tgrumpy2 wrote:I'm wondering why a home town sports reporter would publicly proclaim their next opponent to be terrible and then laugh. They might be terrible, I don't know. Why would they say something that would deliberately incite your next opponent? If I was a NM coach and saw that I'd put it up in the locker room and make my team view it every day. There's a lot of other tactful ways to imply a team isn't so good without just blantantly insulting them.
Hansen should stick to written journalism... He does not come off well on video and never has. Not sure whether or not RR will be back past next season, but his logic doesn't make sense. I don't know why he says we'll be no good next year, and if we aren't - where is RR going to leave for? He's not getting an offer that's any better than ntSC, and he is not making any BCS program's A (or B) list unless we have a good 2016.
As for denigrating UNM... Who cares. He's a local reporter that nobody pays attention to, anyway. And Mike Stoops had a couple of good seasons in a row... but unless you are grading on a curve, I would not say he had 3 - and there was only one that might be called 'really' good.
That said, he was dead-on with a few things IMO. I absolutely believe that RR had intended to take the SC job and backed off because they wouldn't give him a big raise. He's also right that while most UofA fans don't care about his failure in Ann Arbor, it is how the rest of the country defines him. And whether UNM is any good or not, losing to them would be an embarrassment.
As for Finley, he effectively filled the role of slurper to Hansen's negativity. "For a coach the caliber of Rich Rod, wouldn't you think SC would pony up more money? They did not offer him ANY more than lil' old Arizona." Ryan, there is a reason he was on the C list to begin with - and lil' old Arizona is paying him the 3rd highest salary in the PAC. For staying in the middle of the pack with one very nice season.
I loved "the kind of recruits you want are not going to visit
Tucson" comment... Cuz Tucson sucks so bad? Why is it that elite Hoops players visit and choose to play college ball in Tucson
all the time. I guess basketball players like the desert and football players don't?
Ahh... No, it's the fan support. Here we go with the chicken or egg question again. Outside of Eugene, fan support in Tucson will rival any other school in the conference - and will track to the quality of the product.
Someone needs to tell Finley that "it's just business".
Hansen says stupid things, but Finley's attitude that "Tucson is a putrid little FBS town and UA is lucky to have a ROCKSTAR coach like RR" is at least as annoying.
