Jim Leavitt Getting the Horns at USF
Thanks to intrepid F&D friend Ahmad Ragab for giving me first alert that reports say Jim Leavitt will get shitcanned in about 38 minutes (noon) when USF has called a press conference.
The old-school bullying of players by coaches doesn’t seem to be tolerated anymore; this is an interesting trend, and I’m not sure how I feel about it. On the one hand, I don’t think college kids need to get slapped or have their coaches make fun of family members’ murders (right, Mark Mangino?), but on the other hand this is big-time college football, and it’s a pretty rough world. Sounds like a good off-season post topic!
Ahmad Ragab:
I think ADs and University Administrations have grossly mishandled these situations. Moreover, I think it sets a bad precedent for future 2nd-team sophomores, and disgruntled dads upset that their walk-on scrub of a child isn’t on the cover of SI to cry wolf at the drop of hat (or a hand). It seems obvious at least at this juncture these universities are willing to terminate contracts with cause and upset entire programs at the mere allegation of impropriety, a phenomena that will in future iterations hopefully be coined “getting Leached,” given my penchant for neologism and anthimeria.
11 January 2010, 2:55 amChris Borglum:
“Anthimeria”: (noun) “In rhetoric, anthimeria, traditionally and more properly called antimeria (from the ????, antí, “against, opposite” and ?????, méros, “part”), is the use of a word as if it were a member of a different word class (part of speech); typically, the use of a noun as if it were a verb.”
Settle down there with that fancy-pants, grad-school talk on this site, Mr. Ragab!
11 January 2010, 8:12 amAhmad Ragab:
My pants are rarely fancy!
11 January 2010, 11:54 pm