TH Spangler wrote:
RI, the Debbie Downer "mob" was doing the same thing back when Rocco was here. "Fire the coach! He gave Asa Chapman a second chance ". "Fire the coach for that silly call in the NCSU game " Now we have Gill and some of the same people are praising Rocco, "bring back Rocco " ....... Forget sports, same ones use the forum to blow up every negative issues they can find about anything LU. Whatever floats your boat Water floats mine!
Look I don't know you and honestly I don't care but you are fundamentally wrong on this. I'll address this in pieces.
1. I worked for Rocco. and even defended him on this board several times many years ago. but when we went and collapsed in games we should have won and he allowed asa chapman to play I couldn't defend that any more. If you truly know what happened with the Asa situation you should feel the same way. No division one program would have tried to weather that PR storm and we did and it was a unmitigated disaster for Rocco.
2. I have not seen a single person talk about bringing back rocco. It would be a poor decision for the university.
3. The university leadership does things worthy of being critiqued. Some of us feel that several instances could have been handled better. But again we choose to run head long into PR storms. I'm not even asking for us to be politically correct. We aren't I get that. But we also shouldn't be inviting conflict. (see 2Timothy 2:23 and Proverbs 20:3) I was very critical of the McCaw hire because of the optics and timing. I can admit that he's been good for us but I still don't agree with how we went about it.
Doc said on many occasions that if its Christian it ought to be better. Sorry that some of us trying to encourage the university to keep that mantra, offends your fandom to this degree.