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Message: [QUOTE="Cuseregular, post: 1248222, member: 185"] I'm putting this post to you since it's apparrent you have more than half a clue (you have a full clue actually :);)), and to dispell the notions that some of the less than well informed. To your point have we ever heard of a coach coming out in this way? Don't think we ever have. He could have come out years ago with this but chose to stay silent. Now that the reality is out there in the public sphere from SO many people from many of his stops along the way I don't blame Bob for confirming what others are now saying. Bob is not just a good guy, but is great guy. He could have gotten back into coaching but has had a good career and decided to not get back into the mix though he could've of it he decided to, very easily I might add. You are right that in the coaching and football fraternity (of which I've been a part of my whole life) he was and is well regarded and well respected. He CHOSE not to get back into it as he is more interested in helping out his son and family at this point in his life and it's no coincidence that his son is also very well regarded and successful. He's a good father, a good family man, a good brother, a good son and a good friend (the latter I would know something about), one who cares greatly about other people. A man of great character he is also a man who isn't perfect. He has flaws. And if anything the only thing he can be accused of is being perhaps too old school in his predominant approach on coaching in the modern era. I and he and others of the over 50 set were coached with more negative motivational methods with a lot of yelling. The coddled home schooled kids of today who are brought up in the child centered households of the modern era as opposed to parent centered households of a different era, they don't like or respond as well to the old ways, and rather need to be affirmed while trying to motivate them. This is where he errored but is also part of the was reason Marrone wanted him so bad. Clearly according to reports, I don't know as I never saw it, but with Long he went too old school on him or so I hear yelling too much. He's had this approach his whole career with ultimate hope that it would help the player and the team succeed, both in the game of football and in the game of life. This can be argued. But what cannot be argued and I can tell you with first hand knowledge is that unlike a lot of other coaches and what's been written here he's NOT egotistical, NOT self centered, NOT a greedy narcissist and NOT out of control. All quite the opposite. Talk to anyone one of us who really know him and have spent time with him vs. the same with Marrone and see how things end up. If Bobs words confirming what many have apparently experienced and already knew and are now saying, if they contribute to DM not getting a job it will be an instructive example of how the bad treatment of so many others will result in some bad karma that will sooner or later come back to bite you in the butt. It's really not that hard to be decent. Decent to past players (it's well documented here and elsewhere he was not), decent to past professional staff (one of who I know personally who after 25 years of service to SU he took off the sideline during games and ended his time with SU), decent to current players too (remember his rule that injured players can't be on the sideline during games and were exhiled to the stands), and on and on as Bees and others note. Bob aint perfect but I'm here tell you that on the scale of yeay or nay as to how one judges a person, Bobs a great person who doesn't deserve some of the things people are writing here vs. say some of the things now coming out now about another person confirming what Bob already knew. [/QUOTE]

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