I see a lot of people complaining about the head coach (something I'm prone to, also), from simply questioning his decisions (perfectly acceptable) through calling for his removal and attacking him personally (totally unacceptable). Many of those posts include a phrasing along the lines of, "I didn't like him from the beginning" but "I kept an open mind" and/or "I gave him a chance."
Large piles of odiferous bovine excrement.
- If you opine about a series of situations and the FIRST thing you say in each case is, "I never did like that guy" who you then blame for the situation...you are NOT open-minded.
- If you look at every decision, every hiring (or firing) based on "How would <fill in the blank> have done that?" instead of trying to see why the person who DID do it made that decision, you aren't open-minded.
- If your first impulse upon our team not succeeding at ANY aspect of the game is to criticize it as a shortcoming of the head coach, you aren't open-minded.
Not being open-minded isn't one of the "seven deadly sins"...but it is more than a touch disingenuous to claim it while prefacing your remarks with a statement noting your preconceived bias and then proving the reality of that bias.
Large piles of odiferous bovine excrement.
- If you opine about a series of situations and the FIRST thing you say in each case is, "I never did like that guy" who you then blame for the situation...you are NOT open-minded.
- If you look at every decision, every hiring (or firing) based on "How would <fill in the blank> have done that?" instead of trying to see why the person who DID do it made that decision, you aren't open-minded.
- If your first impulse upon our team not succeeding at ANY aspect of the game is to criticize it as a shortcoming of the head coach, you aren't open-minded.
Not being open-minded isn't one of the "seven deadly sins"...but it is more than a touch disingenuous to claim it while prefacing your remarks with a statement noting your preconceived bias and then proving the reality of that bias.