Bo's toughness (or what some might call abusiveness, which I disagree with) would be much more tolerated and accepted if he had one or two conference championships under his belt, and his demeanor totally ignored if he had a national championship.......case-in-point Bobby Knight, who made Mike Rice look like Mother Theresa with his behavior, and got away with it because Bobby Knight WON and Mike Rice did not.
http://www2.indystar...bob/knight.html
Ba-ching.
yesterday, SVP and Rusillo were speculating on the reaction there would be if tape of this kind of thing surfaced Coach K or Nick Saban. On the Saban part they said...
"If this happened at Bama to Saban, do you think Saban would get fired? No, they would just say 'whatever' giggles 'we'll see you in the BCS championship game' ". More laughing.
That's the difference in perspective.
Go back to Solich's firing and the dead horse that is and all the speculation about issues in his personal life that supposedly were the real reason for his firing. If he goes 12-2 in 2002 and 14-0 or 13-1 in 2003, do you really think he gets fired for supposed personal reasons?
This is just a dirty fact of life.