Let's look at Bowden, Beamer, and Paterno.
Bowden-had hciw brought in, fired/"retired" a few years after.
Beamer-Now hated by most vt fans and is a sad parody of himself. Also hired Scot Loeffer who is his Brent Key.
So ... ? If your point is to excuse yourself and others because there are on-a-whim fans in other programs, especially when the results are
not always better, I think you're only proving our position against yours!
I'd argue
Penn State is more like USF.
Build the program and run it as the administration and boosters excuse it ...
until it becomes a
legal liability, and then blame 1-2 people for everything, throwing them under-the-bus. I actually feel for Beaker like I do Paterno.
Use better examples.
To the original post: I also find using pictures of Isis to bash people offensive
Sorry, but this is a "case study" in "passive-aggressive."
You guys: Say GoL and other boosters/fans are "holding the program hostage"
We retort: If you're going to go there, why don't you "just go join ISIS"?
Key point: Consider ISIS' underlying philosophy ... terrorism against everyone, the west and anyone who supports them, because they consider the west holding the middle east hostage.
You guys: "Speaking of terrorism," you call us terrorists directly, and all sorts of other things
We retort: "Why stop there, why don't you just go Hitler?"
You guys: You go Hitler, because you wanted to, but now claim it's because we called you terrorists.
In other words ... the offensive nature of how you guys are even approaching us, saying we're purposely hurting the program as if we were terrorists, holding hostages, etc... is where it started, the people who started it know what they were doing, we immediately recognized where it was going, and -- sure enough -- you went there!
Textbook passive-aggressiveness.
especially since you know they killed a UCF alum.
You mean student-athlete? How many programs in Florida have killed student-athletes? A lot of them!
But the only difference between UCF and those programs is that a lawyer got a judge to rule UCF wasn't subject to the $200K cap. Lawyers and trials only happen when there's money to be made.