Posted on 12/18/2007 6:26:42 AM PST by MplsSteve
One can easily see why Petrino got tired of coaching these clowns after just less than one year. Thank you Falcons for the excellent new head coach we get at the University of Arkansas.
I’m a Georgia girl,
but my feelin’s wouldnt’ be hurt one teeny tiny bit if they just closed the Falcon’s down, called their Mama’s to come gettem’ and had a yard sale for all the stuff left behind.
Thugz-B-Us, see also Thugz-Iz-Us.
This is simply another example of professional athletes acting like thugs.
Unfortunately children look up to these players and emulate them.
Most professional sports teams should rid themselves of the entire thug culture that exists, however they won’t. It’s profitable for them as our current culture is enamored by criminal behavior and appearing as criminals.
After Sean Taylor was killed the NFL authorized players to play #21 on their helmets and/or uniforms. For the week of his death it was required, after that it became voluntary.
Look at the Redskins uniforms, including the coaches, all of them are wearing #21 and probably will from now on, just as the Patriots wear #91 on their helmets for a player they lost.
Big difference between supporting a convicted felon and showing grief over a murdered player.
In any case, the NFL specifically made an exception to the uniform rules to accomodate the former.
When caught doing something stupid ,” Dont open mouth and make it worse” One person was murdered the other person murdered animals if you can not figure out the difference you must be a member of the stupid group.
Gee thanks!
So these people should be fined, castrated and hung up to dry.
Attitudes like that make you no differnet for any of the brilliant leftists who punish speech they disagree with.
Maybe you shoud re-examine your definition of stupid.
No fines were imposed for uniform violations when the players honored that washington player who had been murdered.
But because they chose to support Vick, they were fined.
I find that heavy handed and reprehensible.
No I don’t think Vick is some sort of hero, but these players made a small unobtrusive show of support. I would not have done it...but fining them for doing it?
No.
Nobody was fined for uniform violations for the Taylor tributes because the Taylor tributes were part of the team uniform. There's a difference there.
Players get fined whenever they modify their uniforms to draw attention to themselves, which includes personal messages. Just ask Al Harris, that preening peacock who insists on wearing all-white socks in some pathetic plea for attention (or Sean Taylor himself, who did the same thing).
So you've got it backwards. The question is: should the NFL break its own rules and let these players off the hook "because they chose to support Vick"?
And if so, why should they do so?
So these people should be fined, castrated and hung up to dry.
Attitudes like that make you no differnet for any of the brilliant leftists who punish speech they disagree with.
Resorting to bizarre straw men is not only intellectually dishonest, it reveals a very weak argument.
Considering that he's signed about thirty years' worth of contracts in the last eighteen months, and walked away from two of them, enjoy him while he lasts.
I give him two seasons, before he starts looking over that fence at another school's grass.
Fined? Fire them.
Perhaps so, but our grass at Arkansas is pretty nice............
Not according to the jock-sniffing media in this town.
Then again, why would such courageous journalists risk losing interview access fonts of wisdom like MeAngelo Hall, Roddy White, and the rest of Cell Block ATL?
Y'all just playa' hatin' racists. 8^)
So when a prospective student is looking at, say, Texas, Arkansas, and LSU, and Les Miles and Mack Brown say to that player, “Well, you could go play at Arkansas, but I wonder how long the ol’ ball coach is going to be in Fayetteville. Huh. Boy, I wonder what it’s like to play at Arkansas, where a coach takes a pay cut to leave town after the University begged him to stay." Then Les Miles says, "By the way, did you hear that I turned down Michigan—my dream job—to stay at LSU? Son, we've got a helluva program down here.”
Petrino and Arkansas make sense on some levels: Arkansas needed a coach after everyone in the country, including their existing coach, turned them down. Petrino needed to get back to college football, and Arkansas was the only team desperate enough to actually hire him. But come on. Dumb move, Arkansas. Dumb move.
I don't think that matters. He's not a man who can honor his commitments - his wandering eye will start to cast around before long.
Fidelity, like honesty, is just not in his character.
White liberals have encouraged tribal hip hop loyalties to run deeper
than the love of truth, justice, country or anything else.
I am suprised you mention Les Miles, he is a prime example of a coach who was openly flirting with Michigan while getting ready to play Ar-Kansas as he called us at the end of the season.
Nutt was fired pure and simple, bs about a pay raise and begging him to stay.
Smart move, Arkansas, Smart move.
Maybe so, at any rate we aren’t going to solve anything here in this forum. I still can’t blame him for wanting to leave that bunch at Atlanta.
If you want to say Nutt was fired, whatever. Of course, when he turned down an offer to go coach at Ole Miss, most people wouldn’t call that “fired.”
Hey, if you think Petrino is the type of coach that you want there, great; you’ve got him. Way to go. But when he gets beat down by the rest of the SEC, don’t expect him to hang around very long.
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