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Correct. You should protect the player. However, you should say something more than, "It's an internal issue." At minimum, the head coach should say, "I met with Jeff Thomas. We discussed his career here at UM. Jeff wants to move on. I respect his decision. I wish him well."

I'll tell you why. Because they have left a vacuum for fans to fill by not telling us anything after a major event. This will blow up in their faces with fan anger until they tell the fans something. Secondly, as I stated, he clearly views players "checking" other players as being disruptive...

This is the vacuum you get from fans when the coaching staff says nothing on the dismissal. People will fill in their own blanks and some will be angry with the staff. They may be protecting the player and themselves, but then need to say more than just, "this is an internal issue and we're...

I didn't say anything about pacifying the kid or rolling out the red carpet. I said, let the players deal with him to a point. Provide a buffer. In a strong locker room this BS would never happen. It would have been squashed last year. If anything Richt is discouraging the locker room...

It's not his relationship with the media and the fans. It's either the coaches. It's their job to to keep players together. This is a failure on the coaches. You can't have one of your best players leaving. Not good for the team. Not good for JT4. JT4 Just set himself back 2-3 years as he...

That's just the Bart Simpson dew.

I do blame the coaches. See my other post in this thread. This should have never gotten to this point. The fact that Richt wants to be the authoritarian manifests these problems. When players get in each other's faces to check them, Richt views it as disruptive to the team rather than what I...

There in lies the problem. In this era of transparency, coaches like Richt think they can just say nothing when a huge event like this takes place. The public doesn't need to no everything, but you have to give some reason for his dismissal other than, "this is an internal matter." People...