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The Courage to Fail

Bumped. -Menelaus

To Truly Succeed, You Must Have the Courage to Fail -- and DG Does.

When my 15 yr old daughter Jen the smart (her favorite t-shirt is "Genius by Birth -- Slacker by Choice") was in the second grade, at a parent teacher conference the parents were asked what they wanted their kid to learn. Most said, "reading", "math" or "to color within the lines". I wrote down that I wanted for her to learn how to fail. The teacher was stunned and called me up and asked what I meant. My answer -- "Jen needs to know that to truly be great she has to be able to learn to leave her comfort zone. Doing that means she might reach too far, and fail. I want her to know that there are no great successes without the risk of failure."

All my life, I've watched people not achieve their full potential because they have feared taking risks.

What does that have to do with our football coach search? Plenty. In this, his signature hire -- and his most scrutinized act -- DG has shown us that he has the courage to reach out, take a risk, and if necessary stumble, publicly. DG is showing us that he has the courage to fail -- the courage that is needed to do something great.

I will not wail and moan over the loss of Bellotti (my first choice was Leach, anyway).

For those of you who thought he was not running a proper search, and were swayed by the daily msm rumor mongers and their spin -- you've now learned that DG is doing it right.

Although all we have are rumors of the Bellotti story -- because, DG has properly conducted the search, quietly so as to allow access to those with bowl games yet to play -- there are some lessons to be learned.

We are going after big name, experienced head coaches.

We have the money to go after big name experienced head coaches.

There are plenty of big name experienced head coaches left in the pool.

No matter how some of the rumor mongers tried to lower our expectations, they never lowered DG's. Yes, we may still end up with a 2nd tier coach, someone like RN. But, if we do, I will not fault DG. Yesterday's events made clear that he has set his sights high and is doing his best. He has the courage to fail and I applaud him for that.

sjh

PS. Isn't it interesting that no one wailed about our losing the  "recruit class of all time" if Bellotti were hired? I didn't see that topic mentioned by Dohn or the other negativists/DW pushers.

Like most of us believe and have been saying -- build it with the right coach, and they will come.

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