Yea, that’s what Joe Pop probably used in his defense (I was just responsible for winning games). Compliance should have been on this. Obviously I did a better job than them! Amazing how winning can twist integrity.
Is there no level at which you would say a coach has gone too far? What if a coach hires someone to murder the family of the opposing quarterback the week before the game? Is that OK because he did it in order to have a better chance to win? What if a coach gets a scrub player to intentionally injure the legs of a Heisman candidate receiver on the other team? (That is from an episode of Coach) Is that acceptable if the team wins?
Just ridiculous. If Collins doesn’t win on Saturdays, no matter how much integrity he has or how many right things he does in private won’t keep fans like you from piling on him. You guys want the impossible - a coach who does everything right and wins. That doesn’t happen. Do you not read message boards? Every time a winning coach from another team is brought up everyone jumps on them. Saban, Dabo, Bryant, Kirby, Meyer, etc. I’m just tired of all it. Johnson was a great guy and ”appeared“ to do things right and yet our fan base busted on him because he didn’t “win” enough. Collins loves GT is a local boy turned head coach and yet our fan base bangs on him due to his record. And this season will only ramp that up if we don’t “win” enough. That along with your analogies are what our society has become which is ridiculous. At this point no coach gets any credit for doing things the right way and losing. Those guys get FIRED.
So you are saying that if we were all honest we would agree with you?
Rant and rave if you want to. The bolded item is patently not true. Hiring someone to murder the family of an opposing star QB would help a team to win. Unless you are psychopathic, you would not support that. There are limits that you would not support passing. To whichever generic group of people you are lumping me in with (not based on anything that is actually in my post), they would probably not be in favor of the defense allowing touchdowns to keep from hurting the other team's feelings. There are lines that you would not cross, and there are lines that your imaginary "other group" would emphatically support crossing. No matter how angry you want to get, you are much closer to that "other group" than you think. You set it up as "I will do ANYTHING to win" vs "We won't do anything at all to win". If you had something specific to discuss, maybe you would find people who agree with you, people who disagree with you, and people who can articulate reasons for agreeing or disagreeing. Ranting and raving against some generic other people and against "message boards" is fine if that is what you want to do, but don't expect me to take you seriously.
Poor Bill Battle did things the "right way", uncommon for one of the Bear's boys, at Tennessee, won a lot of games, went to bowls but could not beat Alabama. One Sunday morning after, yet another loss to the Tide on the third Saturday in October, he woke up to find a moving van in his driveway. Such is life in the SEC. All of the factories, including those not elite cheat, bribe recruits, pay players, engage in all kinds of academic trickery, to be professional in all but name. They may as well be designated as the minor leagues of the NFL.
Are you saying we have to cheat to win? And seriously, starting with representing the university, coaches have more than one job.
Based on the beatings Louisville was taking I doubt Satterfield was at all surprised.
Heck yes we have to cheat to win in this era. Where have you been? Give me the last team you think won a Natty without cheating and you’ll be given a long list of what they did to win by many posters. This is a completely rigged sport with schools like UNC creating entire academic departments with the sole reason to beat the NCAA rules and keep their athletes eligible. Let alone the old fashioned way of simply giving players under the table money. Now, am I saying I want us to cheat? No. But in order to win any team has to cheat. Collins can be the perfect ambassador for GT and give every paycheck to cancer patients, but if he loses games he will be fired. Heck, Bobby a remind was Georgia Tech and look what we did to him when he stopped winning.
Here’s my deal regarding your murder for hire scheme you are obsessed with- I would not cry if a nuke accidentally went off above Athens. If that makes me a bad person then so be it. I also don’t cry when players on opposing teams get injured. I’m sure the condolences are pouring in from dog, hokie, hurricanes, tar heel coaching staffs for our loss of Blackburn.
I had to up my spectrum package to get the ACCN. I usually watch games at home. I think there are some alums in RTP that get together for games.
I really meant the culture and such that Petrino left behind for him to clean up.
Did to win "by many posters"? It's my turn to ask: where have you been?
My son once coached in deep east texas - a stud linebacker had committed to an Oklahoma school. Just before signing time Brown flew in on helicopter and landed at practice field. Next day kid switched to UT.
