Expecting to win a championship and being happy with a winning record or a playoff birth is the difference between an organization that wins championships more years than not and a team that only makes the first round, or just falls short. Kind of like Alabama football vs Iowa football or the Yankees vs the Milwaukee Brewers or the Kansas City Chiefs the last 5 years vs Browns.
Every time one of us turns on the TV, radio, pod-cast, talk show, reality show, website etc etc etc you must say to yourself, "I fully understand that the hosts, sponsors and platforms of the content I am about to consume make literally billions of dollars by making me irrationally hopeful, irrationally hopeless, irrationally depressed, irrationally tribal, irrationally angry, irrationally toxic, irrationally sure of my opinions, irrationally fearful of the other -- and if they did the opposite they would be poor and unemployed -- and with this fully in the front of mind I will see what this financially incented showman has to say today." If liberally applied to your daily journey you may start finding yourself more grounded and happy in the things and people around you that you care about.
Two of your chosen examples are far more about resources than "want to" and your third hit the HoF QB lottery. Did Belicheck only start caring about titles when he drafted Brady and then quit when Brady left? We attribute too much "they wanted it more" narrative to sports than in often useful.
Just through my first season of paying attention to Iowa football as our daughter started there this fall. God that was painful. I can't wait until someone tells them that the forward pass is legal now.
Hahaha yup, tell her welcome to Iowa! They take pride in running it down the middle and refuse to acknowledge it’s 2024. Hopefully a new OC brings good things
U of Iowa has done an outstanding job of sell, onboard, and setting up our daughter's first year for success. Between our three kids we visited dozens of schools all over the country and none did the recruiting and on-boarding better. She is in good hands in Hawkeye-land no doubt. Although, "herky" is a really weird mascot name - maybe the new OC can look into that too.
Brady was a 6th round pick. While he was at Michigan he was never considered a top QB or the next great thing until he joined Belicheck. Belicheck expected to win. Brady bought into Belicheck's system. That mentality is contagious and makes winners out of people. Look at how many #1 picks go to a team that is forever in the dumps and they are a failure in the league. They had the skillset to be great, they were all through their career to that point. But they join an organization who is content to be mediocre, making the playoffs is ok and they begin to believe ok is enough.
Lots of 1st round busts and lots that never made pro bowl under BB. Over explaining one QB's success that still is largely an anomaly.
Iowa's punter had more punting yards than their offense did total yards this season. They are good are recruiting punters, too. I give them that!
I can keep going with examples if you want that are other than Bill Belicheck. Do you want to stay with the Iowa theme? In 1997 Iowa wrestling had a 5th-year senior at 118 lbs who had never wrestled a college varsity match until his senior year. He was not the top recruit out of high school, he only won one state championship in high school. Every day during his senior year of college Dan Gable told him he was going to win an NCAA Championship. Going into the NCAA championship he was the sixth seed of the tournament. Jesse Whitmer won a national championship. To this day he credits his championship to Gable for expecting him to win a national championship.
They have had some good D-ends and tight ends as well. George Kittles was an Iowa tight end. I bet he will have a few catches this week.
I am sure you can - in normal life it is called cherry picking and in science p-hacking.
You will never convince me otherwise that people who are continuously successful have a different mindset than people who are just mediocre or have success every once in a while. Business, sports, life, hunting, it does not matter. Yes, other factors go into winning and being successful, but you will not ever convince me that winning is not a mindset. If you take 2 people with the same skillset the person who expects, not just wants to win, will win 9 out of 10 times.
I probably agree with that generally, but I don't think that was the question being answered. Many successful athletes have outsized drive. Many fail to win titles, so that can't be the primary ingredient in a SB win. Are you saying Barkley cared less than Kareem?
As acknowledged before many factors go into winning a championship, but if all those other factors are the same and one team expects to win they will most likely win.
And saying I'm going to win today and Expecting to win are different.
Kittles, Hock, Fant, LaPorta - i'm sure i missed a few, but you get the point...
