KRAGTHORPE'S GALLOWS HUMOR IS GAMETIGHT

by Orson on Nov 2, 2009 2:40 PM EST

The prospective mistress of choice, seen two seasons ago in a fantasy sequence.

Steve Kragthorpe is doomed, doomed, doomed, but if the true test of a man is his gallows humor, then Kragthrope has something to rely on in the shadow of certain firing. He opened his press conference like this today:

"Sorry I'm late. I was actually on the phone with Jon Gruden. He wanted to know how tall Will Stein was."

Well done, Coach Ignominious Verb. (HT: Big EZ via Card Chronicle.) If Gruden does come to coach Louisville after Kragthorpe's inevitable firing, the Cardinals can look forward to such evaluations of their performance as this:

--"You're a player!"
--"That's a football player!"
--"Play occurred!"
--"He reached out and caught the football. That's a real football play!"
--"Declarative sentence of no analytical value."

He would be missed in the broadcast booth like the citizens of London miss dear old cholera.

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That pic will be resurrected soon enough when Michigan loses to Purdue, Wisconsin and Ohio State to miss another bowl game and the legal practice time that goes with it. The illegal practice time has not resulted in the desired outcome.

At least Kragthorpe has a realistic outlook and knows his time is short. Louisville though, will not be Grudens next destination. Unless he is filling in for Pitino while his wife keeps him tied up.

by Crabapple Buck on Nov 2, 2009 2:50 PM EST reply actions

cholera… as long as it came from a good family and went to the right schools, it was right at home

by joe on Nov 2, 2009 2:54 PM EST reply actions

The last coach here LEAD the LEAGUE in GRIT

by Jon Gruden on Nov 2, 2009 3:16 PM EST reply actions

I admire a man with a good sense of gallows humor.

But if my Mountaineers play the way they did last Friday, Krag may find an unexpected win.

by SC'Eer on Nov 2, 2009 3:38 PM EST reply actions

i think it was funny, but he will be laughing to the bank he makes 1.4 mil a year thats almost $30,000 a week! for what? to tear us apart thats what! plus were gonna have to buy him out, coachin is the only job that when you get fired they have to pay you to leave like that. And to WVU fan: i think that you guys could run the hb option on every play and still kick our ass without even throwing a pass into our battered secondary

by CardFan4EVER on Nov 2, 2009 6:42 PM EST reply actions

Yawn. Crabapple Buck, usually when you are the first person to post a comment, it should be a little more witty or insightful than that. You don’t get points just for being the first one to respond.

In fact, if you had just typed “First!” we’d all have been much better off.

by BlueVoix on Nov 4, 2009 12:33 AM EST reply actions