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Coaches Hot Seat Quotes of the Day – Monday, April 30, 2012 – W. E. B. Du Bois

“There is but one coward on earth, and that is the coward that dare not know.”

And

“I insist that the object of all true education is not to make men carpenters, it is to make carpenters men.”

And

“Believe in life! Always human beings will progress to greater, broader, and fuller life.”

And

“The worker must work for the glory of his handiwork, not simply for pay; the thinker must think for truth, not for fame.”

And

“The function of the university is not simply to teach bread-winning, or to furnish teachers for the public schools or to be a centre of polite society; it is, above all, to be the organ of that fine adjustment between real life and the growing knowledge of life, an adjustment which forms the secret of civilization.”

And

“The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.”

And

“Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.”

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“Now is the accepted time, not tomorrow, not some more convenient season. It is today that our best work can be done and not some future day or future year. It is today that we fit ourselves for the greater usefulness of tomorrow. Today is the seed time, now are the hours of work, and tomorrow comes the harvest and the playtime.”

And

“It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one’s self through the eyes of others, of measuring one’s soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity.”

And

“It is the trained, living human soul, cultivated and strengthened by long study and thought, that breathes the real breath of life into boys and girls and makes them human, whether they be black or white, Greek, Russian or American.”

And

“Liberty trains for liberty. Responsibility is the first step in responsibility.”

Wikipedia Page:  W. E. B. Du Bois

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Coaches Hot Seat Quotes of the Day – Sunday, April 29, 2012 – Niccolo Machiavelli

“Never was anything great achieved without danger.”

And

“The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.”

And

“The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.”

And

“There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless.”

And

“There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.”

And

“Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.”

And

“The Romans never allowed a trouble spot to remain simply to avoid going to war over it, because they knew that wars don’t just go away, they are only postponed to someone else’s advantage.”

And

“Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.”

And

“Upon this, one has to remark that men ought either to be well treated or crushed, because they can avenge themselves of lighter injuries, of more serious ones they cannot; therefore the injury that is to be done to a man ought to be of such a kind that one does not stand in fear of revenge.”

And

“The chief foundations of all states, new as well as old or composite, are good laws and good arms; and as there cannot be good laws where the state is not well armed, it follows that where they are well armed they have good laws.”

And

“From this arises the question whether it is better to be loved rather than feared, or feared rather than loved. It might perhaps be answered that we should wish to be both: but since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved.”

And

“God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us.”

And

“It is truly a marvelous thing to consider to what greatness Athens arrived in the space of one hundred years after she freed herself from the tyranny of Pisistratus; but, above all, it is even more marvelous to consider the greatness Rome reached when she freed herself from her kings. The reason is easy to understand, for it is the common good and not private gain that makes cities great. Yet, without a doubt, this common good is observed only in republics, for in them everything that promotes it is practised, and however much damage it does to this or that private individual, those who benefit from the said common good are so numerous that they are able to advance in spite of the inclination of the few citizens who are oppressed by it.”

And

“It is not titles that make men illustrious, but men who make titles illustrious.”

Wikipedia:  Niccolo Machiavelli

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Coaches Hot Seat Quotes of the Day – Saturday, April 28, 2012 – Michelangelo

“A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it.”

And

“Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.”

And

“Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.”

And

“Genius is eternal patience.”

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“It is necessary to keep one’s compass in one’s eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges.”

And

“Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.”

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“There is no greater harm than that of time wasted.”

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“Yet I am learning.”

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“If you knew how much work went into it, you would not call it genius.”

Wikipedia:  Michelangelo

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Even though FoxSports.com columnist Thayer Evans is right….

Playoff system battle far from over, FoxSports.com

…the people running college football including the university presidents, conference commissioners, athletic directors and the Sorry SOBs otherwise known as bowl executives have changed their views on the college football postseason almost 180 degrees since 2007 (well, the Sorry SOBs haven’t changed their views but they have gotten their Sorry Asses stream-rolled and that is a Very Good Thing!) and that reality and what happened in South Florida the last two days…

BCS recommends four-team playoff format for 2014, Brett McMurphy, CBS Sports

….means we can confidently say….

V for VICTORY!

As in V for VICTORY over the Bogus and Un-American BCS!

There are a lot of people and events that deserve credit for the 180 degree change in the change of opinion on the college football postseason among the Grand Poo-Bahs that run college football including….

1. The majority of the fans of college football who pay ALL of the bills speaking out loudly about how much they hated the Bogus and Un-American BCS

2. The sports writing, TV work and public pronouncements of Dan Wetzel of Yahoo Sports, Pat Forde of ESPN.com and Yahoo! Sports, Brett McMurphy at CBS Sports, Tim Brando of CBS Sports, the crew at College Football Talk, the College Football News website team, the Rivals.com writers, the Athlon Sports folks, John Feinstein of the Washington Post, Scott Michaux of the Augusta Chronicle, Chris Dufresne of the Los Angeles Times, Pat Dooley of the Gainesville Sun, Paul Finebaum of Paul Finebaum World, Mark Schlabach of ESPN, James Carville of the world of politics, President Obama, Several Members of Congress….and we could go on with a lot more names that ALL spoke out against the Bogus and Un-American BCS

3. Dan Wetzel’s book Death to the BCS that had a major impact on the thinking of many college presidents and athletic directors that read Wetzel’s book on the Bogus and Un-American BCS and said….What the Hell?

4. The Fiesta Bowl and Fiesta Frolic scandal which proved to everyone what many had thought to be TRUE that the bowl system was corrupt to the core and is in our opinion STILL corrupt to the core and among their “leaders” they still have NO DAMN concern about the game of college football, student-athletes, OUR colleges and universities and the fans beyond how all of the above can line their pockets with $$$$$$$$$$$$$.

Just read Dan Wetzel’s latest takedown of the Sorry SOB’s running the bowls to further understand what Complete Leeches that the bowls are relative to the game of college football:

Bowls’ extravagant revenues are closely examined as the NCAA mulls a playoff system, Dan Wetzel, Yahoo Sports

“Officially the document carries the label “2012 BCS Complimentary Tickets,” but for LSU it looks more like the StubHub order from hell, nothing complimentary about it.

Two tickets for the school president to the BCS title game? That’s $700. Four for the chancellor? That’s $1,400. Les Miles’ family? Three-fifty a pop. On and on it goes.

One of the dirty secrets of many bowl games is that almost nothing is cheap. The industry, in this case represented by Sugar Bowl Inc., long ago learned how to squeeze every last penny out of college football. That includes charging even the stars of the show exorbitant prices for tickets.

How about a couple of free ones for the players to give to their parents or girlfriends or high school coaches? Please. The Sugar Bowl instead charged LSU $350 a seat, full price, for every last player request. Total cost: $254,800 on the players alone.

Oh, and the Tiger Marching Band, the one that is contractually obligated to attend bowl week and provide halftime entertainment?
With bowls, not even the band gets in free. LSU had to buy tickets for every clarinetist, flutist, tuba player and majorette. Some of the seats, according to the Baton Rouge Advocate, just held the tuba.

That added up to 529 tickets, almost all full price. The bill for the student band to sit was $182,830.”

After reading Dan Wetzel’s latest on the Sorry SOBs running the bowl games the first thought that came into our minds was…

What kind of Morons let these bowl Bastards run all over our colleges and universities and college football teams?

Uhhh, that would be the university presidents, athletic directors and conference commissioners that have allowed our colleges and universities and college football teams to be treated like yard dogs by these Sorry SOBs running these Bogus bowl games.

If the presidents of the universities, the athletic directors and conference commissioners really wanted to have a great college football postseason they would switch to the system the PGA Tour uses with its PGA Tour Tournament stops that are REAL non-profit organizations that are required to pay a set fee to the PGA Tour in exchange for giving that group of people and community “the right” to hold a PGA Tour event and have PGA Tour players at their tournament and the PGA Tour tournaments then have to go out and sell sponsorships and take the risk on whether their events will make money or not and there is no guarantee on tickets, hotel rooms or even if star PGA Tour players will show up to play.

If the university presidents, athletic directors and conference commissioners moved to a system with the college bowl games where the bowls games would be working for college football instead of the current situation where college football works for the bowls games it not only would be the best thing that could possibly happen to bring some sanity back to the college football postseason it would also put the onus on the bowl games to make their games profitable instead of their now current “guarantee” that they will make a boatload of money which is really just university presidents, athletic directors and conference commissioners rolling over and getting drilled by these Sorry SOBs running the bowl games which are nothing but first-rate carney barkers and rip-off artists that we would not trust to watch our dogs.

Getting back to what people and events have changed the views of the Grand Poo-Bahs running college football on the college football postseason and Bogus BCS….

5. The Bogus “Ohio State Gate” in 2010 when that Sorry Pieces of Crapola that runs the Sugar Bowl stuck his nose into the internal workings of the Ohio State University and pleaded for the NCAA to allow several OSU players that had broken NCAA rules to play in the Sugar Bowl with the players of course ending up being not eligible to play in the Sugar Bowl or even in the entire 2010 season if the coach at Ohio State had told the TRUTH about what he had learned about what his players had been up to with this entire event just showing how completely Bogus the BCS and these Sorry SOBs running the bowls games really were which was just another black eye for the Bogus and Un-American BCS.

6. The Declining TV Ratings of the Bogus BCS games over the past few years has gotten the notice of everyone especially when the NFL’s TV ratings kept going up even though they had a….

Regular Season

AND

Postseason Playoff

…and the TV ratings for both regular and postseason games, attendance at the games and interest in the NFL as whole kept going up which of course puts a stake in the Idiotic Idea that somehow a postseason playoff in college football would somehow “hurt” the college football regular season when in FACT the Damn Direct Opposite is TRUE as proved by the NFL!

7. NCAA President Mark Emmert – Those of us here at Coaches Hot Seat that have run into Mark Emmert a number of times over the years going back to his days as Provost at Montana State University knew that Emmert supported some kind of postseason playoff for college football as long as it did not negatively impact the student-athletes academic-wise and once the idea of a 4-team playoff and a College Football Final Four came into view it was only natural that Emmert would support such a plan and with the president of the NCAA behind something it gets a big boost which played out in south Florida this week.

8. The Alabama – LSU Bogus BCS title game which saw a team that did not win its conference or even division playing for and winning the Bogus BCS national title which really showed just how absurd the Bogus BCS really is because it ended the Stupidity of the folks saying the “regular season is the playoff” since LSU beat Alabama in the “regular season” in Tuscaloosa so in the Bizarro-Land that is “BCS-speak” Alabama would have been eliminated by the “regular season playoff”……right?

Not quite as Alabama destroyed LSU which was not ready to play Bama and was not even ready to play football which of course goes right to the heart of another Bogus thing about the college football postseason which is the 30 to 40 days between the end of the college football regular season and the Bogus BCS games which leads to the coaches, players and fans not having a clue what team will show up to play because in what other sport in America do the top teams take 30 to 40 days off between the regular and postseason?

Answer: NONE.

9. The university presidents views on the college football postseason and bowl games has changed even more dramatically than the conference commissioners in the past 5 years with by our unofficial count being that in 2007 around 100 of 118 university presidents “supported the current college football postseason and Bogus BCS” to the spring of 2012 with…

Over 100 university presidents now favoring something other than the Bogus BCS.

How did the university presidents change their opinions so much on the college football postseason and Bogus BCS so much in only 5 years you ask?

Well, most university presidents are both curious people and are often natural politicians and as they collectively as a group and on their own as individuals looked into the Bogus BCS and college bowl games they found lots of things they did not like and they also found that the vast majority of the fans and big boosters of their schools’ football teams did not like the Bogus BCS at all which got them to looking at things even more and they found even more not to like.

As one university president told a member of Coaches Hot Seat in 2010 after reading Dan Wetzel’s Death to the BCS:

“This BCS is HORSESHIT.”

We here at Coaches Hot Seat have done a running informal and internal poll on the views of the 120 university presidents running the BCS and non-BCS schools and here is how their views on the Bogus BCS have changed over he past 5 years:

Year – # of University Presidents that favor the Bogus BCS

2007 – 103
2008 – 88
2009 – 72
2010 – 54
2011 – 34
2012 – 20

You really want to know why the Grand Poo-Bahs that run college football were in south Florida this week laying the groundwork for the end of the Bogus and Un-American BCS?

No, it wasn’t really the “fans” opposition to the Bogus and Un-American BCS that drove this process to end the Bogus BCS because the Grand Poo-Bahs really don’t give a Damn about the fans and in private over the past 5 years we have heard them with our own ears make fun of the fans and how the fans could take their complaints about the Bogus BCS and stuff them where the Sun Doesn’t Shine, but rather what has driven these changes to the Bogus BCS is…

The dramatic change in opinion about the Bogus BCS among the….University Presidents

….who can figure out when they and their schools are getting ripped-off and Major College Football has been getting Royally Ripped-Off for not only not having a playoff but also from these Very Sorry Bastards that run these Bogus Bowl games which are really nothing more than a way for a few Sorry Pieces of Crapola to get very rich off of OUR universities, OUR college football teams and our student-athletes with the schools and fans footing the bill.

Yes, read again Dan Wetzel’s latest….

Bowls’ extravagant revenues are closely examined as the NCAA mulls a playoff system, Dan Wetzel, Yahoo Sports

…to learn just how badly OUR schools and football teams have been getting Royally Ripped-Off with us….THE FANS…paying the freight for everything!

Luckily….those days are ALMOST OVER….with the Bogus and Un-American BCS headed to the same trash heap as the Berlin Wall…

…there is still much work to be done to turn the tables on these Sorry SOBs running these bowl games that have somehow come to believe that it is they that own the game of college football instead of what they should be doing….

Serving the game of College Football.

After the announcement on Thursday by the BCS Grand Poo-Bahs that…

BCS recommends four-team playoff format for 2014, Brett McMurphy, CBS Sports

…the major issues outstanding seem to be…

How to determine which teams will play in the 4-team college football postseason playoff?

Where to play the games involving the 4 teams that will be in this college football postseason playoff?

As for how to determine which teams would play in the 4-team postseason playoff we would recommend that all the human and computer polls that wanted to put out polls do just that and at the end of the regular – championship game season a human committee made up of people that have actually played and coached the game of college football come up with the 4-teams in the postseason playoff.

We would use the current former college head coaches that vote in the…

Legends Poll

…which can be found at LegendsChannel.com and were in 2011:

Bobby Bowden
Frank Broyles
John Cooper
Fisher DeBerry
Terry Donahue
Vince Dooley
Pat Dye
LaVell Edwards
Don James
Frank Kush
Dick MacPherson
Bill Mallory
Don Nehlan
John Ralston
John Robinson
Bobby Ross
RC Slocum
Gene Stallings
George Welch

….to determine which teams would play in the postseason 4-team playoff.

Is someone in America actually going to argue that there is ANYONE that knows more about college football than the above former coaches?

Didn’t think so.

We would put together a centralized website that would post all of the human and computer polls throughout the season that the above former coaches would be using to help them determine the 4-teams in the college football postseason playoff and throughout the season the above coaches would have to for the most part keep their opinions to themselves when it came to which teams they thought were the best until they met in early December to decided which 4-teams would be in the playoff just like the NCAA College Basketball Committee meets at the end of the college b-ball season to set the 64-team NCAA Tournament field.

Now that the selection of the 4-teams for the playoff is settled….we move onto….

Where to play the games involving the 4 teams that will be in this college football postseason playoff?

We are envisioning a College Football Final Four made up of the top 4 teams and 2 games that are played on a Saturday back-to-back around New Year’s Day each year.

For example: In 2015 New Year’s Day is on a Thursday, January 1, 2015, which would lead us to believe that a number of Big Bowl games would be played on January 1 and there would be TWO Final Four Games that would be played on Saturday January 3, 2015 and the National Championship Game would be played on Saturday January 10, 2015.

Ideally we would love to see those TWO Final Four Games being played on college campuses of the two-highest seeded teams and that is because we believe that the best place to play ALL games except the National Championship Game is on a college campus since we are talking about college football….right?

Imagine for a moment ESPN.com or whomever ends up this new TV contract for the 4-team postseason playoff opening their telecast with a blimp over….

A College Football Stadium on a College Campus.

Of course, money will probably rear its ugly head in this spot which means there is a lot more money that could be made playing these TWO Final Four Games at a neutral site where the tickets and suites could be sold for a small fortune which hopefully will be controlled by the game of college football instead of these Sorry SOBs running the bowl games which no doubt would love to get their Greedy hands on as much money as possible since that is in our opinion the only Damn thing they care about….

$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

If the economics of playing the TWO Final Four Games at neutral sites is such that the games could make two, three times or even more by having them played off of the college campus AND most of that money that would be generated by these Final Four Games would go to OUR universities then….

DO IT.

Another issue that we forgot about is if the selection committee choosing the 4-teams to play in the postseason playoff should be forced to choose “X” number of conference champions and after giving it some thought sitting by the pool in South Beach drinking cold beverages the last couple of days we have changed our minds and we now believe that the selection committee should have free range to choose the “Best FOUR Teams” to play in the 4-team College Football Postseason Playoff.

Hell, we just solved all of the problems that the Grand Poo-Bahs left on the table as they left South Florida and now we can get back to our regular jobs while knowing the Bogus and Un-American BCS is on its last legs and is about to be put out of Sorry Ass Misery…..

And not a moment too soon!

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Coaches Hot Seat Quotes of the Day – Friday, April 27, 2012 – Vince Lombardi

“There’s only one way to succeed in anything, and that is to give it everything. I do, and I demand that my players do.”

And

“If you aren’t fired with enthusiasm, you’ll be fired with enthusiasm.”

And

“Mental toughness is essential to success.”

And

“You never win a game unless you beat the guy in front of you. The score on the board doesn’t mean a thing. That’s for the fans. You’ve got to win the war with the man in front of you. You’ve got to get your man.”

And

“To achieve success, whatever the job we have, we must pay a price.”

And

“Success is like anything worthwhile. It has a price. You have to pay the price to win and you have to pay the price to get to the point where success is possible. Most important, you must pay the price to stay there.”

And

“Football is a great deal like life in that it teaches that work, sacrifice, perseverance, competitive drive, selflessness and respect for authority is the price each and every one of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.”

And

“Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent’s pressure, and the temporary failures.”

And

“Confidence is contagious and so is lack of confidence, and a customer will recognize both.”

And

“If you believe in yourself and have the courage, the determination, the dedication, the competitive drive and if you are willing to sacrifice the little things in life and pay the price for the things that are worthwhile, it can be done.”

And

“Unless a man believes in himself and makes a total commitment to his career and puts everything he has into it-his mind, his body and his heart-what is life worth to him? If I were a salesman, I would make this commitment to my company, to the product and most of all, to myself.”

And

“The quality of a person’s life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.”

And

“Once a man has made a commitment to a way of life, he puts the greatest strength in the world behind him. It’s something we call heart power. Once a man has made this commitment, nothing will stop him short of success.”

And

“Unless a man believes in himself and makes a total commitment to his career and puts everything he has into it-his mind, his body, his heart-what’s life worth to him.

And

“It is essential to understand that battles are primarily won in the hearts of men.”

And

“In great attempts, it is glorious even to fail.”

And

“They may not love you at the time, but they will later.”

And

” Leadership rests not only upon ability, not only upon capacity; having the capacity to lead is not enough. The leader must be willing to use it. His leadership is then based on truth and character. There must be truth in the purpose and will power in the character.”

And

“Leadership is based on a spiritual quality; the power to inspire, the power to inspire others to follow.”

And

“Having the capacity to lead is not enough. The leader must be willing to use it.”

And

“A leader must identify himself with the group, must back up the group, even at the risk of displeasing superiors. He must believe that the group wants from him a sense of approval. If this feeling prevails, production, discipline, morale will be high, and in return, you can demand the cooperation to promote the goals of the company.”

And

“Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.”

And

“They call it coaching but it is teaching. You do not just tell them…you show them the reasons.”

And

“The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.”

And

“The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will.”

And

“The spirit, the will to win and the will to excel-these are the things that endure and these are the qualities that are so much more important than any of the events that occasion them.”

And

“It is essential to understand that battles are primarily won in the hearts of men. Men respond to leadership in a most remarkable way and once you have won his heart, he will follow you anywhere.”

And

“A man can be as great as he wants to be. If you believe in yourself and have the courage, the determination, the dedication, the competitive drive and if you are willing to sacrifice the little things in life and pay the price for the things that are worthwhile, it can be done.”

And

“If you’ll not settle for anything less than your best, you will be amazed at what you can accomplish in your lives.

And

“It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.”

And

“I’ve never known a man worth his salt who in the long run, deep down in his heart, didn’t appreciate the grind, the discipline. There is something good in men that really yearns for discipline.”

And

“The good Lord gave you a body that can stand most anything. It’s your mind you have to convince.”

And

“Mental toughness is many things and rather difficult to explain. Its qualities are sacrifice and self-denial. Also, most importantly, it is combined with a perfectly disciplined will that refuses to give in. It’s a state of mind-you could call it character in action.”

And

“Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.”

And

“Individual commitment to a group effort-that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.”

And

“Teams do not go physically flat, they go mentally stale.”

And

“Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn’t do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.”

And

“People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.”

And

“The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.”

And

“Success demands singleness of purpose.”

And

“Some of us will do our jobs well and some will not, but we will be judged by only one thing-the result.”

And

“Winning is not a sometime thing: it’s an all the time thing. You don’t win once in a while; you don’t do the right thing once in a while; you do them right all the time. Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.”

And

“Winning is not everything–but making effort to win is.”

And

“It’s easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you’re a winner, when you’re number one. What you’ve got to have is faith and discipline when you’re not yet a winner.”

And

“I firmly believe that any man’s finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is the moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle-victorious.”

Wikipedia:  Vince Lombardi

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