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07-23-2013, 10:48 AM | #226 | |
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It's the "anonymous" guy behind the huge KC donation announced in the past year... and another family that has donated $65 million to the university since the turn of the century.
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07-23-2013, 10:53 AM | #227 | |
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Though I'd never heard of a 2nd big-money family. That's some serious jack.
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07-23-2013, 11:03 AM | #228 | |
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To me, winning is what matters. I wanted to hire Bob Huggins, I wanted to hire John Calipari, and I'll take Petrino as well. If they leave in 4 years but the program is in better shape then it was before, then so be it. Hire a new guy like Arkansas did (in between an 18 month disaster) |
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07-23-2013, 11:06 AM | #229 |
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07-23-2013, 11:17 AM | #230 | |
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Spurrier, Saban, and Miles all once worked jobs before they had proven they could win in the SEC and yet they...won in the SEC. You don't have to hire a proven name, you don't have to hire the most well known guy. You have to hire the right guy. Chiefs fans, of all people, should know this. Dick Vermeil was a proven guy. Scott Pioli was a 3x Executive of the Decade. Neither one of them were the right guy. The most well known candidate or the one with the most panache is rarely the best candidate for the job, just the best marketed.
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07-23-2013, 11:36 AM | #231 | |
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"I'd rather take a chance on Eminem or Roseanna Barr singing "My Ol' Kentucky Home" at Churchill Downs and not butchering it before I would take a chance on Petrino coaching the UK football team". |
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07-23-2013, 11:53 AM | #232 |
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The vast majority of the best coaches of the future haven't proven they can win in the SEC yet.
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07-23-2013, 11:54 AM | #233 |
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Not the Laurie's... from what I heard, a true Kansas City donor. He has donated big money in the past, just not that big, and owns a publishing/printing empire.
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07-23-2013, 11:58 AM | #234 | |
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Auburn has been trying to hire this guy in a variety of ways since 2002. They had an opening at the same time Petrino was unemployed and were not interested. That should tell you how far the guy's stock has fallen. He's still a brilliant offensive mind, but recruiting would be even more of a challenge for him now, and at some point the Jimmies and Joes matter. He has NO credibility on the recruiting trail. That's the issue. And I was pro-Huggins and pro-Calipari. This is not an issue with his integrity or anything like that. It's just that the reward in hiring him is not as great as you're thinking or as great as it once was.
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07-23-2013, 12:00 PM | #235 |
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07-23-2013, 12:12 PM | #236 |
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07-23-2013, 01:06 PM | #237 |
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I hate that we need the POS Lauries money. Those ****ers made Mizzou get Quin Snyder instead of Bill Self. *Que Mass Facepalm scene from Naked Gun 33 1/3*
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07-23-2013, 01:08 PM | #238 |
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Would it help to hear that Bill is a big fan of getting sloshed and rolling around Columbia in his Rolls?
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07-23-2013, 01:14 PM | #239 | |
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Laurie's rep around Columbia is well established. He's pretty much a class-A cad.
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07-23-2013, 01:17 PM | #240 |
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Bill Laurie has always been a piece of shit, even growing up according to my uncle who graduated with him, and my parents who knew him all through his younger days.
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