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Re: Officially had it with CLM

Wow, I'm amused that my hissy fit sparked a 5-page thread! To summarily review and hopefully wrap up a few points: Never did I suggest that CLM be fired. What I said was it wouldn't bother me if he chose to leave. If I were the AD, I would not fire him. I would discuss his goals with him. Since that was the issue in so many responses, let's go there for a moment. When everyone is 0-0, I see no problem with a stepping-stone fashion of goal setting, i.e. let's win the West, then the SEC, and then the NC. When mid-season comes around, and the system that will choose the NC game participants makes you its favorite, its time to re-prioritize. And let's all be honest: this site has been loaded with thread starter for months, saying "when's the AP poll come out?", "when's the first BCS poll?" ad infinitum. Now was everyone interested in those because they wanted to see how we rank in the SEC West?

A few took my suggestion that CLM should have made an apology and turned it into an apology for not winning the NC. Incorrect, though I'll take some of the heat for using that word. What I want is for CLM to acknowledge that he did not prepare the team for the challenge of winning the NC very well. Would anyone dispute that? Can you look at us blowing a 17-point lead to Kentucky, at committing 10+ penalties in how many games?, at keeping inferior Alabama and Ole Miss teams in the game with mental errors and overall poor play, at coming out sluggish and failing to put Arkansas behind the 8-ball right from the start when we had the opportunity, and still not question the preparation? And maybe CLM is looking in his bathroom mirror tonight and saying to himself "I really blew it," but how can we know that if he's saying in public,"well, let's look on the bright side." That's not the attitude I expect from our head coach, and until this weekend, its never been an attitude we've seen from CLM. It was the kind of garbage we heard from Curly Hallman and Gerry DiNardo, as they blindly refused to acknowledge their mistakes week after week (and subsequently not correct them) until they were finally shown the door. CLM is better than that. What I expected from him is,"we're going to tear Tennessee a new a@@hole Saturday, whip someone's butt in the Sugar Bowl, and then I'm going to go examine my performance this season and figure out where I went wrong so the next time we get an opportunity to compete for a national championship, we don't blow it."

 

Re: Officially had it with CLM

USC's loss to UCLA was much worse of a loss than this loss to Arkansas.

USC knew that all they had to do was win that game and then they would easily handle Ohio State. They blew it because it was their last game of the season.

We still had either Georgia or Tennessee to face, so it was not a done deal.

 

Re: Officially had it with CLM

A little over the top here.

Fans on a message board are quite different from a team setting goals and why exactly would a coach re-prioritize after a poll comes out? These are the kind of things any coach wants to keep away from their players. As fans it is a whole different ball game.