Craig's List: POTUS Brother-In-Law Among Nation's Most Overrated Coaches
Oregon State coach Craig Robinson, beseeching the country for seven-footers regarding his welfare, was part of the Democratic Convention in Charlotte last year helping introduce sister Michelle Obama. Amid questioning whether the party was guilted into putting God back into its platform, a "Fluke" inquiry lingers regarding if Robinson gets a vacation from significant media criticism because he is brother-in-law of paternalistic POTUS.
If circumstances don't change in a hurry this campaign, Robinson may need a presidential pardon mixed in with halfhearted apologies to retain his position unless there is as much personal responsibility at OSU as there is in the First Hustler's unaccountable White House rebooting a - - - - health-care scheme. The Beavers dropped their season opener against visiting Coppin State, the second HBCU to win in Corvallis the last four campaigns. Can the golfer-in-chief, fond of comparing himself to Abraham Lincoln but too busy to attend the 150th anniversary of the Gettysburg Address, unilaterally give Robinson a mulligan or is he too busy assembling an excuse for not saying "under God" while reciting a portion of the famous speech for historian Ken Burns?
At least Oregon State is sufficiently God-fearing to know not to put Seattle back on its schedule after losing at home to the Reclassifying DI school, 99-48, in 2009-10. That regrettable result reminiscent of Reagan mauling Mondale has to qualify as the most embarrassing clunker by a power league member thus far this century. It was perhaps as appalling as Central Planning's health care rollout debacle - the signature legislation for the selfie-taking "Audacity of Hype" - or his Marvin Gaye routine "I (Only) Heard It Through the Grapevine" pleading of ignorance regarding a series of scandals and shortcomings. After shaking down the health-care industry for money rather than closely monitor website development, his sniveling HHS secretary said during Congressional testimony: "Don't do this to me!" Meanwhile, the non-Medicade populace says: "Don't do this to us!"
Right-thinking Americans don't like the White House "apology" and DC can keep it, period! Let me be clear about the ideology as defenseless as the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, ill-conceived as shaking hands with/bowing down to dictators and insidious as intimidating witnesses of the Libyan lynching! But chill out, if your identity is pilfered by a navigator felon/former ACORN staffer, no one will be more upset than Mr. Teleprompter's neighborhood. In order to show compassion and not run the race-baiting risk of offending a grandstanding Big O, it's time to give the ObowwowCare apologists a hug like you would your little puppy and then let them go back to supporting sucking on the government nanny's teat.
There is no need to give them the old razzle dazzle by being Clintonesque and parcing "is is" words amid the chronic fabrication. Even a sports intern realizes no evidence exists from an unimpeachable source that Robinson is on the verge of ending OSU's bump-in-the-road streak of 31 consecutive campaigns winless in the NCAA playoffs. At least Robinson doesn't chronically immerse himself in the Bush-league ploy of blaming his predecessor (Jay John) for the past five lackluster years. They are not in an IRS targeting binder, but following are some optimal "facts" why Robinson didn't deserve a contract extension because he is among the following alphabetical list of the 10 most overrated coaches from power conferences:
Overrated Coach | Current School | Career Truth Detector |
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Jeff Bzdelik | Wake Forest | Career losing overall record and abysmal 21-79 mark in first six seasons in Big 12 and ACC league competition. No NCAA playoff victory in 10 DI campaigns. |
Mick Cronin | Cincinnati | Total of 10 games below .500 in Big East competition in first seven seasons with the Bearcats, finishing among top five in Big East only once. |
Johnny Dawkins | Stanford | Total of 12 games below .500 in Pac-10/12 competition in first five seasons with the Cardinal with no NCAA playoff appearance. |
Stan Heath | South Florida | Only two winning league records in first 11 seasons in the SEC and Big East. |
Trent Johnson | Texas Christian | A total of 38 games below .500 in league competition the last four seasons in the SEC and Big 12 with LSU and TCU, respectively. |
Andy Kennedy | Mississippi | Losing record in Big East/SEC competition and only one NCAA playoff appearance in eight seasons. |
Oliver Purnell | DePaul | Total of 54 games below .500 in conference competition the last 10 seasons in the ACC and Big East. Never won an NCAA playoff game in 25 years. |
Craig Robinson | Oregon State | Losing overall record with the Beavers the last five seasons when he posted losing mark in Pac-10/12 competition each year. |
Herb Sendek | Arizona State | No regular-season conference championship and only six winning league records in first 17 seasons in the ACC and Pac-12. Worst record in the nation among veteran active coaches in close contests (minimum of 125 games decided by fewer than six points). |
Bruce Weber | Kansas State | Losing record his last six seasons with Illinois in Big Ten competition before winning big last season at K-State with someone else's recruits. |