Most professions -- unless you work as an anarchist -- have sets of rules and sets of unwritten rules and the coaching community is no different. One of the unwritten rules is "no matter what the circumstances, thou shalt never criticize the opposing head coach." Now, like all rules, this is broken from time to time. John Chaney trying to strangle John Calipari comes to mind, but for the most part coaches will never say anything bad about the guy standing across the field from him.
For practical purposes, this makes a lot of sense. There's no point in provoking your opponent, distracting the team, and giving both professional media members and jerk-off bloggers like us something to write about. If you know your opponent is poorly coached, the polite thing to do is talk in cliches and tell the press your opponent can beat anyone and your team needs to be prepared.
I'm perfectly fine with this approach, however, Louisville coach Steve Kragthorpe decided to kick it up about 10 notches today - as he went way overboard in his praise of Greg Robinson, culminating with this absurd quote:
"I think they're very, very well-coached in all three phases of the game."
Now, to be fair, one of Greg's two conference wins (in 4 years) did come at the hands of Kragthorpe when SU pulled off a stunning upset of Louisville last year, but COME ON. Very, very well coached in 3 three phases of the game? Are you f*cking kidding me???? Everyone with a set of eyeballs knows how bad this team has been since Robinson showed up on campus.
It's pretty apparent Steve hadn't even bothered to watch much film of the Orange, noting that starting quarterback Cameron Dantley can "make plays with his feet." Even Dantley would tell you he's not much of a runner, as evidenced by the -32 rushing yards he's racked up so far this year. He hasn't even proven adept at keeping plays alive in the pocket with his feet, but don't tell Krathorpe that.
By Steve's reasoning, here are a few other things that went really, really well:
- The last Hindenburg flight
- New Coke
- OJ's latest defense strategy
- The 1976 Tampa Bay Buccaneers
- The Delorean
- Speedos on men
I could go on and on, but you get the point. However, it would be a perfect bit for Seth Myers and Amy Poehler and their "Really" bit on SNL.....
For practical purposes, this makes a lot of sense. There's no point in provoking your opponent, distracting the team, and giving both professional media members and jerk-off bloggers like us something to write about. If you know your opponent is poorly coached, the polite thing to do is talk in cliches and tell the press your opponent can beat anyone and your team needs to be prepared.
I'm perfectly fine with this approach, however, Louisville coach Steve Kragthorpe decided to kick it up about 10 notches today - as he went way overboard in his praise of Greg Robinson, culminating with this absurd quote:
"I think they're very, very well-coached in all three phases of the game."
Now, to be fair, one of Greg's two conference wins (in 4 years) did come at the hands of Kragthorpe when SU pulled off a stunning upset of Louisville last year, but COME ON. Very, very well coached in 3 three phases of the game? Are you f*cking kidding me???? Everyone with a set of eyeballs knows how bad this team has been since Robinson showed up on campus.
It's pretty apparent Steve hadn't even bothered to watch much film of the Orange, noting that starting quarterback Cameron Dantley can "make plays with his feet." Even Dantley would tell you he's not much of a runner, as evidenced by the -32 rushing yards he's racked up so far this year. He hasn't even proven adept at keeping plays alive in the pocket with his feet, but don't tell Krathorpe that.
By Steve's reasoning, here are a few other things that went really, really well:
- The last Hindenburg flight
- New Coke
- OJ's latest defense strategy
- The 1976 Tampa Bay Buccaneers
- The Delorean
- Speedos on men
I could go on and on, but you get the point. However, it would be a perfect bit for Seth Myers and Amy Poehler and their "Really" bit on SNL.....
1 comments:
In defense of the "makes plays with his feet" comment...unlike the NFL, sacks go against rushing yards in college. With the awful blocking up front, it's a miracle that Dantley isn't -200 on the season.
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