"Everybody's gonna have their own opinion, that's fine," he said. "But I feel as confident today it's gonna happen. It's just a lot slower than I wanted, a lot slower than our fans wanted, and I don't blame them for that. But I'm not deterred by it."
I asked if he understood some people have a hard time seeing the same progress he sees.
"Sometimes people see what they want to see," Rodriguez said. "I know what I see and I'm in the middle of it. Maybe some people don't want me to have success. I like how recruiting has gone. I know what we have in the program, I know what we need to do to fix it. We will be better."