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Why did Flipper say those things?

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8893 said:
+1. Except make that three national championships in MBB!

His sole job is to build and maintain an excellent athletic program. He has failed mightily. Because we have owned BCU athletically for decades, he hates us and blames our success for his failure. Instead of trying to compete with us and win, he has sunk to the low road and tried to drag us down so BCU might look good, at least by comparison. So far he has failed at that, too. Karma doesn't reward that strategy often; and according to the tenets of the religion on which his school purports to be based, God doesn't either.
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Which is why I'm torn about going to the ACC.
 
epperson said:
No. With Flip, there is no clandestine plan to coerce a predetermined outcome. He's a loose-canon who has a history of gaffes. Think Biden but much, much shorter and much, much angrier.

The only possible theory floating out there within the BC community is that Flip knows that his days are numbered for many reasons. So the interview was an act of desperation to bolster whatever credibility he has left.

He's toast.
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that was my take as well.
 
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Flipper's quote was just to gloat and publicly stick it up our ass, and it backfired big time. Wouldn't it be poetic justice that if Congress ever got involved in this mess, Flipper would have to testify at a hearing where Blumenthal was on the panel?
 
I posted my theory in another thread:
I honestly think the reason DeFilipo is flexing his muscles now is because he knows that UConn to the ACC is an inevitable... he's showing off before he capitulates. He's also going to let everyone know that when UConn joins the ACC... it's because HE let UConn join and not because it was inevitable from the beginning.
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businesslawyer said:
Here's the thing Waylon: college athletics is a big business. But when guys like Gene were coming up through the ranks, it really wasn't. It was a less important and undersupervised part of big universities. The fact that, today, you want successful businessmen to be your ADs doesn't mean that there still aren't some "old school" guys around who really grew up as glorified coaches. (Not that there is anything wrong with being a coach -- just that those skills are very different from those that you would want an AD to have).

My poing being you should not assume Flipper is going to speak and act like a lawyer/MBA just because today, decades after he broke into the business, that is the type of person you'd want to hold his job.
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In fact, your catagorization of DeFillipo as a glorified football coach isn't far from wrong. He began his career as an assistant football coach and moved into athletic administration from there, first as an adminstrator in the athletic department at Vanderbilt, where he was coaching, then as AD at South Carolina-Spartenburg then an assistant AD at Kentucky, I think before moving on to Villanova as AD before landing at BC. He was absolutley one of the old school guys.
 
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He better not be an english teacher. :) Because I need an interpreter and a lawyer just to understand it!!!

The way I see it if someone "isn't far from wrong" ... they must be close to wrong ...

But I don't think that's what he meant ... I think ...
 
Now that you give me the name I certainly remember the cartoon (and could hum part of the themesong). But I couldn't place it until you gave me the name.
 
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I've never heard of Commander McBragg. Maybe I'm younger than I think.
 
The first thing I thought of when Flip's name came up. It took a little diggin to find it but is well worth the effort (it gets great about 2 1/2 minutes in):

 
Nostical said:
I've never heard of Commander McBragg. Maybe I'm younger than I think.
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Commander McBragg was a short 2 minute cartoon when Underdog was on and the cartoon always ended with him saying the word "Quite".

Damn, goes to show how old I am.
 
He used to spin a globe and point. He always had a story for wherever in the world he pointed to.

Go Go Gophers were better. Tennessee Tuxedo was also part of that mix.
 
FfldCntyFan said:
The first thing I thought of when Flip's name came up. It took a little diggin to find it but is well worth the effort (it gets great about 2 1/2 minutes in):

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I love that skit....Lord and Lady .........

, how are you? Spoken like a true .
 
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uconnric said:
Flipper's quote was just to gloat and publicly stick it up our ass, and it backfired big time. Wouldn't it be poetic justice that if Congress ever got involved in this mess, Flipper would have to testify at a hearing where Blumenthal was on the panel?
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It didn't backfire at all. He messed up bad with the ESPN comment, but he knows the Big East 6 aren't going to do anything about ESPN so what's the difference? And by making those statements against UConn he drew a very bright, very public line in the sand for the rest of the ACC. UConn doesn't have the juice to overcome that, and Flipper knows it. Everyone does, except for Herbst.
 
nelsonmuntz said:
It didn't backfire at all. He messed up bad with the ESPN comment, but he knows the Big East 6 aren't going to do anything about ESPN so what's the difference? And by making those statements against UConn he drew a very bright, very public line in the sand for the rest of the ACC. UConn doesn't have the juice to overcome that, and Flipper knows it. Everyone does, except for Herbst.
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So you are saying that Flipper's comment alone will keep UConn out of the ACC if and when they choose to add more teams? Wow.
 
nelsonmuntz said:
It didn't backfire at all. He messed up bad with the ESPN comment, but he knows the Big East 6 aren't going to do anything about ESPN so what's the difference? And by making those statements against UConn he drew a very bright, very public line in the sand for the rest of the ACC. UConn doesn't have the juice to overcome that, and Flipper knows it. Everyone does, except for Herbst.
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Every time this month you show some signs of heading back to reality, then statements like this happen. Where in business does the weakest partner in a partnership draw a line in the sand because he thinks he can stop his stronger partners from crossing it?
 
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uconnbaseball said:
And if Defillippo gets fired? What then?
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I was actually thinking the same thing. On the one hand, if he stays or rather if they decide to keep him, it almost guarantees BC's continued demise in college athletics. I know that sounds like a cheap shot, but, from everything I have seen, there is little doubt in my mind that he is completely and utterly incompetent.

On the other hand, a competent AD at BC might be good for UCONN with the ACC and for college athletics in the Northeast in general.

I have absolutely no inside information. But, my sense is that he is a dead man walking. What he did to the football and basketball programs at BC will take some time to remedy. Then he took that interview with the Globe and proceeded in a few minutes to piss-off Duke, Coach K, UCONN (more), the ACC leadership, ESPN and, you have to believe, the leadership at BC. That's pretty good work for one interview. Unless he has pictures I have to believe FL boots him immediately after the football season and the new AD then cans Spaz (after eating a big part of his contract extension).

We have our challenges at UCONN no doubt. But at BC they are much deeper. A culture of leadership, integrity and success are not built or rebuilt easily or quickly.
 
Kgun7 said:
And why no love for Commander McBragg??? I knew mets, forte, and Lrock wouldn't get it, but what about the rest of you old men?
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Sorry KGun, I really must be going.
 
businesslawyer said:
Every time this month you show some signs of heading back to reality, then statements like this happen. Where in business does the weakest partner in a partnership draw a line in the sand because he thinks he can stop his stronger partners from crossing it?
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He went public with his opposition. Very public in fact. So now the ACC has a choice of airing internal dirty laundry and steamrolling BCU or moving on to other candidates or just standing pat. The easiest thing is always to do nothing, and by making a public stink, Defelippo made doing nothing even easier.
 
nelsonmuntz said:
He went public with his opposition. Very public in fact. So now the ACC has a choice of airing internal dirty laundry and steamrolling BCU or moving on to other candidates or just standing pat. The easiest thing is always to do nothing, and by making a public stink, Defelippo made doing nothing even easier.
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Not only couldn't I disagree more, I think the opposite is true. When a weaker partner takes internal disagreements to the outside world, the stronger partners normally steamroll over him just to make a point. Why does FSU, or UNC, care if the world knows BC is on a different, self-centered page.

But whatever.
 
I think GDF put the last nail in his own coffin. I also suspect that after that assinine interview that FL got a phone call from the ACC leadership and ESPN that burned a hole through his head.

That tirade may not have helped our cause with the ACC, but I sure as hell can't see how it hurt it.
 
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