Sunday, November 26, 2017

Wail, Greg Schiano and Tennessee are not going to consummate their courtship. It's off. Done.

Do you know that this reached the highest levels of our government?

Sarah Huckabee Sanders
6 hours ago
Guess who's the new head football coach at the University of Tennesse. Yup. The guy who covered for Jerry Sandusky. #GregSchiano
Good luck, John Currie.
Note: Yes, I'm aware the guy in the picture isn't Greg Schiano. Also aware that fact does not make this decision by Athletic Director John Currie any less terrible. Carry on.

Bombshell is revealed in deposition given by former assistant Mike McQueary.
WASHINGTONPOST.COM
Now...This country is OUT OF FUCKING CONTROL...Now, "The guy who covered for Jerry Sandusky." "The" guy. "THE" guy. Like he was the only one. If he did. Now, it appears to me that Huckabee Sanders posted that photo of MIKE MCQUEARY thinking it was Schiano. Because note her "Note:" "I'm aware the guy in the picture isn't Greg Schiano." That note  was a postscript, a p.s., added after someone responded to her unnoted post with something like, "Sarah, you brain dead bitch, that is not a picture of Greg Schiano, that is a picture of Mike McQueary." Words to that effect.

"Also aware that fact [the picture] does not make this decision...any less terrible." She is dissembling, she, the brain dead bitch, got called on her brain deadness of posting the wrong picture and added a dissembling p.s. What does that p.s. even mean? "Also aware that that picture not being of Greg Schiano does not make this decision to hire Schiano any less terrible." Huh? 

"who covered for Jerry Sandusky." Does Ms. Huckabee Sanders know:

(1) that according to McQueary according to Tom Bradley Schiano did not "cover" for Sandusky, Schiano told Bradley?

(2) that BOTH Schiano and Bradley denied that Schiano ever told Bradley any such thing and that Bradley denied ever telling McQueary any such thing? I believe McQueary! I believe Schiano and Bradley LIED to protect their jobs and their futures but that is the sworn testimony of McQueary and the record testimony of Schiano and Bradley. Presumably Huckabee Sanders believes Schiano and Bradley lied, too. So, did Huckabee Sanders further know:

(3) that Greg Schiano is currently employed as the assistant head coach and defensive coordinator at Ohio State? THEN WHY DIDN'T SHE URGE OHIO STATE TO FIRE HIM? Tennessee was prospective employment, OHIO STATE IS CURRENT, ACTUAL EMPLOYMENT?

(4) that Tom Bradley is currently employed as defensive coordinator at UCLA and before that was assistant head coach and defensive line coach at West Virginia. If Huckabee Sanders knew Bradley was employed and believed Bradley had lied along with Schiano then WHY DIDN'T SHE URGE UCLA TO FIRE BRADLEY?

(5) that Mike McQueary, as of thirteen months ago (Wikipedia) WAS UNEMPLOYED? Had separated from his wife and was living, at age 42, with his parents in State College, Pa. WHY DIDN'T SHE URGE SOME UNIVERSITY, ANY UNIVERSITY, TO HIRE MCQUEARY?

(6) that McQueary SUCCESSFULLY SUED PENN STATE for wrongful dismissal and defamation AND WAS AWARDED OVER $12 MILLION IN DAMAGES? If so, WHY DIDN'T SHE GO AFTER PENN STATE?

(7) that her boss, TRUMP, the Russian-installed governor-general of the American Oblast, gave a speech during the campaign in Pittsburgh during which he asked his trailer trash supporters, "How's Joe Paterno? We going to bring that back? (the statue) How about that whole deal?"

And from this woman! This woman is the same woman who just recently said it is the official position of the White House that the several women who accused HER BOSS of sexual misconduct including attempted rape (conceded by Rudolph Giuliani) on them personally, not heard from someone who heard about it happening to someone else years before, Huckabee Sanders said the official position of the Russian Winter Palace at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue is that ALL OF THOSE WOMEN WHO ACCUSED TRUMP OF SEXUAL MISCONDUCT LIED, THAT NONE OF IT EVER OCCURRED.

To repeat: I believe McQueary. I believe that Schiano and Bradley lied. But there is evidence to evidence contrary to what Huckabee Sanders charged him with, covering up for Sandusky, AND THAT'S THE ONLY EVIDENCE THERE IS! McQueary did provide sworn testimony that Bradley covered  up for Sandusky so Huckabee Sanders chose to INVOLVE THE HIGHEST LEVELS OF GOVERNMENT on a charge for which there IS NO EVIDENCE and did not involve the highest level of government in the the case of the individual that there is evidence of a coverup for. I do not like unfounded allegations, that is defamation, I do not like selective allegations of wrongdoing, and I do not like the highest levels of government making allegations in civil and criminal matters involving one person while breezily dismissing much more numerous allegations of greater seriousness against the head of government.

This country is FUCK-ED UP-ED.
Follow me here and understand my shock at the Schiano reaction in Tennessee:

I, Benjamin Harris, have written that PSU should be shut down.

To that end I have written that PSU should be prosecuted for racketeering under state and federal RICO laws.

Failing an official shutdown I have urged just one university, any one, to affect a de facto shutdown by refusing to play PSU. That might start a chain reaction--exactly the chain reaction we are seeing today--of other schools refusing to play them which would, at least, shut down the football program.

I have written urging the Big Ten Conference to kick PSU out.

Failing all of that I have vowed, and have kept my vow, never to mention the name of the university that the initials stand for unless I can take that name in vain.

Therefore, I have the deepest respect for what Tennessee people are doing today if they are sincere and haven't just caught some fever from a bad batch of Jack or maybe they all tried absinthe today for the first time and are hallucinating, I say, to test their sincerity I pose to them the following questions:

Have you refused to play PSU, of the "Penn State child sex abuse scandal" (Wikipedia), since 2012?

If you haven't had that opportunity would you sign a petition today, right now, demanding that the UT administration never, ever, play a football game against PSU?

Do that and then I'll believe you haven't been drinking some bad hooch.
Kirk Herbstreit@KirkHerbstreit·1h


Been traveling all day back from ND/Stanford game last pm. Hearing some @Vol_Football fans upset about Schiano hire!? Why? You know what the Vols record is last 13 YEARS is?? 86-77!! A little better than 6-6 avg! I think he is a GREAT hire to bring you back! Get behind him!!


Herbstreit took major shit for that tweet:

Ryan Kilpatrick
@RyanKilpatrick



Replying to @KirkHerbstreit and @Vol_Football
He knew about Sandusky and didn’t do anything. That’s why.
4:57 PM · Nov 26, 2017

Herbstreit stepped on his dick in response:

Kirk Herbstreit‏Verified account
@KirkHerbstreit
 1h1 hour ago

How do you know that??? I don’t know what’s real and what’s not from that ENTIRE story. And you’re gonna assume to know something??? Pretty dangerous accusation IMO.

Stepped on his dick because Mike McQueary gave sworn testimony that Tom Bradley, another assistant coach told McQueary that years before Schiano, "white as a ghost," came into Bradley's office at PSU and said he had just witnessed Sandusky doing something...something that made him "white as a ghost"...with a boy in the showers. I did not remember that until I read it earlier. Now, both Bradley and Schiano denied McQueary's sworn testimony but they did not do it in sworn testimony of his own. Each was asked about McQueary's testimony by reporters and both denied it. Maybe Herbstreit remembered McQueary's testimony, remembered Bradley's and Schiano's denials and decided "I don't know what's real" but it sounds to me as if Herbstreit didn't remember that, according to McQueary (which Bradley and Schiano deny) Schiano did not just know about the rapes, he WITNESSED one. However it was Herbstreit finally gave up:


Kirk Herbstreit
@KirkHerbstreit

I’m done Vols fans. Good luck to ya. 

ConversationRaynorScheine

@RaynorScheine
#BREAKING || A small group of Ohio State students have assembled at The Oval calling for Greg Schiano to resign amidst news of his possible departure to Tennessee and allegations surrounding the Penn State/Jerry Sandusky case.


WHAT?! They knew the Sandusky taint when they hired him! I tell you, I don't understand this.
Stewart Mandel
@slmandel

Tennessee and Schiano need to walk away at this point. The backlash is beyond toxic. You don’t recover from it.
5:14 PM · Nov 26, 2017



Yes, indeed.





Starting to see some signs now. Fans are telling me they're upset with Schiano's past and alleged ties to the Penn State scandal.



Well, I totally respect them if that's the reason. I am so stunned there is literally a buzz in my head. And who or what the fuck is "Pilot," #BoycottPilot?
Don't understand the anti-Greg Schiano sentiment at Tennessee, except it might explain why Tennessee hasn't been good in a long time.

Thank you, Dan Wetzel Yahoo sports columnist! Thank you!
No, I was wrong. The protests ARE due to Paterno-Sandusky. These are two Tennessee state legislators:

I have reached out to @John_Currie and others in administration at UT expressing that WE as a TN Community do not approve of Schiano. #higherstandards— Rep. Jason Zachary (@JasonZacharyTN) November 26, 2017

Our Tennessee standards mean something, and a Greg Schiano hire would be anathema to all that our University and our community stand for. I sincerely hope that these rumors are not true, because even serious consideration would be unacceptable.— Eddie Smith (@RepEddieSmith) November 26, 2017

"Tennessee standards," what, 150 proof? C'mon. I am shocked.
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VFLs, Tennessee fans condemn Schiano talks as new head coach







Wow. I do not know what this is about.

I asked Logan Ryan about Greg Schiano and what he would think of him at Tennessee when his name originally popped up. His response: “There will be discipline. He will recruit well.”

I have no fucking idea who Logan Ryan is but Logan Ryan is correct.

Greg Schiano is not allowed in our establishment.
I can imagine what "Remedy Coffee" is in Tennessee. Must be BIG down there. But I still have no idea why they are so against this hire. Correction: it ain't gonna be a hire. Wikipedia is WRONG. They're not going to hire Schiano with this going on.

(More) College Tackle Football

Kevin Sumlin has been fired by Texas A&M...

Dan Mullin (Mississippi State) is going to be Florida's new coach according to multiple reports. How do you go from Chip Kelly (offensive) to Mullin (defensive). AD's should not do that generally. A football "program" has an identity (Nebraska: run; BYU: pass; Miami: pro-style), Florida's is the "fun-and-gun" of Steve Spurrier. They hired Jim McElwain to put the octane back in their offense and he failed. UF's offense is offensive so not only is it wise generally for AD's to stick to the program but at Florida right now it is the offense specifically that needs attention. It thus made perfect sense for them to go after Kelly. Having failed, they now bring in Mullin. He is the wrong hire both the generally and specifically. FireDanMullin.com! Ho ho ho.

Tennessee is going to hire Greg Schiano. Has hired Schiano according to Wikipedia.



UT football does not have an identity as set as those mentioned above. What they seemed to lack this year was discipline. Schiano will take care of that, hooo doggie. Schiano has been out of head coaching totally since 2013 and as I recall at least one reason for that is that he is too much a disciplinarian, he's a control freak. He was prominently mentioned as a candidate at Pitt in the hire that went to Pat Narduzzi, and Pitt got squeamish and turned away. Schiano did a phenomenal job at Rutgers.

You could say Tennessee "Volunteer" football's identity is...its fans. Right? 

Greg Schiano is currently concerned with the climate of the Tennessee fan base and the reaction towards reports of his contract being finalized at Tennessee. The deal may not get finalized.

Right.

And so Wikipedia is wrong, apparently. Which is weird. 

I don't know what "the climate of the Tennessee fan base" could mean unless it's "three sheets to the wind."

Then there is this:

Talking to someone at Ohio State, Greg Schiano was hired before testimony from former Penn State assistant Mike McQueary that was unsealed saying that Greg Schiano knew of Sandusky's abuse. Says that Tennessee should do proper vetting.

I DO remember McQueary saying that. Maybe THAT is why Pitt backed away. I don't think the "reaction" from Tennessee fans is based on that, however. I don't think they know, you can't read much when you're drunk, and I don't think they would care if somebody told them. It's gotta be something else.

Man, time of possession: Manchester City 81%, Huddersfield Town 19%.

TWEET!!! FULL TIME. Huddersfield Town 1 Manchester City 2


🎶💙 City ... City .. The Best Team In The Land And All The World 💙🎶


Five minutes of added time? Oh sheesh.
The LUCKIEST of lucky goals, but when you’re riding high sometimes the wind blows in your favour.

Somewhere over the rainbow,
At John Smith's sta'ium
Lightning struck
And Town did go down
To the inev'tal goal.

2-1 CITYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

BRITISH STERLING IN THE 84'!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! A perfectly executed goal pursuant to the dictates of tiki-taka:

GOAL! Huddersfield 1-2 Manchester City (Sterling, 84 mins)

Only ten minutes to go.
Huddersfield have completed 16 passes this half. Man City have completed 285.
Man City are 15 minutes away from dropping Premier League points for just the second time this season

Yep.
73 mins: Things have calmed down a little, and the match has reverted to the first-half theme of constant City probing and relatively little wild fouling.

Glad to hear. We are getting into nut cutting time though and still 1-1, 75'. Only 15 minutes to go. Come on Citeh. Come on Citeh.
66 mins: Sterling is fouled again, by Van La Parra, and Huddersfield can hardly stop themselves kicking people at the moment. Moments later De Bruyne body-checks Van La Parra and, unlike Malone moments earlier, isn’t booked. They were almost identical offences. The crowd bays.

It sounds like this is getting out of control.

65 mins: And another booking, Scott Malone seeing yellow for a body-check on De Bruyne.
Why do you cheat, Town? Anybody can win if they cheat.

Aguero taking (and making the penalty kick) in the camouflage uniforms they got from Florida.
Oh 1-1. Oh.

Mi feliz navidad tree in mi purple palace.

What is that supposed to be, a harbinger of good fortune? I wouldn't take it that way, Town.

Town 1 City 0 HT

Former Cityzin Nicolas Otamendi credited with the own goal in stoppage time.

#@*%$#

11:51   The goal was ludicrously against the run of play, of course. But the corner came from              Delph being drawn out of position at left back, where his instincts are all muddled,                  giving Ince too much space to run down Town’s right. City will consider the goal a                    fluke, the result of the ball taking a defender by surprise and bouncing in the worst                  possible direction, but there’s more to it than that.


GOAL! Huddersfield 1-0 Manchester City (Otamendi own goal, 45+1 mins)