GoldRing: "What good does it do us to work with a person of ill repute. Someone who doubles crosses their signed contract, and break their word. What good does it do us to be friends to a louse? What good does it do us to allow yourself to be used or abused just to keep the peace. And not rock the boat.
I would like to see more character coming from our sports clubs, universities, organized sports, pro sports. Then what we are seeing on television in our society today. The way that some of the college football head coach's are going about their business in not caring who they lie to, are double cross. Is beginning to hurt how I am enjoying college football all together.
I like honesty, truth, bravery, and trust. The deceit of the TV networks, sports writers, college coaches has reached a epidemic stage lately. If a college head coach wants a bigger raise, they leak out that they are talking to a pro football team. The football fans are starting to feel used buy these guys. I am frankly tired of seeing the good suffering because of the bad people, who are willing to do anything for money. What are we going to do about that. Pretend that we don't see it?
All of that just make me want to rip. Play a song like Apache. http://www.youtube.com/watch?
____________________
.http://espn.go.com/college-
No reason for Notre Dame to panic
Brian Kelly speaks after Notre Dame's loss in the BCS Championship Game.
Breathe in, breathe out, Notre Dame.
Not again. If Brian Kelly leaves, things will be OK.
Probably.
Kelly reportedly interviewed with the Philadelphia Eagles roughly 96 hours after he said he had no idea if any NFL team had contacted his agent. He also had said Saturday in Miami before the BCS Championship Game, that leaving Notre Dame was not an option.
Basically, he lied. Leaving is an option, and it always was. Not only that, but I think he should take the job, unless the Chicago Bears have called, too. For several reasons, Kelly is a good fit for the NFL, where he can focus entirely on football, and not on the things he isn’t into, like molding young men. I wrote about it Monday here.
The question is where this leaves Notre Dame. What should it do now?
First thing is to take a deep breath, and keep one thing in mind: Notre Dame is still paying Charlie Weis millions.
The right play with Kelly is to offer him a raise, an extension, but not to go Charlie Weis-crazy over it.
The lesson of Weis is that Notre Dame gave him a 10-year deal not because of what he had done with the Irish but because the school and its big-dollar lawyer-boosters had lost all confidence in the place. Even the fan base was so desperate that it bought into Weis based on hot air.
Notre Dame is still embarrassed about that, as it should be. Don’t repeat your mistakes.
Want more in-depth coverage of Notre Dame football? Check out insider information, forums and exclusive video on Irish Eyes.Not a Notre Dame fan? Find your team at Scout.com.
Before Weis, Touchdown Jesus had become Field Goal Jesus, and the power boys at Notre Dame went after the Urban Meyers and John Grudens of the world but couldn’t get them to take the job. On top of that, they had settled for Bob Davie and Ty Willingham, and had the embarrassment of hiring George O’Leary and his fictional resume, only to let him leave before he ever coached a game.
Once, they had believed that there was no better job in the country than coaching Notre Dame football. Then suddenly, they feared that their greatness was all history.
Critics said that Notre Dame couldn’t do it the Irish way anymore. They needed the speed of Southern teams, they needed to join a conference.
Notre Dame, trying to hold onto its past, found one guy it could believe in who still believed in return.
So they brought in Weis, who had to learn how to be a head coach. He was basically an intern, but he talked a big game, talked love for Notre Dame and wore (and flashed to any critics) those Super Bowl rings from his days as a coordinator with the Patriots.
Remember? And then it was his big victory over USC in his first year that got him the long contract extension and proved that he had Notre Dame back to the top. Oops, no. That was wrong. The Irish lost that game to USC, but it was close.
All. In.
The Chicago Tribune reported in May, after obtaining Notre Dame tax documents, that the Irish had paid Weis $8.7 million, and counting, to go away after he failed.
So now Kelly is looking at the NFL, as he should, and it’s a test of Notre Dame, and whether it has lost its uncharacteristic inferiority complex.
Nobody leaves Notre Dame without retiring or being fired. Nobody leaves Notre Dame on purpose to go to another job.
If Kelly leaves, will that, coupled with the blowout loss to Alabama, be another shot at Notre Dame’s confidence? It shouldn’t be.
Look, unlike Weis, Kelly has proven something. He has shown any perspective big-name coach — Gruden? — that it can still be done at Notre Dame.
It’s possible that Kelly is only bluffing, trying to get a Weis-like contract extension. Hey, this is business.
But to me, Kelly has shown, through his handling of off-field problems, that he is obsessed with football and not with the human-development aspects required of college coaches. Kelly is best at player development, which is the most important thing for a college coach.
I am only guessing, but Kelly is looking at the NFL so he can think only about football. It could be a bluff for a big pay raise, but I don’t think so.
Look for Kelly to leave, unless the big-dollar boys panic again. Kelly is good, but he hasn’t proven anything the way Nick Saban has at Alabama.
Make him a good offer to stay, Notre Dame, but if he doesn’t take it, let him go.
Just don't panic again.
-----------------------
http://espn.go.com/college-
Crystal Ball
The crystal football resides in Tuscaloosa. Where can we look to find the best offseason storylines? Travis Haney
Sherman: Coaches reflect on rules changes »Schlabach's All-bowl team »Getty Images, USA TODAY Sports
-----------------------
http://espn.go.com/college-
Proceed with caution
Coaches wary of potential NCAA rule changes
By Mitch Sherman | ESPN RecruitingNation
NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- In the wake of the American Football Coaches Association convention this week and the NCAA's explanation to college coaches on several proposed legislative changes that threaten to impact recruiting significantly, I've repeatedly heard one question.
Why?
Why would the Division I Board of Directors consider a vote to deregulate all private electronic communication, including text messaging, from coaches to prospects, as it will do next week at the NCAA convention with Proposal 13-3?
Why would the NCAA, with Proposal 13-2, consider giving coaches more off-campus access to prospects, adding six potential home visits from every school during a prospect's junior year to the six already allowed in his senior year?
[+] Enlarge
Melina Vastola/USA TODAY SportsNorthwestern
coach Pat Fitzgerald thinks lifting the text-message ban would cause
problems for both recruits and college assistants.
Currently, each school is allowed one call per week to every prospect during non-dead periods. The new legislation would set no limits and no dead periods after July 1 before a prospect's junior year. So instead of watching film on an upcoming rival opponent, the linebackers coach at your school may soon need to make that third call of the day to a recruit -- just in case a coach from the same rival school is thinking about a fourth.
Why do it this way?
Well, NCAA president Mark Emmert wants to reduce the rule book. He wants the governing body to focus on issues that are meaningful, impactful and enforceable. Technically, if a recruit chooses to receive email as a text message on his phone and a coach sends that recruit an email, the coach just unknowingly broke a rule.
The NCAA wants to wash its hands of enforcing such trivial regulations. It wants to put the responsibility on schools to set policy.
Good luck with that. You think recruiting is cutthroat now? Just wait.
I visited with dozens of coaches -- high school and college -- in Nashville, and not one fully supported Proposals 13-2 and 13-3. Not publicly, at least. Some coaches of the young and unattached demographic, no doubt, would thrive in such an environment.
But at what cost to their colleagues' sanity, not to mention the privacy of the recruits?
"I'm a fan of where we're at right now," Northwestern coach Pat Fitzgerald said. "I do not believe the system is broken. I think we need to consider the quality of life for the kids and their families and the quality of of life for my assistant coaches."
Fitzgerald recalls life as a coach before a text message ban was instituted in 2007. Coaches carried second cell phones just to text recruits. Schools employed staffers solely to text kids, posing as the coaches.
"I don't think it's healthy," Fitzgerald said. "Before we do all that, I hope they reconsider or at least put some parameters on there to protect the student-athletes."If the proposals pass next week in Dallas, the NCAA working group has proposed a two-year period to digest the rules. If it's determined after two years that the deregulation had unintended consequences, changes will be considered. Read more...http://espn.go.com/
-----------------------
-----------------------
-----------------------
http://louisianastate.scout.
Weekend Preview
The world of LSU recruiting heats up in a big way this weekend as the
Tigers host their first Junior Day of the year. TSD's Hunter Paniagua
previews who's expected to be at Boys from the Boot and also takes a
look at where other LSU prospects will be this weekend. Full Story | DiscusSee and read more...http://louisianastate.
-----------------------
Tinker Town: "Lets have a laugh:"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
Drive-Thru Invisible Ghost Driver Prank
-----------------------http://bleacherreport.com/
bleacher report
College Assistants Underpaid
| Les Miles | Video (5 min, 2 sec): LSU Football 2012 - Plays of the Year |
-----------------------
No comments:
Post a Comment