When players become a cancer to your program you don't keep them based on how much the individual can help you team you get rid of them because of the damage that would be caused by showing the behavior would be tolerated.
David Irving
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When players become a cancer to your program you don't keep them based on how much the individual can help you team you get rid of them because of the damage that would be caused by showing the behavior would be tolerated.
Yeah, no thanks. I'll take the victory, I don't care about the ridiculous ideal of honor in sports.
Seriously, do you understand why programs use the phrase 'Honor Before Victory'? It's because they don't win much. Plain and simple.
There is nothing more powerful in football than interior disruption. Pressure through the middle of the pocket messes absolutely everything up.
I was more talking about between like say a competent d-lineman and a superstar d-lineman. Our problem isn't that Coe and Irving were stars, it's we don't have any competent lineman.
Irving at DT and Coe, those guys were playmakers. The closest thing we had. Especially Coe.
My hope he we have a much more disciplined defense and the sum is greater the whole of the parts next year. That seems to be a key to our decent Ds under Wally B.
I disagree that they were really playmakers. They had 2 sacks between the two of them.
There's a difference between getting another chance while still one the team. I'm talking about Coe and Irving, they have been booted off the team. These guys don't deserve any more chances.
Irving I'll give you, but Coe came on very strong at the end of the year.
I believe Trey Scott listed Coe as a top 5 player on our entire team. In the Big 12 teams get the ball out fast and that limits sacks, but that doesn't mean there wasn't disruption.
Plus, we were 3-9. It's hard to rack up and stats on such a bad defense even if you're the best/most talented player on that defense.
My boss just got fired. He's an industry-known expert in gas trading and it will be a huge blow to my company. But he's gone and the company will continue to exist and even thrive now that he's gone. It will take some time to build that expertise back up, but we'll be a much stronger department because of it.
But we should totality let criminals and cancers play on the team even if the team doesn't want them on the team because we may win another game or 2 - or have lots of players completely lose faith in team leadership and start to phone it in. Because that's whats important.
Agree - in the long run we are better of without them. And I question those that say we may win 1 or 2 more games with them. I think they impact the team more negatively than they are a benefit to it.
