BleedGopher
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per Joe:
Those of us not steeped in the world of academia still wonder how the deplorable behavior of five, six, maybe 10 football players, or more, could bring about such a falling of the dominoes at the University of Minnesota.
Are one of you clowns, Kaler, Coyle, going to come forward and explain to us dummies why you couldn’t have kept this simple and thus avoided what was now the 11th search since 1978 for yet another messiah? Tracy Claeys, serving somewhat of an apprenticeship as a first-time head coach, seemed desperately confused when his team threatened to boycott a meaningless bowl game but could have saved himself, presumably, by being the first one in authority to say, “Those guys? Those guys? They are no longer part of this team. Any questions?”
Oh, he didn’t know? He is supposed to know.
Because nobody took the bull by the horns, now the next great one has to come in here and turn everything around. Again.
By the way, that hasn’t worked, those 10 coaching changes since 1978, when Cal Stoll was replaced by Joe Salem. With the exception of Glen Mason, who was competent, and Lou Holtz, who played “The Music Man’’ off Broadway here for two years, nobody brought aboard managed to use this Big Ten platform as a springboard to greater things. Salem — we put him on billboards around town with the stem of a rose in his mouth — went nowhere. Then Holtz, who was merely waiting for the intercession of the School Sisters of Notre Dame. John Gutekunst? Nope. Jim Wacker? Nope. Glen Mason. Tim Brewster? Nope. Jeff Horton? Nope. Jerry Kill? Well, Kill might have been the guy except he was also fighting a debilitating illness. Kill’s longtime pal Claeys got the job, and now Claeys is the fellow thrown under the bus to bring about, yes, the 11th new coach since 1978.
The new coach better make it clear from day one that he will suffer no fool gladly, especially when it comes to the treatment of women. You want to go on a date, maybe dinner and a movie, fine by me. But if I get any report that you let me or this team down by behavior that shreds even the most basic definition of moral and ethical decency, you are gone. And, coach, when you bring in a recruit for a visit, he had better be assigned to an adult. He can be taken to a hockey game or maybe driven out to Lake Minnetonka to see the wonders of ice fishing. But the recruit isn’t going to be put in the hands of the inmates who think they run the place.
As much as the new coach needs to make that clear to the players, the administration needs to make that clear to the coach they hire. Because all of you look ridiculous. None of this needed to happen. It had better become a hallmark of this program that sexual impropriety will never happen again.
Any questions?
http://www.twincities.com/2017/01/0...tball-meltdown-makes-u-look-ridiculous-again/
Go Gophers!!
Those of us not steeped in the world of academia still wonder how the deplorable behavior of five, six, maybe 10 football players, or more, could bring about such a falling of the dominoes at the University of Minnesota.
Are one of you clowns, Kaler, Coyle, going to come forward and explain to us dummies why you couldn’t have kept this simple and thus avoided what was now the 11th search since 1978 for yet another messiah? Tracy Claeys, serving somewhat of an apprenticeship as a first-time head coach, seemed desperately confused when his team threatened to boycott a meaningless bowl game but could have saved himself, presumably, by being the first one in authority to say, “Those guys? Those guys? They are no longer part of this team. Any questions?”
Oh, he didn’t know? He is supposed to know.
Because nobody took the bull by the horns, now the next great one has to come in here and turn everything around. Again.
By the way, that hasn’t worked, those 10 coaching changes since 1978, when Cal Stoll was replaced by Joe Salem. With the exception of Glen Mason, who was competent, and Lou Holtz, who played “The Music Man’’ off Broadway here for two years, nobody brought aboard managed to use this Big Ten platform as a springboard to greater things. Salem — we put him on billboards around town with the stem of a rose in his mouth — went nowhere. Then Holtz, who was merely waiting for the intercession of the School Sisters of Notre Dame. John Gutekunst? Nope. Jim Wacker? Nope. Glen Mason. Tim Brewster? Nope. Jeff Horton? Nope. Jerry Kill? Well, Kill might have been the guy except he was also fighting a debilitating illness. Kill’s longtime pal Claeys got the job, and now Claeys is the fellow thrown under the bus to bring about, yes, the 11th new coach since 1978.
The new coach better make it clear from day one that he will suffer no fool gladly, especially when it comes to the treatment of women. You want to go on a date, maybe dinner and a movie, fine by me. But if I get any report that you let me or this team down by behavior that shreds even the most basic definition of moral and ethical decency, you are gone. And, coach, when you bring in a recruit for a visit, he had better be assigned to an adult. He can be taken to a hockey game or maybe driven out to Lake Minnetonka to see the wonders of ice fishing. But the recruit isn’t going to be put in the hands of the inmates who think they run the place.
As much as the new coach needs to make that clear to the players, the administration needs to make that clear to the coach they hire. Because all of you look ridiculous. None of this needed to happen. It had better become a hallmark of this program that sexual impropriety will never happen again.
Any questions?
http://www.twincities.com/2017/01/0...tball-meltdown-makes-u-look-ridiculous-again/
Go Gophers!!
