re: Thoughts on Frank Martin

You know when I was sold on him? It was either his 2nd or 3rd year. And I think our OOC was going (relatively) well or we had been a decent team that we weren't expected to beat.

After the bottoming out of the Horn-era and the worst year in our school's history in Horn's last year, SC fans were pretty happy.

And Frank's first response to the media was something along the lines of, "when you win, people forget or ignore about the mistakes you made during the game and they start falsely building up the team into something it's not" Frank was proved right in his first couple of seasons as he worked through those mistakes and we lost a lot of games.

And I guess I had never really thought about how true that is, especially as a fan. It's too easy to look past errors if your team pulls out the W anyway. But it doesn't get past Frank.

He is like Spurrier in that he owns his actions and will be the first to blame the coaching for a loss before anything else.

He also isn't afraid to hold practices where balls aren't even used with the sole focus being on footwork and movement.