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Post by mayor on Jan 7, 2013 15:43:01 GMT -6
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Post by fatmenace on Jan 8, 2013 13:46:35 GMT -6
Bob Valvano rant.
Part of it:
"I have a lot of respect for Kirk Herbstreit, but over the last couple months the stuff that's coming out of his mouth is so preposterous, because he played and I didn't I guess he's got to have more credibility, just the most ridiculous things I've ever heard." "The three hardest words for analysts to string together are 'I was wrong.'" "What were they looking at to determine they weren't trying? The first play of the game they almost knocked Teddy across the Louisiana border? What are they talking about? Just because it serves your own theory… just have the guts to stand up there and say I was wrong." "You must disparage the Big East at every opportunity, you must pray at the altar of the SEC, and I understand how good the SEC is, but you then must also look for opportunities to show your fair minded. Teddy Bridgewater is the passport to that right now. The media, the herd has decided we can talk about that." "The system is already so convoluted to make sure that the teams with the money and the power protect their turf that even when fair and square one of them gets beat they can't accept it." "If they don't want the bowl games the way they are, then they need to step back from the table. Because Bob, the reason there are 35 bowl games is because of ESPN." "I was in the meeting room when they said, because we make money on the BBVA Compass Bowl and the GoDaddy Bowl. They're not doing it because they love football, they're doing it for a business decision. If you're going to come up with this system, don't apologize away. How could you tell us this game is so significant and then explain away why a team didn't play well because they weren't ready to play it. It's not a legitimate excuse." "They have a vested interest in the SEC." "Behind closed doors the executives at ESPN clearly have a more vested business interest in the SEC… but I will tell you this, other than if it's a possible lawsuit, they never tell their on-air talent what opinion to take." "Are these guys perfect, is that what they think? It's offensive to me as a guy who does it and as a fan because that's the whole point of playing the damn game you jackass is to actually have the result of the game come out on the field and not in the debate room. It's infuriating and the part that bothers me the most is that college football perpetuates that culture more than any sport in the country." "Instead of celebrating it, we had to listen to a bunch of jackwads try and explain away why it happens and that ticks me off."
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Post by mayor on Jan 8, 2013 14:21:33 GMT -6
Love it. College football is ridiculous.
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Post by gk on Jan 8, 2013 17:21:07 GMT -6
Haha I just realized that Ohio State went 12-0.
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Post by fatmenace on Feb 9, 2013 13:49:20 GMT -6
Got this off shaggy:
Satellite Camps & Scouting Departments - The Saga of Jabba the Mack Continues
I realize that a litany of reasons and examples can be cited by everyone as to why they feel that Mack Brown is basically stealing money from the school and not acting in the shareholders’ best interests, but I’ve got a couple of issues that make me want to spit in his face and then pull a moving van into his front yard.
The Scouting Department
When asked about taking advantages of the new rules allowing an expanded set of personnel to evaluate talent and provide data and insights to the program on high school and junior college talents, Mack Brown at his press conference and his coaches at the luncheons yesterday have responded with the same milquetoast platitude:
“We’re going to look into it.”
That translates into “We don’t want to do it, so we’re going to delay it as long as we can.”
Lazy managers resting on their laurels loathe one thing more than anything else in their pathetic and wasteful lives – dealing with personnel - the problems, the development, and the growth.
The prospect of building out a new department for the betterment of the organization would excite any hungry, competitive, aggressive manager in a leadership position. As a for instance - Nick Saban, of the same age as Mack Brown, has already built a team out for this project at Bama. They have 20 employees currently on the payroll prepping to be transitioned into this realm as soon as the rules allow.
Apparently, most of the SEC is not far behind, and Ohio State and Michigan are both already staffing up.
“Does Texas have the resources that someone like the mighty Alabama does? “
You bet your ass. Give credit to Mack Brown for not actually being dumb enough and tone deaf enough to cite “resources” as a concern. The guy is an intellectual mediocrity who consistently views his audience as less intelligent than he is, so this is something of a surprise. I assumed he’d be dumb enough to insult us all with the resources line, but someone likely advised him ahead of time that this line wouldn't go over with anyone but his apologists and sycophants, whether on the payroll, part of his family, or in the case of stepson Chris Jessie, both.
So crying poor won’t work, the next option is to play stupid, bully behind the scenes, and expect the subject matter to go away. Brown has no interest in facing the prospect of staffing a new group and gaining from their insights. He might yet wind up being forced to hire a group of this nature, although he likely believes he can dig his heels in and do nothing. You can expect whatever he winds up doing to be utterly half-assed and dickless. If they “build a team”, they’re likely to be small in number, powerless, and they’ll report to a crony, where their reports will dispiritedly go to die. Expect Brian Davis, Mad Dog Madden, Bruce Chambers, or Rucker to be in charge of the group and for their actual access to Brown and staff to be completely limited.
“But Mack Brown is a great CEO for the program!”
This tired statement has been disproven repeatedly. No one great is lazy. No one great is tired. Great is past tense, at best, for the tired and the lazy. Great doesn’t go 5-7. Great doesn’t tolerate the continued failure and mediocrity of Brian Davis or Madden or Manny Diaz.
Mack Brown might have relished the prospect of building a scouting team out 20 years ago. Now, the concept tires him. So, they’re “going to look into it”. I challenge anyone to credibly state what an organization with the reach and resources possessed by Texas is doing with “looking into it” as an answer for something that, when deployed, enables the entities with the most money to win with it through the competitive advantages that it creates. Explaining that they just need more time is as lazy a defense for them as Brown is about addressing it. A well run program should have had a project plan written on the opportunity, with a budget, ahead of the rules getting approved.
What is the money that these assholes are always bragging about in the media and to alumni good for if it is not to be used to drive results on the field? Moneywhip the competition, you inept, dickless clown. It’s the one blunt object at your disposal that an idiot could wield and see results. It’s perfect for someone with the energy and mental capacity of Brown and Dodds.
The Satellite Camps
The same exact chorus is sung by the same exact people when it comes to the concept of putting together satellite camps.
“We’re going to look into it.”
The same exact rebuttals to that position apply with satellite camps.
A satellite camp will require planning, travel, effort, and energy. It requires going out and getting what you want.
Mack Brown is currently living in the fantasyland, and selling it to the dipshits who sop it up, that he’d rather just take the recruits who come to him and who profess to bleed orange from day one. He’d rather receive what he’s convinced himself and others that they want. He’s promoting this in the press. He’s having his coaches talk about it at luncheons. The salesman in him understands that this is what the old timers want to hear, and he still thinks that’s good enough. Beyond that, the salesman in him cannot handle the rejection of recruits committing to him and then telling him “see ya” down the line. His solution is to break-up with them first and to take less risk in whom the program pursues in the first place.
Meanwhile, by my early count, 13 schools are hosting satellite camps in Texas this spring. Sure, some of them are Houston and Texas State. Some of them are LSU and Oklahoma.
Fred Akers used to tell the alumni base recruiting for him on behalf of the school (this was a legal practice in the 80’s) that “You have to make them want it.” And then he’d go into some black kid’s house, ask for the ring to be kissed, stumble all over himself with unintentional and ignorant tacitly racist statements. Then he’d watch the players, bought or not, head to his competitors and ultimately whip his team’s ass on the field. Akers was out of touch with his landscape and what was needed to compete by the time he was shown the door. Texas had to get bent over just once before he was tossed. Mack Brown is better insulated, of course. He’s allowed the program to be raped in public on multiple occasions, but it can’t last forever.
Mack Brown has lost every aspect of his skill set and talent that made him a success in the first place. He’s not invigorated by recruiting, he’s not trying to find an edge that will separate his program, he’s not working to attract the best and the brightest. He’s setting the program up to recruit and sign the next batch of Clint Haneys, Dustin Mikschs, Gerald Hansens, and Taylor Doyles. There will be 15 out of 25 in this next class that will be justified by intellectually dishonest or weak followers of the program with the notion that “these are players who wanted to be horns!!!” while not realizing that that is exactly what Texas ATM fans have been mocked for over the last 16 years.
Mack Brown has become the Steven Seagal of college head coaches. I don't mean the Steven Seagal badass of "Above the Law" or "Out for Justice". I mean the Steven Seagal fatass of the last 10 years, who stars in direct-to-dvd movies in which the bad guys simply run into his waiting fists and half-hearted karate chops in the one fight scene in the movie that Seagal's aging endurance will allow. They're no longer chasing guys, kicking ass wherever they go and standing for what is right in their universe. They're just two old fatasses, picking up paychecks and seeking positive affirmation for their starring turns from any sycophant who will provide it.
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Post by fatmenace on Mar 25, 2013 11:59:44 GMT -6
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Post by fatmenace on Apr 5, 2013 13:16:56 GMT -6
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Post by fatmenace on Apr 13, 2013 7:47:12 GMT -6
NCAA Director of enforcement leaves NCAA for Auburn I have always thought that Auburn had someone on the payroll at the NCAA. NCAA director of enforcement Dave Didion finished his last day on the job in Indianapolis on Friday, with just more than a week before he leaves to return to Auburn. The veteran enforcement officer left his position to take one as the associate director of athletics for compliance, effective April 22. He returns to a campus he left more than a decade ago after 14 years at the NCAA. www.usatoday.com/story/sports...mmert/2079311/
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Post by fatmenace on Apr 17, 2013 5:52:09 GMT -6
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Post by gk on Apr 23, 2013 9:56:41 GMT -6
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Post by mayor on May 22, 2013 14:15:17 GMT -6
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Post by fatmenace on Jul 10, 2013 6:58:20 GMT -6
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Post by fatmenace on Jul 12, 2013 6:27:16 GMT -6
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Post by fatmenace on Jul 22, 2013 5:44:57 GMT -6
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Post by mayor on Aug 5, 2013 10:24:11 GMT -6
Any predictions on how the Big 12 plays out?
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