As a coach, you should try to tailor your offense to the kids you have, but without changing your philosophy. He is just stating facts, these kids were recruited to run a completely different offense (IMO, not really sure what offense Skip ran), so it will take some time to either get these guys comfortable and going with this, or recruiting guys that fit this offense. Would it hurt to hear that as a player? Sure, but that shouldn't stop you from working your tail off to help the team win.