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UConnDan97 said:
Did I say something to offend you? Or is it too much of a stretch to think that when the quote is "entirely family and personally related", to speculate to what the "personally" means? Like 99% of the people on this thread have already...

EDIT: It should go without saying, but I'll say it anyways, that I wish the guy the best. I've defended him in other threads, and I thought that he was going to do well here. Just to put my comments in the proper perspective.
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Why do you need to speculate when he told you it was unrelated? Do you really need to behave like a teenage gossip queen, making up to create drama. I was only pointing out that sometimes the story is exactly as stated.

Stop being so damn sensitive you made a statement on a public forum and when someone responds in opposition you take the oh whoa-is-me I defended him stance! Who cares what your position was on the other matter, it doesn't justify speculating on this one.
 
huskysupporter said:
The skeptic in me might think that Coach Jones was surprised at the backlash, and began putting out feelers to institutions. My guess is he already has a position lined up. And I completely understand I am speculating, as everyone else here is.
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I have no idea if he was putting out feelers or has anything lined up, but I do believe that he was surprised at the backlash, and that the backlash led to his resignation whether his boss wants to admit it publicly or not.
 
Excalibur said:
I have no idea if he was putting out feelers or has anything lined up, but I do believe that he was surprised at the backlash, and that the backlash led to his resignation whether his boss wants to admit it publicly or not.
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And the skeptic in me also would not be surprised if Coach D knows that as well.
 
Jerry27 said:
Why do you need to speculate when he told you it was unrelated? Do you really need to behave like a teenage gossip queen, making up to create drama. I was only pointing out that sometimes the story is exactly as stated.

Stop being so damn sensitive you made a statement on a public forum and when someone responds in opposition you take the oh whoa-is-me I defended him stance! Who cares what your position was on the other matter, it doesn't justify speculating on this one.
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I'm starting to sense that you feel offended...
 
tcf15 said:
Woah...

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Ernest Jones resigns As UConn Football Assistant http://courantblogs.com/uconn-football/ernest-jones-resigns-as-uconn-football-assistant/…
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The man is a devout christian and the University and State asked him to keep that information to himself while he was at work.

Only in Connecticut. This man would have helped us tremendously in recruiting young christian men from the South. But we don't want to offend some soccer mom in Hartford. Unbelievable.

Wonder who they will hire to replace him.
 
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Excalibur said:
I have no idea if he was putting out feelers or has anything lined up, but I do believe that he was surprised at the backlash, and that the backlash led to his resignation whether his boss wants to admit it publicly or not.
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Really a reasonable conclussion. If he gets job somewhere else in short order, then you will pretty much have confirmation. Wish that the guy who retweets Joel Osteen all the time would have used a little discretion in how he printed that, but the real story was the backlash. Also Herbst could have adressed the issue privately and responded privately to the woman who claimed outrage in the paper. I thought the public slap on the hand was in poor taste, but whatever, the Damage is done. Moving on, will be interesting to see who we hire.
 
We don't know all the facts. No one mentions his previous firing for "malfeasance and contumacious conduct." I'd rather have a solid citizen in that position than a guy that just talks the talk.
 
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its gotta be all the snow the past couple of weeks. Probably said, damn, if I'm going to move my family why the hell didn't I move them to some place warm?

That, or the religion thing....
 
UConnDan97 said:
I'm starting to sense that you feel offended...
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Yeah, that's it, I'm offended, by a statement that had nothing to do with me, I don't know what to do with myself, maybe I'll go to the CR board and join the fantasy of "if we whine about our situation more we can change it, even though no one wants us" group. Or maybe I'll just wait to see if he lands at a private school ala ND where he can express his PERSONAL views without being persecuted before I jump to a conclusion.
 
My energy is being sucked out. Between Penn State and BC getting CT verbals and now this!
 
Excalibur said:
An enormous mis-characterization of what happened . . .
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Is it? He was basically told that you can't discuss Jesus or being Christian in the media or in the locker room. You can see him dancing around the topic everytime he's interviewed...trying to qualify his statements and keep from making the same mistake. Jesus is always on the tip of the tongue for men like Ernest.

I know men like Ernest, Christian devotion is different in the South and Midwest. Asking a man like him to keep his faith bottled up is the ultimate slap in the face and everytime he hides his true thoughts he feels that he is disrespecting God. Want to know what his personal and family issues were? His convictions to his God. Christians in the South do not keep their religion to themselves. For men like Ernest God is a part of EVERYTHING. For him, everything he has is thanks to his God so for someone to tell him that he can't openly speak about God at work is inconceivable to him.

Culturally CT was not a fit for him. This never would have happened in the South. He needs to be in South or Midwest or at a religious private institution.
 
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Jerry27 said:
Or maybe I'll just wait to see if he lands at a private school ala ND where he can express his PERSONAL views without being persecuted before I jump to a conclusion.
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How can you say he was expressing a personal view. Coaches aren't in the huddle.
 
Jerry27 said:
Yeah, that's it, I'm offended, by a statement that had nothing to do with me, I don't know what to do with myself, maybe I'll go to the CR board and join the fantasy of "if we whine about our situation more we can change it, even though no one wants us" group. Or maybe I'll just wait to see if he lands at a private school ala ND where he can express his PERSONAL views without being persecuted before I jump to a conclusion.
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Still feeling that you're offended....hmm....maybe you could try lightening up, Francis?
 
noeynox said:
Its the politically correct thing to say, and we seem to have learned that the pc thing to say is the way to go at uconn. smh
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This thread should go into the cesspool. Maybe someday guys like you and a few others will learn the difference between political correctness and just plain correctness. SH was correct, not politically correct. That said, he seems like a nice guy, and if his resignation is somehow related to how strongly the family feels about religion , he is doing what he needs to do and if has nothing to do with religion, I hope it is not an insurmountable issue c
 
LRock34 said:
Is it? He was basically told that you can't discuss Jesus or being Christian in the media or in the locker room. You can see him dancing around the topic everytime he's interviewed...trying to qualify his statements and keep from making the same mistake. Jesus is always on the tip of the tongue for men like Ernest.

I know men like Ernest, Christian devotion is different in the South and Midwest. Asking a man like him to keep his faith bottled up is the ultimate slap in the face and everytime he hides his true thoughts he feels that he is disrespecting God. Want to know what his personal and family issues were? His convictions to his God. Christians in the South do not keep their religion to themselves. For men like Ernest God is a part of EVERYTHING. For him, everything he has is thanks to his God so for someone to tell him that he can't openly speak about God at work is inconceivable to him.

Culturally CT was not a fit for him. This never would have happened in the South. He needs to be in South or Midwest or at a religious private institution.
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You nailed. I know people like him as well. Earnest Jones would have been an absolute asset recruiting a certain CT Gatorade Player of the year out of Middletown who is going to be a Sr. next year. It is not exactly my cup of tea, but the people like that I know come of as preaching and talking God without intending to do so.
 
LRock34 said:
Is it? He was basically told that you can't discuss Jesus or being Christian in the media or in the locker room. You can see him dancing around the topic everytime he's interviewed...trying to qualify his statements and keep from making the same mistake. Jesus is always on the tip of the tongue for men like Ernest.

I know men like Ernest, Christian devotion is different in the South and Midwest. Asking a man like him to keep his faith bottled up is the ultimate slap in the face and everytime he hides his true thoughts he feels that he is disrespecting God. Want to know what his personal and family issues were? His convictions to his God. Christians in the South do not keep their religion to themselves. For men like Ernest God is a part of EVERYTHING. For him, everything he has is thanks to his God so for someone to tell him that he can't openly speak about God at work is inconceivable to him.

Culturally CT was not a fit for him. This never would have happened in the South. He needs to be in South or Midwest or at a religious private institution.
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Which shows the vetting process for his hire was flawed.

A man with known Christian beliefs who has a strong desire to express them in the locker room and on the practice field shouldn't ever been hired at UConn.

The residents of the state of Connecticut have made it perfectly clear through elections and legislation that they don't want religion anywhere on state land or in state-funded entities.

I guess better this happened now than in November in the middle of the season.
 
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cohenzone said:
This thread should go into the cesspool. Maybe someday guys like you and a few others will learn the difference between political correctness and just plain correctness. SH was correct, not politically correct. That said, he seems like a nice guy, and if his resignation is somehow related to how strongly the family feels about religion , he is doing what he needs to do and if has nothing to do with religion, I hope it is not an insurmountable issue c
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Guys like me? Thank you for being so tolerant. Someone may have a different view point than how you interpret the situation and that makes me a "guy like you".
 
Waquoit said:
How can you say he was expressing a personal view. Coaches aren't in the huddle.
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So his religious views are not his personal views? He wanted the players to have a base in spirituality, whatever that may be for them. Funny how people who thrive on reading between the lines couldn't make that connection.
 
Jerry27 said:
So his religious views are not his personal views? He wanted the players to have a base in spirituality, whatever that may be for them. Funny how people who thrive on reading between the lines couldn't make that connection.
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His initial quote was about not spirituality.
 
UConnDan97 said:
Still feeling that you're offended....hmm....maybe you could try lightening up, Francis?
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You jumped into the defensive stance not me, I presented an option to yours, plain and simple, you took it as a personal attack and jumped so work it out however you want, based on your position here I know you will.
 
I know we are in a slow news period...and our nature is to look for the negative....but are people really getting this worked up over a running backs coach leaving? A coach who has never even coached a player at UConn yet?

This is not concerning in the least (despite Palatine's drama) and I am confident that BD will hire another coach just as qualified. I am looking forward to spring practice.
 
Sorry to see him go, but it was his choice. If he was forced out, it would've been awhile ago. Hard to speculate if it was related or not. If he feels the backlash was too serious at our school, then I have no idea what he'd expect at a big-time University. I hope it was something personal and unrelated and that he finds success wherever he goes, whether or not I agree with his personal take on spirituality.
 
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