Comments on: GARY BARNETT SHOULD COACH, SAYS MICHAEL BROWN ET AL.

By: michael

michael — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 06:12:38 +0000

I like Barnett for the Cincy opening. He did not put up with a ho – recruit ration of less than 1 while in Boulder and he won’t put up with it in Cincy.

By: GopherCat

GopherCat — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 03:48:20 +0000

I kind of hate to do it, but I’m going to go ahead and disagree with SMQ (and, it seems, Orson). I think Dodd’s mostly right and Gary Barnett ought to be coaching at a BCS school or at least a mid-major like Air Force. When I heard Fisher DeBerry was leaving, Barnett was the first person who came to my mind as the likely successor, given his background and connection to the Academy. I have no real reason to defend Gary, seeing as he left my Wildcats in the middle of the night (I eventually was able to forgive him), but I always thought he got a really raw deal with the way things played out in Colorado–well, a raw deal if you don’t count the $3 million, anyway. Personally, I think Barnett simply didn’t keep a close enough eye what the players and recruits did after-hours but otherwise is a very good coach. I have a hard time believing he didn’t learn a lesson from that, and I bet a pretty fair number of D-I coaches at other schools (maybe just about all of them?) had a “there but for the grace of God go I” moment after Colorado’s recruiting scandal broke. Sure, it was dumb of him to say what he did about Hnida too, even if she was a terrible kicker. However, I think every reasonable person who’s actually read the relevant part of that interview transcript realizes that comment was blown way out of proportion. So, yeah, he deserves another shot somewhere.

By: Devin McCullen

Devin McCullen — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 23:22:16 +0000

Actually, CBSSportsline.com has far and away the least-kludgy Live Game Update type thingy. When I’m at work on a Saturday afternoon, it’s pretty much up on my computer the whole time. And they’re good about updating their bowl projections quickly, compared to other sites.

They have articles?

By: PJ from NU in SF

PJ from NU in SF — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 21:40:43 +0000

Papa Lou BSU, are you including the gambling ring in the point-shaving scandal, or does that get its own category?

Of course, if I remember correctly, the whole business didn’t come out until 1996 or so. No wonder the media had amnesia.

By: Orangeblood

Orangeblood — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 21:16:03 +0000

Larry Garnett: “Also, Katie Hnida totally kicks like a girl.”

By: Papa Lou BSU

Papa Lou BSU — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 21:09:26 +0000

SMQ’s takedown was glorious, but even they neglected to mention the point-shaving scandal that happened on Barnett’s watch in ‘94 at Northwestern (no biggie, the Rose Bowl trip next year gave the Chicago media collective amnesia on that one, too).

Additionally, Barnett’s constant-to-the-point-of-hilarity pimping of himself for other jobs while at NU *still* causes the “this just in, Gary Barnett has withdrawn his name from consideration” jokes to fly among Chicago-area sports fans whenever there’s a major coaching vacancy anywhere in the sports world…

By: DevilGrad

DevilGrad — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 20:52:05 +0000

Larry looks like he’s ready for a cameo in the next installment of Las Cronicas Mas Locas de Boss Hawg.

By: Tom

Tom — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 20:38:19 +0000

Shouldn’t that be Barry Garnett?

By: Orson Swindle

Orson Swindle — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 20:31:40 +0000

You just don’t want to see Gary Barnett shinin’, DG.

By: DevilGrad

DevilGrad — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 20:30:53 +0000

CBS Sportsline still exists? I guess it is still the internment camp for the dumbest sportswriters in America (a function it shares with CollegeFootballNews).

By: Orson Swindle

Orson Swindle — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 20:26:44 +0000

Hookers and Barnett’s recruiting, too. There’s a link there.

By: Stacy Keibler Loves Me

Stacy Keibler Loves Me — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 20:21:25 +0000

La La Land Dept:

Tommy Lasorda and Bruce Willis were outed by convicted madame Baby Doll something or other for using high-class expensive hookers.

What that has to do with this site, beats me, oh, yeah, the Bruce Willis connection.

By: Hook'em Tide

Hook'em Tide — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 19:51:37 +0000

“The plaque for the alternates is in the ladies’ room. . . Two o’s in goose boys.”