Souhan blasts Teague, says he's unwilling to fulfill his duties as it relates to Kill

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Formo said:
This is my point. Like I JUST SAID, Doctors, Coach Kill, the AD staff, etc. all have said the quoted in some variation or another.

Also, there are stats that prove my statement correct.
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The fact anyone uses the word "likely" tosses all stats out the window in my opinion.
 


So Soupcan...an assistant coach who has been with Kill for 19 yrs through thick and thin is incapable to answering a bunch of naive and pointless questions from a bunch of hack journalists such as yourself? Get real! I'm not sure who i'm more sorry for, you, for lacking prospective, or the readers who have to digest your drivel on a regular basis..
 


MDGopherFan said:
So Soupcan...an assistant coach who has been with Kill for 19 yrs through thick and thin is incapable to answering a bunch of naive and pointless questions from a bunch of hack journalists such as yourself? Get real! I'm not sure who i'm more sorry for, you, for lacking prospective, or the readers who have to digest your drivel on a regular basis..
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I love the ripping of Teague as if he spoke immediately after the game, it would've magically spared that poor coach and those poor, poor student-athletes from being asked about Kill.

Teague spoke Monday, does that mean there will be no Kill questions asked of the players today at the presser? The media must be so relieved.
 



1500 radio guys just wont let it die. just admit souhan did it the wrong way.
 





wait!what? said:
1500 radio guys just wont let it die. just admit souhan did it the wrong way.
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No sh!t.

"If Kill continues to have a seizure per year some tough decisions have to be made"........I never said Kill should be replaced"......Dubay. WTF

What's the tough decision Dubay?

Dubay is babbling like a spoiled child with anger issues.
 

station19 said:
No sh!t.

"If Kill continues to have a seizure per year some tough decisions have to be made"........I never said Kill should be replaced"......Dubay. WTF

What's the tough decision Dubay?

Dubay is babbling like a spoiled child with anger issues.
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Caller Linda........"People need to learn to agree to disagree....they don't do it anymore.....it all goes back to the Tea Party."

Calling Duece.
 


wait!what? said:
Jim, I heard your call. You did a great job!
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Uh didn't call, so it wasn't me and don't know what the caller said. So which of these applies:

"Thanks! Yeah I felt pretty good about it" or "Go to hell!" or "Hey, someone's stealing my material!"

;)
 



This whole souhan article and what souhan said is an obvious winner of the dpodoll award:

In the words of the Great Dpodoll as it applies to jim souhan: "congratulations on reaching an epic-heretofore-unheard-of-level-of-dumbassery" .
 

I got blocked by Dubay because he read less than half of my tweets to him and instead picked out the word "bigot" and assumed I called him one. If he was reasonable and less ignorant (funny, he called me that, too) he would have seen my point and ensuing question and we could have had a nice discussion.

Instead, he went off the rails and blocked me.

Which leads me to believe that he's no better than Souhan.
 

Formo said:
I got blocked by Dubay because he read less than half of my tweets to him and instead picked out the word "bigot" and assumed I called him one. If he was reasonable and less ignorant (funny, he called me that, too) he would have seen my point and ensuing question and we could have had a nice discussion.

Instead, he went off the rails and blocked me.

Which leads me to believe that he's no better than Souhan.
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Dubay is EXTREMELY volatile. Take a look at his Twitter feed. He goes off the rails frequently.
 

positively4thstreet said:
Dubay is EXTREMELY volatile. Take a look at his Twitter feed. He goes off the rails frequently.
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Oh, I know this now. I was actually being pretty reasonable with him. My tweet just got broken up to him and he completely flipped. I thought about calling in the show this morning to try and make amends, but had brother-sister time with my baby sister and opted not to call.
 

s93skier said:
Sorry Littlebigboy I decided not to submit it as a letter to the editor.

Star Tribune Leadership,

I have never written to complain about a columnist because I think everyone is entitles to their opinion, but this hit me a little too close home for me. In Jim Souhan’s column “In category of health, Kill falls too short to continue” I was completely caught off guard. Is this the message you want the Star Tribune to be known for? “You can’t because you are disabled”.

I guess I should not be negotiating and writing temp labor contracts because I am dyslexic. I wish Mr. Souhan would have told me that before I wasted the last decade of my life doing just that for a Fortune 100 company.

Jim Souhan is looking right into the eyes of thousands of little kids and saying “You can’t because you are disabled”. People like Coach Kill, that are succeeding in life even with a disability, mean everything to little kids struggling with disabilities. Doctors and specialists point to these successful people and say “look, you can do it”. Growing up I was bullied by other kids and told by a high school guidance counselor I would never graduate high school because of my disability. I did graduate high school, earned a bachelor’s of science and made the Dean’s list several times in the process. I am glad my parents never let me quit and gave me role models like Thomas Edison, Albert Einstein, Nelson Rockefeller, Thomas Jefferson, and Benjamin Franklyn to look up to. I am also glad that Jim Abbott didn’t have a bully like Jim Souhan telling him he couldn’t play Major-League Baseball because he only had one hand. I do understand the point of the article, but if the for mentioned role models did “step aside” as is suggested in this article, it would have been a great loss to our society don’t you think?

Coach Jerry Kill should be judged not by what happens on the side line, but by what happens on the field. Not by the disability he has, but by how his players grow and improve on and off the field. Is the program better than when he got here and is it still moving in the right direction? Is he a good role model? That is how we should judge Coach Kill.

And as for Jim’s rebuttal. Just because it is hard to watch someone in a wheel chair play basketball, or watch the Special Olympics, it is not “being cruel” to let someone chase their dreams. People like Jim Souhan and their reactions are the reason many of us try to hide our disabilities. Even if you can perform your job at a high level, people question whether you can, and scrutinize you with a microscope. Unlike Coach Kill, with the exception of a couple misspelled words and being a slow reader, I can hide my disability from the Jim Souhans of the world, not everyone is so lucky.

Those of us with disabilities may not all reach the stars we strive for, but we do learn to fly higher because we have role models that show us it can be done.

To Coach Kill: keep up the fight. “If at first the breaks are going against you, Don’t let down, put on more steam!” Murray Warmath. It may sound corny, but it is better than reading you can’t because your brain doesn’t work like everyone else’s.

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(real town), MN
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+1,000
 

Just swung by for the first time in a while to see how the board is handling this muckraking.

I was totally flabbergasted by Jim Souhan's article. It reads like a misplaced temper tantrum.

If he had chosen something other than epilepsy as his reasoning it would have either not made it to print, been a laughingstock article or gotten him fired. If the reasoning were, for arguments sake, that the coach is left handed, it would have been a joke column. If reasoning was that the coach has high blood pressure and had a heart attack, it would have been circularly filed because it is a medical condition that is treatable and not our public business. If the reasoning was the color of the coach's skin, we would have looked at our calendars and gps to make sure we weren't living in the South in the 1960's and the author would have been fired.

I sat through the last year in the Brickhouse and suffered through the early years of the Teflon Toilet. I have seen some awful football. (The Illinois game in 1983. The Nebraska game in 1984.) Brewster's teams were as close as we have been to those years in a long time. This team is better than Brewster's teams (and some of Mason's).

My biggest disgust at previous Gopher teams was that they didn't make halftime adjustments. Coach Kill's teams make halftime adjustments. Whether the players maintain those adjustments is an open question, but this coaching staff gets this team working in the game. That is Coach Kill's credit and why I support him.

Jim Souhan has written his second article that makes me question his journalistic integrity. (the first being the aforementioned Vikings stadium legislative article.) Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
 

I didn't think it warranted a new thread, so instead I revived this one momentarily. But this Jon Owen guy had a great reply :)

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p><a href="https://twitter.com/SouhanStrib">@SouhanStrib</a> Theyre in the same category as people making jokes about an epileptic coach. ..</p>— Jon Owen (@JayO1122) <a href="https://twitter.com/JayO1122/statuses/398138132047994880">November 6, 2013</a></blockquote>
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In Souhan's world it was wrong for Incognito call Martin a "fag," but it would have been OK for him to call him an "epileptic retard"...
 


Nate said:
I didn't think it warranted a new thread, so instead I revived this one momentarily. But this Jon Owen guy had a great reply :)

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p><a href="https://twitter.com/SouhanStrib">@SouhanStrib</a> Theyre in the same category as people making jokes about an epileptic coach. ..</p>— Jon Owen (@JayO1122) <a href="https://twitter.com/JayO1122/statuses/398138132047994880">November 6, 2013</a></blockquote>
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We have a BINGO
 


I think we must wait for a reporter from some other paper to tweet souhan a defense.
 

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