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Coaches Hot Seat Quotes of the Day – Saturday, October 31, 2015 – Thomas Jefferson
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"In CONGRESS, July 4, 1776.
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security."
Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson, July 4, 1776
"A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circlue of
our felicities."
"Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper."
"All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent."
"All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression."
"Always take hold of things by the smooth handle."
"As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also."
"Be polite to all, but intimate with few."
"Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital."
"Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you."
"Educate and inform the whole mass of the people… They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty."
"Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state."
"Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories."
"Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny."
"Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear."
"For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security."
"I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greek and Roman leave to us."
"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies."
"I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man."
"I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be."
"I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion."
"I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive."
"I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them."
"I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way."
"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be."
"In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock."
"It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world."
It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war; but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must defend ourselves. If our house be on fire, "without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it."
"Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning."
"Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains."
"My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government."
"Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today."
"Never spend your money before you have earned it."
"Nothing is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man."
"Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits."
"The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government."
"The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time; the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them."
"There is not a truth existing which I fear… or would wish unknown to the whole world."
"We never repent of having eaten too little."
"When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property."
"When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty."
"When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe."
"Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct."
"Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government."
"Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe."
"The most fortunate of us, in our journey through life, frequently meet with calamities and misfortunes which may greatly afflict us; and, to fortify our minds against the attacks of these calamities and misfortunes, should be one of the principal studies and endeavours of our lives. The only method of doing this is to assume a perfect resignation to the Divine will, to consider that whatever does happen, must happen; and that by our uneasiness, we cannot prevent the blow before it does fall, but we may add to its force after it has fallen. These considerations, and others such as these, may enable us in some measure to surmount the difficulties thrown in our way; to bear up with a tolerable degree of patience under this burthen of life; and to proceed with a pious and unshaken resignation, till we arrive at our journey's end, when we may deliver up our trust into the hands of him who gave it, and receive such reward as to him shall seem proportioned to our merit. Such, dear Page, will be the language of the man who considers his situation in this life, and such should be the language of every man who would wish to render that situation as easy as the nature of it will admit. Few things will disturb him at all: nothing will disturb him much." Letter to John Page (15 July 1763)
"All persons shall have full and free liberty of religious opinion; nor shall any be compelled to frequent or maintain any religious institution."
"I say, the earth belongs to each of these generations during its course, fully and in its own right. The second generation receives it clear of the debts and incumbrances of the first, the third of the second, and so on. For if the first could charge it with a debt, then the earth would belong to the dead and not to the living generation. Then, no generation can contract debts greater than may be paid during the course of its own existence."
"I consider the foundation of the Constitution as laid on this ground: That "all powers not delegated to the United States, by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States or to the people." To take a single step beyond the boundaries thus specially drawn around the powers of Congress, is to take
possession of a boundless field of power, no longer susceptible of any definition.
The incorporation of a bank, and the powers assumed by this bill, have not, in my opinion, been delegated to the United States, by the Constitution… They are not among the powers specially enumerated…" Opinion against the constitutionality of a National Bank (1791)
"The system of banking we have both equally and ever reprobated. I contemplate it as a blot left in all our Constitutions, which, if not covered, will end in their destruction, which is already hit by the gamblers in corruption, and is sweeping away in its progress the fortunes and morals of our citizens. Funding I consider as
limited, rightfully, to a redemption of the debt within the lives of a majority of the generation contracting it; every generation coming equally, by the laws of the Creator of the world, to the free possession of the earth he made for their subsistence, unincumbered by their predecessors, who, like them, were but tenants for life."
Letter to John Taylor (28 May 1816)
"A Decalogue of Canons for Observation in Practical Life"
1. Never put off till to-morrow what you can do to-day.
2. Never trouble another for what you can do yourself.
3. Never spend your money before you have it.
4. Never buy what you do not want, because it is cheap; it will be dear to you.
5. Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold.
6. We never repent of having eaten too little.
7. Nothing is troublesome that we do willingly.
8. How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
9. Take things always by their smooth handle.
10. When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, an hundred."
Wikipedia Page: Thomas Jefferson
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17 College Football Head Coaches Facing CANNOT LOSE Games In Week EIGHT – "They got a name for the winners in the world….I want a name when I lose…they call Alabama the Crimson Tide….call me Deacon Blues…Deacon Blues." – Enjoy the GREAT Steely Dan performing Deacon Blues!
1. Mark Richt, Georgia vs. Florida – Since the last time the Georgia Bulldogs won the SEC Conference Title under Mark Richt….2005…the following SEC teams have won a National Championship…
2006 – 07 – Florida
2007 – 08 – LSU
2009 – 10 – Alabama
2010 – 11 – Auburn
….and if that in black & white doesn't piss off fans of Georgia football then NOTHING WILL but then now we here at Coaches Hot Seat have to wonder…
Is Georgia football's ultimate goal to win the National Title each season?
Maybe it's a stated goal at Georgia but we have spent a decent amount of time around Athens, Georgia the last couple of years and we don't think Mark Richt will lose one nanosecond of sleep if he retires without a National Championship on his resume which raises another question:
How driven is Mark Richt to win a National Championship at Georgia?
Our guess….whether Mark Richt wins a National Championship at Georgia or not is probably not real high on what Mark Richt thinks is important to be worried about in life which raises another question:
If you are NOT driven to win a National Championship at a place like Georgia and we mean REALLY driven to win a National Championship should you be the head coach at Georgia?
NO is the very easy answer to that question which brings us to the World's Largest Cocktail Party against Florida on Saturday which is clearly a…
CANNOT LOSE Game for Mark Richt and the Georgia Bulldogs
…but is this a CANNOT LOSE Game in the deep recesses of Mark Richt's mind?
That we have to even ask that question says a Helluva lot doesn't it now?
Come on Mark Richt…you aren't going to lose to a Florida team with a first year head coach that took over a Gators team that won 10 games in Will Muschamp's last two seasons in Gainesville…are you?
2. Mike Riley, Nebraska vs. Purdue – Not that we think the 8-point favorite Nebraska Cornhuskers can possibly lose on the road to 1 – 6 Purdue Boilermakers BUT if Nebraska did fool around and lose to Purdue on Saturday Mike Riley would wake-up on Monday morning on one of the Hottest Seats in the American Republic!
We really don't want to see Mike Riley lose this game so Good Luck Mike!
3. Gus Malzahn, Auburn vs. Ole Miss –The reality of the very Damn tough situation that Gus Malzahn now faces is defined by two different things…
Gus Malzahn's record at Auburn in his last 10 SEC Conference Games = 3 – 7
….and what the now 4 – 3 Auburn Tigers have left on their 2015 schedule:
At Texas A&M
YES…with a loss to Ole Miss there is a very Damn good chance Auburn finishes with a losing record in 2015 and with $50 Million Dollars Plus being spent on the Auburn football program we cannot imagine in our wildest dreams how Gus Malzahn could survive posting a losing record especially after beginning the season with clearly enough talent on his roster to win the whole Damn shooting match!
YES….Ole Miss is a CANNOT LOSE Game for Gus Malzahn and the Auburn Tigers!
4. Hugh Freeze, Ole Miss vs. Auburn – Based upon the losing that has happened to Hugh Freeze at Ole Miss in his first THREE years at the school that is heavily tilted towards the back-end of the regular season….
2012 – Lost 5 of their last 8 games
….we have a working theory here at Coaches Hot Seat that coming from as we do the "Bill Walsh…let's call and execute the right play boys" school of football that Hugh Freeze's "Hocus-Pocus" wears-off the Ole Miss players somewhere around the middle of the football season and right on schedule in 2015 at the first of October Ole Miss has now…
Lost 2 of their last 4 games
…and here comes a critical game at Auburn and we cannot help but wonder:
Will the Rebels show up for this game or will they fade like they have in EVERY season under Hugh Freeze at Ole Miss?
Based upon what Ole Miss has left on their schedule….
At Auburn
…we are thinking…
FADE AWAY Ole Miss will AGAIN!
Hell, let's just go ahead and say it…..IF Ole Miss loses to Auburn on Saturday that will leave Hugh Freeze's record in SEC Conference play in his FOURTH year at Ole Miss at..
…and appropriately Hugh Freeze will then find his rear-end on the Hot Seat with a loss to the Tigers!
Good Luck Hugh!
5. Kevin Sumlin, Texas A&M vs. South Carolina –A Coaches Hot Seat member checked-in with his Houston area Texas A&M big money alum relative this past week and asked one simple question:
Coaches Hot Seat: "Is there anyway Kevin Sumlin could lose his job this season?"
Texas A&M Alum: "If he has a losing record in SEC play he is done before Christmas."
Hmmmm….let's see here….Texas A&M is right now….
….in SEC Conference play and they have these SEC games left on their schedule:
Now we know why that Texas A&M alum said that Kevin Sumlin is DONE if the Aggies have a losing record in SEC Conference play in 2015….
Bozo the Clown could with A&M's roster win at least THREE of A&M last FOUR SEC games so if Sumlin finishes at…
…then of course his ass should and will be run out of College Station….right?
Good Luck Kevin!
6. Butch Jones, Tennessee vs. Kentucky – Talk about a pressure cooker game for a head coach the Kentucky game for Vols head coach Butch Jones is the…
CANNOT LOSE Game of the Year
….so far because there are TWO teams that a Tennessee coach can NEVER lose to….
Kentucky and Vanderbilt
…and right now Butch Jones holds a…
…record in the FOUR Kentucky and Vanderbilt games played so far and a loss in this spot to Kentucky would be nothing short of a…
Complete Freaking Disaster
…for Butch Jones and would send him rocketing up the Coaches Hot Seat Rankings and put the Vols in serious danger of not making it to a bowl game in 2015.
YES…YES…YES….Kentucky is a CANNOT LOSE Game for Butch Jones and Tennessee!
7. Mark Stoops, Kentucky vs. Tennessee – After starting the 2015 college football season on the Hot Seat Mark Stoops was able to slide down the Coaches Hot Seat Rankings with 4 wins in the Wildcats first 5 games BUT with a loss to Tennessee on Saturday Stoops football team will drop to…
2 – 4 in SEC play
….with these games still to be played:
At Georgia
At Vanderbilt
It's all very Damn simple for Mark Stoops….
BEAT Tennessee =Stay off Hot Seat Mark Stoops!
LOSE to Tennessee = Welcome back to the Hot Seat Mark Stoops!
8. Derek Mason, Vanderbilt vs. Houston – If there ever was a man that needed a win its Vandy head coach Derek Mason this Saturday against Houston in Houston because with a win in this spot Vandy would be…
…on the season and moving forward…BUT…with a loss the Commodores would be…
…and fighting for their lives the rest of the season and of course that means…
Houston is a CANNOT LOSE Game for Derek Mason and Vanderbilt!
9. Charlie Strong, Texas vs. Iowa State – Texas has what…THREE…maybe FOUR times more talent on its roster than Iowa State and thus there is NO DAMN EXCUSE for Longhorns to lose to the Cyclones on Saturday and thus…
Iowa State is a CANNOT LOSE Game for Charlie Strong and Texas….PERIOD.
10. Frank Beamer, Virginia Tech vs. Boston College – Frank Beamer's record in his last 28 ACC Conference Games at Virginia Tech now stands at….
…and thus why Frank Beamer now finds his future College Football Hall of Fame Member ass on the Hot Seat and NO it would NOT be a good look for the Hokies to lose Saturday to a Boston College team that is sitting on a 3 – 5 record and is falling to pieces before everyone's eyes!
One of our long-time Virginia buddies made a very good point to us this past week relative to Frank Beamer's future at Virginia Tech:
"You have to think that Coach Beamer really wants to coach in that game next season against Tennessee at Bristol Motor Speedway."
Oh yea…the Battle at Bristol on September 10, 2016 at Bristol Motor Speedway…yes, one would think that Frank Beamer REALLY wants to coach in that game to which we can only respond to by saying….
You need to win some Damn football games Coach Beamer starting with a WIN over Boston College!
11. Steve Addazio, Boston College vs. Virginia Tech – With Steve Addazio now sitting on records in his THIRD season at Boston College of…
…..and records in 2015 of…
Overall: 3 – 5
ACC: 0 – 5
….which includes FOUR straight ACC Conference losses there is NO doubt that…
Virginia Tech is a CANNOT LOSE Game for Steve Addazio and Boston College!
12. Mike London, Virginia vs. Georgia Tech – With Virginia now sitting on a record of 2 – 5 and Mike London needing 6 wins and a bowl game trip to hang onto his job at UVA what is left on the Cavs schedule is particularly important right now and those games left are…
Georgia Tech – Winnable
At Miami – Winnable
At Louisville – Kind of Winnable
Duke – Probably Not Winnable
Virginia Tech – Winnable
Hell…Virginia has FOUR Winnable or Kind of Winnable Games left on its schedule starting with a home game against Georgia Tech on Saturday so…
Get Off Your Ass Mike London and WIN this football game over the Yellow Jackets!
13. Kyle Flood, Rutgers vs. Wisconsin – We will admit we haven't had the best grasp of the situation at Rutgers and head coach Kyle Flood in the Complete Freaking Disaster that is Rutgers athletics these days BUT a Coaches Hot Seat member remembered this past week that he worked on Wall Street with a Rutgers alum in the early 1990s in Manhattan and tracked that person down and after some chit-chat about what each had been doing the past 20-plus years the CHS Member asked about Kyle Flood's status and the response was:
Rutgers Alum: "It's a Damn mess over there…always has been it seems. From what I have been hearing if Rutgers doesn't go to a bowl game this season Flood is finished because the bottom would drop out of the support for the football program and also because it might be possible to rehire Greg Schiano at Rutgers if he doesn't take another job first."
Well…there you have it. Kyle Flood needs to take Rutgers to a bowl game in 2015 to save his job and sitting on a record of 3 – 4 with these games left…
At Wisconsin
At Army
…if Flood can win 3 of the above last 6 pretty tough slate of game maybe he should hang onto his job….less than 6 wins though…it looks like That's All Folks for Kyle Flood at Rutgers:
14. Mike MacIntyre, Colorado vs. UCLA – Not that we give Colorado any chance at all of beating UCLA at the Rose Bowl on Saturday BUT it will be interesting to see the final score of this game to get a gauge on the difference that exists between the Bruins and the Buffs which the Vegas Boys peg at around 21 points or so which sounds about right to us.
YES..it would be GREAT for Mike MacIntyre and Colorado to beat UCLA on Saturday..but hey Mike…how about keeping the game with two touchdowns son….ok?
15. Charlie Partridge, FAU vs. FIU – In his SECOND season as the head coach at FAU Charlie Partridge is sitting on the very ugly records of…
…and if there is a head coach that needs a win MORE than Charlie Partridge on Saturday in this annual Shula Bowl Game against FIU then we don't know who that coach would be so here's a thought….
Get Off Your Ass already Charlie Partridge and beat FIU!
16. Todd Berry, La. Monroe vs. La. Lafayette – Sooner and a Helluva lot more than Later Todd Better MUST stop the bleeding at La. Monroe and there would be no better spot for the now 1 – 6 Warhawks to turn things around than with a win over cross-state rival La. Lafayette on Saturday.
No, La. Monroe is not one of the more attractive coaching jobs on the FBS level BUT it is a FBS job and there would be coaches lined-up around the block to get the La. Monroe head coaching job if the losing continues for Todd Berry so how about this….
Get Off Your Ass Todd Berry and BEAT La. Lafayette!
17. Norm Chow, Hawaii vs. Air Force – In his FOURTH season as the head coach at Hawaii Norm Chow is sitting on a record in Mountain West Conference play of…
…and if that can keep you employed in The Islands then Damn we clearly went into the wrong line of work!
YES…Air Force at home is a CANNOT LOSE Game for Norm Chow and Hawaii!
Coaches Hot Seat Quotes of the Day – Friday, October 30, 2015 – Frank Leahy
"Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity."
"Give me a lead of 14-0 at halftime and I will dictate the final score."
"There are no shortcuts in life – only those we imagine."
"When the going gets tough, let the tough get going."
"A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall."
"Lads, you're not to miss practice unless your parents died or you died."
Wikipedia: Frank Leahy
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THREE College Football Head Coaches Facing CANNOT LOSE Games In Week EIGHT in the Thursday and Fright Night Games – Enjoy the GREAT Steely Dan performing Deacon Blues!
1. Dana Holgorsen, West Virginia vs. TCU – Talk about a Complete Freaking Disaster if Dana Holgoren's West Virginia football team is not able to handle a very good TCU team on the road on Thursday night that will drop the Mountaineers record to…
…on the season with these games still remaining to be played:
At Kansas
At Kansas State
Hell, Bozo the Clown could coach West Virginia to at least THREE more wins with the above remaining schedule BUT is just getting to be bowl-eligible good enough for the folks around Morgantown?
Who the Hell knows but for Damn sure….
TCU is a CANNOT LOSE Game for Crazy Boy Holgorsen and West Virginia!
2. Mark Helfrich, Oregon vs. Arizona State – With the Oregon Ducks now at 4 – 3 on the season and on the verge of falling to pieces a very tough game pops up on the schedule at Arizona State on Thursday night and it will be fascinating to see how Mark Helfrich and the Ducks respond because with a loss in this spot to drop to 4 – 4 with these games left on the schedule after ASU…
At Stanford
….there is a decent chance the Ducks miss making it to a bowl game in 2015 and if the Mighty Ducks don't go bowling in 2015 can Mark Helfrich survive to coach at Oregon in 2016?
We rather doubt it.
YES…Arizona State is a CANNOT LOSE game for Mark Helfrich and the Oregon Ducks!
3. Craig Bohl, Wyoming – In his second season at Wyoming head coach Craig Bohl is now sitting on records of…
MWC: 3 – 9
…and things don't get any easier for the Cowboys with a game at Utah State on Friday night and still these games left be played:
At San Diego State
Damn…more than likely the Wyoming Cowboys finish at…
….BUT Wyoming has plenty of talent to win 2 or 3 games down the stretch and it's time for Craig Bohl to start proving he's a good football coach so…
YES….Utah State is a CANNOT LOSE Game for Craig Bohl and Wyoming!
Coaches Hot Seat Quotes of the Day – Thursday, October 29, 2015 – Abraham Lincoln
"A house divided against itself cannot stand."
"All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind."
"Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose – and you allow him to make war at pleasure."
"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other."
"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
"Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable – a most sacred right – a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world."
"As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy."
"Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm."
"Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all."
"Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing."
"Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say for one that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem."
"Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe."
"I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts."
"I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong."
"I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end… I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me."
"I do the very best I know how – the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end."
"I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day."
"I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known."
"I will prepare and some day my chance will come."
"If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance."
"In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."
"It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt."
"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."
"Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality."
"The assertion that "all men are created equal" was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use."
"These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert, to fleece the people."
"Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally."
"You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence."
"Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way."
"Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, can not long retain it."
"The dogmas of the quiet past, are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew, and act anew. We must disenthrall our selves, and then we shall save our country. Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass, will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation." Second State of the Union Address, December 1, 1862
"At what point shall we expect the approach of danger? By what means shall we fortify against it? — Shall we expect some transatlantic military giant, to step the Ocean, and crush us at a blow? Never! — All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years.
At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide." Lycecum Address, 1838
"Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man's nature — opposition to it, in his love of justice. These principles are an eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely, as slavery extension brings them, shocks, and throes, and convulsions must ceaselessly follow. Repeal the Missouri Compromise — repeal all compromises — repeal the Declaration of Independence — repeal all past history, you still can not repeal human nature. It still will be the abundance of man's heart, that slavery extension is wrong; and out of the abundance of his heart, his mouth will continue to speak."
"Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate, we can not consecrate, we can not hallow, this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us — that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion — that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain — that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom — and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."
The Gettysburg Address, November 19, 1863
Lincoln's War, The Untold Story of American's Greatest President as Commander in Chief by Geoffrey Perret
Here is a great excerpt from that book that happened just after the First Battle of Bull Run, August 1861:
"Dozens of regiments had set up impromptu around Fort Corcoran, on Arlington Heights. Every day these canvas congeries trembled like leaves in the wind as fresh rumors of an impending Confederate attack. And every day Lincoln heard fresh stories of demoralized troops, mutinous regiments, poor discipline. Some regiments were entitled to – and clamoring for – an immediate discharge, their ninety-day service complete. The War Department's officers seemed to busy for the burdensome task of mustering them out. Unchecked, however, mutinous sentiments could spread through camps like a virulent disease.
Lincoln decided to see for himself, and Seward went with him. A few days after Bull Run, they rode across the Potomac in an open carriage on an impromptu visit to the troops. What greeted them was redoubts spreading across the landscape, tents sprouting like mushrooms in nearly every direction, dusty roads, a cross-hatching of cart tracks, men milling or lolling about, few signs of order or purpose. Yet the District, on edge for its safety, has more than enough men to defend it – if the men chose.
As the carriage rattled along towards Fort Corcoran, a red-bearded colonel strode up: William Tecumseh Sherman. He had commanded a brigade at Bull Run, superbly. Sherman asked if the President had come to see the troops. "Yes," said Lincoln. "We heard that you had got over the big scare and we thought we would come over and see the boys."
Sherman got into the carriage, giving the driver directions to a camp at the top of a small hill. Sitting next to Lincoln, he asked if the President intended to speak to the men. "I would like to," said Lincoln.
Sherman said he no objection to that, but he did not want cheering, "No hurrahing, no humbug. We had enough of it before Bull Run to spoil any set of them." None worse than the 69 th New York, filled with Irishmen angry at not being discharged. Sherman had rebuked one of the officers of lax discipline.
Standing in the carriage, Lincoln gave an impromptu talk to Sherman's troops: bravery, sacrifice, gratitude, a glorious future. The men began to cheer, but he held up his hand. "Don't cheer boys, I confess I rather like it myself, but Colonel Sherman says it is not military, and I guess we had better defer to his opinion."
Closing his impromptu peroration, Lincoln said that as Commander in Chief, he was determined that every man should be treated exactly as the law required: his indirect promise that those entitled to a discharge would soon have one. As the carriage moved on, a young officer ran after it, calling out piteously, "Mr. Lincoln! Mr. Lincoln!"
Lincoln ordered the driver to stop. Here was the officer of the 69 th New York whom Sherman had criticized, panting hard. "Mr. President, I have a cause of grievance. This morning I went to speak to Colonel Sherman, and he threatened to shoot me."
"I told him Mr. President, that if he refused to obey my order, I would shoot him on the spot," said Sherman. "And I here repeat it, sir, that if I remain in command here, and he or any other man refuses to obey my orders, I'll shoot him on the spot."
Lincoln bent forward. "My lad, if I were you, and he threatened to shoot, I would not trust him, for I believe he would do it!" The troops, until then sympathetic to the officer, howled with laughter.
Both Seward and Lincoln were impressed by the comparative tidiness of the camps of Sherman's regiments. "This is the first bright moment I've experienced since the battle," Lincoln told Sherman before riding off. From his own military experience, he knew that neatness and cleanliness is an army spelled discipline; neglect was a signal of trouble to come."
End of excerpt from Lincoln's War
Wikipedia: Abraham Lincoln
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Post Week 8 Coaches Hot Seat Rankings – 21 – 30 Hot Seat Head Coaches – Yep…that's what college head coaches on the Hot Seat HATE to hear Johnny Cash BUT give it to them anyway!
"I fell into a burning ring of fire,
I went down, down, down and the flames went higher
And it burns, burns, burns,
The ring of fire, the ring of fire."
Yep…that's what college head coaches on the Hot Seat HATE to hear Johnny Cash BUT give it to them anyway!
Post Week 8 Coaches Hot Seat Rankings
21. Paul Haynes, Kent State – Now in his THIRD season as the head coach at Kent State and after a Saturday whipping of the Golden Flashes by Bowling Green by the score of 48 – 0 KSU head coach Paul Haynes is now sitting on records of…
…and things don't get any easier with these games still left on the 2015 schedule:
At Ohio
At Akron
Can Paul Haynes and Kent State find THREE more wins out of the above FOUR games to get bowl eligible or will Haynes and the Golden Flashes post…
The THIRD losing season in Paul Haynes THIRD season at Kent State?
The latter….PERIOD….in our humble opinion of course!
22. Mark Helfrich, Oregon – Having taken over the Oregon Ducks football program in 2013 and having been on the Ducks staff on the offensive side of the ball since the 2009 season head coach Mark Helfrich certainly has had a influential hand in recruiting at Oregon in recent years and yet….
It seems that without the transfer of Vernon Adams into the Oregon football program this past offseason the Mighty Oregon Ducks did not have even ONE quarterback that could play on the FBS level on their roster not that the performance of Adams has been anything to write home about!
Please…how in the Hell is it possible with Mark Helfrich and now Oregon OC Scott Frost to be on the offensive coaching staff at one of the hottest college football programs in the country and the Oregon Ducks don't have a FBS quarterback on their roster once Marcus Mariota left for the NFL?
Of course, there is a Helluva lot more wrong with Oregon Ducks than just the quarterback position because under close inspection the Ducks are coming apart at the seams with cracks forming on the offensive and defensive sides of the ball and even in the special teams and when a team is breaking down across the board that is the fault of one person and one person only…
The Head Coach Mark Helfrich
A great question was recently posed to us by an Oregon-alum about Ducks head coach Mark Helfrich:
"Assume for a moment in Chip Kelly's last season that Mark Helfrich or his agent had made it known they were interested in then Oregon OC Mark getting a head coaching job on the FBS level away from Eugene would have ANY FBS program have hired Mark Helfrich?"
The obvious answer to the above question is "NO" but then Oregon football hasn't been for years in the past or is now about Oregon hiring the best available football coach but rather finding a coach that can be approved by the very tiny Politburo that runs things in Eugene which gets its ass-kissed on any and everything and any academic-type that was interested in doing a study on what it's like to work in a Major College Athletic Program where people spend most of their waking hours kissing the ass of one man then head to Eugene, Oregon….which is of course our humble opinion here at Coaches Hot Seat!
Getting back to Mark Helfrich after the Ducks win over Washington Oregon now sits on records of…
…and still has to play in 2015:
At Arizona State
Damn…could Oregon really not make it to a bowl game in 2015 needing TWO more wins to just get bowl-eligible and will the Politburo that runs Oregon Athletics tolerate the Mighty Oregon Ducks not making it to a bowl game or just getting to 6 wins without rising up and telling the peons to "do something" because the Great One is pissed-off?
Who the Hell knows but we are damn sure about one thing:
There is NOT enough money on Planet Earth that would entice us to take a job working in the Oregon Athletic department!
23. Tim DeRuyter, Fresno State – After getting a nice home win over UNLV Tim DeRuyter and his Fresno State football team got run by Air Force in Week 8 by a score of 42 – 14 which dropped the Bulldogs records to…
1 – 4 MWC play
…and make it next to impossible for Fresno State to get to 6 wins in 2015 with these games still left on the schedule with the Bulldogs needing to win ALL of them!
At Hawaii
At BYU
TWO years ago in the 2013 season Tim DeRuyter led Fresno State to records of…
11 – 2 overall
…which was the second straight Mountain West Conference Title for the Bulldogs and in 2015 Fresno State will have a tough time even making it to a bowl game and the lesson here is….
If you let up for a second it can all be gone in a minute.
A few years ago a former college head coach with a "name" that most that follow the game of football would recognize who got fired from a "name" college football program for not winning enough games told us…
"The thing you don't realize when you are a head coach is how close you always are to losing everything and I am not talking about the money and perks but rather the job….the job of being a head coach at the highest level of college football…and why if I had to do it over again some of things I wasted my time doing that had nothing to do with building a winning program would be eliminated and I would focus like crazy on recruiting, coaching, and selling the program to recruits and anyone else that would listen every second I was awake."
As Bill Dooley (the brother of the Great Vince Dooley) who was the head coach at North Carolina, Virginia Tech and Wake Forest once said about being a college head coach:
"You have to fight the tendency to let up. You just can never let up."
Amen to that Bill Dooley!
Getting back to Tim DeRuyter we see no reason why Fresno State cannot beat Nevada and Hawaii in its next TWO games so…
Coach 'Em Up Tim!
24. Steve Addazio, Boston College – A fascinating move that Boston College head coach Steve Addazio pulled a couple of years back was landing the BC job after posting a record of…
….at Temple and in the last THREE seasons at BC Addazio has now posted records of…
…and frankly those records don't feed the bulldog or us here at Coaches Hot Seat and thus why Steve Addazio finds his ass now on the Hot Seat!
Now at 3 – 5 on the season BC still has to play games against….
At Syracuse
….and if Addazio is going to take the Eagles to another bowl game then for Damn sure BC better win its next TWO games before Notre Dame shows up in Boston on November 21!
25. Ron Caragher, San Jose State – There are many Coaches Hot Seat members that have all kinds of different connections to San Jose State University so we were very excited a few years ago when Ron Caragher, former UCLA quarterback behind Troy Aikman and a boy that grew up in Peninsula/South Bay area of the San Francisco Bay area, got the San Jose State head coaching job especially since Ron posted a very impressive 44 – 22 record in SIX seasons coaching at University of San Diego following in the footsteps of Jim Harbaugh BUT by his THIRD year on the job at SJSU we were frankly expecting more from Ron Caragher…MUCH DAMN MORE! Besides Ron Caragher's family is there is NO ONE on Planet Earth that wants to see Ron succeed at San Jose State than us here at Coaches Hot Seat and San Jose State did get an important win over New Mexico on Saturday to raise their records in 2015 to…
….but now the Spartans need to keep things rolling through the bye week and into their final FOUR games against…
At Nevada
….with the Spartans really needing to find TWO more wins to get bowl-eligible after posting a 3 – 9 record in 2014.
Yes…each college head coach has a personal backstory that are each fascinating in their own right and since there are a decent amount of ex-US Navy folks here at Coaches Hot Seat we knew that Ron Caragher lived on Coronado Island when he was the head coach at the University of San Diego and below is a story from a Coronado website that details the unique backstory on Ron Caragher and his family….now get off your ass and start winning some games Ron!
Farewell Caragher Family, Until We Meet Again, Kellee Hearther, eCoronado.com
26. Scott Shafer, Syracuse – After posting a 7 – 6 record in his first season at Syracuse head coach Scott Shafer has posted records over the past two seasons of…
…and with the Orange now in the midst of a FOUR game losing streak Scott Shafer better stop the bleeding soon or he might just find himself out of a job.
With Syracuse now at…
….and with these games left on the schedule…
At Florida State
At Louisville
At NC State
…..it's not going to be easy for Syracuse to find many more wins unless the Orange start playing a Helluva lot better football and in Helluva hurry!
Good Luck against Florida State Scott!
27. Jeff Monken, Army – In his second season at Army Jeff Monken is plodding along at a pretty pitiful pace just like a lot of Army coaches have plodded along at West Point in recent years….make that for two-plus decades…and frankly…
We are sick of Army football being PITIFUL!
With Army's loss to Rice on Saturday that dropped the Black Knights record to…
…on the season with these games still left on the schedule:
At Air Force
Damn Jeff Monken….you need to win your last FOUR games to get bowl-eligible and THREE of your last FOUR games are against teams better than the team you just lost to in Rice!
Come on….Coach up Army Jeff Monken!
28. Paul Petrino, Idaho – Paul Petrino and his Idaho football team got a second straight win on Saturday this time over a severely slumping La. Monroe football team and now the question is for the 3 – 4 Vandals can they find THREE more wins out of their last FIVE games….that are below….
At New Mexico State – Should Be A Win = 4 Wins
At South Alabama – Probably Not = 4 Wins Still
Appalachian State – Probably Not = 4 Wins Still
At Auburn – NO – 4 Wins Still
Texas State – Maybe – Let's Call It 5 Wins for Idaho in 2015
The Good News…5 Wins for Paul Petrino and Idaho in 2015 would be THREE wins more than Petrino got in his first two years on the job and would get Petrino's ass off the Hot Seat but more immediately a THIRD straight win over New Mexico State in Las Cruces on Halloween would get Petrino's ass off the Hot Seat come Monday morning!
OK Paul Petrino….it's up to YOU to get YOUR own ass off the Hot Seat by beating New Mexico State!
29. Mike MacIntyre, Colorado – Mike MacIntyre and his Colorado football team got a nice Pac-12 win on Saturday at Oregon State which runs MacIntyre's Pac-12 Conference record now in his THIRD season at CU to…
….and now the Buffs need to keep things going to get Mike MacIntyre off the Hot Seat completely with a win at UCLA on Halloween!
Oh…don't see that happening but then that's why we play the games so Good Luck to Mike MacIntyre and Colorado on Halloween against the Bruins!
30. Charlie Strong, Texas – The Very Best Thing about the Texas Longhorns win over Oklahoma and Kansas State in their last TWO games was that the Texas players played with….
PASSION and PRIDE
…something that was lacking in some of Charlie Strong's earlier games at Texas over the last TWO seasons and if there is something that can have a more dramatic impact upon a football game than players playing with…
….then we don't know what it is because when you are really Damn motivated NOT to lose then guess what…you often WIN!
Up next for Charlie Strong and the now 3 – 4 Longhorns is a Very Winnable Game at Iowa State which also happens to be…
Better Damn NOT Lose Game for Charlie Strong
….because a loss in this spot would be WORSE than the GOOD that came from Texas beating OU and KSU and would destroy the modicum of goodwill that Charlie Strong is starting…if very slowly….to build in Austin.
Here's the thing…if Texas plays against Iowa State like it did against Oklahoma and Kansas State it will beat the Cyclones and then Texas will most certainly beat Kansas in Austin on November 7 which will run the Horns record to….
…and leave these games on the schedule to be played:
At West Virginia
At Baylor
Our opinion…if Texas plays the rest of its games like they played against Oklahoma and Kansas State the Horns will finish at…
…in 2015 which will be ONE win more than last season and then with a bowl win Charlie Strong could start to build some REAL momentum in Austin but first things first Charlie…
You MUST BEAT Iowa State on Halloween!
Good Luck against the Cyclones Charlie!
Coaches Hot Seat Quotes of the Day – Wednesday, October 28, 2015 – Hank Aaron
"I don't feel right unless I have a sport to play or at least a way to work up a sweat."
"I looked for the same pitch my whole career, a breaking ball. All of the time. I never worried about the fastball. They couldn't throw it past me, none of them."
"I never smile when I have a bat in my hands. That's when you've got to be serious. When I get out on the field, nothing's a joke to me. I don't feel like I should walk around with a smile on my face."
"My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging."
"The pitcher has got only a ball. I've got a bat. So the percentage in weapons is in my favor and I let the fellow with the ball do the fretting."
Wikipedia Page: Hank Aaron
Coaches Hot Seat, Coaches Hot Seat Rankings, Hank Aaron
Post Week 8 Coaches Hot Seat Rankings – 11 – 20 Hot Seat Head Coaches – "I fell into a burning ring of fire, I went down, down, down and the flames went higher And it burns, burns, burns, The ring of fire, the ring of fire." Yep…that's what college head coaches on the Hot Seat HATE to hear Johnny Cash BUT give it to them anyway!
11. Curtis Johnson, Tulane – With Tulane's loss to Navy on Saturday the Green Wave fell to 2 – 5 on the season and head coach Curtis Johnson's records at Tulane in his FOUR seasons as a head coach now stand at…
CUSA: 10 – 18
….and call us CRAZY if you like but we think Tulane football can win more games than that and thus why Curtis Johnson's ass is now on the Hot Seat.
Here's what Tulane has left to play in 2015 with 2 wins on the board:
At Memphis
At SMU
Damn…those are some pretty tough games as we head down the stretch to the college football season especially when Curtis Johnson probably needs to win 4 of his last 5 games to return to coach the Green Wave in 2016.
12. Butch Jones, Tennessee – Tennessee gave a seriously struggling Alabama team that has no idea what it wants to do on the offensive side of the ball…
Well…Lane Kiffin wants to do one thing and Nick Saban wants to do another!
….BUT whatever it was another UT loss and with yet another loss Butch Jones' records at Tennessee in his THIRD year on the job fell to….
….and the last Vols head coach Derek Dooley who got run out of Knoxville had after 32 games at UT posted records of….
….which puts Butch Jones slightly ahead of Derek Dooley after 32 games at Tennessee which is the ultimate…
Big Damn Whoop
….since Bozo the Clown could have been slightly ahead of Derek Dooley's record after 32 games at Tennessee!
With records for Tennessee 2015 now standing at…
1 – 3 SEC play
…and these games still to be played…
At Kentucky
At Missouri
….and we would recommend Butch Jones find a way to win at least 3 of the Vols last 5 game and Oh…we would HIGHLY RECOMMEND that Butch Jones not lose to Kentucky in Lexington on Halloween….Oh a Tennessee loss in this spot to Kentucky would make a….
…..look like the best day of Butch Jones life on this Earth!
13. Gus Malzahn, Auburn – With the loss to Arkansas on Saturday the most stunning number relative to Malzahn at Auburn is his record in SEC Conference play in his THREE seasons at the school which now stands at…
12 – 8 (.600)
…..and with these games still left on the schedule….
…there is the Very Real Chance that Gus Malzahn's record in SEC play will stand at…
….when Alabama leaves the Loveliest Village on the Plains on Saturday November 28!
Geez…is it really possible that Gus Malzahn could be sitting on a .500 record in SEC play after THREE seasons at Auburn after taking the 2013 Auburn team Bogus BCS Title Game which over the past TWO seasons would leave Malzahn's record in SEC play at….
Damn! Our recommendation to Gus Malzahn….
Don't lose to Ole Miss on Saturday Gus or things will get HOTTER than an August day on The Plains down Auburn way!
14. Mike Riley, Nebraska – With the loss to Northwestern at home on Saturday the Nebraska Cornhuskers 2015 record now stands at….
…and with these games left on the schedule…
At Purdue
….there is the very REAL chance that Mike Riley's first year at Nebraska will end without a bowl game trip…..at NEBRASKA….while playing in the Big Ten Conference!
YES…things are bad right now for Mike Riley in Lincoln…BUT…if Nebraska loses on the road at Purdue on Saturday we would recommend Mike Riley and Nebraska AD Shawn Eichorst start looking for real estate agent because they are going to need to put their homes on the market…AND FAST! Hell…maybe if both Riley and Eichorst used the same real estate agent they could get a deal on the commission!
Memo to Mike Riley: Don't lose to Purdue Mike or…IT'S OVER before it ever began!
15. Mark Richt, Georgia – Even with an overall record in 15 seasons as the head coach at Georgia of…
…..the status of Mark Richt's future is in doubt whether Mark Richt decides he has had enough or Georgia football fans finally get tired of Richt losing games like this weekend's one to Florida which yet another…
CANNOT LOSE World's Largest Cocktail Party Game
….that very simply….Mark Richt CANNOT LOSE!
Now at 5 – 2 on the season with the Georgia offense only mustering 9 measly points against a Missouri team that just lost to Vanderbilt over the weekend one has to wonder what is going to happen to Georgia's offense under the un-relenting pressure that the Florida defense is playing with in 2015 and that raises the specter of Georgia….
Getting Run Out of the World's Largest Cocktail Party by the Gators
…which if it happens….a 2-touchdown or more win by Florida….with a first-year head coach in the sidelines in Jim McElwain will be IT for Mark Richt because how could the Bulldogs possibly rebound and do anything this season if they get run by the Gators on Saturday?
It's just our opinion here at Coaches Hot Seat but the former US Military Intelligence people here who were trained in the art of watching face reaction and body movement have detected something new in Mark Richt in 2015 and they see it as something like….
Mark Richt is almost over the idea of coaching football and the pressure that comes with coaching at a place like Georgia
…and with Richt making something north of $25 Million Dollars over his past 15 seasons coaching at Georgia this might be the end for Mark Richt whether the Bulldogs beat Florida or not.
Could Mark Richt really walk away from Georgia with 2 SEC Titles and NO National Championships in 15 seasons in Athens?
Maybe so but this Florida game will be very telling….Very Damn Telling!
16. Trent Miles, Georgia State – After a bye in Week 8 Georgia State gets back to playing football in Week 9 with a game at Arkansas State and with the Panthers record now standing at 2 – 4 and head coach Trent Miles needing at least…
TWO More Wins in 2015
…to have ANY chance to return to coach Georgia State in 2016 with these games left on the schedule…
At Arkansas State
La. Lafayette
At Texas State
….finding TWO More Wins in 2015 is not going to be an easy thing to do!
Good Luck Trent!
17. Charlie Partridge, Florida Atlantic – In TWO seasons at Florida Atlantic head coach Charlie Partridge has now posted records of….
….after the Owls loss to UTEP on Saturday which brings us to the Shula Bowl game against FIU in Boca Raton on Saturday which is a game that Charlie Partridge really needs to win because we don't see a lot of wins left on FAU's schedule…..
At Western Kentucky
At Florida
At Old Dominion
Damn Charlie….you better Damn beat FIU son!
18. Craig Bohl, Wyoming – Not surprisingly Wyoming lost to a very good Boise State team on Saturday which leaves the Cowboy's records at…
1 – 3 in MWC
….and still having to play games against…
At Utah State
…Cowboys head coach Craig Bohl who had a Helluva record at North Dakota State could finish his second season at Wyoming with a record of…
1 – 11!
Wyoming = The place where very good football coaches go to destroy their coaching careers!
19. Bret Bielema, Arkansas – The Good News is that Bret Bielema and his Arkansas team beat Auburn on Saturday but the Bad News is that Arkansas has beaten THREE teams in 2015….
….and those THREE teams have a combined record of…
…and all THREE of those teams will have tough time making it to a bowl game in 2015 so that means that in reality….
Arkansas has beaten NO ONE in 2015
…but the Razorbacks do have a chance to beat SOMEONE with these games left to be played:
At Ole Miss
How many wins will the now 3 – 4 Arkansas Razorbacks finish with in 2015?
We would HIGHLY recommend they finish without AT LEAST 6 Wins because a losing season in one's THIRD year as the head coach at Arkansas will bring a level of HEAT that Bret Bielema and Arkansas AD Jeff Long have never seen or dealt with before and both of those men can ask former Arkansas head coach Houston Nutt what that HEAT feels like and no doubt Nutt would tell them something like…
It isn't fun boys…no Damn fun at all!
20. Kevin Sumlin, Texas A&M – The most interesting and revealing record to keep an eye on as it pertains to A&M head coach Kevin Sumlin is the record that the "money boys in Texas" are watching very closely right now and that is the Aggies record in SEC Conference play under Sumlin which now in his FOURTH season at the school stands at…
….with A&M still having games in 2015 against:
West Carolina
The last two head coaches at Texas A&M….Mike Sherman and Dennis Franchione….who both got run out of College Station after what was nothing less than MEDIOCRE football posted conference winning percentages of…
Mike Sherman: 15 – 18 (.455) Conference Record
Dennis Franchione: 19 – 21 (.475) Conference Record
….and right now Kevin Sumlin is sitting just above the very dangerous .500 level mark in Conference Play and why it's so Damn important for the Aggies to finish strong starting with a…
Better Damn NOT Lose Game at Home against South Carolina on Saturday
Memo to Kevin Sumlin: If you lose to South Carolina on Saturday son you are going to be in a Helluva spot and will be coaching the November 7 home game against Auburn for your job so for Damn sure….Don't Lose to South Carolina Kevin Sumlin…take our word on that son!
Coaches Hot Seat Quotes of the Day – Tuesday, October 27, 2015 – Willie Mays
"Baseball is a game, yes. It is also a business. But what is most truly is is disguised combat. For all its gentility, its almost leisurely pace, baseball is violence under wraps."
"If you can do that – if you run, hit, run the bases, hit with power, field, throw and do all other things that are part of the game – then you're a good ballplayer."
"In order to excel, you must be completely dedicated to your chosen sport. You must also be prepared to work hard and be willing to accept constructive criticism. Without one-hundred percent dedication, you won't be able to do this."
"They throw the ball, I hit it. They hit the ball, I catch it."
"Every time I look at my pocketbook, I see Jackie Robinson."
"It's not hard. When I'm not hitting, I don't hit nobody. But when I'm hitting, I hit anybody."
"At ten I was playing against 18-year-old guys. At 15 I was playing professional ball with the Birmingham Black Barons, so I really came very quickly in all sports."
"In 1950, when the Giants signed me, they gave me $15,000. I bought a 1950 Mercury. I couldn't drive, but I had it in the parking lot there, and everybody that could drive would drive the car. So it was like a community thing."
Wikipedia Page: Willie Mays
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Post Week 8 Coaches Hot Seat Rankings – 1 – 10 Hot Seat Head Coaches – Coaches on the Hot Seat Know What's Up When They Hear This Song Mr. Cash But Send Them Into the Ring of Fire Anyway Johnny!
Coaches on the Hot Seat Know What's Up When They Hear This Song Mr. Cash But Send Them Into the Ring of Fire Anyway Johnny!
1. Darrell Hazell, Purdue – The Purdue Boilermakers had a bye in Week 8 but get after it again in Week 9 otherwise known as…
Halloween Showdown Week
…here at Coaches Hot Seat with a game hosting Nebraska and if Darrell Hazell's football team is going to get a Big Ten win in 2015 the games against Nebraska this week and/or Illinois in Week 10 might be its best shot!
As for Darrell Hazell's records now in his THIRD season at Purdue they still stand at:
A friend of ours in Big Ten Country tell us that relative to Darrell Hazell's future job status….
"If Hazell can win 2 Big Ten games this season then he will probably return for 2016."
There's your charge Darrell Hazell…win TWO Big Ten games this season with these games remaining on Purdue's schedule:
Hell…in your THIRD season on the job at Purdue which has a pretty rich football history you for Damn sure as the head coach should be able to win TWO out of EIGHT Big Ten Conference games…in our humble opinion!
2. Paul Rhoads, Iowa State – In a monsoon at times Iowa State played Baylor pretty tough for the last two quarters and left Waco with a 45 – 27 loss which runs the Cyclones records in 2015 to…
….and Paul Rhoads' records over the past THREE seasons at ISU to…
Big 12: 3 – 19
…and thus you now know why Paul Rhoads' ass is sitting on one of the Hottest Seats in American football.
We have heard the charge for Paul Rhoads in 2015 was very simple:
Make it to a bowl game or Turn Out the Lights the Party's Over
If that's true then Iowa State MUST WIN 4 of its last 5 games against these opponents:
At Oklahoma
Hell…as one of our favorite college professors used to say a long time ago now…
"Hell…Christopher Columbus sailed across the Atlantic and discovered the New World in 1492 so you can Damn sure get your ass prepared to take test in the 20 th Century!"
Do you think the Candy Ass kids on college campuses today would go crying home to their Mommas if a college professor told them that in 2015?
Why Hell yes and that is why a former Stanford dean wrote a great book on how helicopter parents are destroying their own kids' and America's future!
Former Stanford dean explains why helicopter parenting is ruining a generation of children, Emma Brown, Washington Post
How to Raise an Adult: Break Free of the Overparenting Trap and Prepare Your Kid for Success, Julie Lythcott-Haims, Amazon.com
Getting back to Paul Rhoads and Iowa State…
Win 4 of your last 5 games Paul or Turn Out the Lights the Party's Over for Paul Rhoads at Iowa State!
3. Doug Martin, New Mexico State – After watching football for 40-plus years and the college coaching closely over the last decade or so we here at Coaches Hot Seat have some very strong opinions on how an athletic director would go about turning around a struggling football program which begins and ends with hiring a…
Great Football Coach and Leader
….but beyond hiring that Great Football Coach and Leader there also needs to be a strong support system and physical/mental infrastructure constructed behind a head coach and football program for a college football program to truly be successful.
We are going to let everyone in on a closely guarded secret at Coaches Hot Seat….we have a very special mole….well…we have moles across the game of college football in and around university athletic departments that are more than willing to spill some inside info in exchange for an nice lunch but then that's how a few of us here at Coaches Hot Seat were taught to gather information while serving in the US Military and of course is the bedrock of all great reporting….BUT….getting back to our very special mole who has gone by the name…
CrimsonThroat
….for the obvious reason that he has been at the University of Alabama before Nick Saban landed in Tuscaloosa in January 2007 and he is still at The Capstone today. CrimsonThroat has given us a tremendous amount of insight into Nick Saban and the Alabama football program for the past NINE football seasons (99% of which has never made it into the Coaches Hot Seat Blog) and just what Saban did to rebuild an Alabama football program that was only a few clicks away from a Complete Freaking Disaster when Saban arrived in T-Town and that information plus what we have seen first-hand with Jim Harbaugh at Stanford, Pete Carroll at USC and saw a Helluva long time ago with Steve Spurrier at Florida has led to our strong opinions on just what the Hell MUST be done to rebuild a college football program and that brings us to New Mexico State which lost 52 – 7 to a very average Troy team on Saturday and is deep need of a…
Complete and Total Rebuild of the NMSU Football Program
….starting with New Mexico State hiring the very best one of these they can find…
….once they fire Doug Martin which has to be a certainty in Las Cruces now after the beatdown the Aggies took from Troy.
We can tell everyone and especially our author and media friends in the world…a GREAT book that would sell a Helluva lot of copies would be titled something like…
How To Build A Great and Self-Sustaining College Football Program
…with a subtitle something like…
What Nick Saban, Jim Harbaugh, Pete Carroll, Steve Spurrier and other Great Football Coaches Taught the World About Building A Great Football Program or Any Great Organization For That Matter
Hmmmmm….maybe that is a book that someone here at Coaches Hot Seat should take on!
As for CrimsonThroat when Coaches Hot Seat members are in Tuscaloosa for a football game we usually meet CrimsonThroat on the Friday night before the game at the base of Denny Chimes where all the hand and footprints of former Alabama captains are embedded into the concrete and then we take a walk around the beautiful University of Alabama campus before wandering on down to The Strip for some dinner. One thing that people that work in Intelligence are taught is that sometimes when you have a contact that is feeding your information the contact might indeed be feeding you lots of great info BUT he also might be taking what he is learning about you back to someone higher up in their organization so one night after walking around the Alabama campus with CrimsonThroat and having dinner on The Strip we went our separate ways as usual…but this particular time we followed CrimsonThroat and where did he go to that night?
Right back to the Alabama Athletics building.
Hmmmmm….we thought….is CrimsonThroat in the Alabama Athletics building talking to Nick Saban right now about those Sorry Bastards from Coaches Hot Seat?
We placed the call with one of our cellphones and CrimsonThroat answered the call and said in a very nervous and hushed tone….
"Hey…I can't talk right now….call me back in the morning…OK?
…and then hung up!
The good news is CrimsonThroat met us the next time we were in Tuscaloosa for a football game on Friday night at Denny Chimes but it's make one wonder….doesn't it?
4. Norm Chow, Hawaii – With Hawaii's loss to Nevada on Saturday Norm Chow's records coaching the Warriors in his FOURTH season at UH now stand at…
…and Hawaii still has to play this season:
At UNLV
La. Monroe
What does Hawaii win….1….maybe 2 more games in 2015?
Talk about a place that could use an experienced head coach with a great offensive track record Hawaii is that place because the losing that Norm Chow is now posting which is unmatched in recent years of Warriors football certainly cannot allowed to be continue and we just happen to know a few experienced head coaches with very strong offensive credentials that would love to take a shot at the Hawaii job and have a Helluva lot of fun while doing it!
5. Kevin Wilson, Indiana – Indiana played Michigan State tough for about a half on Saturday but in the end the Spartans overwhelmed what looks like a "spent" Hoosiers football team who fell to 4 – 4 on the season and 0 – 4 in the Big Ten play and leaves head coach Kevin Wilson with only one goal left in 2015:
Somehow get to SIX wins in 2015 or it's OVER for Kevin Wilson at Indiana
As we just said Indiana is now 4 – 4 on the season and the Hoosiers still have to play these games….
At Maryland
….AND Kevin Wilson needs to win TWO of the above last FOUR games…PERIOD!
6. Dana Holgorsen, West Virginia – For all the talk of Crazy Boy Dana Holgorsen being an "offensive genius" when you get down to BRASS TACKS and we are all about BRASS TACKS here at Coaches Hot Seat if you look at West Virginia's records under Holgorsen since WVU joined the Big 12 beginning in the 2012 season those records are not very pretty:
Big 12: 11 – 19
Hell…if the above records can keep someone employed at ANY Big 12 school save…
Kansas and Iowa State
…then one has to wonder just what in the Hell has happened to the couch burners in Morgantown who have seemed to fallen down on their asses drunk and are willing to allow….
Way Damn Below Average Football
….to be played in the hills and hollars of the Great State of West Virginia!
Sorry West Virginians….we are just flat-out NOT going to tolerate…
….at West Virginia and either Crazy Boy Holgorsen gets off his ass or his ass will be sent packing with no doubt Crazy Boy walking his ass out of those hills and hollars of West Virginia and back down Texas-way where Crazy Boy should be able to get a job or Hell Crazy Boy could join Pirate of the Palouse up in Pullman, Washington!
Getting back to 2015 Crazy Boy Holgorsen his team's records now stand at…
0 – 3 Big 12 play
….and the Mountaineers still have to play….
At TCU
Hell…if Crazy Boy Holgorsen can't win at least THREE of his last SIX games then Crazy Boy should be sent packing because Hell this is West Virginia football we still talking about here…right?
7. Todd Berry, La. Monroe – The Complete Freaking Disaster that is La. Monroe's 2015 football season got a little uglier on Saturday with a loss to Idaho which leaves the Warhawks record this year at…
…and Todd Berry fighting for his job with these games still on the docket:
At La. Lafayette
At Troy
Hell…there's at least FOUR very Damn winnable games left on La. Monroe's schedule and to that point all we can say in this spot is….
Get Off Your Ass Todd Berry!
8. Mike London, Virginia – The Virginia Cavaliers lost to North Carolina on Saturday and that dropped the Cavs records in 2015 to…
1 – 2 ACC play
…and head coach Mike London's record in ACC play in SIX seasons at UVA to:
Damn…that is BAD with a capital B – A – D!
Up next for Virginia a home game against….
….but then will the Yellow Jackets even show up to play the Cavaliers after their last second win over FSU?
We sure the Hell don't know the answer to that question but for Damn sure we would love to be playing Georgia Tech this week!
Come on Mike London….DON'T QUIT NOW SON!
Speaking of "Don't Quit" there was a great article in the San Francisco Chronicle last week about Cal Football legend the Late Great Joe Roth who has one of the GREAT stories in college football history that very few people know about and we hope that a few more will know about a Helluva Man Joe Roth was from us and many others telling Joe's story.
Cal football hero Joe Roth comes back to life in documentary, Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle
Don't Quit: The Joe Roth Story – www.joerothfilm.com
As always RIP the Great Joe Roth!
9. Chuck Martin, Miami (Ohio) – The losses just keep coming for Chuck Martin at Miami (Ohio) and we here at Coaches Hot Seat cannot help but wonder….
Just what in the Hell is going on at Miami (Ohio) Chuck Martin? You are too good of a football coach for his Crapola football son! Get off your ass already Chuck Martin!
Up next for the 1 – 7 Miami (Ohio) Redhawks:
Damn Chuck Martin….Got 1 – 8?
You are about to have it Chuck if you and your football team doesn't get off your collective asses!
10. Frank Beamer, Virginia Tech – Yes, Virginia Tech played a pretty good Duke team tough on Saturday before losing in overtime but to that we can only say….
Yada, Yada, Yada…because this is Freaking Virginia Tech Folks
…and that was the Freaking Duke Blue Devils that just be the Hokies on Their Home Freaking Field when Virginia Tech has at LEAST DOUBLE the talent of the Blue Devils!
It's not easy for us to say this since we have a lot of respect for future College Football Hall of Fame member Frank Beamer who has forgotten more about football than we ever collectively know here at Coaches Hot Seat but the TRUTH is right now…
Virginia Tech is a very poorly coached football team
…especially with the amount of talent on the Hokies' roster which has consistently had Top 25 Recruiting Classes over the past SIX seasons and plays like it has Below Top 50 Recruiting Classes which is sure Damn sign of a…
Very Poorly Coached Football Team
Hell…..there's no Damn shame in realizing it's over….and if Virginia Tech cannot get to SIX wins in 2015 now sitting with THREE wins with these games left to be played…
At Boston College
At Georgia Tech
At Virginia
….the TRUTH is…
It's Over For Frank Beamer at Virginia Tech
…and someone else can take a shot at following the legendary Frank Beamer and getting the Hokies back on top which we know for Damn sure is what Frank Beamer wants more than worrying about his own Damn job status in Blacksburg!
Go Beat Boston College Frank Beamer!


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Thursday, 2 January 2020 22:08
Glyphosate/Roundup
Why Is Glyphosate Sprayed on Crops Right Before Harvest?
By: Ken Roseboro
Glyphosate, the main ingredient in Monsanto's Roundup herbicide, is recognized as the world's most widely used weed killer. What is not so well known is that farmers also use glyphosate on crops such as wheat, oats, edible beans and other crops right before harvest, raising concerns that the herbicide could get into food products.
Escalating Use of Probable Carcinogen
Glyphosate has come under increased scrutiny in the past year. Last year the World Health Organization's cancer group, the International Agency for Research on Cancer, classified it as a probable carcinogen. The state of California has also moved to classify the herbicide as a probable carcinogen. A growing body of research is documenting health concerns of glyphosate as an endocrine disruptor and that it kills beneficial gut bacteria, damages the DNA in human embryonic, placental and umbilical cord cells and is linked to birth defects and reproductive problems in laboratory animals.
What is not so well known is that farmers also use glyphosate on crops such as wheat, oats, edible beans and other crops right before harvest.
A recently published paper describes the escalating use of glyphosate: 18.9 billion pounds have been used globally since its introduction in 1974, making it the most widely and heavily applied weed-killer in the history of chemical agriculture. Significantly, 74 percent of all glyphosate sprayed on crops since the mid-1970s was applied in just the last 10 years, as cultivation of GMO corn and soybeans expanded in the U.S. and globally.
Glyphosate Used to Speed Up Wheat Harvest
Charles Benbrook, Ph.D., who published the paper on the mounting use of glyphosate, says the practice of spraying glyphosate on wheat prior to harvest, known as desiccating, began in Scotland in the 1980s.
"Farmers there often had trouble getting wheat and barley to dry evenly so they can start harvesting. So they came up with the idea to kill the crop (with glyphosate) one to two weeks before harvest to accelerate the drying down of the grain," he said.
The pre-harvest use of glyphosate allows farmers to harvest crops as much as two weeks earlier than they normally would, an advantage in northern, colder regions.
The practice spread to wheat-growing areas of North America such as the upper Midwestern U.S. and Canadian provinces such as Saskatchewan and Manitoba.
"Desiccation is done primarily in years where conditions are wet and the crop is slow to dry down," Joel Ransom, an agronomist at North Dakota State University, said.
Ransom says desiccating wheat with glyphosate has been a useful tool for farmers.
"It does help hasten dry down and controls grain weeds and other material that slows down the threshing practice," he said. "It has an important role in areas where it's wet."
Ransom says the practice has increased in North Dakota, which is the leading wheat-producing state in the U.S., over the past 15 years due to wetter weather.
While more common in Upper Midwestern states where there is more moisture, desiccation is less likely to be done in drier wheat growing areas of Kansas, Oklahoma, Washington and Oregon.
All Conventional Farmers in Saskatchewan Desiccate Wheat
According to a wheat farmer in Saskatchewan, desiccating wheat with glyphosate is commonplace in his region. "I think every non-organic farmer in Saskatchewan uses glyphosate on most of their wheat acres every year," the farmer speaking on condition of anonymity said.
He has concerns about the practice. "I think farmers need to realize that all of the chemicals we use are 'bad' to some extent," he said. "Monsanto has done such an effective job marketing glyphosate as 'safe' and 'biodegradable' that farmers here still believe this even though such claims are false."
The vast majority of farmers in Manitoba, Canada's third largest wheat producing province, also use glyphosate on wheat, said Gerald Wiebe, a farmer and agricultural consultant. "I would estimate that 90 to 95 percent of wheat acres in Manitoba are sprayed pre-harvest with glyphosate; the exception would be in dry areas of the province where moisture levels at harvest time are not an issue," he said.
"Don't Ask, Don't Tell" Policy
According to Tom Ehrhardt, co-owner of Minnesota-based Albert Lea Seeds, sourcing grains not desiccated with glyphosate prior to harvest is a challenge.
"I have talked with millers of conventionally produced grain and they all agree it's very difficult to source oats, wheat, flax and triticale, which have not been sprayed with glyphosate prior to harvest," he said. "It's a 'don't ask, don't tell policy' in the industry."
Ehrhardt also says that crops grown to produce seed are not usually sprayed with glyphosate prior to harvest because this can damage seed germination.
Grain Millers, which has grain processing facilities in the U.S. and Canada, announced last year that it would not buy oats from Canada that had been desiccated with glyphosate. The company's Canadian procurement manager, Terry Tyson, told Western Producer that glyphosate disrupts the natural maturing process and starch development, resulting in lower quality flakes and flour. He said the decision had nothing to do with health or safety concerns.
"Would Rather Not Eat a Loaf of Bread With Glyphosate In It"
Still, there are obvious concerns about glyphosate getting into food products.
"We are told these (glyphosate residues) are too small to matter but can we believe that?" the Saskatchewan farmer asked. "I think everyone, even farmers that use and love glyphosate, would rather not eat a loaf of bread with glyphosate in it."
Wiebe shares similar concerns. "Consumers don't realize when they buy wheat products like flour, cookies and bread they are getting glyphosate residues in those products," he said. "It's barbaric to put glyphosate in food a few days before you harvest it."
Wiebe believes the use of glyphosate on wheat may be connected to the rise in celiac disease. "We've seen an explosion of gluten intolerance," he said. "What's really going on?"
"Can you imagine the public's response if they knew that glyphosate is being sprayed on the oats in their Cheerios only weeks before it is manufactured?" Ehrhardt asked.
Residues of glyphosate have been found in wheat flour. Last year, Ransom reported to the U.S. Wheat Quality Council that tests on flour samples from the U.S. and Canada found that all had traces of glyphosate. However, Ransom said these were well below the maximum residue limits for glyphosate in wheat, which are 30 parts per million in the U.S.
Still, Ransom said: "I wouldn't be surprised if someone repeated the test and found traces also."
In response to mounting concerns over the escalating use of glyphosate, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration recently said it would begin testing foods for glyphosate residues.
Powerful Effect on Food System
Along with wheat and oats, glyphosate is used to desiccate a wide range of other crops including lentils, peas, non-GMO soybeans, corn, flax, rye, triticale, buckwheat, millet, canola, sugar beets and potatoes. Sunflowers may also be treated pre-harvest with glyphosate, according to the National Sunflower Association.
Benbrook says that a large portion of edible beans grown in Washington and Idaho are desiccated with glyphosate.
There are no statistics kept on the number of acres of wheat or other crops that are desiccated with glyphosate, according to Ransom.
While the pre-harvest use of glyphosate may account for a small amount of overall use of the herbicide, Benbrook says this still has a huge impact. "It may be two percent of agriculture use, but well over 50 percent of dietary exposure," he said.
Further, he said: "I don't understand why Monsanto and the food industry don't voluntarily end this practice. They know it contributes to high dietary exposure (of glyphosate)."
Wiebe sees the situation in dire terms. "The most tragic thing is that industry is encouraging the use of glyphosate on wheat, farmers are using it, consumers are unaware of it and it's having a powerful effect on the food system," he said.
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Juul, e-cigs (electronic cigarettes), and vaping
The jury is in!
They're not good for you.
You might die!
Now that's a good warning…
EVALI, e-cigarette vaping associated lung injury, is the name given by the CDC to the recent rash of deaths and lung injuries noticed across the country.
Feel sorry for those who used these products in an attempt to quit smoking.
Per the CDC (Center for Disease Control and Prevention), 29 samples of lung fluid from 10 different states (They've found the pattern !) have common ingredient, vitamin E acetate, a synthetic form of vitamin E. Vitamin E acetate now has been pronounced by the CDC as a chemical of concern. It is found in both tobacco and cannabis inhalers/vape pens.
Vitamin E acetate, a pale yellow viscous liquid, is similar to THC oil in consistency, thus one reason for its use as a cutting agent in the cannabis vape pens; commonly used in many products and apparently safe when rubbed on skin in a cream, or even when ingested in food, but not when heated. It has been described as having the consistency of grease! Greases turn solid at rather low temperatures. The melting point for vitamin E acetate is 97 degrees F.
These precautions apply to usage with both tobacco and cannabis.
Investigation continues. It might be found that vitamin E acetate is not the only culprit. There have been other injuries from e-cigarettes exploding- probably battery issues; or other chemicals might be reacting with the acetate.
If a medicine has to be smoked, it's probably not a good idea; if one is trying to stop smoking, at least for now, vaping probably is not a good alternative; at least for now, altogether, vaping is not advised.
Over 40 deaths.
Over 2000 lung injuries including at least one double lung transplant.
Law Offices of Gary Green is investigating cases involving permanent injury or death- not handling addiction cases.
There must be a lab finding of vitamin E acetate, and products must have been purchased from a legitimate company. (Their products might be bootleg , but the company cannot be!) You cannot purchase a vape pen off the street, suffer injury, then expect to sue someone!
Avoid Nursing Home Arbitration Agreements
Increasingly, nursing homes are requiring that residents give up their right to jury trial upon admission to a facility. We encourage our colleagues who represent consumers and their families to advise against signing these agreements.
Placing a loved one in a nursing home is one of life's most stressful events. The stress is compounded by the blizzard of paperwork that is thrown at the family during this difficult time. Admission agreement, responsible party agreement, guarantor agreement, assignment of benefits, resident personal account, medical release, notice of privacy practices — these are just a few of the dozens of documents that residents (or a family member, acting as the resident's representative) are required to sign upon admission.
Sometimes hidden in this mountain of documents is an arbitration agreement. The arbitration agreement may be glossed over by the admission representative as "just another document we need to you sign" near the bottom of a pile of documents. The arbitration agreement may look like this:
"We do not expect that you will be dissatisfied with any of the services provided to you during your stay. However, no matter how much effort each of us puts into our new relationship, there is always a possibility that a dispute may arise between us for a variety of reasons. Historically, when differences have arisen between a resident and a facility that were unable to be resolved informally, a lawsuit may have been filed in state court. Needless to say, formal litigation involving the state court system has proven to be an exhaustive and time-consuming venture for all parties. Through a voluntary arbitration program entered into via the voluntary arbitration agreement, we are offering a less formal manner to reach a final determination. The program is designed to resolve residency related disputes in a more efficient manner than claims brought in state court."
Nowhere does this language mention that the resident is giving up her right to a jury trial if she suffers neglect or abuse. And, the resident gets nothing in return for signing the agreement. In many cases, the resident and her family do not realize that the nursing home resident's rights have been taken away until after a fall, an infection caused by an untreated decubitus ulcer, severe dehydration and malnutrition, or some other failure of care resulting in severe injury or death.
Friday, 5 January 2018 21:59
Attorney Gary Green Discusses the Consequences of Drinking and Driving
Monday, 3 July 2017 13:37
Mild Traumatic Brain Injuries
A mild traumatic brain injury (TBI) can result from any type of damage to the cranium. A mild TBI is no different from a concussion, and the terms are interchangeable. The most common causes of ER visits for TBI are falls, blunt trauma to the head, car wrecks, and assaults.
Symptoms of a mild TBI include:
Dizziness/loss of balance
Visual disturbances
Irritability/emotional disturbances
Poor attention/trouble with concentration
Litigating mild TBI cases can be a challenge. For starters, many TBI injuries are often overlooked because patients seem to make a complete recovery. However, many of the longterm consequences of mild TBI can take months or even years to manifest, making it difficult to attribute the symptoms to a prior brain trauma.
While tough to litigate mild TBI cases, it's not impossible. An argument for causation, prognosis, and future medical expenses can be made. This requires using the latest literature, clinical proof such as PET and SPECT brain scans, and expert testimony to prove to the jury that an invisible injury has occurred.
Questions about a possible mild traumatic brain injury case? Call us toll-free at 1-888-4GARYGREEN or email ggreen@gGreen.com.
What is legal malpractice? How do I know if I have a legal malpractice case?
Simply put, legal malpractice occurs when an attorney handles a case improperly or with intent to harm and cause damages to a client. Legal malpractice includes negligence, breach of fiduciary duty, and breach of contract.
Exact definitions vary from jurisdiction to jurisdiction, but you generally need to prove four elements in order to successfully pursue a legal malpractice claim:
The existence of an attorney-client relationship, creating a duty on the part of the attorney;
a breach of that duty;
injury or harm caused by the breach of duty; and
significant financial loss or damages due to the injury or harm.
A successful legal malpractice case must prove that the attorney's actions were the result of errors that no reasonable or prudent attorney would make. Furthermore, legal malpractice requires proof of what would have happened had the attorney not been negligent. It must be clear that the injured party would have prevailed in their case had the attorney done his or her job.
Questions about a possible legal malpractice case? Call us toll-free at 1-888-4GARYGREEN or email ggreen@gGreen.com.
Good Morning Arkansas – Gary Green discusses Legal Malpractice
LOOGG Investigating Monsanto/Roundup Claims
Law Offices of Gary Green is currently investigating claims against Roundup (glyphosate), a weed and grass killer declared by the World Health Organization (WHO) to be a "probable human carcinogen."
Multiple studies have suggested a link between glyphosate and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
Other reported complications include:
Farmers and landscapers may be especially at risk.
Glyphosate, which is the main active ingredient in Roundup and many other products, is the most widely used chemical in agriculture. It has been found in urine, breastmilk, and blood samples, but the U.S. Department of Agriculture doesn't test for it among the pesticides it monitors in food supplies.
Glyphosate is also used to quicken the drying process on wheat and oats. Other affected crops may include lentils, peas, corn, potatoes, sunflowers, and soybeans.
Monsanto, who in 2015 earned $4.8 billion in Roundup sales alone, is currently being sued for claiming glyphosate isn't harmful to people or pets.
Good Morning Arkansas – Gary Green discusses Uber and Insurance
Attorney Gary Green was recently on KATV's Good Morning Arkansas to discuss Uber and Insurance. Click on the image below to watch the segment.
Tuesday, 7 March 2017 16:18
Arkansas Life's Top Attorneys 2017: Gary Green
Gary Green is honored to be featured in Arkansas Life's Top Attorneys 2017. Thanks to Arkansas Life for this distinction and our clients for the privilege to represent them.
Click on the image below to read the full feature!

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Part I of The Women's Trilogy Project, (The Ray Lee Project Vol. 1): NDD Immersion Room is a large-scale immersive installation whose title derives from the concept of Nature Deficit Disorder ("NDD"), used to describe a form of human alienation from nature that results in both a greater susceptibility to negative moods and a reduced attention span. Upon entering the exhibition, visitors will surrender their phones and receive a lantern to enter a dimly lit interior forest barely illuminated by a campfire with very few signs of civilization. Hovnanian created this exhibition under her male pseudonym, Ray Lee, assigned by her peers during adolescence to reflect her interest in stereotypically masculine outdoor pass-time like camping and fishing.


It's an uncommon headline, but an online news source is boasting promising financial prospects. A Slovak media subscription payment system launched in May announced last week that during its first month it netted over €40,000 in revenue, the largest amount yet earned through publication subscription on the Slovak internet.
As editor Jeremy Druker reported in TOL's editor blog, the Slovak "Piano" system works similarly to cable in that one payment grants access to multiple channels. A flat fee of €2.90 per month provides subscribers with access to 34 sections and services on 9 internet sites.
If anyone could make the system work, wrote Druker, it was Piano Media's CEO Tomas Bella.
Well, one month in, it looks like he's played his part.
"We achieved our subscriber target within two days of launching the system. So it is clear that the common payment system has had only a very small, or no impact on readership," said Bella, according to a description on Piano Media's website.
Take note, NYTimes. With online subscriptions appearing to be the hopeful lifesource for faltering news sources, maybe Slovakia's onto something.
Michelle Timmerman is a an editorial intern at Transitions Online. She is in her third year at Harvard College, where she studies the history and literature of modern Europe. She is a staff writer for the university daily, the Harvard Crimson, and an executive editor of the Crimson's weekly magazine.


Article Abstract: Complete recovery of upper-limb function occurs in less than 20% of surviving stroke patients. Functional task-oriented training has been demonstrated to be the most effective therapeutic intervention. However, the number of repetitions of an action required within a session to stimulate cortical changes is significantly higher than is achieved in standard hands-on therapy sessions. New technology is enabling patients to engage in high-intensity, repetitive training and has augmented feedback to improve performance.
Jon Graham, Clinical Director has his article 'Technology for rehabilitating the upper limb after stroke: the hand' published in the BJNN.