I agree and I was mostly trying to stir up the St. Barney crowd. BUT - snyder and barnett had two (legal) methods for their turnaround - Snyder did the juco route - while most schools choose the baylor/mississippi route. Briles is already set for life and will be rehired, and baylor is no longer a doormat and probably won't be for the foreseeable future. Bottom line - cheating pays, lying pays (see PSU) in ncaa football
OT: Briles Sacked
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I don't. From all appearances it looks like most of the people involved will remain employed at the university.
E: My question is more about whether we'll ever reach a point where institutions are guided by doing what's truly "right" versus having their hands forced/the lawsuits will cost more than the football revenue. I actually believe Alabama would have dismissed Saban under similar circumstances (i.e. the results of a very, very damning independent investigation), although one could speculate that a place like Bama would have never commissioned such an investigation because if there's a chance they wouldn't be happy with the results.
Coach Snyder had a graduation rate for years that was embarrassingly low. So Coach Barnett gets the nod there as well. All told, I give the overall achievement award to Barnett out of those three.
Ah! Good point! Barnett is the Turnaround King, then! It's a shame he didn't get to coach more than the dozen years or so that he did coach. He had quite a remarkable coaching career at both Northwestern and Colorado.
Naw. The embarrassment is Baylor. They claim their institution values Someone who said, "What does it profit a man if he gains the world and loses his soul?" But they knew darn well Art Briles wasn't shaping "fine, young men". They didn't care. He was winning football games. That was his only mandate and the only thing Baylor cared about. He was getting it done, what is their to scrutinize? Which is par for the scummy NCAA course.
Briles was canned because co conspirators always turn when caught.
Briles was canned because co conspirators always turn when caught.
What Barnett did at NU has no historical equivalent. (The team GPA went up during the Barnett years.)
He understood the NU context (good academics & challenging program history) and relentlessly recruited from it. He got burned at Colorado, because he only understood the old Colorado context, ( just win baby) and failed to understand that, seven years later, there was much greater program scrutiny. That said, here is the simple calculus: No Gary Barnett, no NU program turnaround. A mild Indiana -esque bowl season every ten years , but no lasting change. Take that to the bank. This program stands on the shoulders of Gary Barnett.
I don't understand what you're talking about regarding Barnett and Colorado. The so-called Colorado scandal is simply a bunch of bimbo-sluts who may or many not have been raped, who blamed the CU program for running sex parties that THEY ACTUALLY RAN THEMSELVES! The rest was all BS. Barnett did absolutely nothing wrong except stick his foot in his mouth once about a crappy, slutty kicker who lied to the media. I realize that this is crude, but it's the crystalline truth. The drive by media ate up all this sensational BS and smeared Barnett to the point where he became unhirable.
I was with you when I first read your post, but the more I think about it the less I agree. RG is no longer willing to run. As a result, he wouldn't work in Briles offense.
