Editor,
Judging by the reaction to this year’s UNM football season, I have realized something troubling.
Lobo fans embody the single thing that is wrong with my generation: Generation X and Y are used to instant gratification. The fact that the fans expected a winning season after two years of a new coach who changed the young team’s offensive and defensive schemes is a testament to this. If anybody believed that the Lobos were going to have a winning season, then they are doing some awesome drugs because any hint of common sense says otherwise.
My generation refuses to have patience.
If something does not work out immediately, they drop it. If a major requires hard work, they switch. If their marriage is getting a little rocky, they get divorced.
Have a bad team? Get a new coach.
They are not willing to have patience and faith that things will get better. This mindset can set an individual, and even a generation, on a downward spiral. I honestly don’t think we should fire head coach Mike Locksley because he is showing some improvement. His young team just needs more time, just like the University of Michigan has given head coach Rich Rodriguez time to develop his team. Plus, our school does not have the money to work with, especially in a recession.
Now, if Locksley gets in another negative off-the-field situation, that would be grounds for firing him since that would be a fourth conflict, and that’s too many.
Whatever happened to patience being a virtue?
It no longer exists in my generation’s arena of minds. Nobody likes when things are rough, but there needs to be more people who will grin and bear it.
Give Locksley and just about everything else in your life a chance, and give it time to bear the fruit of its potential.
We’re young, and we’ve got time. We don’t need instant results.
Philip Lafreniere
UNM student
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