The ole 'coach knows better than us' defense.
Didn't hold water when Heard was denied the starting job last summer and half the fans knew what was coming. Same defense was used for choosing Swoopes.
How about Gray's continued starting with a majority of carries over Foreman when fans were yelling to start the more effective big man?
Both of those were clearly poor coaching choices and fans argued for the opposite.
Both times the coach had to be forcefed the better choice after watching his original choice fail to get it done and damage the team's chance to win.
So let's really think about if Gilbert knows better than we do. I heard SG himself say he hasn't and wasn't going to watch past film on his QB's.
So what info does SG have to make this decision? He has Strong's opinions (which were wrong last year at QB), and he has practice observations.
The key ingredient he's missing that is imperative is to date Swoopes has played vastly inferior to his practice performance. TS is the opposite of a "gamer".
Has SG weighed that in as significantly as it requires when he hasn't seen TS play the last two years like we have? No.
All he is making his decision off of is what he sees in practice. The same way the OC and CS did it last year when choosing Swoopes.
The 'coach knows best' over fans defense is proven wrong on countless occasions.
Coaches mainly see things from an an insider view and on occasion this results in wrongly trusting or sticking with guys too long they believe in. Happens at every program on every level.
In the off-season it's not uncommon for coaches to bring in a consultant coach they trust to give them an outsider perspective to combat this tunnel vision and improve.
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