Not mad at all! Just joking around and lamenting our shared pain re: wideout coaches lol. You're all good, Grump.
Yes. He was HS coach at the time. Coached his son who went to Louisville and on to the NFL.
Yes . He has been very successful at the high school level and was coaching at a small college at that time . It was kinda disrespectful for the schools all time leading receiver to not even get an interview. His son Russ was committed to play for UK but decommited because of it .
Yeah, I recall now. Didn't the son end up at Kansas St after a year or 2 at U6?
Even if he didn’t hire him , it was insulting to never let him interview.
The Yeast thing was weird because it looked like Craig was using his own son as leverage in trying to secure his own bag in college coaching.
What a dick move especially a helluva receiver that he was and one of our own!
Why does this matter so much? It appears that he expected a high-paying job in exchange for delivering his son, who was only a 3-star prospect, to UK.
He applied for a job in which he was qualified for. Russ had committed way before they even knew there was going to be a recievers coaching position open . No one is saying he should have been hired , but to not even rate an interview was a smack in the face . Craig didn’t have Russ decommit, Russ felt his father had been disrespected and wasn’t going to play for the person who did it .
He was technically "qualified", but the bigger issue was that he didn't have the recruiting connections of somebody like Lamar Thomas. He is now just an okay high school coach 7+ years after the fact. The only thing he had going for him in that job opening was that he was a former player and he had a son that was a recruit. That's it. UK deserves better than former players with few recruiting connections, and Stoops must have thought so too. Again, an interview is a waste of everybody's time when you're not going to get the job from the outset.
That’s not what was happening at all. You would have thought that someone could have called Craig and said “Hey , we already know we’re going to hire Lamar Thomas, would you still want to come in for an interview?”.
Just the fact that you are trying to act like Russ wouldn’t have been a very good player here because he currently isn’t a starter in the nfl tells me all I need to know about you.
I'm not acting like he wouldn't have been a good college player for UK. He was 1st-team All-Big 12 at Kansas State. But, it also wasn't worth fluffing his dad to keep him as a recruit. That situation just screamed cancer.
I’ve said that wasn’t the case but that’s okay.
In other words, he got mad at UK. As a result of getting mad, he chose to go to Louisville instead. Despite having other offers, going to Louisville because you are mad at UK is a b*tch move. I don't care who you are.
