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Thoughts Following Louisville’s Post-Season Ban

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In this time of great moral failures, we again are letting the NCAA, presidents of universities, athletic directors, and coaches come down with all their failures and put the blame on players who had nothing to do with them. The salaries paid to these people show you where all the greed is, as does the failure of the education for a lot of the players. It’s time that we as a people rise up and say, “Change it.”

Don’t hand pick one team here and one team there, hit them all when they have an infraction. Presidents of universities, athletic directors, and coaches all know there is no innocence in any of their three. Our entire society is gutted by this behavior. People have got to stand up and demand good morals.

If you don’t know what constitutes good morals, then you need go back and learn them.

And the media can take a lesson in all this, too. Good journalists always print the facts. They don’t give opinions unless they are trying to write on the opinion page, in which case they state clearly they’re sharing opinion and not facts.

I hope that U of L in their final games goes out and beats the pants of all of them, and leaves them all wondering how good they would have been in tournament play.

Lastly, I will add that I really don’t care who wins the Super Bowl, I just hope no one gets hurt.

Bobby Petrino and Co.: heed this adage

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Memo to Universities, athletic directors, coaches, and players, and… Reporters: “Watch how you make your beds, for you will lay in it.” There is yet another appropriate adage: “The grass is no greener on the other side of the street.” U of L, Jurich (the U of L Athletic Director), Pitino, and all other coaches and ADs who are looking for changes: pay attention to the latter adage.

What is the university’s job? It’s not to make coaches and ADs rich; it’s to educate men and women.

And as for Charlie Strong, he said this after he left, in Texas: “This is the best of the best.”  Now does he know what the best is? Some upstate college in NY could be best of the best. A little college in North Dakota might be the best of the best. Who knows what the best of the best is?

Next week, we’ll see how things play out. I’ll have more to say soon.

Thoughts on Charlie Strong

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The U of L football coach has been in interviewed by the University of Texas. Right now, Charlie Strong gets paid $3 million a year. He’s not opened his mouth yet, so no one knows if he’s no going or going. Who knows? He might not even know yet. A year ago, he had all this talk going, too.

U of L gave him a chance. He was an assistant coach in Florida three years ago, and he’s taken them to a bowl game every year. He’s publicly lamented that he doesn’t get full fan support — empty seats at games (companies buy up so many seats) and all the fans leave at the third quarter (guilty as charged — sometimes the weather is horrible).

I contend he’s well paid for where he is. He SHOULD stay ten or fifteen years and really bring it up the line, consistently. At $3 million a year, you can’t tell me you can’t live on that. Saban at Alabama, the highest paid college football coach at $6 million, famously blew the Auburn game. Instead of getting someone down there to watch where that ball landed, he let Auburn run the touchdown. And that’s why he’s not worth $6 million. He is a good coach, but he’s not supreme. And, by the by, Oklahoma beat him the other night…

Which leads me back to Charlie. Louisville is a nice place to live. Texas is coming after him, and my whole theory is that there’s no reason he can’t stay, but if he thinks he needs more money or that it’s not enough money to live… I’d remind him people in Lousiville don’t just go out and hound a coach when they’re at a restaurant, or walking around. Pitino has said it: no one hounds him. If he goes to Texas, who knows what will happen with the fans there.

He’d better think twice if a couple more million is going to benefit him in the long run as to what he already has. If he goes, he’s only going for money. If he was only making $500,000 or under a million, I’d get it. But I’d remind him Pitino gets $3 million, and he’s not worth it either…

Stay where you are and really build a team. Common sense.