🏈 USF Fires Jim Levitt

[RollTideRandy]

Probably no one really cares about Jim Levitt today, but I think it's worth dicussing because the USF job may be another opportunity for one of our Assistants to get a promotion.

 

[Argo]

Eat your heart out, USF.

 

[TidePride50]

Eat your heart out, USF.

LOL. That's the first thing I thought about too.

 

[It Takes Eleven]

Beat me to it. He's flaky.

 

[ExiledTidefan]

With all the talk about McCoy's injury, and the kid at Texas tech being "mistreated" and then Leavitt not being nice to a player, and Manginomonster at Kansas, I'm beginning to think that football has an identity crisis. Do the people who criticize a coach for being too physical with a player actually watch the games? It's legalized brutality. Some of the things that Rolando McClain did to UT running backs last night would get the rest of us put into prison for assault.

It's like getting a fish on your hook, jerking his damn face off to get him into the boat, then gently placing him back into the water. The damage is already done.

 

[Oiler99]

Tommy Bowden to South Florida. Remember, you heard it here first!

 

[It Takes Eleven]

With all the talk about McCoy's injury, and the kid at Texas tech being "mistreated" and then Leavitt not being nice to a player, and Manginomonster at Kansas, I'm beginning to think that football has an identity crisis. Do the people who criticize a coach for being too physical with a player actually watch the games? It's legalized brutality. Some of the things that Rolando McClain did to UT running backs last night would get the rest of us put into prison for assault.

It's like getting a fish on your hook, jerking his damn face off to get him into the boat, then gently placing him back into the water. The damage is already done.

It's a brutal game that requires play within the rules. Rules also apply to the coach. Whether Leavitt's assault (or Woody Hayes', for that matter) approached the level of violence on the field doesn't matter. There are lines a coach shouldn't cross. Although it's debatable exactly where that line lies, but strangling is on the other side of it.

 

[psychojoe]

And to think that when we were in the depths in the early part of this decade we actually approached Leavitt and he told us to get lost. As Garth Brooks said "Thank heaven for unanswered prayers".