jakez4ut
Patience... It's what's for dinner
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i feel u my man but the problem is when u let people try to box u into a category, u tell them to get f'd and fight back. People will frame it a certain way but the fact is he's known as a dickhead coach according to many former players. Years ago i wouldnt think twice about my son going somewhere with a priest, but i sure as hell wouldnt now. Other programs can choose to have that suspicion near their program, but I really dont need any other justification for not wanting him here. Id rather sell infidelity when Im out recruiting than even the hint of pedophilia. One is a very good coach who screwed around on his wife. The other is not a very good coach with multiple character questions, some with evidence, some with very shaky evidence but heinous enough to stay away fromI'm just talking about alleged crimes or knowledge of those crimes. I wasn't getting into any other factors.
It's been a year now, and I think a lot of us now admit that we didn't really care about Schiano's connection to Sandusky. We thought the guy was an a-hole, not worth a head coach job, and we exploited the one thing we knew would make waves. You may have had a personal conviction not to hire the guy, but most of us burning couches just cared about Ws.
Say what you want but I'd rather support a guy that solicited hookers even if he was caught red handed than someone that was accused of looking the other way on the Sandusky fiasco.I think the info that Freeze was on campus and met with Eric Gray is legit. I'm not sure how it works from a compliance standpoint, but I think it happened. You wouldn't do that unless you were sure he was the guy. EG has been super quiet about his time on campus this weekend, and I think that's why. The delay, in my mind, has been to create an effective action plan, which includes PR. Most teams wouldn't get hammered for this hire, but the fact that UT moved away from Schiano after the fans revolted places UT in the crosshairs of anyone willing to shout "hypocrite." Whether you want to admit it or not, there's much more direct evidence of Hugh's wrongdoing than the circumstantial, third-hand reports about Schiano's knowledge of the actions of Sandusky. Rick Pitino's alleged conduct is very similar to Hugh's, and you don't see him with any job (with a much stronger resume than a coach like Freeze.) Combine that with the previous Title IX issues at UT, and you've got yourself a PR situation that needs plenty of preparation, including reaching out to tastemakers and journos that can come over top of the negative criticisms of others.