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Re: Bo Schembechler dead....

We all got an email last night that it is not to be referenced that way anymore.

 

Re: Bo Schembechler dead....

While my condolences go out to the Schembechler family and all those he touched, nobody seems to remember he ran Ernie Harwell out of town when Bo was with the Tigers and replaced him with Rick Rizz and Bob Rathburn.

 

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I kind of figured it would be somewhere around the fifth page that the contrarian trolls would come out.

 

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Actually, it was mentioned on a separate thread, which is whereyou can feel free to take these kinds of comments. I might also add, that I wouldnt be surprised if Ernie Harwell was one of the first to show up at his funeral...

 

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One comment and I'm a lifelong asshole? Cute.

Of course I've made mistakes, short of running one of the greatest voices of all time out of town. Anytime someone else dies, the good and bad are always mentioned, but no where have I heard or read about the Harwell situation since Bo's passing.

Notice I never said Fuck Bo or anything like that. I just pointed out a negative from Bo's legacy.

Great football coach, and, from the looks of it, a great man.

 

Re: Bo Schembechler dead....

Actually, his Tigers tenure has been mentioned in just about every retrospective feature I've read/watched. And, of course, they always mention Harwell.

Bo caught the heat for something that wasn't his decision. But he was part of the group that forced out Harwell, yes.

But Ernie got his job back; life moved on.

 

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My mistake, then. I hadn't seen anything about the Harwell situation.

Also, I appreciate you not jumping all over my case for trying to point something out, but instead, making your case without name-calling. As always, buckweave handles himself with class.

 

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You're welcome.

For an example: AP even quoted Bud Selig's canned statement in one of its reax pieces. Bud mentioned the Tigers job in his robotic press release in expressing his condolences.

Hal McCoy wrote a great column (when does he not?) on his relationship with Bo. Had some funny stories about Bo's attitude toward baseball.

 

Re: Bo Schembechler dead....

I thought the Harwell move was Tom Monaghan's, not Bo's.

 

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Ultimately, it would have been Monaghan's call. You are correct, sir.

 

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Well, it would have been Monaghan's call, obviously -- what I meant to say more was that Bo was just taking marching orders and didn't necessarily wanna see Ernie fired.

 

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First of all, as a friend of the Harwell Family, the reason that Harwell would be at Bo's Funeral would be due to the fact that Ernie had class. Bo did not, as evidenced by his public comments that falsely accused Ernie of running to the media. Ernie did not. Bo did.

Secondly, it was NOT Monahagn's call to fire Ernie, it was Bo's.