🏈 Strong Initial Team Meeting - Scipio Tex Take

[It Takes Eleven]

The legendary Scipio Tex recounts Strong's initial meeting with the players. The winds of change in Austin...

http://www.barkingcarnival.com/2014/1/14/5308182/culture-change-at-texas

 

[TerryP]

Here are a few of my thoughts:

Players may not live off campus anymore, unless they're a senior who hits certain academic standards. The University will buy out the leases for every player currently living off campus and put them in the athletic dorm.

It may be possible, but that doesn't ring true. How can a University buy-out a lease under the name of a football player without that being considered a form of compensation?

If a player misses a class, he runs until it hurts. If he misses two classes, his entire position unit runs. If he misses three, the position coach runs. The position coaches don't want to run.

Pardon me while I laugh a little. This sounds like a load of bullshit to me.

This was all relayed to me 2nd and 3rd hand by good people.

No, don't pardon me. I'm just going to laugh.

 

[sean]

No earrings in the football building. No drugs. No stealing. No guns. Treat women with respect.

really? they actually have to state these points? you'd think it was common sense to not do drugs or not steal or not carry guns or treat women with respect.

The team will all live together, eat together, suffer together, and hang out together. They will become a true team and learn to impose accountability on each other. The cliques are over.

that part won't happen. years ago the ncaa said that there will no longer be student-athlete-only dorms as this showed preference towards the student-athletes and put them in a higher place above non-student-athletes.

The focus is on winning and graduating. Anything extraneous to that is a distraction and will be stamped out or removed.

focusing on winning and graduating is an excellent thing. but to say that anything extraneous to that is a distraction, is stupid. things like talking on the phone, texting friends/family is an extraneous act that is related to neither winning or graduating. i don't see that one going over big either.


i can understand being the new coach and coming in a wanting to set your own rules. but some of the things listed are just not gonna sit well. if you piss off too many of your players, then that whole part about winning right away ain't gonna happen.

i can hardly wait to see what Old Timer from TX is gonna say about all this.

 

[planomateo]

He's taking the players spending money, that isn't gonna go over well.

Jeff Madden is thankful he's not a position coach... (he's the assist AD for S/C)

 

[tidentrue]

that part won't happen. years ago the ncaa said that there will no longer be student-athlete-only dorms as this showed preference towards the student-athletes and put them in a higher place above non-student-athletes.

Which I think was the just about the biggest and dumbest thing the NCAA has ever done in the whole history of doing big, dumb things by the NCAA

 

[TerryP]

As long as there are other students in the same building he can have all the players live together. I do believe there's a percentage stated/required by the NCAA.

 

[JoshB]

Yeah I'm calling bullshit on this.

 

[sean]

As long as there are other students in the same building he can have all the players live together. I do believe there's a percentage stated/required by the NCAA.

another think i just thought about was what about the other students. if he wants all the players to stay in the same dorm, what about the students that are already in that dorm. will they force those students to move into another dorm. that's pretty inconvenient if you ask me. and i'd be pissed if i was forced to move to another dorm after i'd already gotten settled in and had my room arranged the way i wanted.

 

[TerryP]

[MENTION=20125]sk33tr[/MENTION] That's a damn good point...makes me wonder what date spring semester starts in Austin. If they have an interim session in Jan. like some schools it wouldn't be that big of a deal. If classes started in the last few weeks?

I'm still saying the report is bullshit when it comes to the housing story. I don't see how they can just pay off a lease for football players.

Now, they may eventually move to the point where he's got them all living in one dorm...

 

[sean]

<!-- BEGIN TEMPLATE: dbtech_usertag_mention --> @sk33tr <!-- END TEMPLATE: dbtech_usertag_mention --> That's a damn good point...makes me wonder what date spring semester starts in Austin. If they have an interim session in Jan. like some schools it wouldn't be that big of a deal. If classes started in the last few weeks?

I'm still saying the report is bullshit when it comes to the housing story. I don't see how they can just pay off a lease for football players.

Now, they may eventually move to the point where he's got them all living in one dorm...

i'm thinking this whole story is bs.

 

[TerryP]

i'm thinking this whole story is bs.

I'm all for banning certain phrases when it comes to sports stories. IE: I can't stand "sources tell me."

Another to add to my ever growing list, "Changing the culture."

This one falls in the same category as the first "report" out of TX about Saban being interested in the job. When they said, "ESPN radio confirms" and it boiled down to an afternoon radio show in Austin that's an ESPN affiliate was the source? Then they are talking about Miss Terry looking for a house with police protection? Then we find out she's at a funeral in FL the same days they are saying she's house hunting?

Now, we've got another story. When it's broken down and you start seeing bits and pieces being...well...

:bsflag:

 

[Kirk Van de Graaff]

Good luck with this, if its true. Sounds lik a Friday night lights movie.:halo:

 

[Brandon Van de Graaff]

Can they play golf in the dorm? Cause if so, Coach Bryant was tougher!!!!! Roll Tide!

 

[RollllTide!]

He's taking the players spending money, that isn't gonna go over well.

Jeff Madden is thankful he's not a position coach... (he's the assist AD for S/C)

Just how many laps will he run? I will bet when he passes the Cripsey Cream he will take a break.
:rofl:

 

[JoshB]

Who DOESN'T take a break when passing the Krispy Kream? :icon_eek:

 

[planomateo]

Who DOESN'T take a break when passing the Krispy Kream? :icon_eek:

My opinion, Krispy Kreme went down hill after they went public, they got rid of all my favorite doughnuts, they were much better 20 years ago

I remember being in San Diego when they brought the first ones to SoCal in 1999, drove all the way up to Orange County to get some...just wasn't the same. Remember when the Plano/Frisco area got it here in Texas in the early 2000's, I think most of the ones around here have now shutdown.

I used to go to the one in Roebuck all the time as a teenager.

 

[It Takes Eleven]

My opinion, Krispy Kreme went down hill after they went public, they got rid of all my favorite doughnuts, they were much better 20 years ago

I remember being in San Diego when they brought the first ones to SoCal in 1999, drove all the way up to Orange County to get some...just wasn't the same. Remember when the Plano/Frisco area got it here in Texas in the early 2000's, I think most of the ones around here have now shutdown.

I used to go to the one in Roebuck all the time as a teenager.

The one that used to be in front of what used to be Eastwood Mall was the closest one to anything south of town. We'd drive up and buy loads of them for fundraisers. When the developer decided he wanted to upscale the mall, he decided KK was inconsistent with his sophisticated outparcel strategy and refused to renew the lease. He put an Olive Garden there. I never ate at that Olive Garden, or any other, for about ten years, and I was glad to see the mall go the way of the wild goose.

RTR,

Tim

 

[RollllTide!]

My opinion, Krispy Kreme went down hill after they went public, they got rid of all my favorite doughnuts, they were much better 20 years ago

I remember being in San Diego when they brought the first ones to SoCal in 1999, drove all the way up to Orange County to get some...just wasn't the same. Remember when the Plano/Frisco area got it here in Texas in the early 2000's, I think most of the ones around here have now shutdown.

I used to go to the one in Roebuck all the time as a teenager.

I loved the ones in Birmingham in the 80's. Do you guys remember this video of cops chasing a Krispy Kreme Truck?

[video=youtube_share;awZcxOrp1Qw]http://youtu.be/awZcxOrp1Qw[/video]

 

[planomateo]

The one that used to be in front of what used to be Eastwood Mall was the closest one to anything south of town. We'd drive up and buy loads of them for fundraisers. When the developer decided he wanted to upscale the mall, he decided KK was inconsistent with his sophisticated outparcel strategy and refused to renew the lease. He put an Olive Garden there. I never ate at that Olive Garden, or any other, for about ten years, and I was glad to see the mall go the way of the wild goose.

RTR,

Tim

Tim you are bringing up some old memories for me.

I haven't heard the Eastwood mall name in a while. First thing that comes to my mind is Parisians, Service Merchandise, Century Plaza and the bowling alley. When we use to go out looking at XMAS lights as a kid, we'd all get in the station wagon and head over to that side of town and hit that KK and drive around and look at lights.

 

[ElephantStomp]

Denver has a Krispy Kreme that we stop at every time we are in Denver that's pretty good.

That's the only place where I've had Krispy Kreme