UK fires Joker Phillips

[Southshore26]

Skip Holtz isn't getting fired. Can we cut all this ******** and move on...please. We ******* won yesterday.

Beating UConn isn't worthy of being a job saver. We barely be an awful awful awful UConn team in what is a crappy season (the second in a row). If we can beat Miami, Cincy, and Pitt (at least 2/3) then you've got some ground to stand on.

I doubt Skip gets fired even at 3-9, but to call it ******** that people are calling for it is naive.

It's more naive for you to completely miss my point...

Exactly what was your point Joe?

[Bull Martin]

Skip Holtz isn't getting fired. Can we cut all this ******** and move on...please. We ******* won yesterday.

Beating UConn isn't worthy of being a job saver. We barely be an awful awful awful UConn team in what is a crappy season (the second in a row). If we can beat Miami, Cincy, and Pitt (at least 2/3) then you've got some ground to stand on.

I doubt Skip gets fired even at 3-9, but to call it ******** that people are calling for it is naive.

It's more naive for you to completely miss my point...

That we won? I get it and I'm happy, but Skip's not out of the line of fire yet. Playing an awful game and beating a bad team doesn't help much.

[Southshore26]

Skip Holtz isn't getting fired. Can we cut all this ******** and move on...please. We ******* won yesterday.

Beating UConn isn't worthy of being a job saver. We barely be an awful awful awful UConn team in what is a crappy season (the second in a row). If we can beat Miami, Cincy, and Pitt (at least 2/3) then you've got some ground to stand on.

I doubt Skip gets fired even at 3-9, but to call it ******** that people are calling for it is naive.

It's more naive for you to completely miss my point...

That we won? I get it and I'm happy, but Skip's not out of the line of fire yet. Playing an awful game and beating a bad team doesn't help much.

I thought that was it too.... we won... fantastic.... doesn't change the fact that Skip continues to run this program into the ground. Congrats on the fact that we beat a team that we should have beaten.

[Ghostofbigworm]

I said it yesterday at the tailgait and I'm saying it right now. If they bring in bobby petrino, I will most likely 99.9% stop all support for USF athletics. Just a tiny drop in the bucket and no one will notice, but morals have to mean SOMETHING! Winning is important, but not enough to sell your soul.

People have affairs all the time, and if you think guys hiring their mistresses as their secretary is the end of the world, don't look at Fortune 500 companies (or the govt). Last time I checked, Arkansas didn't have the NCAA breathing down their neck. He may be an opportunist and a womanizer, but he is a **** good college football coach.

Yeah, well scumbags with no moral compass don't need to be coaching at the college level. Football is more than x's and o's and the lesson to players should be more than its OK to be scum as long as you win and don't get caught. .There are people that hate what he has done and you can bet that it would effect donors and alumni. Especially those with spouses that hate that kind of crap. Just because you are ok with it doesn't mean everyone will be.

Sorry, this isn't peewee league sports where no one keeps score and everyone gets a participation trophy. If it was, RJS would be sold out and Holtz would be sitting on multiple coach of the year awards. USF football is a multi-million dollar business and should be treated as such.

The positive effect winning would have on donors and alumni (not to mention recruits) would far outweigh the folks that can't see past an indiscretion and want a coach to give 21 year old "children" an orange slice and a pat on the back every time they screw up. The front runners that make up 90% of the Tampa fan base just want to see a winning product.

[redbird2001]

To say Louisville was crap before Petrino is a little misinformed. They had won Conference USA and went to 4 straight bowl games before Petrino took over. Just saying.

[redbird2001]

Well USF was in that same C-usa Louisville was.

Edited November 5, 2012 by redbird2001

[Triple B]

Skip Holtz isn't getting fired. Can we cut all this ******** and move on...please. We ******* won yesterday.

Beating UConn isn't worthy of being a job saver. We barely be an awful awful awful UConn team in what is a crappy season (the second in a row). If we can beat Miami, Cincy, and Pitt (at least 2/3) then you've got some ground to stand on.

I doubt Skip gets fired even at 3-9, but to call it ******** that people are calling for it is naive.

It's more naive for you to completely miss my point...

Exactly what was your point Joe?

His point, I think, was nothing's happening until, at the very least, the season is over, so the constant calling for him to be fired is the definition of insanity ...

[widerberg]

For what it's worth, I thought this statement by Joker was classy and oh so true (and I could only wish I'd be hearing this from Skip).

"We, as coaches, are measured on results," Phillips said in a statement. "We didn't get the results we had worked and hoped for, therefore change is needed."

Read more: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2012/football/ncaa/11/04/kentucky-fires-joker-phillips.ap/index.html#ixzz2BMIXvKsg

[Triple B]

Well USF was in that same C-usa Louisville was.

He was being kind of sarcastic, red ....

[Ghostofbigworm]

I said it yesterday at the tailgait and I'm saying it right now. If they bring in bobby petrino, I will most likely 99.9% stop all support for USF athletics. Just a tiny drop in the bucket and no one will notice, but morals have to mean SOMETHING! Winning is important, but not enough to sell your soul.

People have affairs all the time, and if you think guys hiring their mistresses as their secretary is the end of the world, don't look at Fortune 500 companies (or the govt). Last time I checked, Arkansas didn't have the NCAA breathing down their neck. He may be an opportunist and a womanizer, but he is a **** good college football coach.

Yeah, well scumbags with no moral compass don't need to be coaching at the college level. Football is more than x's and o's and the lesson to players should be more than its OK to be scum as long as you win and don't get caught. .There are people that hate what he has done and you can bet that it would effect donors and alumni. Especially those with spouses that hate that kind of crap. Just because you are ok with it doesn't mean everyone will be.

Sorry, this isn't peewee league sports where no one keeps score and everyone gets a participation trophy. If it was, RJS would be sold out and Holtz would be sitting on multiple coach of the year awards. USF football is a multi-million dollar business and should be treated as such.

The positive effect winning would have on donors and alumni (not to mention recruits) would far outweigh the folks that can't see past an indiscretion and want a coach to give 21 year old "children" an orange slice and a pat on the back every time they screw up. The front runners that make up 90% of the Tampa fan base just want to see a winning product.

USF is a public higher education institution whose purpose is education, not appeasing fans. The football program is a small part of a much bigger entity. The public expects the university to hire people whose moral standards will be an example for students. Some may think that the world at USF revolves around the football program, but no, it doesn't.

Because no faculty or staff at USF has ever had an affair. If it wasn't for Leavitt and the football program, whenever anyone outside the state of Florida mentioned USF the only thing they would think of is terrorists.