When the job you get offered serves no purpose and it was evident to anyone that was paying attention, then why take it? Ed knew full well that he was being used by Blake James and Manny, because they didn't want to hire Alonzo, or anyone with the ability to do anything constructive.
First rule of organizations: If what you do can't be clearly defined in one sentence, odds are your job isn't vital or needed.
Grown men shouldn't be treating other grown men as Gods. Ed Reed, despite being a great player, and a program legend took a garbage job and allowed himself to be used by an incompetent HC and AD. That's on HIM, he's intelligent enough to know what was being done. He knows that once the Alonzo hire fell through, he was the fallback. Frankly, he shouldn't have taken the job and told them to kick rocks.
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.
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?
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?
Smh. . .
Alonzo wouldn't take a job in which he couldn't do anything. Ed knew this job had no teeth and took it anyway. You don't get to whine about the job being trash if you took it, despite knowing it was trash.
How do you know what those guys knew?
How long does he need exactly? How long are you willing to give Mario?
Bra I call out some of the *** **** around here, but a lot of times I bite my tongue because i dont want to be known as "that guy", but I truly appreciate you for not giving nan ***s.
I haven't bashed Ed and don't plan to, but this is entirely inaccurate. There fans say a **** of a lot worse stuff about their legends than we do about ours. Especially coming from the good ole boys.
Hey man listen that's ****** bull****! I'm an Auburn Alumnus and I'm in Auburn 10 months out of the year. I'm heavily involved in Auburn recruiting for 15+ years. I was on that Auburn team that made the Elite 8 for the first time in school history, I have a son that is a junior at Auburn. Don't ****un lie on Auburn when you don't know what the **** you're talking about. And don't get it twisted, I've been a CIS fanatic since 2014. You have NO idea what you're talking about!
So because you personally haven't heard it, means it doesn't happen? Most likely the fact that you are an athlete, people shy away from saying the schit they say behind players backs to your face.
I didn't say they didn't talk **** and I know I don't know everything, but I'm referencing LEGENDS/HALL A FAMERS. Charles Barkley, Bo Jackson, Pat Sullivan, Chuck Person, Eddie Johnson, John Mengelt, Chris Morris etc. The list is long. I'm talking about LEGENDS. They are all highly regarded.
WTF are you talking about. Ed Reed is highly regarded here too. People prop up our legends on a regular basis. I don't know any other team that constantly talks about a particular team full of legends like Miami does. The 01 Canes.
Man stfu. You're not going to make this about ED lacking accountability for something he had no control over.