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What you don't like about Coach K

Can we cut to the chase here? What you guys really don't like about Coach K....what really sets your teeth on edge....what really gets your Jockey boxers all twisted up in a knot.....is his demeanor ....and the WAY HE TALKS!

Yeah, some of you don't like the goatee...and I'm fully aware that he committed the unpardonable sin of letting yUK beat us. (Tuberville beat  'Bama like a drum and still they were going to get rid of him to get Petrino, remember??)

But what really ticks you guys off is that K doesn't talk like a tough guy. He sounds more like an accountant or a or a science professor or  Mr. Rodgers....but not at all like a football coach, right?

Wrong.

University of Georgia's Mark Richt, Florida's Urban Meyer, the aforementioned Tommy Tuberville of Auburn.....three coaches from the bad-to-the-bone Southeastern Conference who don't exactly sound like tough guy football coaches. The first time I heard Urban Meyer talk I thought the audio track was dubbed in. Ever heard Pete Carroll talk? Doesn't exactly sound like a Mafia hit man. Let's see, how many National Championships games has he been in? and won?

Now let's get down and dirty. Have any of you ever heard (please don't tell my OSU friends I said this) Woody Hayes? if you were one of the kids he went to school with who teased him for talking with a lisp you'd have the scars to prove he beat the crap out of you.  Woody sounded like a wimp on his coach's show.

As a kid, I once sneaked into one of his smoldering August practices and saw a 6'7" Jim Tyrer, who played many years for the Kansas City Chiefs, literally trembling in his shoes during a Woody Hayes butt chewing.   

In the old days NASCAR drivers talked like illiterate hillbillies. Today they talk like Wall Street brokers. Today's new football coaches are simply a different breed, too. And they are winning with a completely different kind of athlete.

Over the years at U of L we've had some "crusty" football coaches...Howard,  John L, Bobby P...all very good football minds. But Coach K has a style that is very much in line with the new breed of college as well as NFL coaches. Tony Dungy comes to mind. 

Indianapolis Colts fans have already forgotten that they used to rip their hair out in huge clumps because Dungy wouldn't go ballistic when the Colts did stupid things week after week. That Super Bowl win 2 years ago changed all that.

So hang on. We all may hav to eat a lot of crow when Coach K succeeds.    

   

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I don’t like him for 2 reasons – the charts in his pants (even when he’s running to the sidelines, gah) and that he lost a lot. I don’t care how he sounds… walk softly and carry a big stick, eh?

by speedcard on Jun 5, 2008 12:56 AM EDT reply actions   0 recs

Well, since you asked

(Let me first say before I dive into this cess pool that I hope to God K wins 9+ games and proves my ass wrong)

No, K’s MBA blandness and lack of true substance to his answers just became infuriating as the questions raged.

Why do I dislike K? Let me count the ways

1) We are paying him $ million / yr—yet he can’t see the locomotive of “terrible Petrino players) coming hard down the tracks. Yet John L, after watching one practice, predicts we’ll win 6 games and that something is really wrong.

2) He compounds this lack of insight, by not down-playing any talk of a Nat’l title run—in fact, we get pics of him driving around in a golf cart smiling, and hear that the coaches all get home in bed by 7p now. How nice.

3) He adopts his deer-in-the-headlights look in a wild 2nd game with power-house Mid Tenn

4) His bland, no-speak starts to reach it’s no-true-answers peak after the debacle in just the 4th game against Syracuse

5) As the ship is really going down, our Captain interviews on the sly with SMU during the season! - and is caught right after the melt-down game against So Fla. He totally blind-sided TJ with this, I have found.

6) During the SMU interview he bad-mouths Jurich! for not letting him bring all his own staff—as if we needed more brilliant minds like Stubbs.

5) He brings a doofus like Stubbs to begin with—that has no clue how to use a Heisman QB or the talent he has inherited

6) Although there has been no string of arrests or major problems during Petrino, suddenly players are being suspended left and right, and there are all these problem players Petrino left that can’t be managed. Is it suddenly the players—or the mgmt of the players? Don’t you think TJ fully knew and approved Petrino’s policies on drug testing, etc. The players were not running amok before!

I could go on… but

by frankpos on Jun 5, 2008 9:21 AM EDT reply actions   0 recs

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7) In pre-season K forced the D coaches to adopt a different scheme than they had run in the past. It took 4 games to begin to “simplify” , i.e. do what used to work!

8) After the Syracuse game, when he had run out of any true answers-except ” I screwed up” - suddenly we become Marijuana U (thru I believe lax player mgmt and discipline, when morale plummeted), and reefer madness takes over. We get a bad nat’l rep and And K “suddenly” has a ready excuse—and another reason he can give SMU, etc. for why he “failed” and wants to leave

9) Finally, as our Captain tries to abandon the burning ship, we have to hear him whine in the media about how his family and son are taking heat from the community. As if this doesn’t happen to any coach during tough times. Suddenly, we are an awful community…and he must take his family away for safety!

Sheesh….

by frankpos on Jun 5, 2008 10:37 AM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

You don't mean it....

we heard rumors that SMU was interested; went to their website and saw that seemed to be accurate but we didn’t know that he actually interviewed with them…..oh man. That was our chance to kick him to the curb – I can’t believe he did that. Was it in the CJ? I don’t remember seeing that story but I take you at your word, Frank, because I have come to learn that if you say something, it is usually right on. I can’t stand the guy; I agree totally with Frank’s #8 – if our kids were so messed up, how could they play for Bobby the way they did and have the success that they enjoyed. I never bought all that talk about Bobby leaving a mess…..guess we’ll never really know for sure. As I’ve said before, Krag doesn’t look like a coach, walk like a coach, talk like a coach but other than that, he’s fine. Really. I agree with Mr Blunt that those things don’t necessarily define a coach by today’s standards. That is ok by me as long as the coach can still win…...uh, we’ll see exactly what this guy’s got on 8/31. He’d BETTER have them ready to win and win big or the fans will freeze him out – just one gal’s opinion. Got to trust TJ – got to trust TJ – got to trust TJ….my mantra.

by Linda on Jun 5, 2008 11:15 AM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

K denied in the CJ that he had interviewed with SMU or talked with them

as I remember

However, the SMU boards reported it first

and I got confirmation from a friend who talked directly with someone on the SMU search committee who had talked to K— they did the interview with K via phone . I believe I posted it in the Card Chronicle before anyone in Louisville confirmed it.

And then several other insider posters on ITV soon reported it thereafter.

So….

by frankpos on Jun 5, 2008 12:16 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

There's a great day ahead, Frank.....

Frank, Somehow I get the impression that you have once again turned down the still vacant presidency of the Coach K Fan Club, Well, this is the fourth and final time that I’ll nominate you.

But looky here…according to the points you made, one could rightfully asssume that you’re at least hinting that K may posibly be a sneak, a liar, an incompetent, a pansy, a poet, a pirate, a pawn and a king….he’s been up, down, over and out, but I know one thing. (Oooops, forgive me. I got stuck out there in Sinatraville…..won’t happen again.)

In any event, just because a coach wouldn’t know a good offensive coordinator (unless Tom Jurich reminded him that Alamaba has come after him TWICE) or a Defensive Coordinator (unless TJ told him that MIchigan had a dandy one available) if one ran over him with a blocking sled … and just because a coach stands on the sideline looking comatose, clueless, confused and stunned like he just got hit in the back of the head with camel spit…that doesn’t mean that you should want to take him out in the middle of nowhere and leave him with nothing but his play charts tucked in his pants.

C’mon, Frank…so what if the guy is a little wimpy, so what if he kicked 31 players, 16 band members, 2 cheerleaders, a student manager, a janitor, 2 chaplains and the guy who operated the whirlpool off the team? (actually the whirlpool guy may be coming back to play free safety)

Just because a coach FINALLY gets out of Conference USA (also known as the “Junior College” for experimental coaching) and just because that same coach entertains an offer from the absolute BOTTOM DOG of that conference as a place to run away and hide from big time college football, is that any reason to regard him as a wimp?

After all, I thought it was the way he talks that was bothering you. Okay, so he sounds like he’s never actually witnessed a football game in person or on TV. And who cares if he thinks a jock strap is something a short man who rides horses hangs onto when he’s on a bus. This stuff is not important, Frank! You need to begin ingnoring some things…like the fact that the coach has tendencies that make us wonder if someone has yet told him that tackling the archrival’s ball carrier BEFORE he actually runs into the end zone will go a long way toward fan approval and contract renewal.

Look…You say you don’t like a coach whose general sideline ex[ression reminds us of exactly how hard a mule could actually kick a man in the head? You say you don’t like a coach whose idea of a genius sideline call is a fourth and forty punt? You say you don’t like your team getting the snot kicked out of them at home by the worst team in the league then hearing your coach say, “we really got the snot kicked out of us by the worst team in the league.” ? Is that what’s troubling you, Bunky???

Well wake up and smell the Grande Latte Caramel Decaf, Bunky! It’s a new day! The sun is shinning! The flowers are blooming! The birds are singing! There’s a super glorious day up ahead. I just got off an internet blog site and GUESS WHAT I HEARD?

Ron Cooper is looking!

by MrBlunt on Jun 5, 2008 2:35 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

When You Kept Mentioning

“Coach K,” I assumed you were speaking of that guy with the Wittle Wabbit voice, who coaches college hoops for that Southern school whose name somehow escapes me…You know the coach who seems to have been canonized by my beloved Roman Catholic church…you know the coach who despite sneaker contracts up the Wazoo (that’s not a river in Indiana) somehow still must do voice overs for automobile companies, and Life Insurance companies, and seemingly take every commercial opportunity to come his way in order to make ends meet. This despite the fact that 85% of the SAG union members are unemployed and could use the voice over gig to REALLY make ends meet. Gene Hackman does it too. So does George Clooney. Hey guys, how much do you need?!!! ...a rhetorical question as we know they need it all.

Nice post, Tom. Real nice. A beautiful free form vent complete with Rat Pack reference….”Each time I find myself laying flat on my face, I pick myself up and get back in the race, That’s Life.”

I love your new avature.
This just in…..E=Mc squared

Good night to all,
Roz

by Roz on Jun 5, 2008 6:40 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

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