lol, is this guy serious with that analogy? Thats awful.
Last time I checked, being a basketball coach is analogous with criticism as is the case with any public figure. You sign up to take the job that's going to reward you with hundreds of thousands of dollars, and you know going in that you're going to be questioned and second guessed. Not everyone is going to love you. Comes with the territory, thats sports! Next you'll tell me that booing pro ballplayers doesnt come with the territory either, right? How boring sports would be if we all agreed on everything that our team and our players did all the time! If you want to compare your job to that, suit yourself. I dont know what you do. Me personally, I dont make $300,000.00, but I'd happily coach basketball for that amount to be able to set up my family and children for life...knowing that I'd be subject to internet forum fodder.
Furthermore, there is no analogous comparison between being a fan and donor of a program and being a man's co-worker. Morrisar doesnt work with Coach Smart. If anything, Coach Smart works for Morrisar and the thousands of fans who donate large sums of money to make his job a little easier and provide him with resources to do his job more efficiently. And I'm quite sure Coach would be the first to agree with that.
Lastly, comparing a rant about an employee not working or wasting company time surfing the net is not even close to a coherent comparison. Criticisms of how a coach might do his job different it not at all similar to suggesting he spends his paid hours surfing social networking sites at his desk.
When people, fans or members of the athletic department get so hyper sensitive about any criticism or dissent , I'd opine that if anything it sets us back a step. It makes us look like a "small time operation", as I heard someone put it the other day in the bookstore, not a program with greater aspirations. And I can't tell you how many people have taken notice to this sensitivity. People who dont post on the boards but read them have noticed. People who have never seen this site but have noticed the icy receptions they receive from those involved with VCU whenever anything short of heaping praise on the staff is mentioned. Until someone calls a guy an awul name or wishes ill on the man's health, fans of any team and any sport should be allowed to have different opinions and be free to like or dislike players, coaches, or management. Morrisar might think Theus is overrated and not worthy of floor time. I might think he's the next Bob Cousy. But we should be able to have a give and take, get past it, root for the Rams, and put that disagreement in perspective.
