I was glad to see my alma mater USC fill their hole at the head coaching spot but I still shake my head in disgust at the behavior of the NCAA football and basketball coaches.
I had talked to a number of current NFL players who played at USC and they talked to me about how Pete Carroll had talked to them about being loyal to the Trojans and the Cardinal and Gold. Some said they stayed a year longer after they had a talk with him.
Others shook their heads when Carroll got angry with Mark Sanchez when he decided to leave last year for the NFL instead of coming back for his senior year.
I couldn’t help but remember what they had said and laugh.
Too many times, college coaches convince their players to put their relationships with the coach and team first, then when the coaches get the chance they treat their careers first over any of their relationships.
Carroll did when he got the chance and so did Lane Kiffin. It’s big business with big bucks and I’m not surprised.
I don’t have a problem with it as long as coaches are consistent. If they take the best job available, I don’t see anything wrong with that as long as when players get the chance to advance themselves, the coaches don’t try to talk them out of it.
When we as men ask young men to do what we are not willing to do, we are nothing but hypocrites.
On another note, I was listening to Dick Vitale go off about Mark McGuire and his admitted steroid use.
All I could think about was how Vitale and his buddies who do the college basketball games fail to call out a guy like John Calipari who just happened to have left two schools, UMass and Memphis, just as they were headed to NCAA probations after he coached them.
Do you think it was a coincidence that they he was there when they were breaking the rules?
