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Leavitt to Oregon
- Thread starter Buffnik
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Duff feels its his job to comment on posters character flaws.
congrats on patting yourself on the back about not caring?
Mostly just you. I missed the "I just don't understand why you guys care so much" posts before this season.
JWP303
Well-Known Member
For starters - retain the DC who helped you get over the hump at all costs. That's one thing this team could do. Or is that too negative?
AllStarBuffs
Member
Missippi, Ole Miss and Oregon.
Guess dude really wanted to get out of town.
Guess dude really wanted to get out of town.
Does your family even like you?
Idot Buff
Guest
Wait, what?
JWP303
Well-Known Member
LOL - I am not even a troll! I'm on your side, I just seem to have pressed everyone's buttons yesterday. I appreciate everyone's hospitality though.
Areo - can you link me to that set of minutes/review
If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck...
JWP303
Well-Known Member
Right - so you are a confirmed asshole. Moving on. I was talking about Leavitt - are we allowed to be disappointed about him leaving or no?
Yes.
I like you too.
We are all disappointed. The **** that you threw all over the boards here yesterday was more the work of a miserable spoiled child than a disappointed fan, but you do you. Far be it for me to suggest that maybe you should take a deep breath and get some ****ing perspective. I just get tired of people who feel like they are superior because they are more critical.
If the Leavitt news was a serious gut punch, then you had blinders on to the reality of the situation.
So, do you want to suck every year aND keep coaches? Or do you want to be good and it's inevitable that people want what you have and come to take pieces of it?
Very few schools are not stepping stones for coaches and unfortunately CU is not one of them.
Teams are going to come after Chiaverini, MacIntyre, and Tumpkin soon.
Get used to it or move on. It doesn't matter.
No.
The guy did a great job for 2 years for CU, and he got somewhere in the neighborhood of a 300% raise- money which CU does not have right now (check back in 3 years). It sucks that he didn't say anything nice about the admin and coach that took a risk and gave him another chance in CFB on the way out, and that he didn't wait until after the bowl game.
MM's statement was right on target. I would be very curious to see the verbatim statements people critical of his statement would have put together.
Also, you are taking a very narrow view of the historical success of CU's football program with that "since Mac left" record. CU has won a conference title every decade since the '50s (and, for that matter, every decade of the program's existence going back to the 1890's excepting the '50s). MM made the title game this year and gets 3 more cracks at continuing the streak.
You misspelled 'hostility'.
It's an opinion. It's a fine opinion. I disagree with you on the value that should be placed on Leavitt within the CU Football organization. I don't think he's worth 5x more than Chev, for example. I also don't think that CU is financially capable of paying coaches at the very top of college football, so I think the question is moot for that reason. And, given a significant increase in the football staff budget (which seems to be coming but wasn't enough to keep Leavitt), I believe there are several moves that can be made that would have a larger impact than retaining Leavitt would have.
Honestly, I look at this as a sign the program is truly on the upswing. Crappy teams don't have their Defensive coordinators poached. Crappy coaches don't get interviewed on radio shows. We will have to get used to this kind of thing happening. The alternative is sucking. I don't want to deal with that again.
jizzrag85
Well-Known Member
Yep, it's a good sign! I was originally in the "WTF!" stage but it's passed. I would have enjoyed keeping leavitt (obviously) but we will just keep on keeping on. I was more displeased though at how he left and how the players found out on twitter, he could have handled the situation a lot more professionally. But he's gone and I don't care anymore, next man up! Let's go buffs!
JWP303
Well-Known Member
I like you too.
We are all disappointed. The **** that you threw all over the boards here yesterday was more the work of a miserable spoiled child than a disappointed fan, but you do you. Far be it for me to suggest that maybe you should take a deep breath and get some ****ing perspective. I just get tired of people who feel like they are superior because they are more critical.
Look, bub, I'd argue that your little clique of regulars here is the side that is projecting moral superiority and hostility towards opposing/negative viewpoints. I have no illusions about being superior - I merely want to vent once in a while and up until yesterday was grateful for this venue to do so.
There is literally a 30-page thread talking about how he needs to be retained at all costs - so please, don't pretend like I'm the only one who was surprised by the timing of this.
I am used to it and that's really been my point this whole time. The fact that it seems like even when things go well at CU, there is some looming thing that is detracting from this program - that's the part that takes some of the fun out of fandom for me.
The point of me cherry-picking that time period is that I was trying to illustrate how someone who has been a loyalist for the past 2 decades might have a slightly slanted view. I think that it is a more relevant time period than going back multiple decades to point to our winning ways. I'm thrilled with the direction of the program under MM this year - and perhaps because of how excited I was, it feels like this latest round of bad news is what made it harder to stomach for me.
Pro tip: if you want to throw a tantrum once in a while, be prepared to be told you are acting like a child once in a while.
I dont see the ban logo.....
JWP303
Well-Known Member
I can handle the heat - but substantively tell me what you disagree with, don't just pull the "guy must be a troll cause he's not effusive with praise." I get tired of the "Ugh, you're too negative" bull**** from the positive-spin crowd here.
There's a difference between badly wanting CU to keep him around and being oblivious to the idea that he was going to get offers elsewhere as either DC or HC. Hell, when DJ Durkin left Michigan for Maryland last year, there were people worried that Harbaugh would poach Leavitt then. It might have been surprising that he jumped for a lateral move, instead of a HC opp, but far less surprising when it was reported that Oregon gave him $1.2m/year. CU can't offer that kind of scratch to an asst coach.
Go read about the two stud defensive lineman we signed after Leavitt resigned. That good news should balance things out for you...