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I don’t know how you know all that, but ok. Does Ed Reed also have the ability to force people to listen to him? Can he make his bosses listen and take action? Could he have forced Manny to do things? What about OL’ BJ? The BOT?

Mario is a different thing. He’s the boss. He’s got the backing of the school and boosters. I think it will take a few years, but I think he’s got the tools to do the job. Ed, as you point out, had a title without much power. He didn’t have the backing of the administration. I’m not saying he...

How do you know what those guys knew?

How was Alonzo going to do anything? If you believe he could come in and change things, why do you thing Ed should have known better? Bottom line: if those guys weren’t going to let one guy fix it, they weren’t going to let the other fix it either. And when the people in the system don’t want...

But isn’t that what “alphas” are supposed to do? Don’t savages always believe they’re the greatest and can fix anything? Isn’t that the mindset CIS is always saying we need?

Right. Because he was on the job long enough to fix 20 years of lazy culture. Maybe he should have done more, I don’t think any of us really know. I do know he gets no blame for the culture being f*cked up…it was just fine when he left for the NFL.

Or maybe he wanted to help so he took the only opportunity he was offered?

Saying the last guys weren’t doing it right is part of paving the way for for the new guys. He’s not criticizing current coaches.

Question: why can’t anybody ever give examples of anything? Don’t say “guys aren’t showing that attitude”, tell me wtf their actually doing. What are they saying and doing that made you think they weren’t showing the right attitude? I don’t need to know who said what, but how about being less...