UK fires Joker Phillips

[Bull-by-Marriage]

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.

I REALLY hope that you never have a daughter or any kids.

Seriously, would you be OK if some guy cheated on your daughter? Would you say since he makes a lot of money it's OK?

[Mission9]

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.

I thought that was the case. Thanks for confirming.

[Triple B]

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.

People tend to get a little loose with the facts in dire times like these ...

[Cow Pie]

they lost 38-0 to vandy. he deserved to get canned. skip isn't that bad at least.

still...he's not too far ahead

Vandy would run a train on Temple or Ball State. Skip is every bit as bad.

Vandy would kick in our teeth, as did Temple and Ball State who beat us... Skip is about on par with Joker in my book.

[Ghostofbigworm]

CIA director and a CEO fired over affairs. Society says its NOT ok to have people with those lapses in character in important positions, no matter what some think.

Same society that says it's ok to take things you don't earn from those who do...