Navigation: Jump to content areas:


Pro Quality. Fan Perspective.
Login-facebook
Around SBN: Tottenham's Plans for Northumberland Stadium Approved

JIM LEAVITT WILL DEBONE YOU IF YOU LOOK AT OTHER JOBS

Jim Leavitt will cut you if you so much as peek at another job as a coordinator, you slut, you. Greg Gregory, who already suffered from the mediocrity seemingly inherent in the double named, now has to deal with his demotion from offensive coordinator at USF. The move came after Gregory admitted an interest in interviewing for the now-taken TE coach spot at Florida, a move that sent Leavitt first into anger, then into tears, and then into setting Gregory's car on fire, and then into a kind of peaceful, composed and confident space where he told Gregory to move on, playah after draining his bank accounts and finding a hotter, younger assistant.

"Greg visited with me about the possibility of coaching at another school, and I felt like I had to make a move," Leavitt said Tuesday night. "I'm not going to have my offensive coordinator out visiting with other schools. If a position coach wants to do that, I don't have as much a problem."

angela-bassett-waiting_l
Leavitt: "That's me. Oh, god, that's so me right now". [/sips8thglassofwhitezin]

(Mary J. Blige is playing in the background of that quote.) Gregory may now take another position on the staff, or leave, or beg his way back into Leavitt's arms. (Don't do it girl! He's a DOG!!!) Gregory was already living on thin credit thanks to the Bulls' offensive collapse over the second half of the season, and this put him into the overdrawn category with a quickness. Scoring 20 or less in your last five games and going 2-5 in the Big East will do that to a man.

Comment 17 comments  |  0 recs  | 

Do you like this story?

Comments

Display:

I can kind of sympathize with Leavitt here. When your OC is interviewing to become some other school’s tight ends coach, that doesn’t exactly speak glowingly of your own program’s prestige. It’d be kind of like Joe Biden telling Obama he wants to interview to become the UK’s secretary of state for environment, food, and rural affairs.

That said, Leavitt probably doesn’t look nearly as good in a lacy bustier top as Angela Bassett does.

by Doug on Jan 22, 2009 10:48 AM EST reply actions  

While Leavitt claims that he doesn’t have “as much of a problem” with position coaches leaving, it still must burn him. Afterall, he stayed at USF despite being the golden boy 2 years ago with rumors of job offers. it appears that he expects the same sense of [misplaced] loyalty from assistant coaches. I wonder how much of his wrath is attributed to Dan McCarney moving on [up] to UF.

by hobeg8r on Jan 22, 2009 10:53 AM EST reply actions  

Can Freek do something with Leavitt?

by Henri on Jan 22, 2009 11:06 AM EST reply actions  

Can Freek do something with Leavitt?

Did Da Vinci do something with paint?

however, like all masters… I’m guessing Freek does what he wants, when he wants.

by CincySooner on Jan 22, 2009 11:11 AM EST reply actions  

re #1 lacy bustier…

I was thinking along similar lines.

The white trenchcoat, the black dress, the sassy hand-on-hip pose, the flaming car… it all works together.

by CincySooner on Jan 22, 2009 11:13 AM EST reply actions  

  1. -

At least McCarney took the same job when he went to UF. Gregory wants to take about the lowest coaching job on the team at a large demotion in title. And he isn’t that good to begin with.

by JD on Jan 22, 2009 12:11 PM EST reply actions  

You had me at Angela Bassett.

by PeayHog on Jan 22, 2009 12:24 PM EST reply actions  

The two new coaches on Urban Meyer’s staff came over from the Detroit Lions (QBs coach Loeffler) and the Washington Huskies (TEs coach White). Combined they won exactly zero games in 2008.

Granted, they were position coaches in incompetent organizations where those at the top were most responsible, but that is a lot of FAIL stank to be bringing aboard the U.S.S. Two Straight Titles or Bust cruiser. Especially since White spent the two seasons before last under Greg Robinson at Syracuse.

by Year2 on Jan 22, 2009 12:25 PM EST reply actions  

Ahhh…prime decolletage…a nice replacement for cheesecake bunda…although this is definitely upstaged by the displays on giadascleavage.com…

by sb on Jan 22, 2009 12:29 PM EST reply actions  

Proposing that “failstank” be added to the dictionary as a more efficient term for “stench of failure” — with your permissio, of course, Year2.

by Doug on Jan 22, 2009 1:19 PM EST reply actions  

Thats hardcore.

by DrB on Jan 22, 2009 3:05 PM EST reply actions  

JD- you’re right. Dan traded schools for the same position. I know that it was not the same salary (fairly substantial bump-up).

I wonder if Greg Gregory was thinking he would probably be fired anyway [shades of Tony Franklin] and thought ANY job at UF is better than no job. I can’t imagine that he was feeling too secure in his continued employment at USF after last year’s significant decline.

Grothe kinda had a year along the likes of Chase Daniel after having a pretty stellar year the year before. I didn’t see all the USF games but he looked pretty bad in the ones I did see. [Barely beat UCF and had a pretty horrible TD to interception ratio at the end] That all can’t be the OC’s fault.

by hobeg8r on Jan 22, 2009 3:07 PM EST reply actions  

Yeah… I don’t begrudge McCarney at all, because we’re us and they’re them and certainly UF could pay him a lot more money.

And you’re right about Grothe because I watched all 13 games and he didn’t get any better along the way. Actually I’m not sure he’s improved much since Gregory took over as OC and QB coach. There’s no way someone can start 36 straight games and not get any better unless the coaching sucks.

by JD on Jan 22, 2009 8:13 PM EST reply actions  

I’m in on “failstank”. gets my vote for best new word of the offseason.

by geno on Jan 23, 2009 2:12 AM EST reply actions  

“Greg Gregory, who already suffered from the mediocrity seemingly inherent in the double named,”

The Ghost of Mitch Mitchell would like you to tell him about this “mediocrity.”

by AERose on Jan 23, 2009 3:38 AM EST reply actions  

We have a motion and a second on “failstank”. All in favor……

by BamaTaxMan on Feb 19, 2009 6:25 PM EST reply actions  

Look, USF pays nothing compared to other BCS schools, if you can take a lesser position, get more money, why not! Who wouldn’t want to get a chance to coach for the number one school in the country? AND THE NUMBER ONE COACH IN THE COUNTRY< URBAN MEYER? Leavitt probably never got over Dan M leaving and wanted to send a message. The wrong message I’d say. Burnham has two years at best to coach…why would he go to a town with 12,000 people and tractor parts, it wasn’t the money, He wanted to coach with his son and saw what happened with Gregory. Douglas, saw the same thing. Grothe didn’t have as bad a year as people thought, look at the stats, under the same OC when the school was ranked #2 What changed? Could it be Canales got his nose so far up Leavitts ass to get the job back…..

by bret on Feb 19, 2009 8:56 PM EST reply actions  

Comments For This Post Are Closed


User Tools

Because College Football is too important to be left to the professionals.

FanPosts

Community blog posts and discussion.

Recommended FanPosts

Img_0172_small
DICK TALK WITH JASON WHITLOCK
Sg_head_small
The Time A Kentucky Fan Saved Me From Being Raped and Murdered
Fbimgp0931_small
Thanks commertariat (and Spencer)

Recent FanPosts

227210_10150231884830560_734255559_9012780_1389568_n_small
Deep Thoughts with BamaTaxMan
Rotate-3_small
Climate Change and its First Effect on College Football
Turd_small
Dear Commentariat: HELP ME OUT
Small
A Year in the Life of a College Football Fan
Hangover_small
Six Nations Rugby - mud blood guts & beer
Small
To my Dawg friends
Wtf-photos-videos-the-yellow-submarine-is-coming-to-where-you-live_small
Airraid, Part 2. Quick Passing

+ New FanPost All FanPosts >


Managers

Img_0172_small Spencer Hall

Small Orson

Screen_shot_2011-08-18_at_2 Holly Anderson

Editors

Lzprofilepictwopointoh_small Luke Zimmermann

Me_tuscaloosa_small Doug Gillett

Trex_small Run Home Jack