The hue and cry is the new season is a completely new sheet of paper and everything written on the sheet for the last season is washed away.
This is called hope. Hope is something people live by when shopping for lottery tickets and new football seasons.
In this bit of programming the hopeful ignore any facts that might come into play, writing them off as the braying of the negative.
But they ignore that they ignore variables which influence the outcome of games to be determined. The bromide here is any given Sunday and stats suggest a team can go from a zero to a hero from one season to the next.
Again those examples are not analyzed to see why they went from nobody to somebody, because that would mean analyzing your favorite team to see if the same type of moves were made and successful here like there.
To some, coaches mean change. Regardless of the results the coaches posted at their last stop.
In the final analysis hope overrides logic for the future, and logic for the past.
Hope taken in more than small doses is dangerous.
But then I'm negative, regardless of my track record for accuracy.