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December 14, 2011
SportsFilter: The Wednesday Huddle:
A place to discuss the sports stories that aren't making news, share links that aren't quite front-page material, and diagram plays on your hand. Remember to count to five Mississippi before commenting in anger.
Stephen A. cracks me up as well. I'd watch a show in which he just buries his head in his hands exasperatedly at whatever is being said.
Skip Bayless is a great accidental singer.
posted by rcade at 12:18 PM on December 14, 2011
After one year at Pitt, Todd Graham is out resigning to take the job at Arizona State. One and done, What a load of crap. I especially like that he told the team through a text. Stay classy Todd.
posted by Debo270 at 01:37 PM on December 14, 2011
That video is hilarious.
posted by Joey Michaels at 02:38 PM on December 14, 2011
An Eagan, Minn., dad punched his eighth-grade son in the face after the kid's team lost a tournament. Other parents intervened to stop the beating.
posted by rcade at 03:14 PM on December 14, 2011
After one year at Pitt, Todd Graham is out resigning to take the job at Arizona State. One and done, What a load of crap. I especially like that he told the team through a text. Stay classy Todd.
That makes the second coach in a row that has jumped ship on their team after one year to seek their fortune at ASU. Dennis Erickson did the same thing to Idaho.
Let's give it 2-3 days and see if Pittsburgh has a home grown equivalent of the fire and urine brandishing superfan in Knoxville who was mighty upset when "Lane Fucking Kiffin" left Tennessee after one year.
posted by beaverboard at 03:51 PM on December 14, 2011
Relevant quote from ESPN.
""I have resigned my position at Pitt in the best interest of my family to pursue the head coaching position at Arizona State," Graham said in a text message sent to players on the Pittsburgh team. "Coaching there has always been a dream of ours and we have family there. The timing of the circumstances have prohibited me from telling you this directly. I now am on my way to Tempe to continue those discussions. God Bless. Coach Graham."" (Emphasis mine.)
If I ever need to break up with someone via text, I'm using that line for sure. Wow.
posted by feloniousmonk at 04:14 PM on December 14, 2011
I know it will never happen, but they need some rule for coaches like they have for players. If you want to leave a team while still under contract, you should have to sit out a year. If a team fires you, or your contract is up, no problem, but letting this type of thing happen again and again is nuts. It needs to be regulated.
posted by Debo270 at 11:43 AM on December 15, 2011
It shouldn't take a rule. Schools should be able to discourage this by including contract provisions that require the coach to pay a huge penalty to leave early. The huge names like Nick Saban could refuse those provisions, but coaches on Graham's level are not that big time.
posted by rcade at 12:06 PM on December 15, 2011
Yeah, this is on schools for acting like these guys are hot commodities. Just sign some successful high school coach who seems like he can handle the pressure.
posted by yerfatma at 01:13 PM on December 15, 2011
Let's not get carried away. Only two colleges have hired coaches straight from high school in the last 35 years. UNT did it twice with Dennis Parker and Todd Dodge, and both times it was a complete disaster.
posted by rcade at 02:17 PM on December 15, 2011
Well, assistants then. Anything beats rolling Charlie Weis out on to your sidelines as a solution.
posted by yerfatma at 03:37 PM on December 15, 2011
Worth it just for Stephen A Smith's face.