepted blame for the Grizzlies' eighth-place finish in the Big Sky Conference – a 6-5 campaign that stalled after a promising 5-1 start – and the team's exclusion from the FCS playoffs.
"There's a lot of reasons why things don't go right but ultimately it's me," said Stitt, the Grizzlies' second-year head coach. "It's me. I've got to get it done."
Stitt discussed his plans for a rebound season in 2017. Between now and Sept. 2, 2017, when the Griz kick off against Valparaiso at home, Stitt said he and his staff will reassess everything about the program.
From the coaching staff and how they coach, to the schemes they run and their personnel.
"I've done a lot of thinking and soul searching and we're going to look at every little aspect of what we do," Stitt said. "Me as a manager managing them and every aspect of the program.
"... Internally it eats at me and eats at me and eats at me. I cannot sleep at night and I cannot enjoy anything unless our players are successful.
I am sure he does not want to go through another loss to the Cats, at home, in front of 25,000 weeping, shocked, bewildered fans.
Griz shut out of 1st team for 1st time since 1984.
Yes. Our worst season in 32 years.
November 22, 2016:
Ten Grizzlies were named to the all-Big Sky Conference post-season honors teams Tuesday, but for the first time in more than 30 years no Montana player earned first-team recognition.
The Griz skidded down the stretch to land on the outside of the playoff picture for the third time in seven years, but their absence from the all-Big Sky first team marks a first since 1984. Every year since – with the exception of '85 – UM placed at least two players on the first team.
The 1984 Griz went 2-8-1 under head coach Larry Donovan and finished last in an eight-team Big Sky.
Optimistically, it has to get better, it can't get worse. Good for him if he can pull it off. UM's given him the resources and the opportunities. That doesn't explain a 3-5 conference season, or the loss, in
our house, to a bottom-dwelling struggling rival, whose inexperienced, freshman quarterback can barely throw the ball, playing against our much-touted NFL-quality quarterback on his home turf.
http://missoulian.com/sports/college/montana/stitt-takes-blame-for-disappointing-griz-football-season/article_5d8a80ec-4656-5b31-8a68-5fa2bd7831de.html
http://missoulian.com/sports/college/big-sky/all-big-sky-football-griz-shut-out-of-st-team/article_02dc8323-30d0-5eef-83d9-fa52ba73fab3.html
Remember what the fanboys were predicting?
