dbdynsty25 wrote:
If anyone needs to be suspended it's the announcer that was announcing the game. He was encouraging the entire thing...and even mentioned that they should meet at the park without pads to handle it like men. Yeah, that's great.
Agreed. For those that don't have ESPN's Gameplan to hear what was said. Take a listen to this dickhead. It's former Miami player Lamar Thomas.
"I think that it will affect the image of our program greatly, but in a positive way," Coker said. "I think that when they see the video and they see how it was handled they will be impressed with our players. This will not be a very big thing for the University of Miami. It was impressive in that it was handled very well."
There was more than just the helmet throwing. An ABC slow-mo highlight at the halftime of the Michigan-Penn State game (GO BLUE, GO HART!) clearly showed a Miami player stomping repeatedly on the legs of a FIU player who was on the ground.
Hainsworth was worse because that was a strong blow to the head near the eye, and it wasn't in the context of a brawl. But this was still pretty fugly, and the NCAA needs to make examples of BOTH schools. Suspend guys for multiple games, strip one scholarship next year for recruiting, something.
But it's the NCAA, so we know the punishment will have the ferocity of a declawed, toothless cat.
Take care,
PK
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pk500 wrote:
But it's the NCAA, so we know the punishment will have the ferocity of a declawed, toothless cat.
You forgot to add that by the time the investigation is conducted, punishments considered, appeals made, investigation reopened and the punishment reconsidered, all players and coaches involved will have moved on and a completely new group of people will be slapped. THAT, more than the toothlessness, is what bothers me.
"I think that it will affect the image of our program greatly, but in a positive way," Coker said. "I think that when they see the video and they see how it was handled they will be impressed with our players. This will not be a very big thing for the University of Miami. It was impressive in that it was handled very well."
Damn.
Please fire this fool. Please. Someone take this dude out to pasture.
With this quote...and his infamous blaming the FSU loss on the wind...combine that with his constant clapping and ferocious fist pumps after the offense just failed yet another 3rd down conversion...there is no way this joker should be the head coach at this very second.
I just saw the video, and I have to call shennanigans on the claims that it was typical or just a wrestling match. There was a ton of behavior there that was just heinous and definitely actionable. The helment swinging and stomping were particularly ridiculous and dangerous.
Miami is now and always has been a program based only marginally on excellence on the field. Its success has always stemmed from an attitude of tolerance for disgusting behavior which was so extreme as to extend beyond permissiveness nearly to the point of advocacy.
Look, big time college sports are a the epitome of hypocrisy in action, but Miami takes the unsavory elements of NCAA sports to their natural extreme. Top the whole slime sundae off with a fan base that encourages, revels in and amplifies the attitude and you have damn-near a literal cesspool. The most entertaining part to me is that the fans then like to claim that it's jealousy or envy that drives the hate, rather than the fact that this organization is rotten from stem to stern.
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Of course you're right Rob...but the part that's rotten is college football, not the Universit of Miami. The shady business and gangsta mentality are not ONLY at Miami. Like I said, the FIU coaches and AD were pissed that their guys started it, yet Miami is the one that gets singled out. So yeah, the Miami hate is there as well...obviously.
The other thing I was thinking when I watched it is, "why doesn't this happen more?". Specfically, I'm surprised that the perennial losers that are scheduled by the big programs as patsies don't just blow a gasket at the situation more often.
It's one thing for the president of some podunk school to shrug off the perennial beatings and count the dollars, but another thing for some DT who's getting steamrolled for 4 hours. Some kid who busts his ass to play ball at some I-AA school has to just be fed up with being bent over to service the needs of a "great" program.
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