Beta wrote:nhoskins wrote:How long does he have to stay there for him to have enough "manliness" for you?
Holy crap. You people are crying because I said "manliness". I simply said I didn't like June Jones and Stryker started asking about Juice's manliness for Illinois. Here's what I said:
At least Brennan took the beating with some manliness.
I said Colt Brennan took it on the chin like a man WHICH IS A FRIGGIN' COMPLIMENT...but I'll go ahead and apply it to June Jones, just for you because you decided that reading is overrated (just like Hawaii).
Promising your players the world then peacing out after you're the drunk freshman girl to the UGA fraternity brother in the Sugar Bowl is pretty BADASS in my opinion. He deserves his own letter in the alphabet of manliness. In fact, can he adopt me and teach me the ways? Because money is the only thing that's important when you're getting almost a million a year. Just ask Petrino, Saban, Rodriguez and the rest of the coaches that are highly trustable, they'll back you up.
So only a "little" bit of steroids is ok in the Bonds era? Or perhaps only "some" NCAA/school rules violations are ok in the FSU era? Just because other people do it (and are looked down upon)...doesn't mean it's OK.
When he complains to the media about the old carpet in his office and all this crap with his meager $800,016 a year salary...yet his team practices at a high school field and can't even afford shower-heads. But he still decided to start talking to other schools before his team even played. But I guess it's OK to go along with the curve of classless/money-hungry coaches peacing out on their team.
But yeah June Jones' stock right now is about as useful as the Hawaii's offensive line was to Colt Brennan a few nights ago. I can only hope the SMU checkbooks are equally as manly.
If your "hatred", or dislike, of June Jones is limited to his complaints about old carpet in his office and the hearsay from one of this players, then I guess I can't argue wit that. But I'd rather praise a coach than hate a coach that took a team as "awful" as Hawaii to a BCS Bowl.
TWELVE teams get to go to a BCS Bowl. TWELVE. Of those twelve, four (VT, OSU, OU, USC) feature a coach who is in the top ten in college football coaching salaries. Jones, at a bargain $800,000, which is below the average D1 football coaches salary, took his team there. If I'm UHawaii, I'm thrilled with the return on my investment. He can call out all the carpet in the university, and half his players can hate him. But if he's so terrible, where is the mass exodus of players?
Oh yeah, they're not going anywhere because they're busy collecting accolades including five All-American awards, 52 all-conference performers, and eight NFL draft picks. If I'm your friend, I'm happy to have Jones as a coach, for giving me the opportunity to play in a bowl game, get seen by NFL scouts, and possibly collect an award or two along the way.
And we're not talking about a team filled bluechip recruits either. Jones recruits (1) Polynesian kids, (2) kids who have lived in Hawaiʻi or have family here, (3) military kids with no permanent home, (4) kids recovering from injuries and (5) kids from broken homes, as well as the (6) the rare kid from the penal system (Your boy Colt Brennan).
I guess I just find something admirable about a guy who takes a traditionally awful football program, filled with a ragtag bunch of forgotten recruits, to a BCS Bowl game. Did they get stomped? Sure. But so did Illinois, Oklahoma, and probably Ohio State today. And those teams got stomped with a heck of a lot more resources and talent than the team Jones led to the Sugar Bowl.
That being said, I don't like Mack Brown either, I hate the BCS, and I agree that strength of schedule matters, but that doesn't mean that all teams with cupcake schedules are horrible teams. Boise State and Utah are cases in point.
