Urban challenging Slive?

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utvolpj said:
"On rare occasions over the last seven years there were several private reprimands and that took care of the matter," Slive told the AP in a telephone interview. "On occasion there were public reprimands and that took care of it. It became clear to me after last week that I was no longer interested in reprimands and the conference athletic directors and university presidents unanimously agreed.
"For the foreseeable future there will be no reprimands," Slive added. "We will go right to suspensions and fines."
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I'd also like to point out that it says suspensions AND fines, NOT suspensions AND/OR fines.
 
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OrangeBrownie said:
Kiffin definitely played a major role in getting the rules toughened

then meyer walks into the bear trap slive tried to set for kiffin

love it
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Totally agree! You know when Slive drew up the new rule, he had ONE COACH in mind, Lane Kiffin. Slive was finally going to shut the young punk up. And now the beautiful irony: The Coach who can't keep his mouth shut (CLK) actually keeps his mouth shut as reports try to goad him into a controversial comment. And then Mikey Slive's Golden Boy Meyer steps right into the trap that Slive had set for Kiffin.

The other fascinating angle is that whatever the punishment ultimately is, Meyer will probably always blame Kiffin for causing the rule to be promulgated in the first place.

I don't think Spurier in even his best days was quite as adept at getting into opponents heads as Kiffin is.
 
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kcvols1 said:
I would almost be confident in actually betting a sensitive body part that the SEC will do nothing to Slive's boy.

This will just further solidify Slive's status as a mealy-mouthed, double talking sycophant.
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look out for the figs:).
 
#157
#157
Slive backing himself into a corner is great stuff. No way this d-bag stays our commish for too much longer. You should never hear more about the commissioner of a conference than the actual teams in the conference. Serves him right. Take your power trip somewhere else Slive,
 
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OrangeTsar said:
Totally agree! You know when Slive drew up the new rule, he had ONE COACH in mind, Lane Kiffin. Slive was finally going to shut the young punk up. And now the beautiful irony: The Coach who can't keep his mouth shut (CLK) actually keeps his mouth shut as reports try to goad him into a controversial comment. And then Mikey Slive's Golden Boy Meyer steps right into the trap that Slive had set for Kiffin.

The other fascinating angle is that whatever the punishment ultimately is, Meyer will probably always blame Kiffin for causing the rule to be promulgated in the first place.

I don't think Spurier in even his best days was quite as adept at getting into opponents heads as Kiffin is.
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Let's call it right now. Coach K. in his brilliance, decided once again to slap Urby via Slive. He maniacally plots by slamming the refs after the bama game knowing full well that Slive will have no choice but to come down hard with a rule change. He takes his reprimand laughing all the way knowing full well that urby will soon fall into the trap. Urby being the narcissist that he is, cannot take the attention that Kiff is getting and tries to take back the lead in the press unwittingly falling into the trap that Coach K. has set.

Coach K. not only darts his favorite target St. urby, but also scores on Slive as he is forced by media attention to back up his threats. Score = Coach K. 2 - urby/slive zip.

:eek:lol:
 
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the.one.the.only said:
Slive backing himself into a corner is great stuff. No way this d-bag stays our commish for too much longer. You should never hear more about the commissioner of a conference than the actual teams in the conference. Serves him right. Take your power trip somewhere else Slive,
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Slive is responsible for that recently signed TV megadeal with ESPN. He's set us all up financially better than any other conference out there.

This crap with reprimands and incompetent officials is small potatoes compared with the coin each of the twelve member institutions will get over the next 15 years.

You can thank Slive for that.
 
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Volmania said:
But it also says for the foreseeable future. Clearly, Slive did not foresee Meyer complaining in the future, therefore no suspension.
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Thus the new punishment has ended and Kiffin can say something again.

Who thinks our coach is going to make this fun in the next week if Urban gets slapped on the wrist?
 
#165
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Negotiating a contract with espn for big money wasn't due to slive's genius. That was a slam dunk--in fact, the SEC should have gotten a better deal than they did. Slive gave away a lot of cash.
 
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VolsRule said:
Negotiating a contract with espn for big money wasn't due to slive's genius. That was a slam dunk--in fact, the SEC should have gotten a better deal than they did. Slive gave away a lot of cash.
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So the richest TV deal ever for a BCS conference, a deal the guarantees even Vandy getting more revenue than Notre Dame gets from NBC isn't good enough?

Nevermind CBS is paying us too for broadcast rights...
 
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Lawrence Wright said:
Slive is responsible for that recently signed TV megadeal with ESPN. He's set us all up financially better than any other conference out there.

This crap with reprimands and incompetent officials is small potatoes compared with the coin each of the twelve member institutions will get over the next 15 years.

You can thank Slive for that.
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The SEC sells itself. It doesn't need Slive to sell it. He gets way too much credit for that TV contract.
 
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Lawrence Wright said:
So the richest TV deal ever for a BCS conference, a deal the guarantees even Vandy getting more revenue than Notre Dame gets from NBC isn't good enough?

Nevermind CBS is paying us too for broadcast rights...
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Pretending that Slive is THE reason the contract exists is silly. The rise of the AEC and fall of the Big 10 had fat more to do with it. Slive just happened to be at the helm when ESPN came bidding.
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#169
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Lawrence Wright said:
Slive is responsible for that recently signed TV megadeal with ESPN. He's set us all up financially better than any other conference out there.

This crap with reprimands and incompetent officials is small potatoes compared with the coin each of the twelve member institutions will get over the next 15 years.

You can thank Slive for that.
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You think Slive is the reason we got that deal?? Has nothing to do with the product on the field right, it's all Slive. You can't honestly believe that. Slive is almost as weaselly as your beloved coach is. Almost...
 
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Slive should get credit for leveraging the product on the field into the most lucrative TV deal in college football history.

I'm sure he did more than answer ESPN's call and say "okay we will take your money now".
 
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Lawrence Wright said:
Slive should get credit for leveraging the product on the field into a lucrative TV deal.

I'm sure he did more than answer ESPN's call and say "okay we will take your money now".
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Any halfway decent agent could've gotten that money. Slive was absolutely not the reason we got that deal.
 
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#172
If someone with a Rivals account can pull the part where Lane talks about Urban criticizing the officials, please do so:

Edit: Thanks Mystifying, that's it.
 
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#173
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Lawrence Wright said:
Slive should get credit for leveraging the product on the field into the most lucrative TV deal in college football history.

I'm sure he did more than answer ESPN's call and say "okay we will take your money now".
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Leveraged the product? This is an industry littered with consultants and attorneys. Those guys did the work. Slive sat in his office and said we'll take the money. The product and ratings history drove the pricing, period.
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BigPapaVol said:
Leveraged the product? This is an industry littered with consultants and attorneys. Those guys did the work. Slive sat in his office and said we'll take the money. The product and ratings history drove the pricing, period.
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Slive is an attorney also.
 
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