Agree with most of this. Coaches who have mastered the craft (Izzo, Ryan, Knight, Keady, the Blue Bloods) make their point in ways that will buy them calls in the long run. It's like a salesperson who knows how to pressure a customer in a way where they don't realize they are being pressured. Their outbursts are calculated and well timed to motivate their players and/or the crowd and to perhaps swing a critical call their way.
You could be right but I think the jury is still out. He didn't make it to halftime in this year's Maryland game. He had a nasty situation with an official at the end of last year's Maryland home game. Speraw had to restrain him a time or two in this year's BTT. I'm trying to remember the last time an opposing coach was ejected during a game. Or escorted off the floor by law enforcement. Or suspended for a conference game. Or reprimended by his AD for "crossing the line" (the MSU chair slam).
As I said above....I acknowledged Fran was calling out a,segment of the fan base. Still that is not wise and it is still insulting the fan base in non constructive ways. He could simply say I disagree with them and here is why. Fran just comes as an arrgant prick otherwise when he flips stuff like that. He as a head coach at Iowa should have a higher standard and act like it.
Again that is not the case. It is unacceptable to call any portion of the fan base those names in his position. Even if fans can act that way he needs to be mindful of what he says comes across. That was unprofessional by Fran and should not be defended. I really think Iowa needs to invest in a very good PR firm.
Ask former Cubs manager Lee Elia. And he called the small percentage of guilty fans a lot worse than morons. More like c**ks*****s. And m****rf*****s. He wrote a good portion of the dirty version of the Michigan school song that every BIG band sings downtown the night before a game without even realizing it? Although some lyrics may no longer be appropriate in the wake of Penn State and MSU. Those who know the song know what I mean.
And what the announcers were praising as "fly motion" and "menutia"(sp) was in actuality as illegal as the day is long. We had a touchdown to Scott Chandler taken away from us in the 2006 Alamo Bowl on almost the exact same throw to an ineligible receiver. Those Nebraska fans were getting impatient. They had to go home and milk the bulls. (I know, I know, but we're talking Nebraska fans here).Um, you know Kirk got a warning and a penalty after going on the field to yell at the officials (See below). He was right, and the officials missed the call, but Kirk does get upset (and goes onto the field - although it's not on camera). Listen to the Husker fans boo him.
Les Grobstein, who still works at Chicago sports WSCR, was the one who had his tape recorder rolling that day. April 29, 1983. That was the last year that the Cubs players had to walk down the left field line at Wrigley to get to their clubhouse. They couldn't access it from the dugout. And they were sitting ducks to the insults and occasional tossed Old Styles from the fans. That's what started the whole thing.
Talk about the not so good ole days geez
Damn! If that was his tirade compared to Fran's that's like comparing a mosquito bite to a bee sting.So, that Jay Wright can get mad, huh? It takes all of his assistants to hold him back.
