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OK, please excuse the spelling, but has anyone seen or heard from BT since his dismissal?

(03-04-2013 06:45 PM)BigBlueBobby Wrote: [ -> ]Has anyone heard or seen any BT sitings since hie dismissal?

C'mon at least start a thread with correct spelling.

I hope he lands on his feet and trust he will. I wonder if he moves back to Montana......or maybe he fell in love with the beach and wants to stay near the coast. I could never live any further than a morning drive from the beach myself.

I have a feeling he's in Casper

#LetItGo

definitely NOT in Casper

I have to tell people this all the time. At least type the word in Google if you are not sure of the spelling. No excuses, especially on a message board for college fans.

I don't get the love for Blaine. I know he has a disease, but he had a responsibility to the kids he recruited here to do right by them. Us fans not so much even though we paid his significant salary year after year, but letting those kids down and abandoning them is pretty damn low, disease or not.

I will remember some of the highlights of Blaine's tenure for sure, especially his recruiting of guys like finney, baze and frank, but I will absolutely never hold any respect for Blaine. He left this program in shame and I'm tired of mincing words for fear of offending his defenders.

The worst part is, this wasn't even a well kept secret! Everyone knew he was drinking and drinking heavy for the last few YEARS but they looked the other way because he was winning. Meanwhile, the program collapsed around him and then all his defenders feigned surprise when he gets fired and we win 2 total games under him. I won't call you enablers, but I do think it's ridiculous the amount of defending some of you did, even to the point of attacking those like myself who were never big Taylor fans.

He is currently getting the help he needs.

Razor,
He was sober from summer '11 to summer '12 at the very least, so your statement is not completely accurate.

Razor take a break from the Blaine hate, someone was just asking if anyone has seen or heard about BT. They aren't naming the floor on the Ted after him.

(03-05-2013 02:36 AM)Razor Ramon Monarch Wrote: [ -> ]I don't get the love for Blaine.

Razor, it's called concern. The man has a problem and other human beings hope he's getting along OK. Heck, even VCU fans show some concern.

(03-05-2013 02:36 AM)Razor Ramon Monarch Wrote: [ -> ]The worst part is, this wasn't even a well kept secret! Everyone knew he was drinking and drinking heavy for the last few YEARS but they looked the other way because he was winning.

Like who? I'm sure that, if you knew about this before the coach's show incident, you would have filled up these boards with that info. Yet in all of the multiple "fire Blaine" threads, I don't remember any posting about his drinking problem. It's not like you had a ton of respect for him when he was sober and winning back-to-back titles on our arch-rivals home floor. Methinks you take ODU basketball a little to personally.

(03-05-2013 02:36 AM)Razor Ramon Monarch Wrote: [ -> ]Meanwhile, the program collapsed around him and then all his defenders feigned surprise when he gets fired and we win 2 total games under him. I won't call you enablers, but I do think it's ridiculous the amount of defending some of you did, even to the point of attacking those like myself who were never big Taylor fans.

He wasn't fired for the bad record, and the attacks seem to be coming from you (see above quote).

Plenty of people knew about his drinking before this.

For you to honestly sit there and act like this JUST happened a few months ago is utterly ridiculous, but pretty much par for the course for the Blaine defenders at this point.

I'm not going to share the stories I was sent from the past couple years but if the people who sent them to me wish to share the truth, they can feel free.

The fact is, Blaine let the entire program and the kids he recruited down. You can sugarcoat it if you want and make excuses for him but quite frankly, as someone who had two alcoholic grandfathers and an alcoholic uncle, I have very little patience for people who make excuses for drunks. It's called enabling, and I won't participate in it.

I hope Blaine gets better, but he already had a second chance and he blew it again. Stop acting like he's a victim of alcohol. No one forced him to relapse and destroy our program. I'm tired of everyone having to walk on egg shells for fear of offending poor little Blaine and his defenders. The guy ruined everything he built here and disappointed an entire group of kids. I think the sugarcoating and whitewashing of what he did here is ridiculous.

Razor,

I'm not going to respond to red herrings. I've written what I've written, and don't need to respond to things I haven't written. I'll let the readers decide if I wrote what you are responding to. ("victim", "making excuses", "enabling" etc.)

Nobody is acting like this "JUST" happened. Quit throwing around generalized statements.

This thread is about post-ODU Blaine. If you don't have anything worth saying, then just don't say anything.

Anyway, I hope he gets his stuff together and comes on strong somewhere else.

(03-05-2013 08:19 AM)The Flagship Wrote: [ -> ]He is currently getting the help he needs.

That is good news, and for what many of us hoped.

Hope he is able to get that help, but agree with Razor that he let these kids down.

I too have been wondering if he is still in town, but am not expecting to hear anything given how the pres/ad press conference went down.

he's not still in town, but I'm not at liberty to say where he is

(03-05-2013 09:21 AM)Monarch_Pride Wrote: [ -> ]Nobody is acting like this "JUST" happened. Quit throwing around generalized statements.

This thread is about post-ODU Blaine. If you don't have anything worth saying, then just don't say anything.

Anyway, I hope he gets his stuff together and comes on strong somewhere else.

Actually you might want to read back a few posts. Bb35 clearly said "if you knew about this before the coach's show you would have filled the board".

That is exactly acting like it "just happened".

The fact is people knew this was going on but there wasn't any definitive proof of it so no one said anything. I had heard stories for years but without proof, it was worthless and you same jokers would have just attacked whoever said it anyways.

You damn well know this wasn't some recent thing so drop the tired act.

This thread is also "not about post Blaine odu", it clearly asks if anyone has seen Blaine. Quite frankly, I don't care where Blaine is as long as he is nowhere near odu.

I was never a big fan of Blaine's style of play, but that was far from my only criticism of him as a coach and a person. But if I had repeated over and over that he was drunk I probably would have just been banned from arguing back at all the personal attacks that would have taken place from people defending him. Seriously, if you don't think that's exactly what would have happened you haven't been paying attention (and I'm not talking about this board in particular).

Blaine had a cult following of fans who worshipped the ground the guy walked on. Even now, after he wrecked the program, showed up drunk up to a coach's show and a game, there are some fans who want to act like it wasn't really his fault and it was "just his disease".

That enabling makes me sick. Blaine had 800k reasons not to relapse, nevermind the
kids, his family and the fans and he showed zero concern for any of it and ruined his relationship will all 3. I hope he gets better but I have no sympathy for raging alky's.

If he had gotten behind a car drunk AGAIN and killed someone I wonder if you'd be singing the same tune? He had a second chance and blew it and destroyed whatever "legacy" he built here. Screw him and anyone who defends him, defending someone who ruins his second chance is beneath contempt. I'm not sugarcoating this anymore....trying to act like what he did was anything but DEPLORABLE disgusts me.

(03-05-2013 10:09 AM)Razor Ramon Monarch Wrote: [ -> ]

(03-05-2013 09:21 AM)Monarch_Pride Wrote: [ -> ]... post-ODU Blaine ...

This thread is also "not about post Blaine odu", it clearly asks if anyone has seen Blaine.

"post-ODU Blaine" means the thread is about Blaine after ODU. Not ODU after Blaine.

Simmer down, Razor. If you don't care to hear about Blaine, then don't read the thread.

Try again Razor. To recap:

Razor Wrote:Everyone knew he was drinking and drinking heavy for the last few YEARS but they looked the other way because he was winning.

My response was very specific:

Quote:"if you knew about this before the coach's show incident, you would have filled up these boards with that info.

Nowhere did I suggest that this "just happened". I don't know when it started and neither do you. I was responding to your charge that "everyone knew" when the fact is that you apparently didn't know yourself. I find it hard to believe that you "had heard stories for years but without proof" and that you avoided posting about it to avoid being banned. I just don't believe that you, of all people, have that much self-control (due to tons of empirical evidence). I mean there is absolute no leak in any of the "fire Blaine Taylor" threads. That's just too far-fetched for me to accept.

In any case, as I stated earlier, you would do well to respond to what I actually wrote instead of introducing red herrings. Nowhere have I defended Blaine's actions or called him a victim. For all the concern that you show the players for what Blaine has done, and rightly so, they will recover just fine. The worst tragedy in all of this is what Blaine has done to himself. The man has issues, and one can certainly show concern for his well-being without defending him or, in your case, constantly berating him. In fact, he's no longer the coach at ODU, so there's really nothing to defend at this point.

I knew about it. I'd heard all the rumors and stories. Just because I didn't risk sharing them and getting crucified by the Blaine defenders time and time and doesn't mean I didn't know anything. Plus I had no smoking gun evidence so I like others turned the other cheek. Not because I supported him though, that much should be clear, no it was because there wasn't much point of sharing second hand stories with fans who love Blaine so much they repeatedly attacked and even banned anyone who spoke ill of him.

The Blaine defenders are coming off just as bad in this by continually defending the guy, even now, until they are blue in the face.