The Orlando Sentinel has published an article setting forth former Knights QB Steven Moffet's complaints against Coach George O'Leary. Apparently, this football coach cursed at an underperforming player! Oh, no! Someone speak to the press...a year after the fact! What does Moffett say O'Leary yelled at him? Here we go:
"[O'Leary] said I was worth [expletive] . . ."
"You stupid [expletive] idiot."
"You stupid [expletive] idiot."
Oh, no! Mr. Moffett, please circle which of the above statements is not true.
I'm waiting.
Still waiting.
Give it some time.
Ok?
Ok.
Moffett was worth a whole heap of [expletive] and his on-field performance definitively showed him to be a stupid [expletive] idiot. The Sentinel article implies that George O'Leary is the one who destroyed Moffett's career:
"For a coach, there is a fine line between motivation and intimidation. One pushes you into excellence. The other pushes you into despair."
Frankly, I for one wish O'Leary had cursed him even more. God knows I spent enough time in the Citrus Bowl doing just that. Fact: Steven Moffett is a football failure. The Orlando Sentinel writes wistfully of the offers he turned down from "Florida, Georgia, South Carolina and Southern Mississippi" for an opportunity to blossom at UCF.
Listen. Steven Moffett was not going to blossom anywhere. And if a little [expletive] was going to keep him from blossoming? Then he was pursuing the wrong career altogether. What is he doing with his life now? "He plays for the AFL 2 Daytona Thunderbirds and is an assistant coach at Winter Park."
The AFL 2 Daytona Thunderbirds? Holy [expletive]! Clearly, his professional failure is Coach O'Leary, the bad, evil, nasty coach who, of all things, curses at players! If not for these mean spirited words, I am sure he would be winning Super Bowls. Probably winning them singlehandedly.
Yes, O'Leary is one cantankerous dude. Is he coarse? No kidding. We remember a frat brother of ours who introduced himself to O'Leary (an alumnus of our fraternity). Coach's reply? "Well what the fuck do you want me to do about it?" Yes, George O'Leary is abrasive. Does that make him responsible for Moffett's failure? No. Does it make him a bad coach? No. He's done more with a historically underwhelming program than anyone else.
If you can't take the heat...uh, maybe you shouldn't play football at this level.
2 comments:
Hell of a point of view. Apparently you forget who the QB was when your drunk dumb ass was standing on top of the goal post after UCFs first win in years. Is it strange to you that players like Walker and Marshall who were great athletes at UCF dont come back to watch bowl games or championship games? Probably because even though they were incredible athletes they recognize they had a prick for a coach and dont want to come back. Yeah, football is about yelling but for a major university shouldnt it also be about creating relationships with the student athletes that come in and out of the program every year? I think it is.
We're always pleased to get hate mail. It shows we're doing a good job.
We'll agree with you on this: it's better to build relationships with players than alienate them. Absolutely.
However, pinning Moffett's overall football failure on O'Leary's [expletives] is utterly misguided. Especially when The Orlando Sentinel couples it with stories of accusations by players that Coach O'Leary cursed at Plancher shortly before his death.
[Expletives] don't kill people, undiagnosed heart conditions do.
On a final note, we are not the drunk dumb ass standing on top of the field goal post after UCF's first win in years.
But, oh God, how we wish we were.
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