Change at Tech?

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  1. Joe Fan

    Joe Fan 10,000+ Posts

    Last week, Rams' coach Sean McVay offered Kingsbury an offensive assistant/consultant role for their stretch run
     
  2. Joe Fan

    Joe Fan 10,000+ Posts

    Change at Tech

     
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  3. Joe Fan

    Joe Fan 10,000+ Posts

    Word is that USC has asked Kingsbury for an answer by midweek.
    Kliff's holdup isn’t merely interest from NFL teams to join staff — but also NFL teams with interest in him as HC possibility.
    The timing is not perfect for him, forcing him to make at least one early decision
     
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  4. ViperHorn

    ViperHorn 10,000+ Posts

    If USC wants him bad enough to pay NFL OC money then offer it without a deadline. That will not happen due to recruiting pressures so USC just needs to move on. Perhaps they could offer Beck.
     
  5. lecturer

    lecturer 250+ Posts

    New England Patriots, GB Packers and LA Rams have now all become NFL possibilities for Kliff.
     
  6. Sangre Naranjada

    Sangre Naranjada 10,000+ Posts

    lecturer,
    In your opinion, do you think Tech will come to regret parting ways with Kliff, or do you think it was the right move for both parties?
     
  7. Joe Fan

    Joe Fan 10,000+ Posts

     
  8. lecturer

    lecturer 250+ Posts

    It would be my view that TT is not likely to regret moving on from Kliff. He's a great offensive mind by any objective measure, but it was time for a change. He just wasn't getting it done as a head coach on a number of fronts.

    Contrary to the entire Bro/Swag stereotype, he is an extreme introvert and that created some problems for him from a head coaching standpoint. I would expect to see him in the NFL in the near future is my guess.

    I think both parties will eventually benefit.
     
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  9. Joe Fan

    Joe Fan 10,000+ Posts

    He may never leave LA

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  10. Joe Fan

    Joe Fan 10,000+ Posts


    The USC press release notes his marital status
    Nice touch

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  11. rick mueller

    rick mueller Burnt Orange Bleeder

    Not trying to go West Mall here, but what if an institution made that known about a female? Can you imagine the uproar?
     
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  12. moondog_LFZ

    moondog_LFZ 5,000+ Posts

    I asked a female friend that has lived in Lubbock forever if she was getting a Kingsbury t-shirt when he was hired.
    She said no, that everybody in Lubbock has known that he is gay since he was QB at TTech.
    Not that there's anything wrong with that. ;)
     
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  13. Joe Fan

    Joe Fan 10,000+ Posts

    Ive seen that rumor too. But it defies logic.
     
  14. SabreHorn

    SabreHorn 10,000+ Posts

    LFZ,

    Not disputing your friend, but there is a coed transfer in Norman, who used to be in Lubbock that will dispute that story.
     
  15. mb227

    mb227 de Plorable

    Beards run amuck, even in Norman...
     
  16. moondog_LFZ

    moondog_LFZ 5,000+ Posts

    And some gays marry and have children before embracing who they are.
    I really don't care one way or the other.
    It was just surprising to me when I heard that.
    I had never heard that rumor before.
     
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  17. lecturer

    lecturer 250+ Posts

    sorry to dispute your friend, but that's just not true. I've personally seen him with women in non public, high profile settings.

    Been a good while back, but someone on the old shaggy board posted a pic of he and a date attending some comedian's show there in Austin.

    In fact, one of the things that made the USC gig more attractive than some of the other ops he had, was the fact he has a girlfriend out there currently.
     
  18. Joe Fan

    Joe Fan 10,000+ Posts

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  19. dukesteer

    dukesteer 5,000+ Posts

    I could care less about his sexuality. That’s his business.

    I like Kingsbury’s demeanor. Always have. But I believe it to be unreliable to draw any conclusions based on what someone else said or, for that matter, even what he may have said. Further, the fact that he has dated females or is said to have dated females (or is currently dating females) is not a definitive indication of his sexuality.

    He may or may not be gay. Again, I don’t care. We won’t know unless or until he comes out. And if he never does, we will probably never know. That doesn’t mean that he is not gay, or that he is...

    If indeed he is gay, I believe it reasonable to suggest that the environment in LA is more receptive of a gay lifestyle than would be the case in West Texas.
     
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  20. 4th_floor

    4th_floor Dude, where's my laptop?

    He must be a good coach because he couldn't get hired otherwise. He doesn't present well.
     
  21. rick mueller

    rick mueller Burnt Orange Bleeder

    I think TT hired a winner. A winner at what, I'm not sure, but a winner.
     
  22. lecturer

    lecturer 250+ Posts

    i think you sell the people of West Texas a little short here.

    Only a few months ago TT knowingly hired a new women's basketball coach who introduced her same sex significant other at her introductory press conference.

    I've yet to see or hear about even the first eyebrow being raised.
     
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  23. Driver 8

    Driver 8 Amor Fati

    He was fired for not winning at Tech and there was talk of an NFL HC job?
     
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  24. mb227

    mb227 de Plorable

    West Texas has long been accepting (or at least tolerated) lesbians. Tech in particular had Sheryl Swoopes in the late 80's/early 90's. I never made a big deal out of being lesbian when I was living out there in the same era (I was about an hour to the south) but it was hardly a secret...

    And, that being said, MANY places tolerate lesbians far better than they do gay males. Seems the activities of the gay male give a lot of people the heebie jeebies while they consider the activities of lesbians to be the thing of good porn.
     
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  25. Phil Elliott

    Phil Elliott 2,500+ Posts

    Lubbock = West Texas? Man I don't get that. West Texas is Alpine and Marfa and Midland.
     
  26. mb227

    mb227 de Plorable

    Compared to Houston and Dallas, it's west ;)
     
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  27. SabreHorn

    SabreHorn 10,000+ Posts

    Abilene & Brownwood are "West"
     
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  28. ViperHorn

    ViperHorn 10,000+ Posts

    Dallas is west of Houston.
     
  29. SabreHorn

    SabreHorn 10,000+ Posts

    Am I supposed to use that in my directions to help Herman find the Metroplex?

    :beertoast:
     
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  30. dukesteer

    dukesteer 5,000+ Posts

    Good point. I might argue though that although the gay lifestyle might be tolerated in “Northwest Texas,” I dare say that it is celebrated in LA...
     

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