New York Times Mentions Gregg Brandon and websites

[orangeandbrown]

Apparently, some enterprising Americans have purchased the domain names to "fire" all the coaches in I-A football, hoping to sell them to disgruntled fans.

The one they choose to mention is Gregg Brandon. Check out what Paul Krebs has to say about "us."

----
On the Texas man's Web site, redshirted .com, one can bid for the domain name firebillcallahan.com, to dismiss Nebraska Coach Bill Callahan, for $250. The recommended bid is $50 for the domain name to fire Gregg Brandon, the Bowling Green coach, firegreggbrandon.com.

"It's certainly a little disturbing that people are focused on the negative and apply it like that," Bowling Green's athletic director, Paul Krebs, said. "I tell all my coaches to not go on those chat sites, don't read the Internet."

Krebs may also be disturbed because Bowling Green is 8-3 and ranked in the top 25, and firing the coach would seem all but inconceivable. The site is up for sale because of the prospect that Brandon could be offered a job at a bigger university this spring.
-----

Here's the whole article link, which requires free registration.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/25/sport ... 25web.html

[michhiker28]

Opportunity missed.

--MH

[etipton12]

"I tell all my coaches to not go on those chat sites, don't read the Internet."

can someone forward this to Brandon?

[SaxyIrishTenor]

"I tell all my coaches to not go on those chat sites, don't read the Internet."

can someone forward this to Brandon?

He doesn't read it; his sons do.

[kdog27]

So he says.

[NWLB]

Lots of folks said it was lunacy to think ill of the staff last year. Some say a broken clock is correct twice a day after this year.

Regardless, it isn't the obvious things that set this up. It was how after two big winning seasons, bowl wins, title games, the world didn't beat a path to his door. The coaching fraternity, or at least those who hire the members, weren't sold he was "the next big thing." They figured what has proven true: that Brandon, a nice guy, was a knee-jerk hire. He had a weak resume, no sign of being akin to he whom was to be replaced, or came close to fitting the model of what Urban represented. He was a lifetime assistant, who was and is very good at that. But he wasn't grade A head coaching material. The world watched, one season, nothing. Two seasons, still nothing. Top 25 ranking? Nothing. Gee, do you THINK the world might have had an inkling he wasn't a good bet? Only BG has been dumb enough to take that bet three times now.

Or how he related his trip to Vegas for a job interview in golly-gee terms of how he goofed off in the Casinos. Or the long-form version of how his team is painful to watch even when they win most of the time. Or the weak staff members he brought in to replace the remainders of the Meyer staff. The decline of on-field discipline, the decline in presence qualitatively, which we enjoyed with Urban, the increase in issues off the field, the growing silence out of the staff on all fronts, the ever growing disasters in big games.

There will always be somebody saying the sky is falling. But sometimes the predictions are correct.