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.”

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.









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Doug says:
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.
January 22nd, 2009 at 10:48 am
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hobeg8r says:
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.
January 22nd, 2009 at 10:53 am
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Henri says:
Can Freek do something with Leavitt?
January 22nd, 2009 at 11:06 am
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CincySooner says:
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.
January 22nd, 2009 at 11:11 am
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CincySooner says:
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.
January 22nd, 2009 at 11:13 am
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JD says:
#2 -
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.
January 22nd, 2009 at 12:11 pm
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PeayHog says:
You had me at Angela Bassett.
January 22nd, 2009 at 12:24 pm
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Year2 says:
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.
January 22nd, 2009 at 12:25 pm
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sb says:
Ahhh…prime decolletage…a nice replacement for cheesecake bunda…although this is definitely upstaged by the displays on giadascleavage.com…
January 22nd, 2009 at 12:29 pm
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Doug says:
Proposing that “failstank” be added to the dictionary as a more efficient term for “stench of failure” — with your permissio, of course, Year2.
January 22nd, 2009 at 1:19 pm
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DrB says:
Thats hardcore.
January 22nd, 2009 at 3:05 pm
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hobeg8r says:
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.
January 22nd, 2009 at 3:07 pm
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JD says:
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.
January 22nd, 2009 at 8:13 pm
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geno says:
I’m in on “failstank”. gets my vote for best new word of the offseason.
January 23rd, 2009 at 2:12 am
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AERose says:
“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.”
January 23rd, 2009 at 3:38 am
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BamaTaxMan says:
We have a motion and a second on “failstank”. All in favor……
February 19th, 2009 at 6:25 pm
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bret says:
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…..
February 19th, 2009 at 8:56 pm