Fanhouse Writer has Issue with Gill Tight Ship

[Boom_70]

Fanhouse writer takes Turner Gill to task on running a tight ship. I guess this guy has never heard of Lawrence Phillips.

Rules seem a tad tight but I applaud Gill for trying to keep his players in control.

http://ncaafootball.fanhouse.com/2010/09/29/in-kansas-turner-gill-becomes-the-wizard-of-odd/?icid=main|main|dl4|sec1_lnk1|174805

 

[exmediahack]

I have no problem if Gill does this. None what so ever.

However, I also have no problem if Pinkel, Snyder, Pelini and the rest of KU's competitors exploit this during recruiting.

Gill can run his program however he wants to. But there are consequences to this.

Can't Kansas hire a normal football coach?

 

[Moderator1]

Another FanHouse link not posted by me. Love it.

 

[dixiehack]

When Kansas fires him, Liberty will have him set for life.

 

[BYH]

Another FanHouse link not posted by me. Love it.

Bull****. We know you're both Boom and 21.

 

[Baron Scicluna]

Fanhouse writer takes Turner Gill to task on running a tight ship. I guess this guy has never heard of Lawrence Phillips.

Rules seem a tad tight but I applaud Gill for trying to keep his players in control.

http://ncaafootball.fanhouse.com/2010/09/29/in-kansas-turner-gill-becomes-the-wizard-of-odd/?icid=main|main|dl4|sec1_lnk1|174805

A "tad tight?" Try ridiculous.

If one individual player is having problems, then apply the rules to that player. but to treat a whole team like mindless children? Dumb.

And I hope Turner totally fails because of his rival coaches telling players, "Hey, you want to meet women? Don't go to Kansas."

 

[hondo]

I don't have a problem in this day and age about a coach cracking down. But is Turner Gill trying to imply that he courted his wife before 10 p.m. when he was at Nebraska?

 

[BYH]

Kansas just lost to Baylor 55-7. Pretty sure Gill doesn't have to worry about any women wanting to bone his players.

 

[Crash]

Be for real. Most of the women in Lawrence don't even know Kansas has a football team.

 

[JakeandElwood]

Be for real. Most of the women in Lawrence don't even know Kansas has a football team.

Nah, I'm sure they heard about it after the stories about football and basketball players brawling at the student union.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

I once covered a basketball coach who had all his practices at 6 a.m.

This was a team that had several players under the previous coach. With most of the same players, this coach had no players get in trouble for three straight years. I'm guessing that wasn't a coincidence.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

That column is a piece of garbage. He comes across like a whiny college kid and offers nothing.

 

[Boom_70]

That column is a piece of garbage. He comes across like a whiny college kid and offers nothing.

I doublle checked by-line to see if writer was a male. It had the tone of a female upset that her ability to interact with Jayhawk football players would be hampered.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

I have no problem if Gill does this. None what so ever.

However, I also have no problem if Pinkel, Snyder, Pelini and the rest of KU's competitors exploit this during recruiting.

Gill can run his program however he wants to. But there are consequences to this.

Can't Kansas hire a normal football coach?

Gill is a really good guy who I'm guessing parents will love during recruiting season. I agree the rule is a bit strict, but if it was midnight, instead of 10 p.m. would anyone blink.

I never thought I'd see the day where I was defending a KU coach. :D

 

[Baron Scicluna]

I have no problem if Gill does this. None what so ever.

However, I also have no problem if Pinkel, Snyder, Pelini and the rest of KU's competitors exploit this during recruiting.

Gill can run his program however he wants to. But there are consequences to this.

Can't Kansas hire a normal football coach?

Gill is a really good guy who I'm guessing parents will love during recruiting season. I agree the rule is a bit strict, but if it was midnight, instead of 10 p.m. would anyone blink.

I think the big part of it is that the ban is against athletes being with women after 10 p.m. A curfew, if there is one, is a different rule.

In other words, from what I'm reading of it, it's OK to be hanging out with men after 10, but not women. Not only does it not take into account any gay relationships that may take place, but men can get in trouble with the law with other men after 10 p.m., too.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

If this was a year-round rule, I would have a problem with it, but it's only for four months.

 

[JackReacher]

That column is a piece of garbage. He comes across like a whiny college kid and offers nothing.

Par for the course for that guy.

 

[Baron Scicluna]

If this was a year-round rule, I would have a problem with it, but it's only for four months.

Should be for zero months, unless they are on a road trip with the team.

If college sports is going to be a financial business, then what the athletes do is a job. What they do on their own private time should be their business.

 

[bigpern23]

I once covered a basketball coach who had all his practices at 6 a.m.

This was a team that had several players under the previous coach. With most of the same players, this coach had no players get in trouble for three straight years. I'm guessing that wasn't a coincidence.

John Chaney used to run his practices early in the a.m. at Temple, too, and he rarely had players who got out of line. And he got more out of his players than just about any coach I've ever seen. I'm guessing that's also not a coincidence.

The early practices were a de facto curfew because it was almost impossible for the players to keep up with the rigors of them unless they got a good rest the night before.

 

[Baron Scicluna]

I once covered a basketball coach who had all his practices at 6 a.m.

This was a team that had several players under the previous coach. With most of the same players, this coach had no players get in trouble for three straight years. I'm guessing that wasn't a coincidence.

John Chaney used to run his practices early in the a.m. at Temple, too, and he rarely had players who got out of line. And he got more out of his players than just about any coach I've ever seen. I'm guessing that's also not a coincidence.

The early practices were a de facto curfew because it was almost impossible for the players to keep up with the rigors of them unless they got a good rest the night before.

One year, someone did a documentary on Mike Jarvis and St. John's. They had practices at 7:30 in the morning. One day, two of his scholarship players were late, and Jarvis asked one of his walkons what time he had gotten up in the morning to come to practice. The walkon was early, and Jarvis ripped on the scholarship guys for being late.