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Coaches Hot Seat Quotes of the Day – Thursday, June 28, 2012 – John Steinbeck

“A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.”

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“A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.”

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“I am impelled, not to squeak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession.”

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“I have never smuggled anything in my life. Why, then, do I feel an uneasy sense of guilt on approaching a customs barrier?”

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“I’ve lived in good climate, and it bores the hell out of me. I like weather rather than climate.”

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“I’ve seen a look in dogs’ eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.”

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“Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.”

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“If you’re in trouble, or hurt or need – go to the poor people. They’re the only ones that’ll help – the only ones.”

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“In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.”

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“It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming.”

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“It has always seemed strange to me… the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.”

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“It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.”

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“No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.”

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“Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts… perhaps the fear of a loss of power.”

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“Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign state, it is an army with banners.”

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“The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true.”

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“We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it.”

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There were a lot of great columns written if the aftermath of the positive decision of the university presidents to move to a 4-Team Postseason Playoff in Major College Football…

The BCS finally has a stake driven through its heart, but the bowls and the big bucks still reign, Dan Wetzel, Yahoo Sports

New playoff setup eliminates have-nots, doesn’t quite solve the problem, Dennis Dodd, CBS Sports

Playoff approval a historic, joyous, overdue day for college football, Andy Staples, SI

Presidents get playoff plan right, Gene Wojciechowski, ESPN.com

A great day for people who hate the BCS, Bryan Burwell, Post-Dispatch

Bye-bye BCS: College football will have a four-team playoff, Chris Dufresne, Los Angeles Times

…and there is a lot to be said for the BIG step forward taken by the conference commissioners and presidents to bring some sanity and American Common Sense to the Major College Football Postseason…BUT…there is still a lot of work to be done in the coming months to nail down the details of the selection committee and for the folks charged with running college football to cut the best TV deal possible that will ensure that as millions more fans both here in America and around the world become fans of college football due to this new postseason playoff format that the TV networks/cable channels are paying the appropriate amount of money for what will become one of the biggest and most successful events in American sports along with the Super Bowl, the World Series, the NBA Playoffs, the NCAA Basketball Tournament, The Masters and the Olympics.

The Bottom-Line is that even though a lot of very good work has been done there is still much work to do and a few of us here at Coaches Hot Seat upon watching and reading about the meeting in Washington DC by the university presidents to institute a Postseason Playoff in Major College Football and to put an end to the Bogus and Un-American BCS were reminded of what our then Commanding Officer in the US military said to us in the aftermath of the Berlin Wall falling on November 9, 1989 in his morning briefing:

“The Berlin Wall is down. Germany is headed for reunification. The Soviet Union is headed for the trash-heap of history and in the short-term the world just became much more unpredictable and thus more dangerous place. Let’s get to work.”

More than 20 years later there is still a lot of work to be done to reshape the world so that People everywhere can enjoy the Principles that the American Republic was founded upon…Freedom, Liberty and Self-Determination…and the current “Elected Leaders” of OUR country could learn a lot from people like Ronald Reagan who stuck steadfast to certain unbendable principles that unfortunately we don’t hear much about anymore from Washington DC.

June 12, 1987 – Ronald Reagan declares “Mr. Gorbachev tear down this wall.”

 November 9, 1989 – Berlin Wall is torn down…..by the German People and Lovers of Freedom and Liberty from all over the world

Likewise, there is still much to do to make this 4-Team Postseason Playoff a success starting with a strong selection committee that will itself be guided by American Common Sense as they get together at the end of each college football season beginning in 2014 to determine the 4 teams and seeding for the Postseason Playoff.

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Coaches Hot Seat Quotes of the Day – Wednesday, June 27, 2012 – Michael Crichton

“If you don’t know history, then you don’t know anything. You are a leaf that doesn’t know it is part of a tree.”

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“Do you know what we call opinion in the absence of evidence? We call it prejudice.” State of Fear

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“It’s better to die laughing than to live each moment in fear.”

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“What makes you think human beings are sentient and aware? There’s no evidence for it. Human beings never think for themselves, they find it too uncomfortable. For the most part, members of our species simply repeat what they are told-and become upset if they are exposed to any different view. The characteristic human trait is not awareness but conformity, and the characteristic result is religious warfare. Other animals fight for territory or food; but, uniquely in the animal kingdom, human beings fight for their ‘beliefs.’ The reason is that beliefs guide behavior which has evolutionary importance among human beings. But at a time when our behavior may well lead us to extinction, I see no reason to assume we have any awareness at all. We are stubborn, self-destructive conformists. Any other view of our species is just a self-congratulatory delusion. Next question.” The Lost World

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“God creates dinosaurs, God kills dinosaurs, God creates man, man kills God, man brings back dinosaurs.” Jurassic Park

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“The planet has survived everything, in its time. It will certainly survive us.” Jurassic Park

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“You think man can destroy the planet? What intoxicating vanity. Let me tell you about our planet. Earth is four-and-a-half-billion-years-old. There’s been life on it for nearly that long, 3.8 billion years. Bacteria first; later the first multicellular life, then the first complex creatures in the sea, on the land. Then finally the great sweeping ages of animals, the amphibians, the dinosaurs, at last the mammals, each one enduring millions on millions of years, great dynasties of creatures rising, flourishing, dying away — all this against a background of continuous and violent upheaval. Mountain ranges thrust up, eroded away, cometary impacts, volcano eruptions, oceans rising and falling, whole continents moving, an endless, constant, violent change, colliding, buckling to make mountains over millions of years. Earth has survived everything in its time. It will certainly survive us. If all the nuclear weapons in the world went off at once and all the plants, all the animals died and the earth was sizzling hot for a hundred thousand years, life would survive, somewhere: under the soil, frozen in Arctic ice. Sooner or later, when the planet was no longer inhospitable, life would spread again. The evolutionary process would begin again. It might take a few billion years for life to regain its present variety. Of course, it would be very different from what it is now, but the earth would survive our folly, only we would not. If the ozone layer gets thinner, ultraviolet radiation sears the earth, so what? Ultraviolet radiation is good for life. It’s powerful energy. It promotes mutation, change. Many forms of life will thrive with more UV radiation. Many others will die out. Do you think this is the first time that’s happened? Think about oxygen. Necessary for life now, but oxygen is actually a metabolic poison, a corrosive glass, like fluorine. When oxygen was first produced as a waste product by certain plant cells some three billion years ago, it created a crisis for all other life on earth. Those plants were polluting the environment, exhaling a lethal gas. Earth eventually had an atmosphere incompatible with life. Nevertheless, life on earth took care of itself. In the thinking of the human being a hundred years is a long time. A hundred years ago we didn’t have cars, airplanes, computers or vaccines. It was a whole different world, but to the earth, a hundred years is nothing. A million years is nothing. This planet lives and breathes on a much vaster scale. We can’t imagine its slow and powerful rhythms, and we haven’t got the humility to try. We’ve been residents here for the blink of an eye. If we’re gone tomorrow, the earth will not miss us.” Jurassic Park

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“I am certain there is too much certainty in the world.”

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“All your life people will tell you things. And most of the time, probably ninety-five percent of the time, what they’ll tell you will be wrong.” The Lost World

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“Praise not the day until evening has come, a woman until she is burnt, a sword until it is tried, a maiden until she is married, ice until it has been crossed, beer until it has been drunk.” Eaters of the Dead

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“It’s hard to decide who’s truly brilliant; it’s easier to see who’s driven, which in the long run may be more important.” Congo

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Coaches Hot Seat Prediction and Analysis of 2012 Season: Florida Gators and Will Muschamp

Florida Gators

Head Coach: Will Muschamp

Years at Florida:  1

Hot Seat Position:  #23

Overall Coaching Record:  7 – 6  (.538)

Overall Won/Loss Record at Florida:  7 – 6  (.538)

Overall Conference Record at Florida:  3 – 5  (.375)

2011 Florida Record: Overall:  7 – 6 – SEC:  3 – 5

2012 Florida Schedule & Coaches Hot Seat Predictions

Sept 1 – Bowling Green – W
Sept 8 – at Texas A&M – L
Sept 15 – at Tennessee – L
Sept 22 – Kentucky – W
Oct 6 – LSU – L
Oct 13 – at Vanderbilt – W

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Coaches Hot Seat Quotes of the Day –  Tuesday, June 26, 2012 – Muhammad Ali

“He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.”

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“I hated every minute of training, but I said, “Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.”

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“The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses – behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.”

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“It’s lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself.”

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“Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.”

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“Champions aren´t made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them – a desire, a dream, a vision.”

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“It’s the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.”

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“The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses – behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.  I hated every minute of training, but I said, “Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.” 

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