I overspoke what I meant to say and edited it.Jacobs4Heisman wrote:Germainfitch1 wrote:If 12 students don't graduate out of 20,000 but those 12 students bring in a ton of revenue and notoriety to the school, is that a bad thing?
YES!
It matters a great deal when they are 12 of the most visible students on campus. Notoriety is not always a good thing.
Huggy would fit right in at Toledo. He could teach them the proper tire-slashing technique. [\glass house]JWEIII wrote:The point would be for Huggy to rehab his immage to get back to a major program (is Cincinnati a major program?). He is going to at least try to do that somewhere, and if this article is true, likely in Ohio. And he could bring some great players with him, potential championships and NCAA apperances.
So... is it worth it? Absolutely! If he falls off the wagon and makes a jackass of himself, that's on him and you can his butt. (I don't hear anyone ripping Cincinnati, or its program, for his behavior). If he stays on the straight and narrow you likely get a copule great years, a little national publicity and then he quits in two or three years anyway.
With that said, he won't come to BG. As everyone has said, they are not going to pay him big money. And, although I love the place, Anderson Arena is a high school gym that The USAToday calls the worst facility in the conference.
Forget OU and Kent. Stan Joplin is in the last year of his contract and Toledo is waiting to see how the season goes. Hmmmmmm.
JWEIII wrote:
With regard to Huggy. Your fear is that he would come here and... what? Hurt our reputation? Well if he comes here and acts like a jackass you fire him (you can't be ridiculed for giving a guy a chance to clean up his life - and someone is going to). If he cleans it up, you get some great recuits and a likely title run and NCAA birth. What is the problem?
I see what you're saying, but it's a door I don't want to open. The movie blue chips keeps playing in my head.Warthog wrote:I agree with JWEII. You put him on a short leash and put lots of "character clauses" in the contract. He needs someone like BG to give him a shot so he can move back up to the big time. For that to work out, he has the walk the straight and narrow line, and he knows that.
If BG hired Huggins, I am sure there would be doubters. But if he won and did it clean, what a boom for our program. If he comes here and screws up and we fire him, we still can look good because everyone will see that we got rid of the jackass when he couldn't win the right way. We will get props for showing truth and integrity mean more than winning. Wouldn't that look good for us?
Oh, and I want Lou Holtz to take over our football program.
You said it !!!!!!!Jacobs4Heisman wrote:JWEIII wrote:
With regard to Huggy. Your fear is that he would come here and... what? Hurt our reputation? Well if he comes here and acts like a jackass you fire him (you can't be ridiculed for giving a guy a chance to clean up his life - and someone is going to). If he cleans it up, you get some great recuits and a likely title run and NCAA birth. What is the problem?
::puke::
The problem is that I don't want my alma mater to ever be associated with a guy like Bob Huggins or an athletic program like the one Bob Huggins ran. I can't make it any simpler than that.
When you assume you make an ass out of - well...you.Germainfitch1 wrote:A coach like Huggins could not afford to do anything wrong.
He may be cleaner than anyone else because he will be under a microscope fromt he moment he gets on campus.
