Sumlin should send a thank you note every single day to JFF.
mugwurt said:Flexbone said:
When a player is injured but still playing, you don't tip off other teams so they can hit him where he's injured.
He denied the KA injury after the game.
I hope all the KA bashers who defended Sumlin vehemently and refused to see the obvious in KAs injury feel like the idiots they are after reading the article.
Ags4DaWin said:
I still ****ing hate Kryler and always will. IDGAF how you feel about the coaches. When he refused to play he hung an injured teammate out to dry and team performance aside risked Allen doing permanent damage to his throwing arm..
walton91 said:
https://texags.com/s/28049/qb-chaos-an-inside-account-of-the-tumultuous-2015-texas-am-season
To be fair to the journalism profession here, Jake was writing about a topic that he was intimately involved with and had first hand knowledge of. He was simply writing an article using himself as his major source. Writing about a topic where he was actually having to do investigative legwork and piece together a story from others as sources would be a pretty different sort of challenge.Lateralus Ag said:Synopsis said:
Hubenak wrote that spectacularly. He didn't place blame, just laid out what happened in a very good way.
Too bad there arent more "journalists" (I know Jake is not a journalist) that can report facts the way Jake does. Then again, most people that have any talent at all don't become journalists.
Sumlin was significantly more stable in terms of a home life and personal level than the BCG at Kentucky and Texas Tech, who was fighting some significant personal demons including alcoholism.Stumpknocker said:
Sumlin and BCG have some things in common...
1) a good player who gets them almost to the top JFF and Acey Law
2) Summy parlays JFF into contract exten$ion he didn't deserve. BCG parlays AC and a couple good years into the mother of all jobs at uK.
3) both encounter problems of their own making. Poor management of personnel and personal problems.
4) Poor decision making accelerated their declines.
Moral - the tea cools quickly once best player is gone.
What Jake wrote was his perspective. Believable.Pumpkinhead said:To be fair to the journalism profession here, Jake was writing about a topic that he was intimately involved with and had first hand knowledge of. He was simply writing an article using himself as his major source. Writing about a topic where he was actually having to do investigative legwork and piece together a story from others as sources would be a pretty different sort of challenge.Lateralus Ag said:Too bad there arent more "journalists" (I know Jake is not a journalist) that can report facts the way Jake does. Then again, most people that have any talent at all don't become journalists.Synopsis said:
Hubenak wrote that spectacularly. He didn't place blame, just laid out what happened in a very good way.
Law was only a 3 star recruit and he could only guide the team to a 7-21 record under Watkins. Law almost quit under BCG's first year due to the intensity of workouts and BCG notched a 21-10 turnaround in his first year. BCG's discipline was much more instrumental in making Law a great success than Sumlin's coaching was at making JFF a great success. This is a bad comparison. Other than Sumlin letting JFF start, he didn't do much to actually make him better than he already was when he arrived.Stumpknocker said:
Sumlin and BCG have some things in common...
1) a good player who gets them almost to the top JFF and Acey Law
2) Summy parlays JFF into contract exten$ion he didn't deserve. BCG parlays AC and a couple good years into the mother of all jobs at uK.
3) both encounter problems of their own making. Poor management of personnel and personal problems.
4) Poor decision making accelerated their declines.
Moral - the tea cools quickly once best player is gone.
Ags4DaWin said:
BI never blamed Allen. Everyone knew he was hurt and being hung out to dry by Sumlin. I had a slight inkling but until reading that article no concrete evidence that Kryler had hung Allen out as well.
I still ****ing hate Kryler and always will. IDGAF how you feel about the coaches. When he refused to play he hung an injured teammate out to dry and team performance aside risked Allen doing permanent damage to his throwing arm. Kryler let all of his teammates down but worse could have gotten a teammate who was playing through a brutal injury seriously hurt.
Hubenak alluded to it without throwing Kryler under the bus, but that is what Kryler did. Read between the lines.
Pettiness and a lack of maturity and a lack of concern for a teammate are Kryler's story here. I don't usually wish bad things on people but it would be beautiful karma if Kryler's post college career were cut short by injury.
On the whole of it, I would wish this story would get national attention so that no QB worth his salt ever played for Sumlin ever again.
Snap E Tom said:Ags4DaWin said:
BI never blamed Allen. Everyone knew he was hurt and being hung out to dry by Sumlin. I had a slight inkling but until reading that article no concrete evidence that Kryler had hung Allen out as well.
I still ****ing hate Kryler and always will. IDGAF how you feel about the coaches. When he refused to play he hung an injured teammate out to dry and team performance aside risked Allen doing permanent damage to his throwing arm. Kryler let all of his teammates down but worse could have gotten a teammate who was playing through a brutal injury seriously hurt.
Hubenak alluded to it without throwing Kryler under the bus, but that is what Kryler did. Read between the lines.
Pettiness and a lack of maturity and a lack of concern for a teammate are Kryler's story here. I don't usually wish bad things on people but it would be beautiful karma if Kryler's post college career were cut short by injury.
On the whole of it, I would wish this story would get national attention so that no QB worth his salt ever played for Sumlin ever again.
Jake flat out says he was the backup for the Ole Miss game, not Kyler. Why aren't you accusing Jake of haggling Kyle out to dry as well?
TXAGBQ76 said:
They wanted to play elsewhere pure and simple. The ne won the heismann, the other could not beat out even the third string qb at uh.
Not really facts, maybe events. This is a first person narrative which means it is the equivalent of an editorial/opinion piece (Hubie though did probably the best job one could here). Then again there isn't any news anymore that isn't simply editorial or opinion I guess. If the whole 2015 QB debacle was really to be given justice someone who somehow have to get all the parties involved (about 7 individuals total) and do 7 really good interviews that are without agenda other than each's retelling of the narrative then summarize the key pieces the journalistic team is able to connect from those interviews to attempt publishing something for the fan base as a realistic 2nd person narrative of events as the historical record would academically demand.Lateralus Ag said:Synopsis said:
Hubenak wrote that spectacularly. He didn't place blame, just laid out what happened in a very good way.
Too bad there arent more "journalists" (I know Jake is not a journalist) that can report facts the way Jake does. Then again, most people that have any talent at all don't become journalists.