"Let's win and then we'll figure out what we're going to do with the dang thing." - Bobby HauckCoaches in this rivalry seldom grasp the intensity the first time 'round. John Robinson, after losing his first game in Reno 26-12 on October 2, 1999 said that he'd greatly underestimated the rivalry, but never would again (and he didn't...he never lost another game to Nevada). The following year, after losing at Nevada Southern 38-7, first-year Wolf Pack coach Chris Tormey said something very similar.
Public Enemy No. 1 seems to join the ranks; refering to my beloved Fremont Cannon as '...the dang thing' shows that he's taking the trophy and the rivalry with the same degree of ignorance and/or irreverence as so many who have come before him...an ambivalence that most certainly is not shared by anyone who will be on the opposing sideline Saturday night.
To be fair, if he said, "Let's win and we'll give the Fremont Cannon the proper care and consideration that it deserves," I would blast him for using a backhanded compliment on the trophy, followed by a 20-page diatribe about how he abuses his life partner, snorts lines of cocaine on a regular basis, engaged in genocidal acts in the remotest parts of Africa, and killed a puppy once "just to see what it felt like".
ReplyDeleteBeing a coach of UNLV is, at least in my eyes, a "no win scenario".
It's only libel if it's untrue.
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