I have supported every coach RU has hired for the last 40 years. I felt it was important to give each every chance to succeed. My personal belief is that virtually every football coach should be given enough time to succeed or fail with HIS players - 4 or 5 years..
I confess I gave Frank Burns more time, because I thought he was a talented coach, and I stuck with Coach Schiano throughout his reign - including some of the later years in which he "underachieved' in searching for the right methodology.
I am in fact proud of that; even though Anderson was fired, Graber was fired, Shea was fired, and Flood was fired. I am satisfied that they were all given a reasonable chance to show what they could do, and I supported them completely even when it became clear there were obvious deficiencies that would not allow them to succeed at RU.
I could never act as you did and spend my time trying to torpedo every effort of a coach to succeed. You obviously felt very comfortable trying to undermine a coach's effort, and I see that is just a reflection on the type of character you have. Of course you see it as something else.
My feelings about that are enhanced by your continual need to emphasize just how right you think you were in "hating on" our former coach - even a full year after he was let go. I suppose it will be interesting to see how long you feel the need to brag that up to enhance your image.
You obviously have a boatload of supporters who also are using Coach Flood's failure to convince other posters how "smart" they are.
It is what it is. I am proud of how I have conducted myself, and you are proud of "being right". Of course you think I was wrong for supporting these coaches, but I do not see that as being the real issue.
There were times when I thought all of the coaches who were let go might be able to succeed. I turned out to be overly optimistic in all those situations, but I am not that embarrassed by it. I had high hopes, but my optimism was misplaced - or wrong, if you prefer. I don't really have a problem with being wrong; I only have a problem with being close-minded. But we each have our own values.
Are you done patting yourself on the back now?
Maybe - just maybe - if some had listened to myself and others, initially, a lot of the b.s. that ensued on these boards wouldn't have reached the levels which it did. Instead, however, the minute I went from being a "cheerleader," to speaking the TRUTH, speaking REALISTICALLY, about the FACT that there were things going on behind-the-scenes - that Flood and Flood only was responsible for - and that his recruiting was going to kill us down the road, half of this board turned on myself AND others. Unfortunately, for whatever reason, it was me who took the brunt of the abuse from this board. People constantly jamming the bullshit "but he's a good guy" line down our throats. People claiming that I was "full of shit," and "making stuff up," the list goes on, to the point where I got banned for doing absolutely NOTHING BUT SPEAKING THE TRUTH. People like you, bitching to John, week-after-week, despite me not uttering a single word that was false, about Flood or anything else, EVER, on these boards.
I've supported EVERY coach hired here, for EVERY sport, from Day 1 and always will, however, like you, I'm not going to stick my head in the sand for the "sake of the program" when, IN FACT, the reason I turned on Flood WAS "for the sake of the program." Many of us saw/heard/knew what was going on behind the scenes, in recruiting, and on the field, and didn't like it at the time or for the future. He was slowly destroying everything that Greg worked so damn hard to build and some of you were BLIND to the fact. Sorry if that bothers you, buddy, but too freakin' bad.
I SPEAK THE TRUTH on these boards. Always have, do now, and always will. Like it or not, too bad, I really don't give a damn. I also was 100% BEHIND COACH FLOOD until October of 2013, or about 1.5 years into his "leadership," and would have continued to be so if he wasn't in the midst of creating the disaster that soon came to fruition.
"Undermining"? Nope, not at all, was being a "loyal son," that's all, but you and your ilk chose - and still choose - not to see it that way. Trust me there were things that I could have blown open - things that somewhat came to fruition in the past year or so - 3+ years ago, on these boards, but chose not to do so at the time FOR THE PROGRAM'S sake. Not for Kyle's, trust me, but because I love, first-and-foremost, this and all of our athletic programs, along with the unversity itself.
The next time you want to talk about my "character," or anything else as such, feel free to say it to my face. . Who on God's Green Earth do you think you are, anyway? Have I EVER attacked you as such? No. What an arrogant, self-delusional ass you are, sir, and I say that with ALL due respect.
Peace
