COACHES HOT SEAT BLOG

In the end it was no surprise to anyone here at Coaches Hot Seat that Jim Tressel resigned from Ohio State (or was that asked, forced, told to resign?), but leave it to a Sorry Candy Ass like Ohio State president E. Gordon Gee to announce Tressel’s resignation on…

MEMORIAL DAY

From the Columbus Dispatch story this morning that broke the news that Jim Tressel was resigning

Sources:  Ohio State Coach Jim Tressel was encouraged to resign

“In an email announcing the resignation to students, Gee said that “recruitment for a new head coach – which is expected to include external and internal candidates – will not commence until the conclusion of the 2011-2012 season.”
 
Tressel flew back from Florida last night for meetings with OSU officials. Assistant coaches and players were informed this morning.
 
Earlier today, The Dispatch obtained a memo that Gee sent to OSU trustees early in the morning:
 
“I write to let you know that later this morning we will be announcing the resignation of Jim Tressel as head coach of the University’s football program. As you all know, I appointed a special committee to analyze and provide advice to me regarding issues attendant to our football program. In consultation with the senior leadership of the University and the senior leadership of the Board, I have been actively reviewing the matter and have accepted Coach Tressel’s resignation.
 
“My public statement will include our common understanding that throughout all we do, we are One University with one set of standards and one overarching mission. The University’s enduring public purposes and its tradition of excellence continue to guide our actions,” Gee wrote.”

E. Gordon Gee announces the resignation of Jim Tressel on MEMORIAL DAY via emails to the OSU Trustees, faculty and students?

Classless and quintessential Candy Ass E. Gordon Gee.

Oh, you say that Sports Illustrated is about to put out a story on Ohio State football and thus the school had to force Tressel out and get “ahead of the story?”

If that was the reason that Jim Tressel’s resignation was announced on MEMORIAL DAY then we now think even less of these Bastards at Ohio State than we did a nanosecond ago.

Everyone with a working brain, seemingly everyone but Jim Tressel and few other people at Ohio State, knew that Jim Tressel was not going to coach another game as the OSU head football coach after the March 7 Yahoo! Sports story by Charles Robinson and Dan Wetzel…

Jim Tressel knew of gear scheme last April

…..which detailed the FACTS that Jim Tressel knew of his players selling merchandise and thus breaking NCAA rules in April 2010 which was a full 5 months before the 2010 football season began and long before that Bogus and Embarrassing December 23 “Buck Stops Here” press conference by Tressel and OSU AD Gene Smith.

Jim Tressel LIED to his own bosses and to the NCAA and that should be a firing offense EVERYTIME for coaches in college that are tasked with leading young American men and women and it was pitiful, sad and downright embarrassing that anyone at Ohio State defended Jim Tressel since early March of this year when the TRUTH about Jim Tressel’s actions was known to everyone:

Jim Tressel LIED and when his LIES became public knowledge in early March (although Ohio State knew about it in January) Jim Tressel should have been fired on the spot.

What really galls us here at Coaches Hot Seat is that a Candy Ass and Pompous Arrogant Ass like E. Gordon Gee would have such little respect for the millions of Americans that have sacrificed their lives in service to OUR country so that all of us and our families can enjoy the benefits of living in the United States of America….that he would so stupidly announce Jim Tressel’s resignation on the morning of…

MEMORIAL DAY

Well, when we think about it announcing Jim Tressel’s resignation on MEMORIAL DAY it is just another day at the office for the Candy Ass E. Gordon Gee and why would Gee give two rips about the millions of Americans that have died so his precious ass could sit in a big office running a major state university that is funded by Hundreds of Millions of Dollars of state and Federal tax money?

Yes, why would E. Gordon Gee care that he made this announcement on Jim Tressel on MEMORIAL DAY instead of waiting until Tuesday morning May 31 st?

In our opinion E. Gordon Gee could care less about the Millions of Americans that have fought and died for OUR country and that he never gave a nanosecond of thought or cared that he was making this announcement about Tressel on MEMORIAL DAY and it is also our opinion that people like E. Gordon Gee and sadly many other Candy Ass presidents and chancellors of universities and colleges in our country could also care less.

America has a magnificent system of higher education in OUR country that is made up of public and private institutions of higher learning that turn-out tens of thousands of educated and often highly motivated young Americans into OUR country every year, but far too often the presidents/chancellors and top leadership of OUR colleges and universities are far removed from the lives of most Americans and are out-of-touch with the FACTS of what made their rise in the academic world possible over the past several decades.

What made America’s colleges and universities possible were the Millions of Americans that have fought and died over the past century that has created a world where the United States of America has emerged as the world’s lone superpower and that has a populace that goes out and works its’ collective asses off everyday that then creates lots of income and wealth and thus Hundreds of Billions of Dollars of tax revenue for higher education in America.

Here’s the real problem:  There are far too many Candy Asses and Pompous Arrogant Asses like E. Gordon Gee running our colleges and universities in America today and like Gee the vast majority of them, something like over 99 percent, never served in the US military, and well over 80 percent of them never worked a day of their lives in the REAL WORLD off of the college or university campus.

The above reality as it now exists in America with so many college and university presidents, top leadership and faculty members that have spent practically NO time in US Military or working in the REAL WORLD is a great danger to the American Republic and it creates troubling situations where there are far too many of these Candy Asses running our colleges and universities that believe in incredibly stupid things like the Absurd BCS which violates every Principle that the American Republic was founded upon and purports to stand for today.

Yes, it makes perfect sense that a Candy Ass like E. Gordon Gee would not understand the idea that in America sports championships are won and lost on the Field of Play not through Bogus and Meaningless bowl exhibition games that are dominated by Bastards like the Sugar Bowl “leader” that stuck his nose into this Ohio State “Buckeye Five” mess last December and pressured Ohio State, the Big Ten and the NCAA to allow the “Buckeye Five” to play in “their” bowl game.

Yes, the BCS makes “perfect” sense to the E. Gordon Gees of the world…but then the E. Gordon Gees of the world put-out major announcements like the resignation of Jim Tressel on MEMORIAL DAY morning.

Yes, in our opinion E. Gordon Gee is a Candy Ass, he is a Pompous Arrogant Ass and he is a Sorry Excuse for an American and if one went back in history and filled up America with men like E. Gordon Gee in December 1941 it is our opinion that there would be no America for all of us to live in today because the Germans and Japanese would have won World War II and killed every Jew and other person they did not like on Planet Earth in the process.  That REALITY is a very scary thought and if anyone in America doesn’t understand the danger that is posed by Candy Asses that are in positions of power across education in America today then that is someone that doesn’t understand what made America great.  That would be Guts, Courage, Will, Desire and an unflinching belief in the Principles that our great country was founded up…that sadly are often laughed at and tossed into the garbage on college and university campuses in America today.

Yes, in our opinion the likes of E. Gordon Gee pose a Clear and Present Danger to the future of the American Republic and today’s announcement of Jim Tressel’s resignation on…

MEMORIAL DAY

…only confirms what we have thought of Gee and others like him for over a decade now.

E. Gordon Gee should be ashamed, but the man has no shame and is in our opinion an embarrassment to Ohio State, the Big Ten Conference, to intercollegiate athletics and to the United States of America.

As for Jim Tressel’s resignation there was no joy, but only sadness when we read that Tressel had resigned from Ohio State this morning.

Jim Tressel is THE reason why Jim Tressel is no longer the head football coach at Ohio State, because in our opinion he turned a “two-bit” merchandise selling scheme by Ohio State football players that would have caused a 2 to 5 game suspension to start the 2010 football season into a full-blown cover-up to keep OSU football players eligible and on the playing field so that OSU could win more football games.

We hate to say it, but that is SORRY Jim Tressel and when the FACTS about this entire debacle became public in early March you should have resigned for the good of the university and intercollegiate athletics then, but another person on a college campus that is out-of-touch with REALITY does not really surprise us…..again, and again, and again…

…but Jim Tressel’s behavior over the past year plus and especially during the last 6 months has been downright embarrassing and has forced us to look at the man and his career in a much different and negative light.

If anything this Tressel debacle should be a great lesson for college coaches everywhere and the lesson is that although WINNING football games and WINNING in life is an important thing, WINNING in the right way is even more important to YOU and to the young men and women that college coaches are tasked to lead.

We wish Jim Tressel good luck into the future and we certainly hope that Jim decides that he has the ability and skills to have a very positive impact upon the life and lives of the people of Ohio and across the country and that he again commit himself to making this world a better place. 

Up until December of 2010 we always thought a lot of and respected Jim Tressel and certainly one or several stupid mistakes should not overshadow the young people he has positively influenced in his life and all the football games he has won and no doubt after the wounds of this debacle have healed and Jim Tressel has redeemed himself and his life we and many others will do what Americans have always done….forgive Jim and applaud him for moving on with his life.

Good Luck to you Jim Tressel.

As for the E. Gordon Gees of the world a Pompous Arrogant Ass will always be a Pompous Arrogant Ass because that is the only way they know how to act and our opinion that the E. Gordon Gees pose a direct threat to the future of the American Republic will not change as does Bogus things like the BCS that undermine the Principles that OUR country was founded up and exists today which is something that E. Gordon Gee and his Candy Ass academic friends could never understand because they have often never spent a day of their lives in the REAL WORLD that 99 percent plus Americans have with in EVERY DAY of their lives.

Tags: Uncategorized by Joe
Comments Off

Coaches Hot Seat Quote of the Day – Monday, May 30, 2011 – Memorial Day – President Ronald Reagan, Address Commemorating the 40 th Anniversary of the Normandy Invasion, June 6, 1984

“We’re here to mark that day in history when the Allied armies joined in battle to reclaim this continent to liberty. For four long years, much of Europe had been under a terrible shadow. Free nations had fallen, Jews cried out in the camps, millions cried out for liberation. Europe was enslaved and the world prayed for its rescue. Here, in Normandy, the rescue began. Here, the Allies stood and fought against tyranny, in a giant undertaking unparalleled in human history.

We stand on a lonely, windswept point on the northern shore of France. The air is soft, but forty years ago at this moment, the air was dense with smoke and the cries of men, and the air was filled with the crack of rifle fire and the roar of cannon. At dawn, on the morning of the 6th of June, 1944, two hundred and twenty-five Rangers jumped off the British landing craft and ran to the bottom of these cliffs.

Their mission was one of the most difficult and daring of the invasion: to climb these sheer and desolate cliffs and take out the enemy guns. The Allies had been told that some of the mightiest of these guns were here, and they would be trained on the beaches to stop the Allied advance.

The Rangers looked up and saw the enemy soldiers at the edge of the cliffs, shooting down at them with machine guns and throwing grenades. And the American Rangers began to climb. They shot rope ladders over the face of these cliffs and began to pull themselves up. When one Ranger fell, another would take his place. When one rope was cut, a Ranger would grab another and begin his climb again. They climbed, shot back, and held their footing. Soon, one by one, the Rangers pulled themselves over the top, and in seizing the firm land at the top of these cliffs, they began to seize back the continent of Europe. Two hundred and twenty-five came here. After two days of fighting, only ninety could still bear arms.

And behind me is a memorial that symbolizes the Ranger daggers that were thrust into the top of these cliffs. And before me are the men who put them there. These are the boys of Pointe du Hoc. These are the men who took the cliffs. These are the champions who helped free a continent. And these are the heroes who helped end a war. Gentlemen, I look at you and I think of the words of Stephen Spender’s poem. You are men who in your “lives fought for life and left the vivid air signed with your honor.”

I think I know what you may be thinking right now — thinking “we were just part of a bigger effort; everyone was brave that day.” Well everyone was. Do you remember the story of Bill Millin of the 51st Highlanders? Forty years ago today, British troops were pinned down near a bridge, waiting desperately for help. Suddenly, they heard the sound of bagpipes, and some thought they were dreaming. Well, they weren’t. They looked up and saw Bill Millin with his bagpipes, leading the reinforcements and ignoring the smack of the bullets into the ground around him.

Lord Lovat was with him — Lord Lovat of Scotland, who calmly announced when he got to the bridge, “Sorry, I’m a few minutes late,” as if he’d been delayed by a traffic jam, when in truth he’d just come from the bloody fighting on Sword Beach, which he and his men had just taken.

There was the impossible valor of the Poles, who threw themselves between the enemy and the rest of Europe as the invasion took hold; and the unsurpassed courage of the Canadians who had already seen the horrors of war on this coast. They knew what awaited them there, but they would not be deterred. And once they hit Juno Beach, they never looked back.

All of these men were part of a roll call of honor with names that spoke of a pride as bright as the colors they bore; The Royal Winnipeg Rifles, Poland’s 24th Lancers, the Royal Scots’ Fusiliers, the Screaming Eagles, the Yeomen of England’s armored divisions, the forces of Free France, the Coast Guard’s “Matchbox Fleet,” and you, the American Rangers.

Forty summers have passed since the battle that you fought here. You were young the day you took these cliffs; some of you were hardly more than boys, with the deepest joys of life before you. Yet you risked everything here. Why? Why did you do it? What impelled you to put aside the instinct for self-preservation and risk your lives to take these cliffs? What inspired all the men of the armies that met here? We look at you, and somehow we know the answer. It was faith and belief. It was loyalty and love.

The men of Normandy had faith that what they were doing was right, faith that they fought for all humanity, faith that a just God would grant them mercy on this beachhead, or on the next. It was the deep knowledge — and pray God we have not lost it — that there is a profound moral difference between the use of force for liberation and the use of force for conquest. You were here to liberate, not to conquer, and so you and those others did not doubt your cause. And you were right not to doubt.

You all knew that some things are worth dying for. One’s country is worth dying for, and democracy is worth dying for, because it’s the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man. All of you loved liberty. All of you were willing to fight tyranny, and you knew the people of your countries were behind you.

The Americans who fought here that morning knew word of the invasion was spreading through the darkness back home. They fought — or felt in their hearts, though they couldn’t know in fact, that in Georgia they were filling the churches at 4:00 am. In Kansas they were kneeling on their porches and praying. And in Philadelphia they were ringing the Liberty Bell.

Something else helped the men of D-day; their rock-hard belief that Providence would have a great hand in the events that would unfold here; that God was an ally in this great cause. And so, the night before the invasion, when Colonel Wolverton asked his parachute troops to kneel with him in prayer, he told them: “Do not bow your heads, but look up so you can see God and ask His blessing in what we’re about to do.” Also, that night, General Matthew Ridgway on his cot, listening in the darkness for the promise God made to Joshua: “I will not fail thee nor forsake thee.”

These are the things that impelled them; these are the things that shaped the unity of the Allies.

When the war was over, there were lives to be rebuilt and governments to be returned to the people. There were nations to be reborn. Above all, there was a new peace to be assured. These were huge and daunting tasks. But the Allies summoned strength from the faith, belief, loyalty, and love of those who fell here. They rebuilt a new Europe together. There was first a great reconciliation among those who had been enemies, all of whom had suffered so greatly. The United States did its part, creating the Marshall Plan to help rebuild our allies and our former enemies. The Marshall Plan led to the Atlantic alliance — a great alliance that serves to this day as our shield for freedom, for prosperity, and for peace.

In spite of our great efforts and successes, not all that followed the end of the war was happy or planned. Some liberated countries were lost. The great sadness of this loss echoes down to our own time in the streets of Warsaw, Prague, and East Berlin. The Soviet troops that came to the center of this continent did not leave when peace came. They’re still there, uninvited, unwanted, unyielding, almost forty years after the war. Because of this, allied forces still stand on this continent. Today, as forty years ago, our armies are here for only one purpose: to protect and defend democracy. The only territories we hold are memorials like this one and graveyards where our heroes rest.

We in America have learned bitter lessons from two world wars. It is better to be here ready to protect the peace, than to take blind shelter across the sea, rushing to respond only after freedom is lost. We’ve learned that isolationism never was and never will be an acceptable response to tyrannical governments with an expansionist intent. But we try always to be prepared for peace, prepared to deter aggression, prepared to negotiate the reduction of arms, and yes, prepared to reach out again in the spirit of reconciliation. In truth, there is no reconciliation we would welcome more than a reconciliation with the Soviet Union, so, together, we can lessen the risks of war, now and forever.

It’s fitting to remember here the great losses also suffered by the Russian people during World War II. Twenty million perished, a terrible price that testifies to all the world the necessity of ending war. I tell you from my heart that we in the United States do not want war. We want to wipe from the face of the earth the terrible weapons that man now has in his hands. And I tell you, we are ready to seize that beachhead. We look for some sign from the Soviet Union that they are willing to move forward, that they share our desire and love for peace, and that they will give up the ways of conquest. There must be a changing there that will allow us to turn our hope into action.

We will pray forever that someday that changing will come. But for now, particularly today, it is good and fitting to renew our commitment to each other, to our freedom, and to the alliance that protects it.

We’re bound today by what bound us 40 years ago, the same loyalties, traditions, and beliefs. We’re bound by reality. The strength of America’s allies is vital to the United States, and the American security guarantee is essential to the continued freedom of Europe’s democracies. We were with you then; we’re with you now. Your hopes are our hopes, and your destiny is our destiny.

Here, in this place where the West held together, let us make a vow to our dead. Let us show them by our actions that we understand what they died for. Let our actions say to them the words for which Matthew Ridgway listened: “I will not fail thee nor forsake thee.”

Strengthened by their courage and heartened by their value [valor] and borne by their memory, let us continue to stand for the ideals for which they lived and died.

Thank you very much, and God bless you all.”

President Ronald Reagan, Address Commemorating the 40 th Anniversary of the Normandy Invasion, June 6, 1984

Wikipedia Page:  Ronald Reagan

Tags: Uncategorized by Joe
Comments Off