Comments on: ‘Dogs unafraid of early season hype http://collegian.csufresno.edu/2008/08/25/%e2%80%98dogs-unafraid-of-early-season-hype/ Serving California State University, Fresno since 1922. Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:51:30 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 By: David Russ http://collegian.csufresno.edu/2008/08/25/%e2%80%98dogs-unafraid-of-early-season-hype/comment-page-1/#comment-30438 David Russ Mon, 25 Aug 2008 12:21:09 +0000 http://collegian.csufresno.edu/?p=3809#comment-30438 Let's go out and do it this season. The one thing these Bulldogs need to keep in mind before they go into a haughty frame of mind is that the four win team was the most talented Bulldog team on paper since the Freedom Bowl team. That team was basically made up of returning players who had a lot more success in the previous two seasons than this current team has had in its previous two seasons. All of the papers were writing about how they had the best shot at being the first big BCS buster from the WAC. Yet that team managed to be about the worst Bulldog team since the Fresno moved out of the Big West. Pride truly goes before a fall. So it all comes down to execution and preparation. It is okay to believe in what you can do, but you have to go practice with a pure hunger for precise perfection. You have to perform your techniques and not blow your assignments. You have to watch game film and ask your coaches for criticism. You have to give your all on every play and never let up. If you do all of that, success will follow. If you rest on what the papers say about you, little teams like San Jose State and Toledo will come at you with more desire and preparation and pop you in the mouth so hard you don't get back up. Let’s go out and do it this season. The one thing these Bulldogs need to keep in mind before they go into a haughty frame of mind is that the four win team was the most talented Bulldog team on paper since the Freedom Bowl team. That team was basically made up of returning players who had a lot more success in the previous two seasons than this current team has had in its previous two seasons. All of the papers were writing about how they had the best shot at being the first big BCS buster from the WAC. Yet that team managed to be about the worst Bulldog team since the Fresno moved out of the Big West. Pride truly goes before a fall.

So it all comes down to execution and preparation. It is okay to believe in what you can do, but you have to go practice with a pure hunger for precise perfection. You have to perform your techniques and not blow your assignments. You have to watch game film and ask your coaches for criticism. You have to give your all on every play and never let up. If you do all of that, success will follow. If you rest on what the papers say about you, little teams like San Jose State and Toledo will come at you with more desire and preparation and pop you in the mouth so hard you don’t get back up.

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