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(Photo: Ex-Auburn Coach Pat Dye…a Jihadist at heart?)
Jerome: Coach Dye, thank you so much for taking this time with us. Recently Auburn officials named the blend of dwarf tall fescue and perennial ryegrass grass after you. How does that make you feel?
Dye: Well. I’ll tell you. It feels good. Real good. Especially considering some of the mistakes that were made.
Jerome: Mistakes?
Dye: We did some things at Auburn that looking back now that you could say…well, I’m not exactly proud of.
Jerome: Are you talking about Auburn University’s recent institutional probation and it’s near loss of accreditation?
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(Photo: This is Auburn Football)
Jerome: Are you referring letting Jeff Burger back onto the team back in 1987 after he plagiarized a paper and you overturned the ruling of the student judiciary to let him play football?
Coach Dye: Not exactly.
Jerome: Coach, talking about these mistakes, maybe we can identify what it is you feel uneasy about. Let’s just play some word association real quick. I’ll say a word and you tell me what first comes to your mind. Ok?
Dye: Ok.
Jerome: Eric Ramsey.
Dye: Short term, bargain. Long term, legacy breaker.
Jerome: Money men in Birmingham.
Dye: Cheap.
Jerome: Money men in Rome, Georgia.
Dye: Expensive.
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Dye: Good containers for fall leaves and unmarked one-hundred dollars bills.
Jerome: Good music.
Dye: Welcome to the Jungle.
Jerome: Yellow Wood.
Dye: Auburn’s Football Success.
Jerome: Colonial Bank.
Dye: Auburn’s Football Success.
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Dye: Tigers.
Jerome: Tigers.
Dye: War Eagles.
(Photo: Happier, Amoral Times)
Jerome: Aundray Bruce.
Dye: Pizza Boy.
Jerome: Florida State Part One.
Dye: Sugar Bowl defeat.
Jerome: Florida State Part Two.
Dye: $500,000 defeat.
Jerome: Coach, could it be that maybe there is no one single thing you feel guilty about. Maybe it’s a number of things. Maybe you are trying to say that your win at all costs attitude created the conditions in which Auburn’s inferiority, little brother complex, manifested itself into a Jihadist-like zeal among its fanbase and eventually led to Auburn’s probation? That the negatives of your program far outweigh the positives? That your legacy as a college football coach won’t be your three SEC titles, but the ethical bounds you broke to get there?
Dye: Yep. You nailed it. That’s what I’m saying. Mistakes were made. And I guess you could say that I’m sorry.
Jerome: So, what you are saying Coach is that you are sorry?
Dye: Yeah. That pretty much sums it up. I am sorry.
14 comments:
some would say that Mark Richt isn't exactly running the most disciplined program in the SEC right now.
Some would be wrong.
then who would you blame for the amount of arrests and inability of recruits to gain admittance to school?
Some would say that the SEC's most penalized program and which only since the reformation of the SEC could touch a 50% grad rate for its players with a 10 foot pole would have learned by now that the glass in their house is damned thin.
Jamz Brukz. Nuff said.
Did he say anything about Georgia not being "man-enough" to beat Allbarn?
nixforsixfordix, You don't jack about Mark Richt or his program. Those recruits not given admittance at UGA are now playing at other SEC institutions because of Mark Richt's help. Tell us what arrests you're talking about? Or better yet, just shut up.
Nix - you guys signed Robert Dunn. The kid was CONVICTED of 2 separate counts of robbing a CompUSA and Goody Two Shoes store in Augusta. The guy is currently serving a FOUR YEAR probation after already serving 11 months of house arrest.
It's one thing for UGA's punter to get arrested for skinny dipping with the Dean's daughter. In the old days, we gave out helmet stickers for that. It another thing to sign a kid KNOWING that he's a convicted criminal for robbing reputable businesses.
I luv Awbern. It wuz gud two me. Teech me to rede and rite. U guz need to git off Couch Die's back. Hee da man!
Luv,
Jamez Bruuks
If it weren't for their players from the state of Georgia, allbarn would just be another Kentucky.
Another great one. Excellent job Jerome!
Apparently nixforsixfordix picked up his mad analytical skillz at the loveliest penitentiary on the plains. JeromefromDecatur's post had nothing to do with running a DISCIPLINED program. That's a straw man argument that neatly skirts the real issue: Allbarn's historical commitment to cheating and corner-cutting at the highest levels of the athletics program.
There is a major difference between having "undisciplined" players (an affliction nearly every major conference football program has experienced at one time or another) and being the NCAA-equivalent of the Gambino crime family.
Allbarn (faculty, coaches, and administrators) have always turned a blind eye to the DIRECT PARTICIPATION of university (and I use that term lightly) EMPLOYEES in knowingingly violation NCAA rules.
Allbarn's football program has spent nearly half of its existence on probation--a dubious distinction to which no other I-A program even COMES CLOSE.
Allbarn's problem has never been the undisciplined players. It's the undisciplined coaches (racketeers?) who give it the foul stench of cheating.
Hey cuz, U shood lay off Awbern, Coach Tubbs tole me I "be gradewatin" after I finnish mines last 2 semmesturs of "Makin' Change at BK 1101" and "Advanced Panhandling Techniques."
That Yella Wood guy looks like he ate a stack of Osmose Pressure-treated pancakes.
Uh nixxy boyo, the crow buffet is ready:
http://www.oanow.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=OAN/MGArticle/OAN_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1128768051119
karma is a b*tch
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