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Some Encouraging Words From Hurlie

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While the words are discouraging, could it be that he really doesn't believe them, but feels he has to say them since he's not in charge? Obviously that doesn't make it any better, but the anger directed at Hurlie could be misplaced, he has a job to keep and paycheck to earn. I think it should all be directed at Golden (unless Hurlie actually believes is, and we'll never know that).
 
Notsince1985 said:
While the words are discouraging, could it be that he really doesn't believe them, but feels he has to say them since he's not in charge? Obviously that doesn't make it any better, but the anger directed at Hurlie could be misplaced, he has a job to keep and paycheck to earn. I think it should all be directed at Golden (unless Hurlie actually believes is, and we'll never know that).
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I'm not mad at Hurlie. He said what he said cause his boss accepts mediocrity. It all trickles down from the head coach.

Also, its not about these comments, we've seen Golden intentionally lower expectations. Weakening the schedule, refusing to play for the opener this season, asking the powers that be to reschedule the UL game for this season, stating the defense was trending up, not holding coaches accountable for failing to do their job. This isn't one incident, Hurlie's comments are more of a confirmation that Al Golden finds anything less than national championships acceptable, that he thinks fielding a 116th and 90th ranked defense is not a fire-able offense, etc. so people are upset and have a right to be.
 
We're not winning the interview NC this year. We're already 0-2 in the talking season with Hurlie getting 65 hung on him with yesterday's abortion of an interview.
 
The Franchise said:
Pretty obvious why Saban doesn't let his assistants do interviews. He can't control the message if they're talking. Letting assistants do interviews in today's era is foolish with the way fans flip on you. Nothing good can come out of it. Only bad.

No one has a clue what Hurlie is actually telling players, but now he's public enemy number one because he said some dumb **** in a meaningless interview. I doubt he believes what he said, but he was probably just trying to be classy and uncontroversial for the sake of a useless interview. And now he's the scourge after being the apple of everyone's eye before the interview.
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JMO - and I happen to agree that Hurlie's message was puzzling - is that since he hasn't been a coach all that long that he may feel he doesn't have the license to be as honest or glib as he'd like. The more tenured coaches like Soldinger in the past and Kehoe, they've almost earned that right to rock the boat a bit( and perhaps it was expected of them). Hurlie, is still a youngster in this field and doesn't have that cache', yet

But I have a hard time believing that somehow last years defensive efforts have become acceptable to this program
 
Hurlie's saying two things:

1. That we should be happy with winning nine games.

2. That the "super Miami teams" he was part of, were so superior, that there is no way it will ever happen again. He's bragging on himself and early teams. He's saying that was back in the day, and that can't happen again.

What a pompous ***.
 
k9cane said:
The Franchise said:
Pretty obvious why Saban doesn't let his assistants do interviews. He can't control the message if they're talking. Letting assistants do interviews in today's era is foolish with the way fans flip on you. Nothing good can come out of it. Only bad.

No one has a clue what Hurlie is actually telling players, but now he's public enemy number one because he said some dumb **** in a meaningless interview. I doubt he believes what he said, but he was probably just trying to be classy and uncontroversial for the sake of a useless interview. And now he's the scourge after being the apple of everyone's eye before the interview.
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JMO - and I happen to agree that Hurlie's message was puzzling - is that since he hasn't been a coach all that long that he may feel he doesn't have the license to be as honest or glib as he'd like. The more tenured coaches like Soldinger in the past and Kehoe, they've almost earned that right to rock the boat a bit( and perhaps it was expected of them). Hurlie, is still a youngster in this field and doesn't have that cache', yet

But I have a hard time believing that somehow last years defensive efforts have become acceptable to this program
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Both of these statements are too reasonable for this thread.

Cot****, lot of y'all having a meltdown over a guy that's probably 1/20 as polished an interviewee as he is a recruiter. Alfred better not let Ice do too much talking or we might have a Jonestown situation here. How bout we wait a few weeks and see if this was a guy not used to doing too many of these interviews being overly cautious or if it was someone spewing this fake company line/systemic mindset that some of you think has poisoned that once pristine well that was handled to Golden? In the interim, some of you might wanna explore the benefits of a Xanax prescription.
 
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k9cane said:
The Franchise said:
Pretty obvious why Saban doesn't let his assistants do interviews. He can't control the message if they're talking. Letting assistants do interviews in today's era is foolish with the way fans flip on you. Nothing good can come out of it. Only bad.

No one has a clue what Hurlie is actually telling players, but now he's public enemy number one because he said some dumb **** in a meaningless interview. I doubt he believes what he said, but he was probably just trying to be classy and uncontroversial for the sake of a useless interview. And now he's the scourge after being the apple of everyone's eye before the interview.
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JMO - and I happen to agree that Hurlie's message was puzzling - is that since he hasn't been a coach all that long that he may feel he doesn't have the license to be as honest or glib as he'd like. The more tenured coaches like Soldinger in the past and Kehoe, they've almost earned that right to rock the boat a bit( and perhaps it was expected of them). Hurlie, is still a youngster in this field and doesn't have that cache', yet

But I have a hard time believing that somehow last years defensive efforts have become acceptable to this program
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His comments didn't seem to kill the team's morale, as guys were fighting each other in practice today. Doubt they'd be swinging on each other if they were content with being mediocre.

Hurlie shouldn't be talking to the media because he's only a position coach, and nothing good can come from it.
 
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If we win 9 games in 2014, the Golden faction here will be swaggerin' like it was a NC. Guaranteed. (though no way to probve it, we ain't winning 9 games).

The jive will be "9 games and a major Bowl game (the Russell, LOL) is a sign of a huge season, thus 7 wins is the sign of a very good season"
 
This dude....

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