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HATE! HATE! HATE! THE TEN LEAST LIKEABLE PEOPLE IN COLLEGE FOOTBALL

Offseason coping mechanism #1: Glazomania, or obsessive list-making. In no particular order, we present the ten least likeable people in college football today.

1. Myles Brand. The toothless nanny of all toothless nannies at the NCAA, Brand has spent the majority of his tenure as head bumblefuck tackling important issues such as offensive mascot names while ignoring the yearly chaos resulting from arcane NCAA recruiting codes. (Mike Willilams at USC knows this issue best, having declared for the draft and then changing his mind; evidently, unlike the rest of the population, student athletes enter not a university, but a mafia from which there is only one, one-way exit.)

In the meantime, the notion of the NCAA as an effective enforcer of regulations wanes with each passing year. Text messaging. Off-the-field conduct. Coherent rules about recruiting. Conducting actual investigations into marquee programs. Creating a fair and equitable national championship system. All unanswered and unaddressed questions that Brand will dodge in favor of attacking meaningless trophy issues, fucking up the application of Title IX, and enjoying a few more fat years of running an organization that...that does what again, exactly?

Couldn't tell you if a major program was giving money to recruits, but definitely won't let you name your team "The Fire-water chuggin', smallpox-gettin' Injuns."

2. Phil Fulmer. It used to be that only opposing fans yearned for his fat scalp; now his own team's supporters are grumbling after a 5-6 season that contained what may have been the longest consistently bad set of decisions by a head coach since Hal Mumme's '96 '98 Kentucky season. The quarterback controversy devoured Phil, and his retro reach for the safety blanket of David Cutcliffe encouraged the worst suspicions of fans that Fulmer is a man out of ideas. Toss those ingredients with the bouillabaise of animosity and outright hate Alabama fans bear toward Fat Phil, and you've got the pr equivalent of a day-old ham salad left to brew under a car seat on a hot day. (Which Phil might not even eat.)

3. Chris Fowler. Lee Corso should be in this slot, right? But just how detestable is a man who picked Texas to beat USC without shame and makes money by putting mascots on his head? There's a certain amount of heel to Lee Corso, and it redeems him, since what would the WWE slamfest of Gameday be without its villain? Corso, excepting the odd radio outburst, is also nothing but accomodating in person. Fowler, on the other hand, earns nothing but Fs from those who've met him personally; while Herbstreit is engaging, quick with the autograph, and genuinely astonished to be making a living by talking about college football, Fowler rejects fans' requests, gets tetchy with Corso or Herbstreit when they dally or follow a tangent, and has visible aneurysms when "off-message" signs creep into the back of the Gameday set. Being a wine snob who brags about rock-climbing all the time doesn't help, either. (David Lee Roth rock climbed; we did too, once upon a time, so it's not exactly an exclusive club, Chris.)

Rock climbs and drinks wine, which makes him better than you'll ever hope to be.

4. Lou Holtz. Lou's an easy target for a panoply of reasons. He represents a rare breed: the scandal-plagued football coach meets dismal, slurring analyst. Holtz the cheery motivational speaker draws raves from those who've seen him on the rubber chicken circuit, which should make him more detestable since he commands plump fees to talk about virtue and teamwork despite dragging every program he's ever been associated with into the shitpit of NCAA violations and probation. You should almost respect him for the Harold Hill act he's pulled off for almost five decades: it's almost Abramoffian in its shamelessness. (If Holtz starts buddying up to you and asking you to apply for tribal membership, be afraid.) A charlatan midget cheat of unparalleled hypocrisy.

5. Dennis Franchione. There's a simple axiom re: being hated in college football: piss off Alabama fans. They vote as a bloc, communicate like the Viet Cong, and disseminate information with the speed of a fiberoptic network, all of which explain the rapid reversal of Coach Dennis Franchione's fortunes in the eyes of Alabama fans overnight in 2002. Franchione, already tagged with the label of "ambitious" due to job hopping up to the 'Bama job, up and left overnight from the Bama job despite treacly statements of faith to the crimson and white on his website Coachfran.com and repeated affirmations that jobs didn't get any bigger or better than Alabama. What he meant to say was "unless you include Texas A&M," the job he bolted without saying goodbye to his players for, unseating popular longtime coach R.C. Slocum and quickly installing the standard array of sooper genious gimmickry: fake punts, randomly called two point conversion attempts, and loads of trick plays. None of the frippery seemed to cover up Franchione's ability to generate any kind of sustained success on the field, culminating in a 5-6 season this year and Reggie McNeal openly rolling his eyes at a Franchione playcall in a sideline huddle. In a bit of emerging physiognomy, Franchione's inner toad has come to the surface in recent years as his waistline and manboobs, as if his real character were beginning to express itself in his physique. See Kirby Puckett for another example of this transformation.

Again: don't piss off Romanians or Alabama fans.

6. Steve Spurrier. Does this require explanation? Passing to get to fifty points with two minutes left. Throwing deep on every down at any time. Goading opponents with custom insults. Running the same play ten times in a game just to prove that it works and you can't stop it. Pitching fits on the sideline. Getting biblical revenge for losses the following year, often by wildly disproportionate sums. (See Mississippi State 2000 and 2001, where Spurrier avenged a 47-35 loss by going 52-0 on them in the rematch.) Now gets to double the hate by coaching against his alma mater in the SEC East and giving his former team a UFIA in Columbia this past fall as well as picking up where he left off by beating Tennessee in Knoxville with inferior talent. Football Lucifer earns the nickname for a reason: he's an absolute dickhead of a coach to scheme against and a vicious soundbiter to face in the media who'd rather go down in flames than lose quietly.

7. Jim Tressel. Another coach whose notoriety in the NASDAQ of hate can be attributed to two fanbases: Michigan and Miami's, one for the near-constant beatings they've taken at his hands, and the other for the alleged robbery of a national championship on a ticky-tack pass interference call and subsequent overtime. Tressel's Ned Flanders act earned him the moniker of Cheatypants McSweatervest, a tribute to his smarmy, holier-than-thou demeanor and the fog of to this point unsubstantiated allegations about improper benefits to players and recruits in Columbus. It doesn't help that Tressel, who's probably not a terrible human being, also happens to be a skilled coach and a cutthroat recruiter who may ultimately be responsible for the demise of Lloyd Carr at Michigan. Whether this raises or lowers his status in the eyes of Michigan fans is debateable, but there's one thing that Tressel most definitely is not outside the lines of the Buckeye State: well-liked.

Tressel's inner thug may or may not exist, but don't tell that to Michigan fans. Shot courtesy of the brilliant Tressel's World.

8. Michael Adams. Another large bloc vote-getter in this sweepstakes, Michael Adams may be the most unpopular university president in the nation. Adams dared meddle in the affairs of Vince Dooley, beloved by all Bulldog fans despite napping through his tenure as athletic director and landing the 'Dawgs on probation more than once. The back-stabbing and double-dealing over the Jim Harrick saga rivalled that of the worst PTA board imbroglios, with Dooley taking to the press and pulling every string short of getting Sonny Perdue to declare martial law before ultimately getting the boot in 2004 per Adams' refusal to grant Dooley a contract extension. Adams took the backlash badly, hamhandedly dealing with the press and suffering from unsubstantiated claims of improper spending of university funds, and couldn't wheedle a free hot dog off a tailgater at Georgia games as a result.

9. Ty Willingham. A big fish who should have stayed in his pond, Ty Willingham is the Steve Perry of coaches: a smash success in a corner of the West Coast respected for his range, he struck out on his own with a nationwide solo act. His shoddy work ethic didn't prevent him from catching fire with an initial hit ("Oh, Sherry" and Ty's miracle first season at ND) before slipping off the radar screen and onto the golf course. Unlike Steve Perry, though, Willingham went back to familiar turf for a comeback, though not before lobbing the race bomb into the debate via a John Saunders interview and poisoning whatever goodwill might have remained in the tanks of Irish fans. Now still takes veiled shots at Notre Dame in between losses to Air Force and lowering his handicap.

10. Bobby Bowden. Yes, he had to make an appearance. A formerly brilliant head coach years beyond his prime, Bowden's laissez-faire attitude toward minor player infractions like theft, fraud, sexual assualt, assault, and drunk driving is loathsome enough to put him on this list in the eyes of both Florida fans and the ACC doormats they've been paving for years. Couple that with the dadgum, aw-shucks man of God manner and you've got a rankling stereotype of good ol' boy hypocrisy so cliched even John Grisham wouldn't touch it with a ten-foot pole. Bowden reached a new pinnacle in recent years through the elevation of his utterly unqualified and incompetent son Jeff Bowden to the post of offensive coordinator, a move that's taken the quick and strike out of FSU's offense and squandered otherwise talented players like Greg Jones, Lorenzo Booker, Xavier Lee, Craphonso Thorpe, and Chris Rix (we said talented, not smart or "not sorta gay-looking." Not that there's anything wrong with that...) As if the corrupt Buford T. Justice caricature didn't already fit, Bowden's completed the scene by putting Junior right there in the patrol car with him.

Bowden: Don't let the son...call plays for me...(don't let his son...)

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Ahhhh, nothing like a big serving of bile right before lunch. It’ll make the mexican food that much better.

I hates me some Fowler and Spurriers, oh yes.

by bitterhorn on Feb 17, 2006 12:16 PM EST reply actions  

no way I’d put Fowler on that list. I’d put Mandel from SI.com on there before him. I despise Tuberville.

I loathe Tuberville for….
1. Telling Richt to run the ball more. 2 years later he ran Caddy twice in the first half and got blown out by Georgia.

2. Acting like he’s the greatest Coach in the SEC. 10 years after joining the SEC he has exactly one season with more than 10 wins. Richt has 4 ten win seasons in five years.

3. His obnoxious THUMB shirt at SEC media days. No class.

4. Claiming the National Title and having the audacity to hold up the Eufala Newspaper as his National Crown.

5. His ears which are so large that he can hear me type these very words.

by paulwesterdawg on Feb 17, 2006 12:18 PM EST reply actions  

like there’s a real question of whether or not phil would eat the ham salad…

by Todd on Feb 17, 2006 12:19 PM EST reply actions  

Glad you put Adams on the list, what a bastard. He also did things like giving his wife a $30,000 stipend when I was in school then raising out of state tuition by $1,000 a semester the next week

by NO Dawg on Feb 17, 2006 12:20 PM EST reply actions  

Paul, we can’t put Tuberville on the list for two reasons: he chapped on ESPN in public and once worked a deep-fryer as an adult for money. He puts his telephone number in the public phone book, too, and dealt with the Petrino situation with class. So he can’t be all that terrible in our book.

And we’ve gotten loads of bad stories about Fowler, whereas Mandel is reasonably nice to his readers.

Todd, we did type “might not eat.”

by Orson Swindle on Feb 17, 2006 12:25 PM EST reply actions  

No Corso?

I hate him and his leather Florida State helmet.

by Gatorwalsh on Feb 17, 2006 12:29 PM EST reply actions  

Re: Miami fans hating Tressel. Boo freaking hoo.

The Miami defensive backs coach told his players before that play to get physical with the receivers. From this article: Sharpe said he didn’t think he interfered. He was only being aggressive. Just like Stoops instructed him to do. “We were blitzing,” Stoops explained. "I didn’t want them to catch a little slant or a little hitch. I told ‘em to get in the receiver’s face because there’s not an official that’s gonna make that call.

So the coach told them to get physical because he thought they would get away with it, and they got called for it. Waaaaaaa!

Hey Canes, why don’t you go lose another bowl game by five touchdowns?

Bitches.

by Tom on Feb 17, 2006 12:31 PM EST reply actions  

An excellent Friday lunchtime read. Very well done sir.

by Gob Bluth on Feb 17, 2006 12:34 PM EST reply actions  

Great comment, Tom. We think the

“Bitches”

…did it for us.

by Orson Swindle on Feb 17, 2006 12:36 PM EST reply actions  

Mandel definitely deserves to be on the list if Fowler is going to make it. Mandel is an absolute tool, the Greg Doyel of college football.

by Nathan on Feb 17, 2006 12:36 PM EST reply actions  

Honestly now Tom, I hate Miami much more than OSU, so I was glad to see that call go OSU’s way in the Fiesta Bowl, but anyone with a pair of eyes could see on the replay that there was no interference on the play regardless of what the coaches said or instructed.

It doesn’t really matter now though, b/c the record books show the victory and title to OSU regardless of how it happened. However, it’ll be forever lumped in with games like the Mizzou-Colorado 5th down play and others that were decided with the help of a missed call. Throw in the fact that Mr. Improper Benefits was playing for OSU that year and you’ve got yourself a tainted title.

by rebel84 on Feb 17, 2006 12:38 PM EST reply actions  

Is Mandel the Herman Munster-looking dude at ESPN, or the wormy-looking dude at CNNSI? I always get them confused. The ESPN one is by far the worst of the two, though.

by Bullfrog on Feb 17, 2006 12:39 PM EST reply actions  

I would’ve thought y’all would be sharpening the knives for Tuberville for one simple reason: Motherfucker thinks he’s Steve Spurrier’s heir apparent. The smarmy grin, the press-conference wisecracks (sometimes at other coaches’ expense) . . . Spurrier should be pissed that this pretender is even occupying the same conference as him. Let there be no mistake, there can be but one Spurrier (and as a Georgia fan, I thank God for that every day).

Also, Tuberville pulled the same “I’ll never leave you”/“Wait, yes I will” bait-and-switch that Franchione did, only he bolted for a team in the same conference as the folks he was abandoning.

by Doug on Feb 17, 2006 12:45 PM EST reply actions  

rebel84: I worked in TV in Columbus at the time of that game and watched tapes from eight different angles of that play and never once saw an iso’d replay of Gamble and Sharpe. They sure as hell didn’t show one during the game broadcast, so I’m not sure where you saw one. The replay did, however, show Sharpe clearly face-masking Gamble, a call that was not made.

There is also a photo of that play that shows Sharpe shoving Gamble as the ball is in the air.

Regardless, comparing that play to the Fifth Down is not really accurate. This was a much more subjective call, similar to the clip in the ND/Colorado Orange Bowl that year, rather than a completely objective obviously wrong call like giving a team a fifth down.

by Tom on Feb 17, 2006 12:50 PM EST reply actions  

“Now gets to double the hate by coaching against his alma mater in the SEC East and giving his former team a UFIA in Columbia this past fall”

Pardon the request for clarification fellas….

But UFIA = ?

by Ryno on Feb 17, 2006 12:58 PM EST reply actions  

Orson, when I hit that $145M megamillions tonight, I’m starting a publication and you’ll be the first hire. “…so cliched John Grisham wouldn’t touch it…” Awesome.

Also, I agree with Fowler, and in fact I’d put Herbstreit and his increasing arrogance and smarminess on the list ahead of Corso, who is clearly the Fool in the Shakespearean sense.

Stewart Mandel (I believe you’re thinking of the “wormy” one, Bullfrog) , Matt Hayes, and Dennis Dodd could combine to form a single loathesome creature. They’re all basically the same lazy, ill-informed, “my job is so tough because I get emails from people who actually want me to check my facts” douchebag.

by LD on Feb 17, 2006 12:58 PM EST reply actions  

Unsolicited Finger in Anus. Yet another Fark.com term.

by Orson Swindle on Feb 17, 2006 12:58 PM EST reply actions  

LD, we’d be honored. We’d also like a down payment on our first novel, a parody of the Da Vinci Code called “The Dr. Trank Staffhard Chronicles, Volume One: The Illuminazirati Incident.” We swear it will be funny.

by Orson Swindle on Feb 17, 2006 1:01 PM EST reply actions  

“Glazomania”? I thought obsessive list-making was “VH1omania.”

In any case, I agree with Paulwesterdawg and Doug . . . Tuberville belongs on the list. He didn’t just bolt for a team in the same conference, he bolted for a team in the same division. Crossing the line to coach a team your team plays every single year is uncommonly low.

As much as I hate Spurrier, at least his insults are quality material. Tuberville is a jerk and a smarmball and his smart-aleck remarks aren’t funny.

Also, the E.S.P.N.-bashing is one thing when it’s principled (see: Gunslingers, MGoBlog, E.D.S.B.S.), but Tuberville’s complaint wasn’t that E.S.P.N. had too much power, it’s that that power wasn’t used for his benefit. If U.S.C. and A.U. had been Orange Bowl-bound and O.U. had been left out of the mix, does anyone doubt that Tuberville would have been the system’s staunchest defender and the Worldwide Leader’s best friend?

Besides, Tuberville works for Auburn. That alone puts him on the ten worst list.

Look at it this way . . . remember the Vincent Price movie “The Fly”? Imagine that, instead of the mad scientist stepping into that booth, it had been Darth Visor. Now imagine that, instead of a fly being in that booth with him, it had been Cheatypants McSweatervest.

The amalgamation of jumbled D.N.A. that emerged from the booth on the other side of the lab would have devolved into Tommy Tuberville by the end of the movie.

by T. Kyle King on Feb 17, 2006 1:02 PM EST reply actions  

Hard to argue with, counselor.

by Orson Swindle on Feb 17, 2006 1:09 PM EST reply actions  

Not sure Tommy T handled the Petrino thing with ‘class’. I guess I can see how one could view it this way, but for me personally it looked alot different, probably due to my predisposition to view anything involving Auburn in as negative a light as possible. It certainy worked out for him in the long run with him staying & having success while his AD & Predident were run off. That being said, he came off to me at the time as shallow and having no self-respect. His school shit all over him and his response was “Oh, you’re going to give me more money? OK, I’ll stay and not make a stink about it, I’ll just shut up and keep on keepin’ on.” After his Frannish move from Ole Miss to Auburn, this solidified him in my eyes as an unprincipled mercenary who is all about straight cash, homey. I guess that fact that he didn’t make the bad situation worse by going down the vitriol route could be seen as classy, but his move from OM to AUB + allowing your superiors to shit on you and then meekly condoning it by letting them give you more scratch doesn’t seem so classy. Again, I guess where anyone stands on this issue would be directly related to their overall attitude towards Auburn in the first place.

by Kanu on Feb 17, 2006 1:13 PM EST reply actions  

Seems to be the key factor, Kanu. And if we were going to say who was more reviled among Georgia fans, we’d guess Adams. He fucked with Dooley, handed out freebies to his wife, and never even played football for UGA, dammit.

by Orson Swindle on Feb 17, 2006 1:15 PM EST reply actions  

11. Bill Callahan
I guess he’s not successful enough to really hate, but good lord he is a miserable man. From picking fights with his players in LA to calling Sooner fans “fucking hillbillies”, he is real gem. I would hate to see Nebraska make a come back under this tool bag.

by work 'em silly gators on Feb 17, 2006 1:19 PM EST reply actions  

Good stuff Orson. Although, I think an dishonorable mention has to go to Jason Brainlock, who’s an awful writer, would give Fat Fulmer a run for his money at the dinner table. Who knew that Ball St. even HAD a football team?

by Domer95 on Feb 17, 2006 1:19 PM EST reply actions  

Callahan was a thought, but he needs more time to build his choad resume.

Whitlock’s not really worthy of mention, is he?

by Orson Swindle on Feb 17, 2006 1:21 PM EST reply actions  

OS-

For some, yes, but for others I’m sure Tommy is more reviled. For many ‘fans’, it’s a Hatfields & McCoys thing methinks. Say you’re a Hatfield – your Uncle Jessie (Adams) may have molested you as a child, then assumed the family business only to sqander the Hatfield fortune on poor investments and inept management decisions which rendered everyone in your family destitute and reliant upon menial labor job just to get by, but he’s still a Hatfield dammit, so that alone make his less terrible than any man from the rival clan of McCoy(Tuberville).

Of course in reality, J.R. Ewing (or SOS as you prefer) is the #1, 2, 3, 4, and 5th most hated person in the UGA diaspora.

That fark of Tressel is sorely lacking a red sweatervest and scarlet necktie.

by Kanu on Feb 17, 2006 1:26 PM EST reply actions  

I, like other Auburn fans, think that if the “U” comes a calling after the other wingnut get the axe, he’ll go in a heartbeat. I think CTT has mentioned that he coached there at some point (oh yeah, in over 1000 documented interviews). BUT, as long as he whips the Dawgs and the Tahd on a regular basis, he’ll be an “Auburn Man” in my eyes.

by Boddagetta on Feb 17, 2006 1:27 PM EST reply actions  

Any list of hated people without Voyd Carr on it is no list at all.

by "Belle" on Feb 17, 2006 1:30 PM EST reply actions  

Yes, Domer95, anyone who doesn’t perform written fellatio at the altar of ND fans’ egos is an “awful writer.” Allow me to posit that Whitlock could write circles around your arrogant arse.

And yes, we have a football team at Ball State. One with helmets and everything that has produced its share of pro talent over the years (including one of ND’s current coaches) and even went to a few bowl games back in the 90s. But your school’s athletic dept. was too busy ducking our basketball team for you to notice, obviously.

by Papa Lou BSU on Feb 17, 2006 1:32 PM EST reply actions  

You have angered the Ball State Mafia: prepare for hell!

by Orson Swindle on Feb 17, 2006 1:33 PM EST reply actions  

can we get a “Boom goes the Dynamite”?

by Boddagetta on Feb 17, 2006 1:38 PM EST reply actions  

Perhaps someone can shed some light on the curious division on how Auburn and Georgia fans view each other. Georgia fans, particularly the vocal ones on the interweb, really hate Auburn and its fans. Auburn fans, at least the ones I know, dislike Georgia but nothing like the feelings about Alabama, that’s for sure. More than that, I think a lot of Auburn fans see Georgia as sometimes being kind of silly: the pretensions that crumble in actual games against Auburn or Florida, the red pants, the overserved frat boys. Maybe this is a result of Auburn handling Georgia so easily for most of my lifetime.

by Drinky on Feb 17, 2006 1:47 PM EST reply actions  

Great write. Two ND guys in the top ten, we’re still the best! Hate to see yo pick on Holtz, but he isn’t anywhere close to being a saint. It sure was great to see him berate his players and drag them up and down the sidelines by their facemask.

No Pete “The Poodle” Carroll? If McSweatervest is dirty, Pete can’t be far behind.

by Rome on Feb 17, 2006 1:47 PM EST reply actions  

Maybe Miles Brand would have more time for the NCAA if he stopped doing commercials for eharmony.com.

And as far as the Miami interference play goes I have a poster of the play and its the DB is clearing hugging Gamble.

by CFunk on Feb 17, 2006 1:48 PM EST reply actions  

“the fog of to this point unsubstantiated allegations about improper benefits to players and recruits in Columbus.”

Maurice Clarett and Troy Smith would seem to substantiate allegations that players in Columbus receive improper benefits. There’s no need to sugarcoat this one.

by Scott on Feb 17, 2006 1:59 PM EST reply actions  

Hi, my name is Marcus Vick. My own team’s fans hate me for embarrassing the school by stomping on an opponent and apparently pulling a gun on a teenager. (A VT player actually embarrassing his team’s fans with misconduct is a real achievement.) WVU fans hate me because I gave them the bird. Louisville fans hate me for obvious reasons. Virginia fans hate me on principle. And NFL fans hate me because they’re sick of my brother being treated as a mix between Johnny Unitas and Gale Sayers when I struggle to complete half my passes. Otherwise, I’m pretty popular.

Far be it from me to tell Georgia fans that they’re wrong about anything, but criticizing Tuberville from going from Ole Miss to Auburn is like criticizing a guy for dumping a 5 to go out with an 8.

by Michael on Feb 17, 2006 2:05 PM EST reply actions  

As opposed to the SFIA?

by Free Logan Young on Feb 17, 2006 2:06 PM EST reply actions  

You forgot to mention Adams’ secret deal with Donnan, requiring Dooley to pay Donnan an additional quarter mil to fire his sorry ass. Also, Adams was the one responsible for inflicting Harrick the scumbag on the Georgia BBall team. All in all, Adams is just an institutionalized Lowder (sp?)in my book.

I find that I don’t hate Spurrier as much as I did, and I do find his smartass comments funny. Of course, a few untimely losses to the ’Cocks could change my opinion in a hurry.

Lastly, Tubberville does seem unneccesarily pompous to me. Not sure that I hate him, though.

by Russ on Feb 17, 2006 2:10 PM EST reply actions  

Adam’s only redeeming quality is his willingness to continue to attend homecoming court every year. It has become the highlight of homecoming for me. I sure as hell wouldn’t subject myself to 90,000 drunk Georgia fans booing and slinging insults (and other things) at me.

I know this is for college football, but I think we should at least create an honorary spot for T.O.

by Dawg 05 on Feb 17, 2006 2:15 PM EST reply actions  

Adams also made the decision to fire Donnan, over Dooley’s objections. I’m sure that Dawg fans would love to have had ol’ JD around for another couple years.

by Michael on Feb 17, 2006 2:22 PM EST reply actions  

I saw TO at Lenox Mall in Buckhead last week. He was fully attired in red and black Nike apparell. I asked him, “What’s up TO?”. to which he replied, “Nothing…MAN!” in one of those sarcastic white people dialects. I was gonna say, “Go UTC Mocs!”, but he didn’t deserve it.

by Boddagetta on Feb 17, 2006 2:27 PM EST reply actions  

Awesome article…

Here’s a Banned List full of annoyances…

by Frank Mills on Feb 17, 2006 2:35 PM EST reply actions  

Stop the presses, a Rebel fan here to defend Tubberville and his “Fran-like” actions. I don’t agree with the way Tubberville didn’t tell his players first that he was leaving, but outside of that, I don’t blame him for anything else he did. He was using the Auburn offer against our AD to try to get the AD to promise him that stadium expansion and a future indoor practice facility would be in the works along with more money (which was deserved for how strongly he brought us out of the probation that cost us 26 schollies over 2 years). Our AD at the time wouldn’t make him any promises, so he bolted, and rightfully so.

The irony of it all is that the AD would be out the door in the coming years followed by a new AD that would get a stadium expansion and indoor practice facility done for the football program along with bumping the coaching salaries to a more comparable level. All the expansion was much needed. Tubberville knew it, so he left for greener pastures when he couldn’t get what he needed.

by rebel84 on Feb 17, 2006 2:36 PM EST reply actions  

Here’s the site from my post above…

by Frank Mills on Feb 17, 2006 2:36 PM EST reply actions  

It’s a giggle. Although, I would say that Bobby would be a candidate for the most…uh…unhated list as well.

Other candidates:

The inventor of Title IX. Forced the powers to stop taking 150 players just to be dicks.

Rainbow Head.

Wave Starting Guy.

FSU’s male baton twirler. That bitch.

Anyone who doesn’t acknowledge the superiority of southern football. He who doesn’t should be forced to squat and pee like a submissive dog.

by NoleinTexas on Feb 17, 2006 2:45 PM EST reply actions  

John Saunders should be on the list, if only for that smug grin he always wears. Also, he steps out of his studio host role too often. For example (and I’m no Notre Dame fan), his outright encouraging of Willingham to play the race card was obvious and unprofessional. His unconditional love for the BCS — whether it be during the Sports Reporters or games on ABC — is insufferable.

by JD on Feb 17, 2006 2:49 PM EST reply actions  

Beautiful

In the words of John Cleese in Monty Python

“It’s a verrry verrry niiiice!”

by Ensign on Feb 17, 2006 2:51 PM EST reply actions  

Not to change the list but is anyone old enough to remember Barry Switzer?
Super Prick
That’s who Baron Van Tuberville reminds of.
Wise ass Know it all who I’ll bet would hold one in his mouth for at least a minute or two.
Look up arrogant prick you are bound to see a picture of good ole Cockasorus Rex himself.

by Charlie Murphy on Feb 17, 2006 2:52 PM EST reply actions  

I agree w/ you “aboot” Saunders. As for personalities, what about Verne and Todd? It’s a shame that they will not be together next year on CBS to pick another 20 old kid to profess man-love to, a la Pollack and Greene in 04. BTW, who’s replacing Blackledge in the booth?

by Boddagetta on Feb 17, 2006 2:53 PM EST reply actions  

I think Ty Willy is misplaced in your top 10 most hated. Despite barely surviving “Ty Willy: The Notre Dame Years” I really don’t hate him, and I think most ND people feel the same. Sure he was a horrible coach, with a questionable work ethic, and definately rode the media support as long as he could, but I can’t HATE him. Just disgusted at him, and resolving not to go back. It’s like hating France. What’s the point?
I’m surprised that Gary Barnett didn’t make the list. People in Evanston still spit venom about him, and I’m sure no one in Colorado is real happy either.

by E-Man on Feb 17, 2006 2:56 PM EST reply actions  

Papa Lou BSU, Whitlock is a whore-mongering, race-baiting tub of goo. For the record, I don’t have any problem with whore-mongering in and of itself, but watching Jason do it is unpleasant to say the least. He was our own private embarassment in Kansas City until the Worldwide Leader started inflicting him on the whole country. Playing the race card is bad enough in general; doing it because no one pays attention to you is extra-pathetic.

by Phil K. on Feb 17, 2006 2:58 PM EST reply actions  

People currently IN college football—or else Barnett would have been top shelf.

by Orson Swindle on Feb 17, 2006 3:03 PM EST reply actions  

PL BSU, I don’t think he worthy of a dishonorable mention because he doesn’t perform ‘written fellatio’ of ND.

My beef with him is that his FACTS aren’t straight (i.e. that Ty-ger was fired because ND is racist, NOT because he had a legacy of ineptitude on the field and on the recruiting trail (but apparently the golf course was much kinder to him), and has established a litany of historic losses at ND that-hopefully-will never be broken—see Ty-ger’s 3 31 point loss games against biggest rival USC as a starting point).

Brainlock is entitled to his opinion and needed to drum up buzz so his books could sell, which is understandable. But when he sneeringly distorted the facts and demeaned ND when it wasn’t warranted, he needed to be called out.

My comment about BSU football was tongue-in-cheek (yes, I know that Minter did very well at BSU, why do you think Holtz hired him??) RELAX, go crazy and have a pop already!

Bring on the BSU Mafia….Sr. Christie, my HS English teacher, has my back and she’s packin’.

by Domer95 on Feb 17, 2006 3:19 PM EST reply actions  

You got to put Stoops on the list.
He and Tressel should be tied at 7.

by wells on Feb 17, 2006 3:20 PM EST reply actions  

In Whitlock’s defense, he wrote a very good column yesterday blaming Mike Davis for his own demise at IU and denied that race had anything to do with it. Occasionally, he’ll make a good argument, which makes his idiocy on Weis/Willingham more galling because he’s capable of competence, unlike idiots like Terrence Moore or Drew Sharp who just can’t help themselves.

by Michael on Feb 17, 2006 3:20 PM EST reply actions  

She sounds sexy, Domer95. Send pics.

by Orson Swindle on Feb 17, 2006 3:21 PM EST reply actions  

E-Man: I didn’t hate Willingham until I read the article written by Alan Grant (who is bestest buddies with Willingham). The Saunders interview just sealed it up for me.

Of course, my hate for Davie is far, far greater. Douchebag extraordinaire. RIP, Joe Moore.

by Bill on Feb 17, 2006 3:23 PM EST reply actions  

Terry Bowden has to be on the list, Auburn has bad memories of him and he might have the worst major network analyst ever.

by John on Feb 17, 2006 3:25 PM EST reply actions  

Verne Lundquist needs to be on this list, if only for his constant inability to get player’s names straight and that annoying “HUH…huh…huh” ed mcmahon rip off laugh of his.

No one seems to be mentioning Tuberville’s habit of taking credit for his staff’s work. He soaked up the “coach of the year” accolades during his people’s champions season and didn’t deserve a bit of it. AU’s offense was awful under whoever replaced Petrino (can’t remember his name) and then their defense wasn’t too hot this year without Chizik (despite Tommy’s supposed defensive guru credentials). The combination of Chizik and Borges got those 13 wins (and the only 10+ win season of Tubby’s tenure). There’s nothing wrong with being a CEO head coach, but don’t act like you coached your team to victory when the credit should be going to your assistants.

by Todd on Feb 17, 2006 3:32 PM EST reply actions  

Some more irritants can be found at:

www.gonzofixer.com/id62.html

by Frank Mills on Feb 17, 2006 3:33 PM EST reply actions  

Great call on Terry Bowden. His voice is like nails on a chalkboard. He also looks like a sewer rat.

by JD on Feb 17, 2006 3:36 PM EST reply actions  

Much hate for Tuberville. Interesting…

by Orson Swindle on Feb 17, 2006 3:46 PM EST reply actions  

I actually like Terry Bowden’s radio show despite his voice. Also, he was nice to us Band dorks practicing for the SEC championship game when he was there getting radio for an ABC broadcast. Can’t hate him despite the lineage.

by Stranko Montana on Feb 17, 2006 3:49 PM EST reply actions  

You see, unlike Bobby, we don’t judge someone based on their genes. Terry was quite nice that day, as was the famous Al Keck the Sports Wreck from Tampa Bay News 9. We would never do anything as foolish as naming someone to a post of prestige solely because they had the same last name as a good coach. We’d never do it, even if that good coach was us. Bobby disagrees.

by Orson Swindle on Feb 17, 2006 3:55 PM EST reply actions  

My beef with him is that his FACTS arenÂ’t straight (i.e. that Ty-ger was fired because ND is racist, NOT because he had a legacy of ineptitude on the field and on the recruiting trail (but apparently the golf course was much kinder to him),

Whitlock never claimed anything of the sort. His beef was with the 10-year-extension for a white coach that was 5-2 at the time, immediately after Ty getting canned two years quicker than any other coach in the school’s history, despite the fact that Ty started 8-0 without so much as a hearty handshake. Whitlock rightfully pointed out what anyone not wearing blue-and-gold glasses saw: that move made ND look bad, regardless of the intention.

But ND fans on the Internet seem to be never-ending in their quest to feed their Simultaneous Superiority/Victimization Complex, so never mind what he actually wrote.

I don’t agree with everything the guy writes, but I can’t think of a writer out there with whom I do. But straying from ND-message-board-approved talking points doesn’t make the guy a bad writer.

And for the record, there is no Ball State mafia. We are all “legitimate” businessmen.

And yes, Ball State is located just five miles off Interstate 69, with a large phallus (Shafer Tower) in the middle of campus, with a Ball Ave. that is interrupted on the NE side of campus, resuming on the SE side of campus as Dicks Street. I crap you negative.

by Papa Lou BSU on Feb 17, 2006 4:47 PM EST reply actions  

Well, as far as I could scan… there have been no opinions from LSU, and I simply cannot let a discussion regarding hate pass without throwing my 2 cents in. Besides who knows more about senseless, eye bulging vitriol, than an LSU man?

First of all, I think that many of you are being too kind to Mr. Tubberville. Sure his unbridled arrogance is matched only by the size of his sh1t-eating grin. No LSU fan will ever forget the classy way he beat our team in Tiger Stadium and then brought his players out to midfield to smoke celebratory cigars. I suppose he was so proud of the win that he wanted to A) look like a complete and total jack-ass and/or B) didn’t mind death threats every other year for the rest of his SEC coaching tenure.”

Now that Fran is gone, Tubberville is easily the biggest douche-bag in a conference full of douche-bags. IÂ’ll take a woodshed beating from Spurier or Fullmer any day of the week over a loss to that guy. He would easily top my list and his family would fill out the remaining spots.

by LSUFan on Feb 17, 2006 4:55 PM EST reply actions  

“I agree w/ you “aboot” Saunders. As for personalities, what about Verne and Todd? ItÂ’s a shame that they will not be together next year on CBS to pick another 20 old kid to profess man-love to, a la Pollack and Greene in 04. BTW, whoÂ’s replacing Blackledge in the booth? "

Ha ha! Even though I’m fans of all 4 of these guys, I have to agree with you about the man-crush bit. They did tend to go a little overboard on the praise. As a Dawg fan, I was always worried it would create a backlash with the other players.

All in all, though, CBS’s coverage of college football is vastly superior to the other networks. Perhaps it’s because they (rightly so) worship SEC football.

by Russ on Feb 17, 2006 4:55 PM EST reply actions  

In 2005, the Georgia-Auburn game was decided by 1 point.

In 2002, the Georgia-Auburn game was decided by 3 points.

In 2001, the Georgia-Auburn game was decided by 7 points.

In 2000, the Georgia-Auburn game was decided by 3 points in overtime.

In 1996, the Georgia-Auburn game was decided by 7 points in overtime.

In 1995, the Georgia-Auburn game was decided by 6 points.

In 1994, the Georgia-Auburn game was a tie for the 8th time in series history.

In 1992, the Georgia-Auburn game was decided by 4 points.

In between, the teams tended to trade comparatively lopsided wins. Auburn beat Georgia by 11 in 1997, then Georgia beat Auburn by 11 in 1998. Georgia beat Auburn by 19 in 2003, then Auburn beat Georgia by 18 in 2004.

The all-time scoring in 109 series meetings is 1,650 points for Auburn and 1,648 points for Georgia.

In other words, you’d have a hard time finding a closer series than Georgia-Auburn.

I don’t know how old Drinky (from post no. 32) is, so I cannot speak to his lifetime, but it is true that, in recent years, Auburn has beaten Georgia more often than Georgia has beaten Auburn. (Since 1991, Auburn leads the series 8-6-1.)

However, the idea that Auburn has handled Georgia easily is nonsense. To the contrary; a remarkable number of those games have been down-to-the-wire dogfights.

I can’t speak for other Georgia fans, many of whom consider Florida or Georgia Tech to be the Bulldogs’ most important annual opponent, but I consider the Georgia-Auburn rivalry to be not just the oldest and most played, but also the most important, in the Deep South.

In other words, even though I was never in a fraternity and I don’t wear red pants, I’m one of the guys who hates Auburn with a passion, but, as rival fan to rival fan, I will tell Drinky that he should take my contempt as a compliment. I wouldn’t hate Auburn so badly if the Tigers weren’t such fierce and intense competitors.

by T. Kyle King on Feb 17, 2006 5:07 PM EST reply actions  

Funny how the vitriol (at least in this forum) leveled at Tuberville comes largely from either Georgia or Alabama fans, teams that he is a combined 10-4 against since he got to Auburn. The silence from LSU fans is deafening, though Tuberville is only 4-3 against the Bengal Tigers.

The reasons for the hatred are true classics. I think rebel84 provided an adequate response to the Ole Miss issue. Tommy’s complaints about ESPN came nearly a year after they would have served his purpose, so I see no harm. Leading up the Sugar Bowl two years ago all you heard from Tuberville, and anyone connected with the program, essentially was, “This is the system we have, it sucks, but we will live with it.” I completely agree that the thumb shirt or raising four fingers in the air is classless and cocky. Kind of like referring to an instate rival as “That Cow College” or “The School Down the Road.” As for taking credit for all the hard work of his assistants, please provide the name of a coach who after a big win says, “Man, I don’t know what I would have done without John Doe our defensive coordinator.” Better yet, how many CEOs of Fortune 500 companies at their quarterly analyst meetings say, “We wouldn’t have made that 15% growth target without Bill our Head of Manufacturing.” Last time I checked, he hired the assistants. Plus, he has taken heat for poor performances from those assistants. The assistants know what they are getting into when they take the job, and if they don’t like it, they can go elsewhere (see Gene Chizik and David Gibbs). And I will go ahead and put out the cigar claim because I know the LSU fans will step in soon. Excuse a coach for trying to provide a little incentive to his players. It was unfortunate that it carried out on the field, was classless and shouldn’t have been done. However, considering the treatment received in 2001 (I was at the game), I think that debt has been repaid.

I will admit that I am not a big fan of Tuberville implying that he is somehow God’s gift to coaching. I especially don’t like the “We have shared 6 SEC West Titles (or however many it is) and averaged 9 wins a season” banner he carries around. The winner of the SEC West is whoever gets to Atlanta and I hate coaches who claim 9 and 10 win seasons when you beat three nonconference cupcakes and two or three dogs of the SEC (Note: A problem with a lot of college coaches, not just Tuberville). When it is all said and done, producing SEC championships is what matters most. Tommy has one. Until he rings up three or four, he needs to cool it with the air of superiority act.

In the end, what is wrong with Tuberville? He wins somewhat consistently. And that is really an issue for Auburn supporters, not anyone else. His players stay out of trouble. The graduation rate could be improved, but is respectable. The lawyers who frequent this site will attack my logic, but he must run a clean program given the hatred many hold for him. He isnÂ’t the worldÂ’s greatest guy, but is he one of the 10 least likable people in college football? No, but then I wouldnÂ’t have put Spurrier up there, so what do I know?

Wow, that was long. Sorry.

by Sean on Feb 17, 2006 5:11 PM EST reply actions  

Any 10 most hated list without Tommy Tuberville at the top isn’t worth a fuck.

by BSU Jack on Feb 17, 2006 5:32 PM EST reply actions  

papa lou, anyone who watched both weis’ and ty’s first years knows those teams were light years apart. yes, ty was 8-0, bot save for some defensive miracles, they’d have been 4-4. and as a further illustration, even tho they lost to MSU in OT this past campaign, after state intercepted a pass early in the 3rd q and ran it in, ty’s team folds and they lose by at least 35. last year’s team held them to roughly 14 yds the rest of the game and tied it up.

no doubt the situation was poorly handled (even including who deserved the blame for starting the whole thing), but D-I is for the big dogs, right? even more so under the microscope at high profile schools.

by yz on Feb 17, 2006 5:52 PM EST reply actions  

oh, and i forgot to add that ty was less than enamored of the nd alumni base. that too will make your stay short at many, many schools when you don’t win.

by yz on Feb 17, 2006 5:54 PM EST reply actions  

Never said I disagreed with what ND did. Particularly if Ty, as rumored, refused to fire a clearly incompetent offensive coordinator who was a pal dating back to his Stanford days. That was largely Dick Jauron’s undoing as head coach of the Chicago Bears, no reason it shouldn’t be the downfall of a college coach 95 miles down the Indiana Toll Road.

But I take issue with the notion that someone who has a differing view of the situation, especially when one has significant circumstancial evidence to the contrary (i.e., no matter how valiant the comeback, Weis’ team still lost to a crap-tastic 5-6 Michigan State squad at home, yz), is automatically playing the “race card.”

That’s all I’m sayin’. (Well, and responding to a few pot-shots on my alma mater with a few retorts of my own…)

Jeez, you’d think Whitlock had conducted an excise raid on Club 23 or something…

by Papa Lou BSU on Feb 17, 2006 6:20 PM EST reply actions  

i think state was ranked in the top 20 when they played. the fact they imploded afterwards (following the example set by john l)is not nd’s issue….they have the talent.

by yz on Feb 17, 2006 6:28 PM EST reply actions  

Let’s see: Perkins to the Tampa Bucs, Curry to the Kentucky Wildcats,Stallings forced out, Dubose to Millsaps(Or Dothan’s Northview High School), Mike Price to Arty’s Angels or UTEP. And they’re pissed because they lose a coach, Fran, who goes to a school where people can actually read, Texas A&M? What are they going to say when Little Mikey goes back to the pros?

by dragonash on Feb 17, 2006 8:05 PM EST reply actions  

Sir, Aggies cannot read.

by NoleinTexas on Feb 17, 2006 10:41 PM EST reply actions  

What about LSU fans.

Everybody hates those clowns including that poor Georgia fan who had his port-o-potty rocked and tipped after LSU WON the game in 2003. The dude was like 75 years old.

by Captain Ron on Feb 18, 2006 7:52 AM EST reply actions  

First of all Sean put the pipe down and step away from the bar stool. I don’t think it is a quinsidence that Auburn’s steak of 9 win seasons and the most troubling 5 years in Alabama football history happen at the same time. Now that the ship has been righted and all the wrongdoing by the ass clown of the century namely Dumbose. The universe will settle back to the proper cycle.I’m not trying to imply that Shula is the greatest coach in High school let alone College football,but he has gotten bama back in line.

Next what is with all the ND talk. The golden domers haven’t had a team wortha shhhiiiiot since 93 and that the year they imploded at BC. The only University living more in the past than my beloved bama is you bunch of arrogant future predator list registration particpants.

by CHARLIE Murphy on Feb 18, 2006 10:00 AM EST reply actions  

The cowardly way Francokie left Bama makes among football most worthless human beings!

by Jefniz on Feb 18, 2006 10:04 AM EST reply actions  

Adams is reviled in not one, but two schools. Before UGA, he was president of my alma mater. Yeah, he raised lots and lots of money and built nice new buildings, but he also left us in loads of debt and with rumors of “creative” accounting. Then he from DIII to UGA. Where’s he going to end up next?

by Tar Heel Scott on Feb 18, 2006 5:11 PM EST reply actions  

Let me put a “goes” between “he” and “from”. I guess that’s what I get from going to college in KY.

by Tar Heel Scott on Feb 18, 2006 5:16 PM EST reply actions  

Sean,
Your four-legged butt sniffing of Tuberville’s hemorrhoid ass is noted. He is:
1. On his 4th DC since 2001, why?
2. Creates schedules with 8 home games, why?
3. Endorse a schedule with the power-house locomotives Ball St, W Ky, Citadel, East West Monroe Cow Shit La., etc.
4. As cluless as a house cat in deep water…..you AU fans think his reaction to the night-flight incident at Louisville was ‘class’…he was totally clueless about the reasons and suggested the fans ‘spend too much time in those chat rooms’.
5. The guy you would expect to give his wife syphillis.
6. The most hated SEC coach by the media and officials.
5. Developed a medical condition after Carnell’s junior year to deflect the heat.
6. The king of inappropriate hand-clapping
7. Carries bird flu (the ostrich strain…see item 4 above)

He is terminal ass burn, morning mouth, and Mexican body odor combined. A true stand-alone shit ass caught up in his own invented over-inflated self-image.

by steve on Feb 18, 2006 5:44 PM EST reply actions  

Fuck Tressel and horse he rode in on. His program is as dirty as Las Vegas hookers snatch and that is A-Ok with all the OSU alumni.

by Sean from Southgate on Feb 18, 2006 9:20 PM EST reply actions  

Steve that was as true a statement as I have ever read.
Tuberville is a piece of work. He is the kind of guy that stabs a man in the back and twists the knife then says sorry like he didn’t mean it.

by CHARLIE Murphy on Feb 19, 2006 12:51 PM EST reply actions  

Coach Wingnut is the second biggest scum-of-the-earth coach behind Bobby Bowdown. Only one year after leaving Ole Myth for the Smelliest Little Village on the Plains in the dead of the night, he was campaigning hard to get the LSU job after Gerry Dinardope got his sweaty ass terminated. Thankfully Nick Saban intervened and forced Wingnut to stay on the Plains.

The funny thing about Tuberville/Petrino/Lowder/Housel affair is that before the event occurred, the whiny Auburn fans were screaming bloody murder about getting rid of Wingnut, who was in the midst of having a mediocre 7-5 season after being a consensus Top 5 pick in the preseason. After the report was published, the Auburn faithful began acting like Wingnut was a savior and bestowed many gifts at his feet.

by Geauxnads on Feb 19, 2006 1:04 PM EST reply actions  

Steve,

As long as he beats the Turds and the Leghumpers he can clap as inappropriately he wants. Which one are you?

by Boddagetta on Feb 19, 2006 3:15 PM EST reply actions  

Dear Sean from “trailer trash downriver southgate”
Jealous much!! LOL what a loser.

by Ed Martin on Feb 19, 2006 10:05 PM EST reply actions  

Holtz is a stud. Anyone who’s played for him will acknowledge this which says alot.

Substitute Brent Musberger for even attempting to announce a college football game. He’s the vain kind of pretender who sings along at the opera.

by W Graf on Feb 19, 2006 10:55 PM EST reply actions  

Fuck Tressel and horse he rode in on. His program is as dirty as Las Vegas hookers snatch and that is A-Ok with all the OSU alumni.

No asshole, it’s A-OK with the NCAA that proceeded with a thorough investigation. You hate him cause he owns your bitch-ass program.

No institutional violations. Nothing improper. Hence….No probation.

The only thing dirty about Tressel’s program is that 1-4 record by Floyd.

by Keith from Detroit on Feb 19, 2006 11:14 PM EST reply actions  

Fuck Tressel and horse he rode in on. His program is as dirty as Las Vegas hookers snatch and that is A-Ok with all the OSU alumni.

See. That’s the reason you have to sugarcoat it and utter a littany of disclaimers. Idiots like the above are just all too ready to believe what they would really like to be true. Fact: after nearly THREE years of intense scrutiny by the media AND the NCAA, not a single violation has been discovered that would indicate wrong-doing in any way by the Ohio State University football coaching staff. Two players, Maurice Clarett and Troy Smith, were found to have received improper benefits. In Smith’s case, this was reported to the NCAA by OSU after it came to their knowledge. Virtually every other allegation and supposed “dirty” dealing has one and only one source: Maurice Clarett, he of the “Mr. so and so did such and such” statements, a veritable fountain of meaningless non-specific allegations with no actual names given.

Do you know what this impeccable source of integrity is currently doing? He’s awaiting trial for felony charges for robbing two people on New Year’s Eve (outside of a Columbus bar, of all places, where he had about a 0% chance of not being recognized). Any of you idiots (especially the ESPN hacks who tried so desperately to stir the shit and make it stick) still trying to say “OSU is dirty” REALLY need to go back and examine Maurice Clarett’s history.

You can start with his shouting match with a coach in a night game against Northwestern his freshman year. This was a game in which he inexplicably fumbled three times with limited contact. It was later discovered that he had been receiving improper benefits since high school from a well-known Youngstown gambler. No way to prove it for sure, but he may have been trying to keep the score under the spread.

Then you have his outbreak during the week of the national championship game in the Fiesta where a “friend” of his was shot dead in a gang slaying back in Youngstown. He was furious that OSU wouldn’t just give him money and immediately send him home for the funeral. In his statements, he basically threw everyone, his teammates included, under the bus. Well, it turns out that he had not in fact filled out his required FAFSA paperwork, so if OSU had in fact bought him a ticket home, it would have been a clear NCAA violation. He was told that in no uncertain terms, but it was apparently just fine by him as long as he got his way. He didn’t, and chose to sulk about it, even after OSU pulled off one of the greatest upsets ever in college football.

Fast forward to 2003, when his car was supposedly “robbed” outside of the Woody Hayes Athletic Center while he was in practice. He claimed something like $11,000 in losses, a statement later proven to be fraud. Are you getting the impression yet that this guy is either not the brightest crayon in the box, or he has some serious psychological and behavioural issues? This is the issue that prompted the investigations that led to the discovery of his relationship with the Youngstown gambler and his recieving improper benefits.

After that came the Jim Brown entourage circus where he seemed to feel that OSU could be intimidated by the great one’s presence and immediately restore his eligibility and stop giving him such a hard-time. At that point, it was clearly Maurice Clarett against the world.

I’m not even going to attempt to summarize all of the crap allegations he made in the ESPN hatchet jobs, other than to say that by that time his relationship with Ohio State had been so severely strained that it wouldn’t be unlikely that Clarett had an agenda other than telling the truth. Personally, I’d be willing to bet that he got paid well for most of the drivel that left his mouth.

by zenshade on Feb 20, 2006 12:35 AM EST reply actions  

I disagree with W Graf’s first paragraph. I have difficulty viewing Lou Holtz as “a stud” when he bears such an eerie resemblance to the woman to whom my wife’s grandfather is married.

I’m sure Coach Holtz’s former players would say nice things about him. When a coach lets you park your Cadillac Escalade in the parking lot of the athletic dorm and never thinks to ask where you got it, you tend to think he’s a swell guy.

However, I could not agree more with W Graf’s second paragraph. In fact, I am ashamed that I didn’t think of Brent Musberger before.

Musberger combines Howard Cosell’s arrogance with Jill Arrington’s competence. He gives off the impression that he thinks he’s just a little bit too good to be broadcasting college football to the common people.

Orson, is there any chance of making this a top 15 or top 20 list? There’s just not enough room to include everyone (like Tommy Tuberville or Brent Musberger) who clearly warrants inclusion.

While we’re at it, how about Sean McDonough and Mike Gottfried? They surely are the surliest announcing duo in college football.

If space constraints require it, I’m sure we could count them as just one person. One very gruff, angry person.

by T. Kyle King on Feb 20, 2006 7:47 AM EST reply actions  

We’re going to be fair and publish a ten most likeable people in cfb this week, but we concur on McDonofried. They make every game sound like you’re watching the late WAC game on the Ocho.

by Orson Swindle on Feb 20, 2006 9:48 AM EST reply actions  

hey westerdawg, maybe you hate tuberville and auburn because of the 31-30 loss you got handed this year. maybe you hate them because of the 24-6 thrashing you took last year (ask reggie “i can see out the earhole of my helmet” brown if it was a thrashing). or maybe its the fact that richt, your supercoach, is 2-3 against tubs while he’s been at auburn. or maybe it is because richt was too stupid to call a pass play on the goal line and let the time run out in athens back in ‘01 during his first year as coach of the ’dawgs’. or maybe its cause you guys are 2-5 v. au since 1999. oh, i could go on and on……

by logan doss on Feb 20, 2006 11:33 AM EST reply actions  

What about that piece of crap Tom Osborne? That guy hid one of his thugs player’s guns, gave Lawrence Phillips chance after chance and let Christian Peter play.

Even worse is Saint Tom never seem to beat anyone with a pulse.

Nebraska football is right where it should be these days, in the toilet.

by BitterDomer on Feb 20, 2006 12:10 PM EST reply actions  

I was at the OSU v. Miami game. No phantom PI call at all. Gamble was absolutely raped on the play, and agree with the TV guy above that no shot shown during the telecast shows near the contact that occured. That play did not win the game for OSU, the touchdown that followed did. Also, many Miami fans forget that they were given a first and goal in that second OT on a PI call and couldn’t put it in the end zone. Don’t blame the refs for your loss. If you were so good, you shouldn’t have been in that position to begin with. That game is only tainted in the minds of those who have no idea what they are talking about. The picture discussed above provides all the evidence needed.

by Doug on Feb 20, 2006 5:59 PM EST reply actions  

On behalf of all Indiana University students and alumni… we apologize for Myles Brand.

But seriously, misery enjoys company. We didn’t want to have to suffer his leadership alone.

by Josh on Feb 20, 2006 8:47 PM EST reply actions  

Chirp Chirp Chirp…and we have a naked lady!
-steve representin bc3

by bleed blue and white on Feb 21, 2006 12:05 AM EST reply actions  

All of the bashing of coaches by rival fans got me to thinking:

When opposing fans hate your coach, that’s a good thing.

I’d never want my school’s rivals to love my team’s coach.

That would mean that my team sucks.

by CP on Feb 21, 2006 4:00 PM EST reply actions  

All of the bashing of coaches by rival fans got me to thinking:

When opposing fans hate your coach, thatÂ’s a good thing.

IÂ’d never want my schoolÂ’s rivals to love my teamÂ’s coach.

That would mean that my team sucks.

which is why you haven’t seen a single comment bashing Mike Shula.

by Joe Momma on Feb 24, 2006 9:58 AM EST reply actions  

I saw this link and thought I would read another mans thoughts on College Football. When a man starts writing I will come back. WOW, Mommy the guy who touches my naughty spot says the “F” word like just like Daddy. Your opinions are a joke. You have got to be N.D. fan and a catholic school boy wannabe. Man (boy) you suck!!!!!!!!!!!!

by Gary Hale on Feb 24, 2006 6:14 PM EST reply actions  

how in the hell could you leave Terry Bowden off that list? That fat little fuck personifies the evils of nepotism. Has there ever been a more talentless human being patrolling the sidelines or offering commentary?

Nice line on Tressell. Mr Smartypants McSweatervest. Thats great. Lets face it, there just something creepy about a fifty year old man wearing a sweatervest. Can you say Child Molestor?

by freddy mudpucker on Feb 24, 2006 6:16 PM EST reply actions  

you really fucked this list up by not including tuberville, that goat roping, cow molesting faggot is the lowest form of scum! Atleast revise your list and add a #2b (tied with fatboy) Be sure and add those barner toothless idiot fans with him ;)

by Roy "Shag nasty Studly" Adams on Feb 24, 2006 7:24 PM EST reply actions  

Thank God Ty Pieceofshittingham is being exposed for the fraud he is/was. What did U Dub do to deserve him? Jesus, no one turned a traditional power into a doormat faster than Mr. Boring himself. Olympic curling is a double-overtime playoff game compared to listening that piece of bungwipe talk.
You want hated? Ask Georgia Tech fans about Chan Gailey and Dave Braine. The soon to be ex Tech AD said the football program needed to show “marked improvement,” then just before they get absolutely prison raped by Utah, rewards the most mediocre coach in the history of the Peach State with an extension, saying “we can’t expect eight or nine wins a year.” Way to set the bar low and continue to miss it.

by Herschel Savage on Feb 24, 2006 10:37 PM EST reply actions  

Wow!!!

This subjects sucks, just like most southern people.

by BuckJim on Feb 25, 2006 2:27 PM EST reply actions  

THE PASS INTERFERENCE CALL WAS ONLY ONE OF TWO PENALTIES ON THE SAME PLAYER .HE WAS HOLDING ALSO BEFORE THEY ENTERED THE ENDZONE.INTERFERENCE FIRST AND GOAL AT THE 2. HOLDING FIRST AND GOAL AT THE 3 HALF THE DISTANCE SINCE THE LINE OF SCRIMAGE WAS THE 6. YOU WILL ARGUE THE HOLDING FALLS UNDER THE 5 YARD CHUCK RULE YOU CAN HIT A RECIVER NOT HOLD HIM
WHAT IS CLEARLY WHAT THE DB DID.
SO ALL YOU CRYAMI’S 2 PENALTIES = LOSING THE 2003 FIESTA BOWL AND THE NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP. GOBUCKS GOBUCKS GOBUCKS

by gobucks on Feb 27, 2006 12:08 PM EST reply actions  

Just FYI, this post was just discussed on Colin Cowheard’s national ESPN Radio show for an entire segment and mentioned the site name 50 times.

by Brian on Feb 27, 2006 12:22 PM EST reply actions  

The best thing about Cowherd’s broadcast mentioning this post was he said “some guy you’ve never heard of at number 8”….

by DawgEngineer on Feb 27, 2006 12:52 PM EST reply actions  

Heard about you guys from Colin Cowherd and the site kicks ass!

However, you’ve got Fowler and Herbstreit all wrong. Fowler was quick to get a picture with my girlfriend when she asked. He was overly friendly with both of us and seemed like an all around nice guy. He later wrote a glowing review of the bar (The Supper Club) and the town (Auburn) we were in.

All the while, Herbstreit was acting shady in the corner with his hat pulled low. Probably trying to aviod some of the girls that he “had gotten to know” over the years while his wife sits at home with the kids. What a tool.

by Erik on Feb 27, 2006 2:11 PM EST reply actions  

They were at THE SUPPER CLUB? Wow.

It is nice to get a counterpoint to the bad Fowler stories we’ve heard. All lists are negotiable, especially pending bribes.

Thanks for the kind words.

by Orson Swindle on Feb 27, 2006 2:46 PM EST reply actions  

Bobby Bowden is ‘King of the Hill’s’ Buck Strickland.
Bobby is such a good-ole-boy that he makes me vomit while I simultaneously shake my head in disbelief that anyone could be so full of shit. I admire him for being so smooth. I’ll bet he gets head all the time.

Miles Brand is a liberal jerk-off. Although I wonder if he is most hated for being a douche or for implementing policy that would penalize college football programs which have poor graduation rates (ie Texas, OSU, Miami, to name (cheap-shot) a few.

Lee Corso is an old, dried-up shit nugget. I curse him every time I play NCAA 2006. I NEVER ask Lee for his advice on 4th and short. However, all the hate I carried for Lee vanished when I stink-palmed (nut-buttered)him last Fall. As I watched Lee walk away from me with my nut-sack-man-musk smeared on his unsuspecting hand, all hatered I had for him melted away. Fuck him, anyway.

by Nic on Feb 27, 2006 3:03 PM EST reply actions  

As an all around SEC fan, I have to leave a post here. First I would like to say thank you for this article, it is full of laughs!

Second, Tommy Tuberville is obviously deserving of a top 5 ranking of most hated football couches(look at all the TT replies). The truth of Tommy is, that he is an embaressment to the SEC. Instead of preparing his football team for a bowl game( against a very mediocre football team …no names) He marched around for 4 weeks with a goofy smirk on his face, and 4 fingers in the air. And congrats on beating an alabama program 4 years in a row( the darkest hour EVER for The university of alabama) It is only a matter of time befor its ALABAMA AND LSU fighting for the west sec title.
And third, Tommy Tuberville is an asshole. Respectively.

Go GATORS!

by SEC4Life on Feb 27, 2006 7:20 PM EST reply actions  

Fowler is the biggest cock and ball swallower I’ve ever seen. He’s worn through some knee pads, probably to play with Franchione’s tits.

by Jim on Feb 27, 2006 10:09 PM EST reply actions  

How could you leave out the Atlanta Journal Constitution “sportswriters” from a list of 10 least likeable people in college football ?

I’d certainly have to agree with you on Michael F. Adam$, as is clearly evidenced by our chorus of boos at the Sugar Bowl at the Dome in Atlanta Georgia a few weeks ago.

I believe I would have gone into the details of how Vince didn’t have Jim Harrick on his list and had narrowed it done to include the coach at Notre Dame now for example, when Adam$ insisted on Harrick.

I certainly would have discussed too, if you knew, that Vince had told Harrick he would not go around the state nepotism law for Harrick Junior, only to have Adam$ do that too.

And, I absolutely would have included that not only did Vince tell Harrick that he would not go around the UGA Admissions Office for Tony Elasco Cole, only to have Adam$ give him his presidential admit to UGA, even though we already had a great point guard and did not need Tony Cole.

As for Phil Fulmer, you leave out so many of the facts of this man in his now 15 years since stabbing Johnny Majors in the back to have but 2 SEC Championships to show for it to 2 for Coach Richt starting his 6th year now, that I hardly recognize how much we all hate that fat boy. For example, what about his graduation rates, which in the current APR show he loses scholarships again this next year in recruiting according to the NCAA ? What about the defense of his players, like Bobby Dadgum Disgraceful Bowden, not wanting to be at a competitive disadvantage by suspending them ? What about how Fulmer made the University of Tennessee at ObKnoxiousville not do a thing about missed classes, also ? I could devote the rest of the night talking about him, as I could substantiate Michael F. Adam$’ wasting of my monies to you as well you turn the deaf ear to too.

I don’t think there is a sports fan in the nation that doesn’t resent the holier than thou attitude too of the Georgia Institute of Technology, on Probation in Football for the next two 2 entire years now, and how these nerds act as if The Georgia Institute of Technology has never been on Probation in any sport for any Major Infractions NCAA Database entry ever.

In fact, you have so many opinions sliced and diced into your blog about Vincent J. Dooley and his tenure including for example 3 of his last 6 years as the # 1 Athletics Department in the # 1 Conference in the 22 sports we compete in in the NACDA Directors’ Cup, that one hardly recognizes what Vince did as Athletics Director, such as building the Dooley – Sanford Stadium to 5th largest in the nation.

Jim Tressel ? Who gives two hoots about a coach who cannot coach an offense ?

Nothing about Notre Dame getting $19 million dollars because it competes in the Big East only in men’s basketball, not football ?

Little if anything is alluded to about this Larry Coker at Miami and how he has averaged for the last 5 years, the # 8 recruiting class at Miami to Coach Richt’s average of # 5 instead for UGA. How he took in Willie Williams, and acts like he will do in the down ACC in both football and men’s basketball, what they did in the Big Easy Conference. Just because West Virginia beat Georgia, ahead 28 to nothing, by a final score of 35-38, doesn’t mean that that conference is not a joke in men’s basketball and football.

So, why nothing about the Big East with 11 men’s basketball teams that have no business being in Division 1-A men’s basketball and could not beat their way out of a wet paper bag ?

The ACC ? Nothing about how they act like they are # 1 in men’s basketball, when that is the Big Ten (11) ? Nothing about them acting like they are top to bottom better than the SEC, only to watch one (1) ACC team ranked in the Final AP Poll Top 16 teams to the SEC’s five (5) in the Top 14 by direct comparison ?

Like anyone goes to their games in the ACC anyway.

And, where are your statements about how to be a 3-Peat, don’t you have to have won more than 1 mythical pick two national championship game ?

Or, why the PAC 10 has no one attend their games either ?

Nothing on how Southern Cal played 13 games against teams that averaged the # 81 Total Defense last season ?

Nothing on the Senility Bowl that Joe Papa doesn’t want talked about, so he clamped the doors to the media beforehand, when neither of those guys can any longer admit the truth that they are both waiting for the other to quit or die ?

Like either program is crud anymore.

Nothing about how Football revolves around Notre Dame, when they have lost every bowl game for the last 8 bowl games in a row now dating back to January 2, 1995 losing to Colorado to have now a losing bowl record ?

Nothing about the BCS Pick Two Mythical National Championship Game ?

Do you really think we don’t hate Mack Brown, who played 13 games against the average # 56 Total Defense last year and yet these two picked for the BCS Pick Two Mythical National Championship Game ? I mean look at his recruiting rankings and then look at what he hasn’t done at either North Carolina or Texas ? We loathe the guy.

No parting shots at the Big XII and how they have a 29-33 Bowl Record ?

No comments about Nebraska and how they had a losing season and not a winning season again, followed by a 7-win year last year and how they play the # 50 Strength of Schedule every year to have this record ?

Don’t get me started.

Catchy title, but now that I think about it, you have missed the boat entirely.

by BuLLdawg on Feb 27, 2006 10:12 PM EST reply actions  

Well, I must say that you all are right about my husband Tommy – He is quite the sonofabitch to deal with on a daily basis. I married Tommy after he proposed to me after a long night in the French Quarter after he had just dumped his fiance’. I was just glad to get off the streets and I liked the way he tickled my snatch with his elongated ears.

Several years later, he we are at Auburn and Tommy has stayed true to form. He’s turned Auburn into the football whore of America by accepting anyone and everyone that can strap on a helmet. True – we accomodate those that poor souls that cannot enroll elsewhere, by hey, he took in an old whore when he married me. Beats the $20 I used to get sucking cock behind Tipitina’s.

by Tubberville's Wife on Feb 28, 2006 8:37 AM EST reply actions  

You know you have a good, maybe great coach when your rivals are defacating all over him.
Bama, what’s with doubling your coaches salary? It’s not like he’s in demand or mentioned for any other job. We look forward to seeing you this year at Jordan-Hare West. 3 centuries of winning in Tuscaloosa, oh and uh, Fear the Thumb?Bama? I think so. :)
UGA, how many more times is Richt going to choke the big one away, let alone beat UF? Auburn? After losing for yet again at Jordan-Hare East, we look forward to the Dawgs being our bitch again as we lay claim to another, SECC. :)

by R.Harris on Feb 28, 2006 10:11 AM EST reply actions  

When Tommy TubberEars screws all you Aubies in a few years by either A. jumping to UM or B. Landing you ignorant savages on 10 years probation, you’ll wish he ended up at Louisville. But, I digress… my choice for a top ten dickhead would be the gutless wonder of ’05: Larry Coker. UM always has all-world talent, and when they pulled a Tennessee this year, instead of stepping up to the mic and taking it like a man, he fired his entire coaching staff. Gutless. Which, I guess, leads me back to my original point: Coker will be out after UM finishes 8-3 this year (which is unacceptable down here in north Cuba) and Tubberfuck will be the next football whore at UM.

by DirkDawggler on Feb 28, 2006 1:15 PM EST reply actions  

I love people that pretend to know so much about the inner workings of college football and have some special incite to the coaches minds.

I also love “prediction smack” See the above post for an example.

You’ll be sorry when your coach leaves you for ______ and you’re on probation for _______.

Riiiight…

Pretty fucking lame.

by Erik on Feb 28, 2006 2:01 PM EST reply actions  

Only a wanker gator site would list the all-time winningist coach in D-1 ball as not liked……thats funny.

Bowden is a living legend. Urb is nothing more than a SOS wannabe. Too damn funny that Steve whipped Urb rear last year.

by DaBULL on Feb 28, 2006 3:27 PM EST reply actions  

Fine move by referencing the loss we didn’t particularly mind—it was our boy, after all, beating us—and ignoring the crumbling state of affairs in your own house. How’s that Jeffy boy thing working out? We’re sure he was the best candidate for the job. 34-7, 34-7, 34-7.

by Orson Swindle on Feb 28, 2006 3:39 PM EST reply actions  

Any incompetent, blind or mentally challenged official in ANY NCAA football game.

by datruth on Feb 28, 2006 8:41 PM EST reply actions  

Thanks guys for giving me some laughs tonight.

by Ben on Feb 28, 2006 9:49 PM EST reply actions  

Tuberville, may or may not deserve to be on this list, but there is one list that he would be number one on. Its the “I took my team to a 13-0 season and didn’t even play for a national championship” list. As far as I know, he is the only one qualified for that list. Keep up the good work Tommy.

by Scott on Mar 1, 2006 10:00 AM EST reply actions  

They don’t get any better than Tubs. bout other people not having class, doesn’t have it themselves. “Class” is a term for inferior people to build themselves up. Why do you think Bama fans hate Tubs for the “Fear The Thumb” shirt?

by Barrettaub on Mar 1, 2006 10:14 AM EST reply actions  

Teletubbie is the scum of the SEC. End of Story.

by Grits N' Gravy on Mar 1, 2006 10:33 AM EST reply actions  

Tuberville owns Alabama — no wonder the Delusional Mullet Nation hate him so much!

Auburn fans love Shula — as long as Shula is around, Tuberville will continue to own the Turds.

by Biff on Mar 1, 2006 11:05 AM EST reply actions  

After reading some of the smack from those Lowlander Barnfarks from the Plains, is it any wonder that The Allbarn University, Tommy Tubersteak, and Allbarn Fans are soooo despised by everyone in the SEC (and anyone outside the SEC who has had any dealings with them)??? What planet are those moooo-rons from, anyway?!

Mooooooooooo…Cow Patty Ewe!!

by SEC Football on Mar 1, 2006 11:34 AM EST reply actions  

Some folks on here seem to be confused, let me straighten out some facts for yall.

First, The Cigar game vs. LSU:
Tuberville didn’t take his team to “midfield” to smoke the cigars, they were in the stands and next to the field at the end of the tunnel. I was there watching and smoking one with them. Anyone that says otherwise doesn’t know, especially the LSU folks, they all left before halftime. In addition, it was Tuberville’s birthday and that particular victory was the first major away game under his tenure, so it was a moment of occasion.

Secondly, the “Fear the Thumb” shirt:
Tuberville didn’t wear it to media days or even to a press conference as someone previously mentioned. He did wear it on a travel day to the Cap One Bowl in Orlando. The photos that showed up everywhere were pics from the team arriving at the hotel.

Lastly, I have no problem with what any coach does with his “off” time. If Tuberville did in fact walk around weeks after the game holding up four fingers and screaming “FEAR THE THUMB!” he only did it to screw with the Bammers of the world, looks to me like it’s working, the Bammers are still hating it.

by guru4au on Mar 1, 2006 12:02 PM EST reply actions  

I notice a trend here. All of the comments saying Tuberville should be on the list are by opponents who LOSE LOSE LOSE to him. A bunch of losers complaining about a guy who beats them. Opponents aren’t complaining about Kentucky’s coach, Mississippi State’s coach, Arkansas’s coach, or Vanderbilt’s coach. Why? Because these coaches are nice enough to Bama and Dawg fans to lose.

If Richt keeps on winning at his current clip, it won’t be long before people start hating on him. Everyone hates a winner when those wins come at the expense of their favorite team.

BTW, I have no affiliation with any SEC school, and I went to an ACC school. My observations are from what I see, and from the banter of Bama and Georgia fans.

UGA fans, you guys should be happy, two SEC titles and a great coach—who cares if he can’t beat Auburn (or Florida).

Bama fans, things are looking up for you too, other than the fact that Auburn has a better winning percentage at Bryant-Denny than at Jordan-Hare. Of course, by better percentage, I mean a perfect 100%. Hasn’t your team learned that these games against Auburn are HOME games? That’s gotta be like a fist in the ass of all you elephants. I heard that Auburn was petitioning Alabama to have all of Auburn’s home games played at Bryant-Denny!

by LaughingAtAllOfYou on Mar 1, 2006 2:10 PM EST reply actions  

Tuberville has got to be on this list. Not only is he a complete dick, we can’t forget that he told the staff, students and fans at Ole Miss, " I am not going anywhere" and then literally, cleaned out his office his files at night and took his staff and left town while everyone was sleeping.

by colonelrebel4ever on Mar 2, 2006 9:46 AM EST reply actions  

Two of the the biggest weasels in CF and illustious members of your top ten are Holtz and Spurrier. Clemson has already taken out the trash with Lou the Lisp and sent him back to boring ESPN’s audiences (1-5 vs, the Tigers). The grave is already being dug for Stevie “Wonder” Spurrier (0-1 in his first attemtp vs. the Tigers), the job will be completed by this time next year. Don’t bother sending flowers.

by TigerMan on Mar 2, 2006 5:17 PM EST reply actions  

Here’s a good link for all you Tuberville Haters

If the damn thing doesn’t work just click on my name…

by Erik on Mar 12, 2006 11:11 PM EST reply actions  

I doubt any fan base despises its coach as much as us at Georgia Tech. That bastard Chan Gailey takes a fresh 5 year extention and a offense ranked 103rd last year in scoring into a new year with no changes. The shit will hit the fan(s) again this year as the defense will be overburden again to win 6 or 7 games.

Too bad this is a ranking of which fan base hates its coach the most. Gailey and the Jacket Nation would be at the top! The only fans who love Gailey (and exiting athlectic director Dave Braine) are Georgia fans and every school that Tech plays!

by Rickey on Mar 31, 2006 10:54 AM EST reply actions  

So basically we can boil this thread down to “the whole top half of the SEC hates each other?” And that guy Bulldawg from post 114 must be the most miserable man on the face of the planet, since he apparently hates everyone and everything? Got it.

by Mark on Jul 13, 2006 6:59 PM EDT reply actions  

Your giving Tubberville too much credit, Lest we forget at the moment of Patrino-gate he was about to get fired and his reputation was crap. he had a senior laden team on the horizon, he had no choice but to stay and try and repair his damaged reputation. Which he did thanks to finally stumbling upon an OC who knew what he was doing. and players like Cadilla Williams who he would never have signed without the NCAA probation to cross state rival Alabama.

But as for most hated, I’m not sure if he warrants it, If the list were most Arrogant, he’d be at the top of the list, right in front of Spurrier.

by Slammer on Aug 30, 2006 2:41 PM EDT reply actions  

Doesn’t Steve Spurrier belong here ->

http://www.whotohate.com

by hank on Sep 15, 2006 5:20 PM EDT reply actions  

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