(11-04-2020 09:23 AM)colohank Wrote: It would be interesting to know what kind of office he might have been elected-to in Cincinnati. Dogcatcher? Streetsweeper? No, those jobs demand some level of skill. If not electable in the Queen City, then how about self-appointed inspector of snow-storms and rain-storms? No, that requires introspection, a sense of curiosity, literacy, the ability to grasp a pen or pencil, and some knowledge of grammar.
Depending on how things shake out in the next few days, Tuberville may prove to be a reliable rubber stamp and nothing more.
Tubs was elected to a position while in Cincinnati:
President of The American Coaches Football Association,
which brought attention to UC as spokesman for coaches.
Louisville would not have made it to the ACC without a Kentucky Senator
pushing them in.
Maybe Senator Tubs can assist in pushing the Bearcats into the Big12.
Have you ever needed help from a Senator or Congressman?
My family has.
A Bearcat Head Football has already had a very successful political career as a 47 year US Congressman representing a western New York district.
His name is Dan Reed and he was Bearcat Head Coach during the 1899 and 1900 seasons. He is the only Bearcat HC to coach against Notre Dame which happened in 1900. For one term he was he was Chair of the powerful Ways and Means Committee in the House of Representatives in Washington DC. When he passed on in 1959, a congressman said that when he was speaking to the Committee, it like when he was addressing his Cincinnati football team with a pep talk.
The Daniel A. Reed Library of the University if New York, Palmyra honors Coach Reed and was designed by Master Architect I. M. Pei.
A Bearcat Head Basketball Coach, Socko Wiethe, also had a long career in politics as Chair of the Hamilton County Democratic Party, even though he had much to overcome: he is a Xavier graduate.
He was Bearcat football line coach under Coach Ray Nolting and became UC head basketball coach for the 47-48 season. His first year coaching the BB Bearcats was the first year the BB team was in a conference, the souped up MAC with teams like Butler. He won conference championships in each of his first five years in the MAC. No other Bearcat BB coach has been close:
Coach Jucker won his first three MVC titles.
Coach Huggins won his first two GMAC titles.