UNTLifer

Why wouldn't Sept. 3rd be a home game?

Didn't say it was assault. My point all along is that Levitt's alleged actions are inappropriate of a coach. How am are partially responsible for a kid choosing to play football? Again, this part of your statement doesn't hold water regardless of if I want it to or not.

What defines this issue is, as a person in a position of authority (coach), Levitt crossed the line when he grabbed a person in a position beneath him (player) by the neck and slapped him. That is crossing the line and is not acceptable. Did it cause physical harm? I don't know, but that is not the point. The point is the action he allegedly chose to take in dealing with this player is unacceptable. Again, the player assumes the risk of personal injury by playing the game when he decides to pursue football. That is different from being grabbed by the neck and slapped by a coach. This arguement of your's doesn't hold water.

Careful, this is one of TFLF's favorite coaches.

It wasn't a personal attack, it was my throwing my hands up in the air and just letting it go. What actual harm was incurred? How do you define harm? Was he physically injured? I don't really know, but I doubt it. Did it emabarass, humiliate or hurt his feelings? Probably, but that isn't what defines the issue.

Former President Matthews is spinning in his grave.

I thought he was still affiliated with the University of Nebraska. Either way, he wrote a great article on the Cowboys. San Antonio Express News

Keep splitting hairs. Man, and I thought my 5 and 8 year old boys were tough to explain things to.

He played for my people before your people.

Joey Florence?

How much?

I thought Rawlins was only in for one year. Any chance he's hired as a permanent Pres? There has been zero news on that search.

I agree with FFR and GrandGreen regarding Levitt. It does appear to be one instance in a fairly long career. 90, there is zero hypocrisy on this board regarding your point. Hitting and tackling are legally PART OF THE GAME and head slaps and grabbing the face mask are considered against the rules resulting in a penalty. The above occur during the playing of the game and are ACCEPTED RISKS by the participants. Being head slapped, choked and having your head yanked around by a coach are not acceptable forms of coaching and are not an accepted risk by the players. These infractions can also result in a penalty against the coach, see Leach, Levitt, Woody Hayes, etc...for example. Two have had their career interrupted and the other is career ended by these needless acts.

If the window to my university is a brawl with FIU with an alumni color man on the broadcast throwing out ghetto slang, or being a bunch of classless morons like the ones that showed up in the Cotton Bowl and whipped Texas, then I would prefer that window be boarded up. Why can't we build a program like TCU, for example, that has done it by being successful on and off the field, and by being something the community, alumni and students can be proud of? Or how about Boise State that built their program much the same way TCU has? There's more than one way to skin a cat. Being successful doesn't mean being classless.

1. If it isn't for discipline, then why are they grabbing a player's face mask? 2. Probably correct, but this still doesn't make it right and I would bet that these occurrences are less and less. 3. Where is the hypocrisy? A young man accepts that he will either; be hit or tackled within the rules of the game by other players if he is an offensive player, or the he will be blocked, within the rules of the game, by opposing players if he plays defense. This doesn't mean that he accepts the same type of actions from a coach as a form of discipline or to get his attention. Bobby Knight or Tony Dungy? Really? I have zero respect for how Knight conducted himself during games. Arguing with an official is one thing, but throwing a chair across the floor is childish and uncalled for. I also have zero respect for how he treated some of his players. I'm sure you could contact some that didn't have nice things to say or fond memories of playing for him. I do respect the fact that his players attended class and graduated, but not much more. BTW, I played baseball for 17 years, basketball for six years, football for six years and ran track for two years. I was never yanked around by my face mask by any of my coaches, ever. My father was a successful high school and college coach from the mid 40's through the mid 60's and he never did any of this and his players respected him. Respect is earned, not a right. This has absolutely nothing to do with the "wussification" of America. An example of this is the P.E. classes in California that conducted jump rope without the rope because some students couldn't master the skill, and they didn't want them to feel bad.

Teaching fundamentals is one thing, hitting, slapping, grabbing out of anger to discipline a player is another. When you can grasp that concept this will all sink in. Maybe.

I don't know if he knows anything or not, but Vito mentions in his blog that Johnson may now be a target with the Robinson signing. I hope he is right. I would also like to see JJ go after a JUCO big, if there is one available, in the mold of Tramiel.

Who is the player from Galveston that Cooley is so high on, and is he still available?

Good post, although winning is what keeps coaches around. For various reasons, some TD had control over and some he didn't, he just couldn't get us on the winning track, and in the end that is what led to his firing. You could learn a thing or two about character from Dodge.

Of course, that could be the fault of the O-Line coach or the offensive coordinator. Just sayin'

I couldn't agree more with the above statement. We can win and run a good program at the same time. I have no interest in becoming the second coming of Miami. I don't know who that coach is, but I will trust RV to make the right decision.

That would make two games this season, not the three you mentioned in your original post.

Sure, but anyone can jump from D1AA to Ohio State and be succeddful with all of their assets. Same with SDSU, but we should never expect the same a little ol' NT.

Just amazed at the difference in Dodge considering being the HC at NT is a little different than being President.