O'Sullivan - a great role model for young men
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Throw in the absolutely creepy personal love triangle stuff he had going on a few years ago... it does add up to one miserable human being ....
throw in how creepy Todd Golden's accusations were it seems par for the course at the University of Florida
Todd Golden allegations, explained: Florida coach reportedly accused of sexual harassment, stalking in Title IX complaint | Sporting News
The University of Florida student publication the Alligator reported details of a Title IX complaint filed in September against third-year head coach Todd Golden, who led the team to the NCAA Tournament in 2023-24.
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Yeah, much ado about nothing.
What was the lead up to this? This probably didn't just happen out of the blue.
Why did the site rep just stand there and listen? Maybe he understood and thought the coach had a point? If I thought the the coach was out of his mind, I would have told him to 17 off and walked away.
The reactions of many on here probably wouldn't be the same if it was our coach. But do you think Saban, Bobby Knight, Urban Meyer, or any other successful coach were choirboys? If you are really this offended, it's no wonder that State has almost always sucked at athletics.
I grew up in Central Mississippi. I learned early you get a lot of what you'll put up with.
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Or… and hear me out… the site rep, while doing his job, was acting professionally even when the guy across from him wasn’t. Just because one guy acts like a toddler doesn’t mean everybody suddenly has to.
He was probably sweating so much he had to unbutton his top button.
Gotta believe that bob the builder would go the email route on that one.
Just wanted to post that IMO this behavior from any representative of an institution of higher learning is totally unacceptable regardless of the circumstances and my opinion would not change if it was a representative of MSU.
I don't pretend to know loafers, but I suspect he did meet with him in person and relished the opportunity to bust O'Sullivan's balls.
“This afternoon I met with Kevin O’Sullivan and told him that his actions prior to yesterday’s NCAA Tournament game fell well short of expectations of how Gators treat people. One of our department’s core values is respect, and Coach O’Sullivan’s unacceptable actions failed to demonstrate that.”
Thanks to Jeffery Simmons and a concerned Noxubee County citizen with a cell phone, those buttons were already hanging by a thread. I imagine nerd-loafing into Sully's baseball office finished off the top two.
I don't recall the year, but we were playing in Gainesville in a regional or Super (I think the latter). O'Sullivan ran over in front of our dugout and gator chomped to our fans after they beat us to send us packing. Cohen ripped into him cussing up a blue streak. Mic's didn't pick up his words but you could read his lips. I was watching at my folks' house. My father and I loved Cohen's reaction. My mother was appalled. She emailed Stricklin about it and she got an apology from Cohen himself.
Stricklin addressed the IB, so I don't think he'll have a problem handling this blow hard in an even worse situation.
ETA: I'll reach out to my mother to see if she can find the email.
When Cohen is the good guy in the story, you know the other guy has a problem.
Something tells me none of you ever played for a tough coach, been in the military, or even had a Dad who wasn't a total woosy. We should change our mascot to the Beta male.
Something tells me you are wrong. At least, I did. This is different from a 'tough coach' being hard on players because he's trying to teach them something.
I know lots of real men and still think that midget in Florida is an assshole for publicly humiliating an ECU field staff member who obviously can't say shitt back to him. That's like my ex father in law berating and loudly shaming a waitress because she forgot to bring him a straw. Real tough guy, picking on people who can't talk back.
That's not how real men behave. They don't embarrass people who happen to be in lower station than them.
Agree not to berate waitresses or others like that.
But who says the guy couldn't talk back? And why not the same outrage when Saban threw hissy fit after hissy fit when things didn't go his way? Think the refs, assistant coaches, and players were his equals? Ya'll don't like the guy. I get it. I don't like him either. But lets not act like this is the worse thing a coach ever did in public.
But who says the guy couldn't talk back? And why not the same outrage when Saban threw hissy fit after hissy fit when things didn't go his way? Think the refs, assistant coaches, and players were his equals? Ya'll don't like the guy. I get it. I don't like him either. But lets not act like this is the worse thing a coach ever did in public.
So you just sit there and take abuse from a man who has no actual authority over you? And you are calling others beta?
It's how too many men in our new American era believe one attains "alpha" dog status. Punching down with lots of swagger and swearing.
Very telling.
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I think maybe you should act like you’ve been in public before.
Somewhere along the line, a bunch of you аssholes decided being an аsshole equates to being a man and it doesn’t. It just equates to being an аsshole.
This is what I am wondering, did he arrive at the game and then they tell his team the game has been moved back an hour?
I'm assuming the guy is a staff member at the host school. I also know that when the head coach of an SEC baseball team is on campus, random staff members are not going to challenge them to a fight. It seems like an obvious situation of unequal status (to me), so no matter how tough that staff member is in the weight room or a bar fight, if he's a smart, mature guy who has his emotions in check, he's not going to just haul off and hit O'Connor, as much as he probably wanted to.
As to your point about Saban... if he's yelling at his players at practice, or the ref during a game -- which are the two instances when I always saw him throwing tantrums -- those are different situations to me than yelling at a field staff member. It sounds like you disagree with that.
I just don't like bullies, and KOS seems like a roid raging bully to me.
Anyone remember when we used to play "I'm a little teapot" when O'suliivan made a visit to the mound/umpire at the Dude? Hilarious. I think it was Cohen's first year as AD when we did it.
I take your point, it’s not the worst thing on earth a coach can do, but those folks aren’t his goddddamn players, either. That rant was a narcissistic bully move to childishly punch down on those “grunts” who chose to stand there and let an entitled male Karen out himself. Those folks have regular jobs with regular bosses, too, and that biznatch O’Sullivan ain’t one of them.
His gripes should have gone up, not down on those who lack the authority to push back.
And it was all caught on camera fom at least 2 angles, which also indicates he wanted to do his bullying verbal beat down in front of an audience instead of in private.
Actually the 2 angles were 2 different tirades. One in which he said "why does an hour matter." Which is what he threw the fits over.
Bobby Knight was a great coach AND an Ahole. Saban, too. O'Sullivan is a good coach but mostly an Ahole.
I yell at the hostess when the Monday lunch special isn't available on Thursday. Also, that bank teller had it coming when the ATM was out of service.