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Gary Ferman Interviews Swasey

FullyERicht said:
Comes across as a real *****. Guy had a cushy gig, and the entire article seems like it is blaming everyone else.

Guy was a virus, who used his personal friendships to retain a job that put him in a critical position, that he consistently failed at for years.

I doubt he gets hired anyone significant ever again.
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That will be the gauge for everyone that was let go.
 
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I'd pay to watch a dejected Swasey walk to his car today with a box full of shake weights and random Bowflex parts.
 
ramumcane said:
Big Sky Cane said:
fivecent said:
Maybe I am reading a little too much into this, but it seems kind of weak that Richt has James doing the firing.
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He was never employed by Richt. It's James job.
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Correct. But Richt surely told James " I am not putting up with this nonsense"
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James is very wisely marching to the beat of Richt's drum. Richt is far more experienced and successful than James is - he's getting out of his way and letting him hire / fire who he wants.

Basically it's the smartest move James could have made. He gets to go back to fundraising or ticket selling - whatever his specialty is whilst the two biggest athletic programmes (football and basketball) continue to win, making him look like a good AD.
 
SA Cane said:
Yeah these ex Miami players supporting a guy that can not even pass a simple ncaa certification is pretty bizarre.

Let's make sure that in the future Duke and Denzel are not on a committee to hire a UM coach.

These two are embarrassing themselves.
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Someone talked about how soft and weak the team was...if you were a player of said team wouldn't you take a little offense to that statement?

Of all the players on our team last year, Perryman is one of the only ones who had workout numbers that fit our previous teams numbers. I'm just saying, I can understand him taking that tweet personally.
 
OldhamA said:
ramumcane said:
Big Sky Cane said:
fivecent said:
Maybe I am reading a little too much into this, but it seems kind of weak that Richt has James doing the firing.
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He was never employed by Richt. It's James job.
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Correct. But Richt surely told James " I am not putting up with this nonsense"
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James is very wisely marching to the beat of Richt's drum. Richt is far more experienced and successful than James is - he's getting out of his way and letting him hire / fire who he wants.

Basically it's the smartest move James could have made. He gets to go back to fundraising or ticket selling - whatever his specialty is whilst the two biggest athletic programmes (football and basketball) continue to win, making him look like a good AD.
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Richt forcibly retired his S & C who left Florida State to join him at Georgia and start their program there. The media driven notion that Richt was too nice and not someone who makes difficult decisions was laughable.

The man who created the mat drills at Florida State and brought them to Georgia was forced to become Director of Player Welfare, and then last year completely removed from the program. The man is a legend and once he started to slip behind the times Richt dropped him. I read a lot about "savagery" around here, and that is straight savage right there.

Under Richt you produce and are big time, or you are gone. End of story.
 
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HurricaneVision said:
SA Cane said:
Yeah these ex Miami players supporting a guy that can not even pass a simple ncaa certification is pretty bizarre.

Let's make sure that in the future Duke and Denzel are not on a committee to hire a UM coach.

These two are embarrassing themselves.
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Someone talked about how soft and weak the team was...if you were a player of said team wouldn't you take a little offense to that statement?

Of all the players on our team last year, Perryman is one of the only ones who had workout numbers that fit our previous teams numbers. I'm just saying, I can understand him taking that tweet personally.
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I am not talking about that response that is just stupid. Denzel is a stud. It is other responses supporting Swasey.
 
Consigliere said:
Problem2 said:
nystateofmind said:
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The ****? What's wrong with these guys
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Brain washed.
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Agreed. Swasey was all Duke and Perryman know. They got comfortable with Swasey. They don't know that there are better candidates out there. You think the HC is the only thing that makes a program successful? **** no. The HC is the one who needs to hire the right personnel to assist him with the direction of this team. The fact that Swasey couldn't pass a basic exam and that our team's have been poorly conditioned says a lot.
 
LuCane said:
HurricaneVision said:
INCaneFan said:
Typical ****ty journalism from that assbag.

It also didn't help Swasey's cause that he struggled to pass an NCAA mandated certification course for strength coaches this past season, preventing him from personally working with the team in his weight room.

"I don't think that had anything to do with it, not from what I was told," he said.

Swasey says he's not upset about getting let go. He wants to dwell on all the great memories from the day he took over in 1997.

How long could he not workout the team? News to me that he took over in '97.

He also listed a lot of players from many years ago as those who come and work out. I told you all that those numbers were down, not many NFL'ers around anymore.
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I am honestly not a huge fan of the man's tactics, but this was honestly a very solid article. He essentially just broke the news that our strength coach couldn't work out with the team in the weight room. That is a huge news. I think he should've focused more on that part of things, but you have to remember he is not some journalist with a large newspaper's name behind him if he catches flak for an article that is negative against someone. What do you want him to do? Trash the guy in an exclusive interview? If he did that individuals who would agree to future interviews would evaporate.

If anything, we should be asking where were our beat writers with picking up on this information.

As for Swasey, what the heck did he think was going to happen if he couldn't pass the necessary certification AND a new coach comes in? This is just great news in the sense that no matter whether you like Swasey, or do not like Swasey, we have a complete new voice in our program. From the top man to the S & C department, we have a new voice.

The S & C spends more time with these individual players than the head coach does. You cannot understate the value of a great S & C to your program and instilling the culture you want to instill.
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The thing is, as I said in a post above, that is by far the biggest news in that piece. It really requires more clarification.
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That was my immediate reaction as well.

I read the sentence 100x:

It also didn't help Swasey's cause that he struggled to pass an NCAA mandated certification course for strength coaches this past season, preventing him from personally working with the team in his weight room.

You could write an entire article about THAT.

What does "struggled to pass" mean? Does it mean he passed with a bare minimum score? Does it mean he failed (at least once) before eventually passing? And when was he not allowed to work out with the team? All season? All off-season? Only during the period when he was not certified? How long was that? Why did he fail the test? How hard is the test? Who was running the S&C department?


Bottom line: this **** needed to happen.
 
In most professions requiring licensure or certification you simply can't work in those professions if you can't pass your tests. Which begs the question how and why did he stay employed so long?
 
I mean I am not at all shocked.

For years I have had to battle the completely braindead/biased ******** who defended this guy.

Turns out, he was worse than even I can imagine. What an absolute disgrace that he was every employed here. Thank you Coach Richt, for doing things the absolute right way for the first time since Butch was coach!
 
Salt said:
In most professions requiring licensure or certification you simply can't work in those professions if you can't pass your tests. Which begs the question how and why did he stay employed so long?
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Series 6, 7, and a state license just to work in a financial services field as a manager. If I didn't pass, I simply wasn't that doing that job anymore. Struggled to pass is something we dealt with in our department. If you didn't pass after three times you were fired.

How does this happen? I'm probably making way too much of this, but I feel like this is seriously big news. Ferman, you had the bomb of the entire Golden regime and you just dropped the ball. That has to be an entire story in the future.

Maybe Barry will pick up on this now.
 
This is all you need to understand the bum we've had here for so long

He hasn't changed his approach - all he's done is tweak some things

Same approach for 15 years?
 
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https://www.nsca.com/Education/Articles/NCAA-Raises-Certification-Standards/

Apparently this is a new rule, that just took effect in August 2015. But it is still unfathomable to think that the Head of Strength and Conditioning, for the past 15 years, at a big time College sports program could have never been certified by the NSCA at any point in his career. To make it worse, in the four months he had to study for it, with all that experience he still couldn't pass it. If that doesn't tell you something about this schools dedication to its STUDENT-ATHLETES, I don't know what to tell you. This admin cut corners to save money by putting the safety of its students in the hands of someone underqualified to do his job.

I'm glad Richt came in and saw an obvious problem and decided to have the puppet Blake richtify the situation. The head of strength and conditioning shouldn't be a buddy or friend of the athletes he's training. He should be more like a ******* drill sergeant. Someone who you don't want to disappoint because you respect him, and even more, fear him. You want someone to talk to? Talk to a counselor, the team chaplain or your position coach. Not the Head of Strength and Conditioning at the University. ****, if you're worried about these kids not having a mentor or relatable father figure type. Give Ice Harris or Kevin Beard 75k a year to sit in an office and be a father figure or buddy to the players if they need it that badly. Call him the Team Mentor/Adm Assistant.
 
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It's disturbing that this guy who is supposed to keep our players in shape was unable to even pass his certification test.

I'd almost guarantee that Donna the Troll kept him on despite his failures as a social experiment.
 
So our Strength and Conditioning coach couldn't pass a certain Strength and Conditioning exam?

How the **** was he still working here again? ?????
 
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