Isunorth,
I will appologize for lumping you with the guy who posted right before you. However, your support for his side of the arguement and downplaying of ethics improtance still rub me the wrong way. The poster that posted before you did basically say a certain level of cheating is only prudent, and right after that you say ethics don't pay the bills. I'm sure you can see where someone might lump those comments together.
As I said I do agree that winning and ethics are not mutually exclusive, and I do see where you are more trying to make that point. However, poor timing makes it weigh more on the side of defending the guy talking about cheating and general shadieness. Like I said, lumping you two together makes your comments look worse than they were. I apologize.
I stand by my comments in that pollard has made the big picture a lot more competitive, and taken a lot of the off the field/court problems and fixed them. He should get to include those in his resume when being evaluated and so should GM. AD and coach is not a commission based job. Its based on many objectives that can serve the university with or without making millions of dollars.
I can only hope the wins in MBB and FB will come. I don't settle for mediocrity, but it is clear that both guys are selling the program to a lot of people who matter, and building a stedier foundation than what was there in basketball. At the time, 90% of the sports world thought in football, GC was a good swap for Dan. I was sad to see Dan go, myself, but saw some value in what was going on too. It was a big deal, nationally was thought of as a great hire. I want to win as much as any good fan, and I thought that we were picking a good guy to take the program over. So did most football followers. He turned out to be a jerk. So, that was a mistake.
I'm still hoping it will pay off for the big 2 sports. GM has been hamstrung until they were out of the woods, but has done admirably given he can't take a chance on a kid that isn't going to cut it academically and had to be extra careful to clean up the "scheduling situation." Thus, like I said Ethics are going to pay the bills for a while around here.
I will appologize for lumping you with the guy who posted right before you. However, your support for his side of the arguement and downplaying of ethics improtance still rub me the wrong way. The poster that posted before you did basically say a certain level of cheating is only prudent, and right after that you say ethics don't pay the bills. I'm sure you can see where someone might lump those comments together.
As I said I do agree that winning and ethics are not mutually exclusive, and I do see where you are more trying to make that point. However, poor timing makes it weigh more on the side of defending the guy talking about cheating and general shadieness. Like I said, lumping you two together makes your comments look worse than they were. I apologize.
I stand by my comments in that pollard has made the big picture a lot more competitive, and taken a lot of the off the field/court problems and fixed them. He should get to include those in his resume when being evaluated and so should GM. AD and coach is not a commission based job. Its based on many objectives that can serve the university with or without making millions of dollars.
I can only hope the wins in MBB and FB will come. I don't settle for mediocrity, but it is clear that both guys are selling the program to a lot of people who matter, and building a stedier foundation than what was there in basketball. At the time, 90% of the sports world thought in football, GC was a good swap for Dan. I was sad to see Dan go, myself, but saw some value in what was going on too. It was a big deal, nationally was thought of as a great hire. I want to win as much as any good fan, and I thought that we were picking a good guy to take the program over. So did most football followers. He turned out to be a jerk. So, that was a mistake.
I'm still hoping it will pay off for the big 2 sports. GM has been hamstrung until they were out of the woods, but has done admirably given he can't take a chance on a kid that isn't going to cut it academically and had to be extra careful to clean up the "scheduling situation." Thus, like I said Ethics are going to pay the bills for a while around here.
