Jim Gush new LB Coach

NorthTexasSportsNetwork · January 29, 2021

Well I think this is a good hire, and I hope he gets the younger guys at LB developed into ballers.

Cr1028 · January 29, 2021

3 hours ago, SteaminWillieBeamin said:

I really have no idea what you are talking about 👆🏾. Like not at all.

I have no personal vendetta against these hires and don't need justice served 'on a personal level.' I've never claimed anything remotely close to that.

If you want to lump me into a category - it would be NIMBY. Let someone else rehabilitate these coaches reputations like Southwestern Christian University with Coach Bliss. I don't think North Texas is in the desperation category of needing to throw a hail Mary.

Now - since you are worried about my personal feelings - I would LOVE LOVE LOVE to not cast a rape victim in the same light as the Duke accuser. I would LOVE to recognize that as an institution Baylor is very suspect in many decades of work. They have built up a healthy dose of deserved skepticism.

I would LOVE to not have such simple strawman arguments about skeptics desire to make them never have a job or to only hire choir boys to coach... or that we trust strippers from Duke lacrosse over priests... or whatever else you guys like to throw out there. It is just absurd. No one, not a single person here has said that stuff.

I would love people to stop making excuses for "but he was not enrolled at school, so the staff is clear." Who the hell brought the kid to Waco? Not the admissions office.

Sure - I have simple requests in my school fandom and well wishes and how I vote with my dollars. I don't want my recruiters to cheat. I don't want them to lie. I don't want them to recruit players that have incredible talent, but pending rape trials. I don't want players that were kicked other teams for ILLEGAL activities. I will never want any of that. It's fairly simple. I would rather be 6-6 with an ethical stance than 11-1 and sitting on a powder keg or leaving a trail of dead basketball players and raped co-eds. Therefore, when we hire someone that is around that stuff and was a part of it (at lest tangentially) - I give it a side eye. There is *nothing* personal there. I am not dragging a guillotine from my attic.

That's end of it for me.

The hires are made - it is done. I hope it goes better than Tate Wallis. Truly. For everyone, yes, that includes the coaches.

I appreciate your feelings and thank you for sharing them. With so many folks out for career homicide these days at the hint of suspected wrongdoing, I’m a little sensitive to folks being painted with a broad brush. I don’t know much about Gush but I know Bennett has been well respected for many, many, years.