The truth comes out, finally.

[cowtownmike]

I know you guys get sick of my rants against Houston Nutt, but it looks like the rest of the football world is finally coming around to my point of view. I must admit, it does feel good.

sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2010/writers/stewart_mandel/08/02/masoli-nutt/#ixzz0vTFSAseD


Which is why Ole Miss' Houston Nutt -- more so than any of the aforementioned names -- is a certifiably dirty coach.

Nutt's controversial decision to add trouble-plagued Oregon exile Jeremiah Masoli to his roster on the eve of preseason camp is so transparently pathetic in its desperation you wonder how he can make it with a straight face. And yet we should hardly be surprised.

This is, after all, the same man who hired a high school coach he didn't want just to keep a quarterback recruit he wound up losing anyway; turned the practice of oversigning into such a farce that the SEC had to make up a rule just to curb him; and, just last year, welcomed another high-profile castoff with a checkered past only to watch him run afoul of the law again before playing a down with the Rebels.

The so-called "Right Reverend" has voluntarily gone down the wrong path again.



Read more: sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2010/writers/stewart_mandel/08/02/masoli-nutt/#ixzz0vUexlUAA

[The River Assassin]

Dang it, I was going to post this and then ask you when you started ghost writing for Stewart Mandel.

Interesting article, except that you could probably say the same for about 20-30% of the coaches in college football. Not really anything we didn't already know.

[cowtownmike]

Mandel just scratched the surface on the Right Reverend. There is so much more, but I'm just glad the truth is coming from sources other than those "crazy Arkansas fans".

[fischer]

Yeah I think the percentage is more like 50-60%

[The River Assassin]

Aug 3, 2010 7:20:39 GMT -5 fischer said:

Yeah I think the percentage is more like 50-60%

At first I typed 40-50%, but I figured I was just being cynical. That said you're probably right, college coaches are a different breed.

My only point was that Houston Nutt is by no means the exception to the rule.

[The River Assassin]

said:

The definition of "dirty" seems to vary based on one's affiliation, but surely we can all agree on at least one designation: A dirty coach is willing to eschew his integrity if doing so might pay off in a couple more W's. He's not so much a winner as a survivalist. He's not even necessarily a rule-breaker because he creates his own loopholes.

I would say this describes probably about 75% of not only college football coaches, but people in general.

[P. Marf]

I would have to agree. Ill make that 100% when it comes to politicians.