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Les Miles and the burner phone

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by 2muchcoffeeman, Mar 4, 2021.

  1. doctorquant

    doctorquant Well-Known Member

    You are a bitter piece of shit.
     
  2. heyabbott

    heyabbott Well-Known Member

    Fuck evil pricks like Abbott. If I were a religious asshole I’d say god was punishing Abbott for his black heart and live of hurting people. The absence of a working cock is not an excuse to destroy people’s lives.
     
  3. doctorquant

    doctorquant Well-Known Member

    Second verse, same as the first.
     
  4. doctorquant

    doctorquant Well-Known Member

    I am curious, though, as to what Greg Abbott has to do with Les Miles. Or is this just raving-on-street-corner day at chez Yab?
     
  5. Oggiedoggie

    Oggiedoggie Well-Known Member

    I’m pretty sure that Texans had to use burner phones to stay warm when their power froze up.
     
  6. HanSenSE

    HanSenSE Well-Known Member

    One closer to home for most of us. Sportswriter killed by errant hammer at NCAA Div. II meeet.
    A sports writer for the Bakersfield Californian newspaper died
     
  7. goalmouth

    goalmouth Well-Known Member

    I saw a huge limb break off a tree during Sandy. It didn't come straight down but actually without warning cleanly broke off the trunk and flew sideways in the position it had grown, in the blink of an eye, and destroyed a fence 50 feet away.

    Life isn't a fucking special effect.
     
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  8. Spartan Squad

    Spartan Squad Well-Known Member

    KU has to get in line, apparently
     
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  9. exmediahack

    exmediahack Well-Known Member

    Now on 12 years since they fired Mangino because he yelled at players and was a prick.
     
  10. swingline

    swingline Well-Known Member

    And because he was fat. Gotta believe that also was a factor, too.
     
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  11. exmediahack

    exmediahack Well-Known Member

    He was a hell of a coach. Made that program tough and won games.

    Kansas thought it could do better. Cautionary tale.
     
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  12. Starman

    Starman Well-Known Member

    Fat coaches always have a huge handicap in perception to overcome in any coaching position in any sport in which physical performance and conditioning are major factors. And rightly so.
    How can any player really take it seriously when a coach demands that a player cuts down their 40 time by 0.3 or complete an extra set of workout reps if they're a 300 pounder who can barely chug across the room?
    Of course players know intellectually it doesn't mean a shit's bit of difference if the coach can run the 40 in 5 seconds or 5 hours, but players aren't thinking intellectually when they're driving themselves through training (or not).
    And like it or not, any athlete in generally decent shape is always going to bristle, even subconsciously, at some huge sloppy guy haranguing them to run faster and train harder.
    So coaches who are hugely out of shape are always fighting a huge perception battle.
    Everything's cool as long as long as they win -- it's easy to believe they're X and O jedi wizards when theyre winning -- but as soon as things start going bad, it's real easy to blame it on the coach being lazy, undisciplined, uncommitted, etc etc.
     
    Last edited: Mar 5, 2021
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