Unfortunately I haven't been able to post a link hard to do from a tablet. But it was a great interview. JK said his father was his hs coach and he talked about that. But what was most interesting was his explanation as to why/how Art Briles destroyed his career. Also interesting was about why most fb players are ill equipped for college. Personally I agree with him. If someone can find it and post the link please do I think people will like listening to it. Joel Klatt is looking at this with a big picture attitude which is how I try to look at things. He's a fine analyst on college fb. He and Gus Johnson are the best thing when it comes to college fb on Fox/FS1.
You know I'm past 60 years old and I've seen so many of these scandals I'm numb to it now. I had a lot of respect for Art Briles as an offensive mind he was about to take his place as number one in that regard. He destroyed himself, more than anything by looking the other way he assisted in hurting a lot of innocent coeds. I also blame him for not looking into the character of the players he recruited. Shawn Oakman came from the Penn State fire sale. There were so many warnings about this guy. However, during the Briles era, save for Andrew Billings, they've always been mediocre on defense and Baylor was desperate. Why? Because he was a heralded recruit. I saw on a Baylor website that when Oakman was arrested, they interviewed 5 Baylor players and 4 of them thought he did it and that says it all. In fact there was a current player on the Baylor team, Devin Chafin, who had been involved with striking a coed a few years ago. Somehow be stayed on the team. Why? He was a starting rb. Then on spring break he got busted for marijuana in Oklahoma. And yet he still stayed on the team. After the Briles firing he was finally kicked him off the team. Why? Because winning is worth anything.
I've seen other scandals like this Oklahoma, UNLV, Woody Hayes, so many others and in all of them the people at like a lot of Baylor fans are right now. Sadly the alums, students, and fans who supported the firing are not making their voice heard, the press ignores them, they only listen to the emotional ones they make nobody want to listen to other guys.
And at all of those schools the coach will always be revered. A lot of people in Oklahoma will always defend Switzer. Same thing goes with Tarkanian, and Woody Hayes they don't want to hear that they let their schools down.
I didn't mean to digress. I've always wondered why so many fb players get in trouble and the JK interview had an interesting take on that. And every P5 school has at least a few, even an elite school like Stanford has some. And I don't know if it will ever get better, it can only get worse. Changes have to be made.
Ok I've given my little editorial. For those that don't have a tablet please find a way to post that link on this thread.
You know I'm past 60 years old and I've seen so many of these scandals I'm numb to it now. I had a lot of respect for Art Briles as an offensive mind he was about to take his place as number one in that regard. He destroyed himself, more than anything by looking the other way he assisted in hurting a lot of innocent coeds. I also blame him for not looking into the character of the players he recruited. Shawn Oakman came from the Penn State fire sale. There were so many warnings about this guy. However, during the Briles era, save for Andrew Billings, they've always been mediocre on defense and Baylor was desperate. Why? Because he was a heralded recruit. I saw on a Baylor website that when Oakman was arrested, they interviewed 5 Baylor players and 4 of them thought he did it and that says it all. In fact there was a current player on the Baylor team, Devin Chafin, who had been involved with striking a coed a few years ago. Somehow be stayed on the team. Why? He was a starting rb. Then on spring break he got busted for marijuana in Oklahoma. And yet he still stayed on the team. After the Briles firing he was finally kicked him off the team. Why? Because winning is worth anything.
I've seen other scandals like this Oklahoma, UNLV, Woody Hayes, so many others and in all of them the people at like a lot of Baylor fans are right now. Sadly the alums, students, and fans who supported the firing are not making their voice heard, the press ignores them, they only listen to the emotional ones they make nobody want to listen to other guys.
And at all of those schools the coach will always be revered. A lot of people in Oklahoma will always defend Switzer. Same thing goes with Tarkanian, and Woody Hayes they don't want to hear that they let their schools down.
I didn't mean to digress. I've always wondered why so many fb players get in trouble and the JK interview had an interesting take on that. And every P5 school has at least a few, even an elite school like Stanford has some. And I don't know if it will ever get better, it can only get worse. Changes have to be made.
Ok I've given my little editorial. For those that don't have a tablet please find a way to post that link on this thread.
