It’s great for morale when incoming players and coaches demonstrate confidence in their new teams. Tennessee fans went wild when then-Vols coach Lane Kiffin declared they would be “singing Rocky Top all night long after we beat Florida next year.” And just a few weeks ago, Cleveland Browns fans swooned when Odell Beckham Jr. declared that the Browns would be the next Patriots. Hopefully the latter declaration holds more truth than the former.
Things tend to get hairier, however, when those personnel are incoming college freshmen who have not yet earned their respective starting spots on their new teams.