Man I don't know if Kongbo was a fan favorite while he was here but he might be a retroactive one after that interview.
His latest on Brian Niedermeyer is great “He’s everyone’s best friend,” Shane Ghramm said. “In my life, I’ve never met anyone who’d say they didn’t like Brian.” “If they don’t, it’s just because he whooped their ass,” Wes Rabung said. “And even then, they still kind of like him,” Ghramm said. “He has an ability to connect with people that I don’t think I’ve ever seen in anyone else,” said Greg Ghramm. “The dude could sell a plunger to a plumber,” Shane Ghramm said. “He’s got big balls,” Shackelford said. “He walks into the coaches’ office and is like, ‘I’ll bring coffee and donuts to coaches, whatever you need. I’ll be a gopher. I don’t care. I just want to be a part of it.’ There were a lot of macaroni and cheese and cheap beer evenings.”
I disagreed in part with Schiano Sunday. I understand it was a bad look, but I believe his hiring would have simply kept things on its course. Maybe it would not have. We'll never know, but I think it was a symptom of the problem rather than a cause.
Holy shit at the Dooley quote lol. He attributes some of his lack of success in that nobody would take direction from him.
hiring schiano would have been miserable. It took our fans freaking out to make sure a coach with no ties to the SEC, questionable coaching tactics and part of the Sandusky staff, wasn't going to be our coach. I don't care what outsiders think. And all this talk hurt Schiano and his family, normally I would care. However, I find it very hard to believe I would be working with and near a pedo for 18 hours a day and not either know, or sense something amiss and gtfo or do something. I 100% believe he heard rumors or knew something and didn't do or say anything.
Disagree - he's hired and the bottom falls out. Stability was gone. The fanbase would have been done.
He does make a great point, that has been discussed, about how Dobbs was able to hide everything wrong with the team because he was so good. Honestly, I am probably guilty of under-appreciating how good of a college QB he really was. You saw even what Butch's best team really was when Dobbs had a terrible game in Columbia.
Don't misunderstand. I think he was a terrible choice and a bad fit, but I think it's hard to say how soon there would be disaster. If he somehow lucks into one more win than the total for last year, a disturbingly large portion of the fan base swoons. If the results are the same, average fans are making the who ya gonna get, how's it gonna look arguments. That Sunday was lightning in a bottle.
Ability and leadership-wise Dobbs was a throwback to another era. He didn’t pass well and he was far from the most athletic guy on the field but he willed his team to victory a lot. He was reminiscent of a lot of very good SEC QBs from the 60s like Pat Trammel, Dewey Warren, and Archie Manning.
