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With Tiger Woods again off to a bad start on the weekend in the final two rounds of a major championship again on Saturday in this year’s PGA Championship…

Tiger Woods struggling before play suspended, Randall Mell, Golf Channel

….we hope that Tiger understands what he really must overcome and what he must go through to WIN a Major Championship again.

2012 PGA Championship Leaderboard

Rory McIlroy  -6
Vijay Singh  -6
Adam Scott  -5
Carl Pettersson  -4
Bo Van Pelt  -3
Trevor Immelman  -3
Steve Stricker  -2
Peter Hanson  -2
Graeme McDowell  -2
Ian Poulter  -2
Jimmy Walker  -1
David Lynn  -1
Padraig Harrington  -1
Joost Luiten  -1
Tim Clark  -1
Aaron Baddeley  -1
Jamie Donaldson  -1
Tiger Woods  -1
Geoff Ogilvy  E
Marcel Siem  E

Winston Churchill said it best about when one is going through tough times and struggling to break-through as Tiger Woods is now…

“If you are going through Hell, keep going.”

Before Tiger Woods can earn a Major Championship again he must directly face his own personal demons and then and only then can Tiger Woods become a Major Champion again and the Late Great Joseph Campbell can say this TRUTH much better than us…

“It’s only when a man tames his own demons that he becomes the kind of himself if not of the world.”

You have faced and tamed your own personal demons Tiger Woods…

AND

…it is time to become a Major Champion again.

With the third round of the PGA Championship being completed on Sunday morning Tiger Woods has an opportunity to start anew his rocky third round and to get back into contention and win the 2012 PGA Championship Woods MUST…

Be Strong

Be Competitive

Be Passionate

AND most of all

Play to WIN.

Just as Luke Skywalker in the movie The Empire Strikes Back was told by Yoda when Skywalker was facing his own inner demons…

“Luke: There’s something not right here… I feel cold. Death.

Yoda: [points to a cave opening beneath a large tree] That place… is strong with the dark side of the Force. A domain of evil it is. In you must go.

Luke: What’s in there?

Yoda: Only what you take with you.”

Only YOU Tiger Woods can defeat your own personal demons and win a Major Championship again and above all else YOU Tiger Woods MUST play with COURAGE….again.

“Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality that guarantees all the others.” Winston Churchill

Although many Coaches Hot Seat members are in northern Montana in the Great Rocky Mountains at Glacier National Park there are two CHS members at the PGA Championship at Kiawah Island and one of them called us tonight after following Tiger Woods during his first 8 holes on Saturday and the CHS member he wished he could have told Woods as he was walking off the course after play was suspended:

“Tiger, quit playing so Damn defensive, get off your ass and start playing the game of golf.”

OK, we will tell Tiger Woods that ourselves….

“Tiger, quit playing so Damn defense, get off your ass and start playing the game of golf.”

Memo to Tiger Woods: We have our alarms set for very early in the morning in the Great Rocky Mountains and we will be watching TNT in our RVs at 6 AM Mountain Time to see you finish your third round and MAYBE play your fourth round if you get off your ass and start playing the game of golf again….BUT…if you keeping slopping it around on Sunday we will just go fishing and catch the end of the fourth round and the highlights on the Golf Channel on Sunday night.

Come on Tiger….it supposed to be hard, it supposed to be a challenge and it is supposed to be Very Damn Difficult to WIN a Major Championship and that is why WINNING a Major Championship is so Damn special and unless you are willing to fight through bad breaks, missed shots and your own personal demons in a very direct way you are going to have a Helluva tough time winning another Major this week….or EVER.

Play hard Tiger and we will just go fishing late on Sunday!

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Coaches Hot Seat Quotes of the Day – Sunday, August 12, 2012 – Winston Churchill

“Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.”

And

“However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.”

And

“It’s not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what’s required.”

And

“Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.”

And

“All great things are simple, and many can be expressed in single words: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.”

And

“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.”

And

“The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.”

And

“We contend that for a nation to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.”

And

“An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile—hoping it will eat him last.”

And

“The problems of victory are more agreeable than the problems of defeat, but they are no less difficult.”

And

“If you are going to go through hell, keep going.”

And

“You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”

And

“The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.”

And

“I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the ordeal of meeting me is another matter.”

And

“The truth is incontrovertible, malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end; there it is.”

And

“To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.”

And

“Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy.”

And

“Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.”

And

“Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality that guarantees all the others.”

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Many Coaches Hot Seat members have been in the Great Rocky Mountains of northern Montana for the last week enjoying this beautiful country of ours…

….and after a morning of fishing we came back to the RV to find that Bobby Petrino was also in Montana and talking to ESPN’s Joe Schad about what happened in his final days at Arkansas and we presume how Petrino would be a different coach and man if he does get a another shot to be a head football coach.

Here is Joe Schad’s interview with Bobby Petrino this past week:

Bobby Petrino emotional, regretful, Joe Schad, ESPN.com

We have no doubt at all that Bobby Petrino is a great football coach who was before being fired at Arkansas one of the best play-callers and game-managers in Major College Football….BUT….Bobby Petrino also had a very big weakness and that weakness is what led to Petrino’s downfall at Arkansas and that weakness was (and may still be)…

Bobby Petrino was (is still?) a Pompous Arrogant Ass that believed (still believes?) he is God’s gift to the world

Look no further to the way Bobby Petrino acted while the head coach at Louisville where he wasn’t honest about interviewing for the LSU and Auburn jobs and of course the “slither out like a snake” departure from the Atlanta Falcons and one had (still has?) a pretty good handle of what Bobby Petrino was (is still?) all about and when one adds in the “Blonde on back of the Harley” and LYING to your boss incident at Arkansas there had (still has to be?) to be some serious questions about Bobby Petrino’s character and not just Petrino’s character when he was a 20-year old boy in college having a good time partying down with his buddies and friends BUT when he was the head football coach at Louisville, the Atlanta Falcons and at Arkansas.

We must admit that we have a personal bias in favor of Bobby Petrino because we have been visiting Montana for a couple of decades now and long before Bobby Petrino was a head football coach we knew and followed his father Bob Petrino, Sr. when he was the head football coach at Carroll College for 28 years (1971 – 1998) where we took in at least a dozen Carroll football games over the years and we can tell from first-hand personal experience Bob Petrino Sr. could coach the game of football and thus why we were not surprised at all that Bobby and Paul Petrino (who Bob Petrino, Sr. coached as QBs at Carroll) turned out to be very good football coaches as well.

Of course, knowing the history of the Petrino family means we can understand how painful it must be for Bobby Petrino and the entire Petrino family to deal with Bobby’s transgressions over the years and especially this last debacle at Arkansas mainly because it runs so directly counter to what the Petrino family has been about for several decades now.

Just read this glowing tribute about Bob Petrino, Sr. in the Helena Record newspaper from 2005…

Bob Petrino, Sr., Helena Record

….and note these two paragraphs to see the damage that Bobby Petrino has done to not only himself but his entire family with his selfish actions:

“”The number of young people that coach Petrino has influenced is immense,” wrote former Capital coach and Petrino’s son-in-law, Mark Samson. “Many of his former players went on to become successful teachers, coaches, doctors, lawyers, businessmen and politicians. And they will all tell you that much of their success is due to the work ethic instilled in them by coach Petrino. Putter also served as Carroll’s Athletic Director for several years, and headed-up fundraising efforts that brought in hundreds of thousands of dollars for athletic scholarships.”

Petrino coached a number of great teams and a plethora of superior athletes, but I’m guessing his two favorites would be his own sons, Bobby and Paul, who were both collegiate All-American quarterbacks. But he might even be more proud of their coaching careers, as Bobby is now the head man at Louisville and Paul is the Cardinals’ offensive coordinator. One of his more pleasurable past-times in his retirement is flying down to visit with his sons n talking, watching and (of course) helping coach football.”

Do we really need to comment on the above two paragraphs?

Didn’t think so.

Now take a look at another Helena Record story about the Petrino family “coaches”:

Petrinos define coaching, Curt Synness, Helena Record

“”A trainer or director in athletics. To mentor or train. To prepare by teaching, training or drilling.”

These are some of the definitions of the word “coach.”

Those terms could also describe the Petrinos, a name that’s synonymous with Capital High and Carroll College football. From 1971-98, Bob “Putter” Petrino, Sr. coached the Saints to 16 Frontier championships. Bob and Patsy Petrino’s sons — Bobby (Putter Jr.) and Paul — both standout CHS and Carroll gridders, are currently the head coach and offensive coordinator, respectively, at the University of Louisville.”

Yes, Bobby Petrino through some incredibly selfish actions at Arkansas, at Louisville and also with the Atlanta Falcons has done tremendous damage to the Petrino name and we can imagine that Bobby is getting an earful about his selfish actions from lots of people in Montana and around the country and rightfully Damn so.

As for what Bobby Petrino’s interview with Joe Schad was REALLY all about…

Bobby Petrino wants to get back into the head coaching business

…we of course don’t have a clue if Petrino is being honest or not or if he is really remorseful for his actions or if he is as one of our wives said this week…

“Remorseful that he got caught cheating on his wife with that young blonde honey!”

To that point we could only make the determination if we would hire Bobby Petrino or not by talking to him directly in a very direct way and since we are not in the business of hiring football coaches and we will not be talking to Bobby Petrino anytime soon (although if we did run into Bobby we would give him a piece of our minds) we do have a nice little piece of advice on whether an athletic director and college president should hire Petrino or anyone else that has made one or more serious missteps in their life and it was given to us many years ago by the CEO of a company that often had to hire very talented people that had made mistakes in their lives and this CEO told us he used a special “qualifier” when considering the hiring of what he called a “troubled-child.”

The CEO’s piece of advice when considering hiring someone in a key position that was very talented BUT had made some serious mistakes or had lapses of judgment in their past was…

“After I am convinced the person can add to the organization and help us achieve our goals I then ask myself one simple question about the person:

Will I have to constantly check-up on the person myself to see if he/she is doing things right in their personal and/or business life OR even worse do I believe I would have to hire someone to check-up on the person to see if he/she is doing things right in their personal and/or business life?

If I decide after interviewing the person myself that I will have to spend lots of time or money just checking to see if they are doing things right in their personal and/or business life beyond them doing the job we hired them to do then I will NOT hire that person because that is someone that I CANNOT trust and if I CANNOT trust someone I don’t want them working for my company.”

Therefore the decision by an athletic director and college president to hire Bobby Petrino in the future to take over their football program will come down to one very simple question:

“Do I (and we) trust Bobby Petrino?”

OR rather…

“Can Bobby Petrino be trusted?”

The MOST pitiful thing about the above is that Bobby Petrino by his own actions has put HIMSELF into a position where athletic directors and college presidents NOT only have to consider if Petrino is a great coach (He is) and if Petrino can run a college football program (He can)…BUT…also if….

“Can Bobby Petrino be trusted?”

As Great Buddy Ebsen playing Jed Clampett would have said in this spot:

“Pitiful….Pitiful.”

The Great Earl Scruggs and his band playing…“The Ballad of Jed Clampett”

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