Stl Bills Posted March 22, 2007 Share Posted March 22, 2007 Mr. Smith goes to MInnesota Wow, still didn't see him leaving Kentucky. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fezmid Posted March 23, 2007 Share Posted March 23, 2007 GO GOPHERS!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dean Posted March 23, 2007 Share Posted March 23, 2007 Mr. Smith goes to MInnesota Wow, still didn't see him leaving Kentucky. Good for Tubby. The treatment he got from KU fans this year was unforgivable. He deserved better. The Gophers INSTANTLY become contenders for national champs in a few short years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beerball Posted March 23, 2007 Share Posted March 23, 2007 Good for Tubby. The treatment he got from KU fans this year was unforgivable. He deserved better. The Gophers INSTANTLY become contenders for national champs in a few short years. Agree 100% with what you say about the KU boosters. Toss the local media in there too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fezmid Posted March 23, 2007 Share Posted March 23, 2007 Good for Tubby. The treatment he got from KU fans this year was unforgivable. He deserved better. The Gophers INSTANTLY become contenders for national champs in a few short years. I don't follow college basketball at all, but I hope you're right. The Gophers haven't really been good since Clem Haskins, and he did it by having his students cheat in school CW Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smokinandjokin Posted March 23, 2007 Share Posted March 23, 2007 I don't follow college basketball at all, but I hope you're right. The Gophers haven't really been good since Clem Haskins, and he did it by providing his players with the same preferential classroom treatment that athletes at most other schools receive, but at UMinn, the girl writing the papers wasn't getting paid enough to keep quiet and ratted out the program to the media. CW Fixed your post.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fezmid Posted March 23, 2007 Share Posted March 23, 2007 Fixed your post.... Well the football players, at that time anyway, always went to get their own books and went to class... Of course, maybe that's why the football program sucked Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beerball Posted March 23, 2007 Share Posted March 23, 2007 Steve Alford (sp?) from Iowa to New Mexico is a little tougher to understand. Smith got shat on at Kentucky & moved to a school in a high profile conference that has turned around a football program and excels in other sports. New Mexico? I guess expectations won't be terribly high. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dean Posted March 23, 2007 Share Posted March 23, 2007 Well the football players, at that time anyway, always went to get their own books and went to class... Of course, maybe that's why the football program sucked Smokey Jokey has a point, as do you. Most big-time programs get away with a WHOLE lot in this area. the athletes have "tutors" and special "advisers" who: (Best case scenario) Guide the player, help them...TUTOR them (Common case scenario) All of the above and make sure their work gets done. Make sure they go to class (at least sometimes). Maybe sign in for them in lecture classes (Worst case scenario...and common, as well, I'd guess) Write the papers for the player, go to classes for the player, etc Of course there's the Woody Hayes ( "Just pass my player or I'll have your ass thrown out of here") approach. When I did my stint at Canisius, the coaches would call me almost every week to ask how the player was doing in class. More often than not, my answer was, "I don't know, He's never been to class or taken any test or done any assignment." After I failed 4 or 5 players, the dean (not me, The Dean) asked me to change their grades.. For the record: I didn't. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buckeyemike Posted March 23, 2007 Share Posted March 23, 2007 I for one applaud Tubby. I think that there was a group of boosters that had it in for the coach...because he wasn't Rick Pitino. An argument can and has been made that many of the boosters would never get behind a black basketball coach, and it could be true, but I don't think it's the biggest reason. Tubby wasn't flashy, gave his so-so son a lot of minutes, and simply didn't win enough to satisfy the money people at UK, who think they should go to the Final Four every year. Go to Minneapolis, Tubby, and rebuild the Gophers into a power. You'll live longer up there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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