(08-14-2018 05:17 PM)Ourland Wrote:  

(08-14-2018 01:29 PM)Houston Owl Wrote:  He may have been a competent coach, but his abuse of the players was extensive and very dangerous.
Rice had significant problems the season he was at Rice and would have significantly more problems had he stayed. We might not be having football discussions at this point had he remained at Rice.

He was a good coach, but an awful man. He cared nothing about his players. I'm honestly glad that it all finally caught up to him. He ran those players ragged. If the rumors are true, many were forced to play with serious injuries. You can't do that to kids. Rice needed to hire a "softy" at that point in time.

He was actually too bad a person to be a good coach. You will note that he never lasted very long anywhere. I thought that in many ways he was what we needed, a bull in a China shop, and you can't do that without being something of an a-hole. I'm glad he was here 12 months, but I'm glad it didn't last 13. Or as a conversation that IIRC I had with PTH.

"I don't know if we'd still have football if Todd Graham hadn't come."
"I don't know if we'd still have football if he hadn't left."