Bitter Bitterness

[PonyKai]

Gregg Easterbrook, ESPN.com, on June Jones: “Nine years ago, Hawaii took Jones in after he’d been fired repeatedly from NFL jobs, and was having trouble finding work. Yesterday Jones resigned to take more money at SMU, pausing to rip the University of Hawaii as a ‘Pop Warner‘ operation. Jones was liked in Hawaii; he could have stayed, won games and lived as a local hero, which seems a lot more important to satisfaction in life than the size or your paycheck or whether your office is fancier than the next guy’s. Instead he chose to stab Hawaii in the back and sit in a really impressive office at SMU, where the pressure will be relentless and it will surprise no one if Jones ends up fired yet again. And SMU, now you have the kind of coach who not only walks out, but as he walks out, insults those who helped him. The perfect fit for the SMU program!â€

[Junior]

GE is an idiot. Who cares what he says. He's a waste of space, and that's 90 seconds you'll never ger back.

[SMU_is_bowling]

Wow! This dude ain't real happy with June is he!!? did he graduate from Hawaii or something?

[SmooBoy]

In his bio:

"He is the brother of Judge Frank H. Easterbrook and Neil Easterbrook, English professor at Texas Christian University."

'nuff said

[SMU_is_bowling]

that explains it . . . thanks Smooboy

[SMU Football Blog]

Actually Gregg Easterbrook is a genius. He just happens to be wrong about that. I have sent him an email before. He usually responds. I sent him one on this on Tuesday; I haven't checked my home email to see if he responded yet.

[StallionsModelT]

There's one in every crowd. The media is nearly unanimous in their approval of June Jones' hiring at SMU. Also, most people realize the severe limitations Jones was working under at Hawaii and don't blame Jones for leaving, but instead the disastrously inefficient administration and athletic department at Hawaii for ever letting the possibility of Jones leaving for SMU (or any other school for that matter) a reality. The fact is Hawaii basically dared Jones to leave. Well guess what? He did. Now good luck with a public relations nightmare, no coaching staff, and no athletic director. They only have themselves to blame.

[SmooBoy]

Actually Gregg Easterbrook is a genius. He just happens to be wrong about that. I have sent him an email before. He usually responds. I sent him one on this on Tuesday; I haven't checked my home email to see if he responded yet.

So he's a genius because he responds to e-mail? I must be a frickin' savant then.

[Big Hoss]

When I googled Gregg Easterbrook trying to find this article, I found a lot of sites/people who referred to him as a Jew-hater. I admit I don't read the guys column, so I don't know this firsthand, but sounds like the guy has pissed off a lot of people in his day.

[SMU Football Blog]

Actually Gregg Easterbrook is a genius. He just happens to be wrong about that. I have sent him an email before. He usually responds. I sent him one on this on Tuesday; I haven't checked my home email to see if he responded yet.

So he's a genius because he responds to e-mail? I must be a frickin' savant then.

I read his book. I read his column. I like his work.

[SmooBoy]

Actually Gregg Easterbrook is a genius. He just happens to be wrong about that. I have sent him an email before. He usually responds. I sent him one on this on Tuesday; I haven't checked my home email to see if he responded yet.

So he's a genius because he responds to e-mail? I must be a frickin' savant then.

I read his book. I read his column. I like his work.

Touche, I just found the wording of your post funny.

[crazy horse]

I wonder how "loyal" Greg would be to ESPN if Fox or CSTV came calling offering to double his salary.

[Longtime]

I don't know much about his work, but his facts are wrong. Jones was having trouble finding work when Hawaii hired him? I believe he was offered the San Diego Chargers job and turned it down in favor of Hawaii. Unless that's just an Island legend.

Offensive guys with June Jones' resume never have trouble finding work. This is an exceptionallly biased piece of writing.

[StallionsModelT]

No he was offered the Chargers job. He mentioned that in his interview with the Musers on Tuesday morning when they were discussing his career prior to taking the job at Hawaii.

[Longtime]

Couple of other things I noticed in his column (which is so bizarrely long it's virtually unreadable):

He said he's Baptist. Baptist + TCU ties = more potential for conflict of interest.

He said the Giants-Cowboys game will be "indoors" - I've never frozen my arse off more, or sweated buckets of my own personal gravy, than at "indoor" Texas Stadium.

He also still has a black and white column mug. It's 2008 - we have color photography, photo scanners, digital cameras, e-mail. He's written the column for years. Yet he hasn't had a second to update his column mug?

It's obvious this is a really smart guy who writes an unfiltered column that allows him to just shoot from the hip. He's one bad pun away from being Skip Bayless. His take on June Jones to SMU was just a from-the-hip, kneejerk reaction without any forethought or actual research. In other words, perfect for the internet.