Thoughts from the Chick

Where will Mike Leach land?

Any ideas?

And why are the guys on the radio talking about “what if he had come to Auburn?”  He’s not there, and as far as I know Auburn isn’t looking to replace Gene Chizik right now, so it doesn’t matter - does it? 

It’s interesting to hear, however that it seems like more players are coming out in support of Leach than otherwise.  Think this player was a primadonna?  Think Texas Tech was just looking for a valid reason to get rid of Leach and not have to pay him his $800,000 bonus?

Hmmm…..

From an AL.com article on Mount Cody -

“As if confirming that line of thinking, Texas coach Mack Brown said of his coaching staff, ‘We’re not able to sleep.

‘They’ve got three Suhs up front,’ Brown said. ‘That’s the problem. Everywhere you look, they’ve been knocking people down. We’ve been afraid to show it to our kids.’”

Think he’s just pandering to Alabama to give Texas some psychological advantage???

To me, it just seems like a weird thing for a head coach to say.

Is it the stress?

Is it the pressure?

Is it having to deal with 18-22 year old super stars?

Or are they just A-Holes?

What do you think? 

Because it sure seems like we’ve had a lot of coaches go off the deep end this season.

Just in the past week, we’ve had Urban Meyer’s flip-flop and Mike Leach’s latest oddity. 

In this season alone, we heard of Mark Mangino and his emotional abuse of players.  We heard allegations (and then a recantation of those allegations) regarding Jim Leavitt at South Florida.  And another Mike Leach rant (this one I actually love) where he called his players’ girlfriends “fat.”

And it’s not exclusive to college football - in the NFL, we’ve heard about Oakland Raiders coaches punching eachother out.

Do we need to have coach interventions or what? 

Here’s my overly simplistic view:

If you threaten to send a kid back to his neighborhood to get shot - that’s probably not a good thing. 

If you lock a kid in a shed, no matter how nice that shed is, and especially when his daddy works for ESPN - it’s probably not a good thing.

If you punch out your co-worker - it’s probably not a good thing.

If you are sent to the hospital for self-induced stress, and decide with your family to resign, and tell everyone that your daughter is so excited to “have her Daddy back” one day.  And then the very next day say, ”Ah screw it - I can’t let someone new take over my program at Florida!  That’s more important to me than my health or my family or my daugher having her daddy or all those things I told you yesterday.” - it’s probably not a good thing.

If you call your players’ girlfriends “fat” - well, I can’t really complain about that one.  Mike Leach, you may be crazy, but you are one really funny dude.

But seriously - Maybe Miss Terry Saban just gave all of these guys the answer to all their problems during her interview on Jox.  She said that when the stress gets to be too much, she tells her husband to practice what he preaches. 

And maybe it’s just a chick’s view, but do you think that Miss Terry is what keeps our beloved Coach Saban in check? 

If so, maybe she should open up a practice for troubled coaches.  Judging by this season, I think she’d have plenty of patients.

Anyone hear Cecil on Finebaum?

Gotta love him. 

Not only is he my favorite Tide writer & fav guest on the Finebaum show, but he just laid it all on the line regarding Urban Meyer.

He said what most of the world was thinking, but didn’t have the balls to say.

So, you go, Cecil.

You can listen to what the Reverend Hurt was preachin’ by CLICKING HERE.  (It takes a few minutes to download once you click the link, so just be patient.)

This blogger gives a pretty damn good summary of info on Texas if you’re looking for a “cheat-sheet” on players & matchups to watch.

Click Here for his post

I thought it was a hoax when my brother-in-law read the headline off of the internet - especially since the group had just been having a healthy discussion (in other words, an argument) about Florida football.

But, wow. 

Just don’t know what to say other than that I bet the Florida fans are sick over their coach’s resignation, and I always hate to hear that someone is having health problems that are so severe - especially at such a young age and with a young family. 

Coach Saban commented tonight, saying:

“Our thoughts and prayers are with Urban and his family at this time.  He is a first-class coach and the success he’s had is unmatched in our profession, especially over the last five years at Florida.

“We hope he is able to regain his health and have the opportunity to coach again in the future. Urban Meyer is a great person as well as a great coach, and the game of college football is better with him as a part of it.”

Alabama has 6 first-team all Americans - the most of any team in the nation.

1st Teamers were: Mark Ingram, Rolando McClain, Terrence Cody, Javier Arenas, Mike Johnson and Leigh Tiffin.

Safety, Mark Barron, made the 3rd Team.

I personally LOVE this because it continues to prove Coach Saban’s point that if players buy in to the team or rather, completely sell out to the team, that the honors will come.

Congrats guys.

Here’s the email address listed on their website: cbsmailbag@aol.com

My letter went something like this:

To Whom It May Concern:

I am very disappointed to hear that CBS & The Late Show with David Letterman has bumped Mark Ingram, 2009’s Heisman Trophy winner, from the show.

This young man won college football’s most prestegious award and has set an excellent example for young people by his actions and what he has been able to achieve through an adverse situation.  Not to mention that he gave one of the most heartfelt Heisman acceptance speeches in recent history.

That you would cancel on this young man, and cancel on him at such a late date, is a true shame and is certainly CBS and The Late Show’s loss.

Click Here

Some cool pics of Ingram before, during and after the Heisman ceremony.

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For photos of Ingram in New York before the ceremony, and of Cody in Orlando - click on “Additional Galleries” at the top right of the page.