Tim Tebow on the Maryland fiasco is… oh, boy.
First off, what’s with all the emotion? Second, does he really believe that the regents’ decision was respected by anyone outside of Durkin and Evans?
I wonder if this has anything to do with Durkin being one of the GPOOE™’s coaches at Florida. Weird, anyway.
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I guess a better point would have been: If you think that the original decision was justified given your investigation, then you should have the guts to defend it. I would argue that the firing just shows that they were trying to white wash the whole thing despite the damning facts and didn’t get away with it given the blow back.
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This. Well put.
Tebow is famous for being a good player and a good person. I’ve never once heard him described as intelligent. He should stick to his nitch of declaring the freak of the week on Saturday’s and be happy he’s been afforded a career from it and leave the commentary to people who read good.
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niche*
again….those who read good
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With that high-pitched, squeaky, whining little boy voice he should not be allowed in front of a camera. Also interrupting, talking over people and that constant me, me like a little 9 year old brat. The first year of SEC Nation he did that several times to Marcus Spears and I thought Swagu was going to come across the table at him. Even Finebaum has lost his patience with him.
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Every time I hear him speak its reminds me of little kid who just ran up to his mother and he’s trying to speak while out of breath.
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Tebow is a moron.
How in hell could Durkin coach or recruit after this? What a dipshit.
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Finebaum may be many things but impatient with idiots he is not
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Can you imagine the fright of those parents who saw him with a scalpel approaching their newborn son’s foreskin?
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I think his statements ring true. People in high profile positions make decisions based upon what’s politically correct and based upon what’s popular. They make knee-jerk decisions based upon social media feedback.
I didn’t hear him defend the retention or firing of Durkin. He is attacking the “act based upon popular response” method of decision making.
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I don’t think that’s what Machiavelli had in mind.
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Poor Tebow. So earnest, but just not that bright.
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What a moroon. I usually respect Tebow as a person, but I just lost a ton of respect for him after watching that clip.
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I think I just lost a ton of respect for you if you respected that Gator jackass as a person. (I’m half-kidding.) Go DAWGS!
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His personal conduct has always been exemplary, and he has been a respected leader among his teammates. I’m not so biased that I can’t differentiate between “hating” someone because of a rivalry and actually hating someone because they are a disreputable person.
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Honestly, I’ve always been of the opinion he was full of shit. With all of the actual real criminals on those Florida teams, you’re telling me he was just blissfully unaware of it?
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In college, Tebow was a great football player who was respected by his teammates, his coaches, and other players and fans.
Today he is a minor league baseball player and a MAJOR LEAGUE DOUCHEBAG!!
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We can all agree with the premise of what he is saying but this tragedy is not the proper place for his outrage. A kid under the care of the Maryland athletic department died and the only person culpable is the S and C coach? Total bullshit Timmy! STFU.
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“We can all agree with the premise of what he is saying …”
I don’t know about that unless you’ve got a mouse in your pocket.
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I do.
So you don’t agree with the basic premise of his argument?
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What are you saying, that sticking by a stupid decision is what you should do? Seems like he’s saying don’t listen to all those other people who are, essentially, stakeholders. Or many of them are, at least…they should be ignored?
He’s a bonehead, man, come on.
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If you actually listen to what he said, he said he wasn’t necessarily agreeing with the regents decision. He just thinks they ought to stick with their decision more than 24 hours. They gave in to peer pressure and social media.
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Except that’s not what happened. The regents didn’t change their position. The president ignored their wishes and fired Durkin.
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Didn’t he initially go along with the board albeit grudgingly?
Someone is responsible for a reversal here aren’t they?
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Loh advised the regents to can Durkin and announced his resignation when they didn’t heed his advice. He wouldn’t even mention Durkin by name at the presser.
If you want to call it a reversal, be my guest. But I fail to see the role social media played in it. YMMV.
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I didnt follow the story closely and that may be the issue. I just knew they went one way and then the other the next day, seemingly due to the negative reaction to the first. I listened to the first 30 seconds or so of Tebow and I basically got the idea that he was saying you have to be big enough to stand by your decisions. The devil may be in the deets.
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I tend to agree. Either they’re are admitting they’re stupid or they’re admitting they’re cowards (stupid cowards may be 3rd choice). Either way there’s too much of both/all these days.
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“I’m not saying the decision was right, but if it was right they should have stuck to it.” So maybe it wasn’t right, kid.
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Not the hill I’d choose to die on, Timmy Tears…
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Man, he is a weird dude. Starting to become creepy.
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Is it because he buttons his shirt to the top?
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Bubba Watson and Tiger Woods do that too.
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Well, there’s a case for normality right there.
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I sense a pattern.
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It does lend a John Mark Karr air to his look.
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Pattern continues…
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It’s because he’s never been laid.
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Is the shirt the cause or effect?
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Remember, he became a superstar under Urban Meyer. The creepy apple don’t fall far from the even creepier tree.
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Makes sense to me. Most people have no code, though.
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That’s exactly what is happening here.
Tribalism is the cancer of our civilization.
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Bingo
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Yeah I agree, but thousands of years of evolution isn’t changing overnight.
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My take is surely different than what Ive read above. He is saying not to listen to social media and stand up to your decisions and quit trying to please everybody. I can go along with that.
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Well it wasn’t just “social media”. It was the players, students, the President of the university, and various Maryland elected officials (governor, Congressmen, etc.). They all made their feelings known that they thought it was the wrong decision. So I think Tebow was wrong to focus on the social media aspect of it.
The sad part is that Tebow got more worked up about a millionaire coach getting fired than he did about a kid who died under that coach’s care.
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100% Dawg93
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I couldn’t wait to hear what Tebow had to say on this weighty issue…
…said no one ever.
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So the outrage is because of social media. Not that a kid died, not that coaches berated players, not that there was no medical attention available at practice…..he’s outraged because of social media. How dumb can he be?
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Ya’ll are being way to tough on Timbo….. he can express himself in such a manner that mere words and presence bring the masses to tears, bridges generations………wait, didn’t he go to uf, hey Timbo FU !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Plausible argument, but completely wrong timing & terribly poor example here. Sometimes fame is too much- folks like Timmy still caught up in themselves and their own voices, too much so that they can’t shutup. What he really meant to say is if the comfy money mongers at schools actually gave a shit about the players, then they wouldn’t be in this position. Theit cares, belief’s and convictions shouldnt be after the fact See Penn State, Baylor, Michigan State…. Next up Mr. X University representative, your PR & reputation is on deck…Good luck with those regents!
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Seems simple to me. Turn off Twitter and see of this makes sense:
“Durkin is a fine person. The players made everything up. Durkin had no idea what was going on. Oh, and a kid died, but hey, it happens. Let’s go back to what we were doing.”
No? Doesn’t work?
The social media thing is a huge red herring here. Yeah, Twitter is stupid. Durkin didn’t get fired because a Tweet got 2 million likes. He got canned because he was a bad coach and bad human being in his professional life.
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Like, you know, “liked”. Like, WTF? That was, like, diarrhea of the mouth. Like, you know?
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Not sure this is a situation where I’d get on my high horse.
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I can save Timmy the tough choice here. I neither like or respect him.
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If the only acceptable outcome was “fire HC”, then why have any investigation to begin with?
Cut the man lose and let him go in with his life if your decisions are based upon pleasing Screamin A. Smith and ESPN.
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He’s a clown – sad!
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