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(09-24-2014 04:43 PM)Montgomery Blazer Wrote:  

(09-24-2014 04:31 PM)Smaug Wrote:  Say what you want about Callaway, he went right after UT. Pushed 'em all over the field.

But for a pick-6 and 5 (Jesus wept) missed field goals (let that sink in, a 21 point swing), we'd have embarrassed their ugly orange asses.

Keep defending Callaway, then.

Whatever you say, Mrs. Brown.

200 losses says more about his coaching than anything you can write.

I'm telling you guys this should be a major motion picture.

Columbia Pictures
presents
The Brown Stain of Losing

Starring Robert Dustin Hoffman as Watson Brown

Having witnessed what he did to the football PROGRAM as a whole, you have to wonder if Zero was just unfortunate to coach bad programs or if he did his part to make them as bad as they were regarded.

I just read on another board that Watson was strongly considered to replace Franchione at TCU. I don't believe it, but what might have been?

(09-24-2014 04:43 PM)Montgomery Blazer Wrote:  

(09-24-2014 04:31 PM)Smaug Wrote:  Say what you want about Callaway, he went right after UT. Pushed 'em all over the field.

But for a pick-6 and 5 (Jesus wept) missed field goals (let that sink in, a 21 point swing), we'd have embarrassed their ugly orange asses.

Keep defending Callaway, then.

Watson was so great it took the Falcons 2 years to coach the Brown stain off Roddy White...specifically, his "work ethic." That's no bull****, look it up. It happens when you can hang out on the fence with your crew all week instead of practicing, then still start on Saturday. But you've yet to address that fact about life under Zero, either.

Fortunately for him, Roddy was smart enough to realize what he had at stake before the opportunity passed.

(09-24-2014 03:13 PM)Matrix Wrote:  

(09-22-2014 08:11 AM)ATTALLABLAZE Wrote:  There needs to be a movie.

The Watson Brown Story - Small town coach becomes the Biggest Loser.

Big question is who would play Brown? We would have to have a young guy play a young Watson and then an older actor later in life.

I have to marinate on that one, I'm trying to think of any actors that may bear a resemblance to Watson (I thought that Callaway's nickname was "Zero", not Watson)...

Watson is "Zero" by a very specific, logical argument. Don't care enough to look up the thread, but people can label other coaches what they like...Watson is "Zero."

(09-24-2014 08:00 PM)tibber Wrote:  I just read on another board that Watson was strongly considered to replace Franchione at TCU. I don't believe it, but what might have been?

My bet would be that TCU really hit the skids.

My bet would be that their money people would have looked at his record and said "No, thanks."

Watson Brown and UAB went 2-1 against TCU, winning both games at Legion Field and only losing 24-27 at TCU.

(09-24-2014 10:22 PM)thebernreuter Wrote:  Hey look!

http://espn.go.com/college-football/stor...ll-history

Hey Look!

Post #35

The difference between an "excuse" and a "reason" is often in the eye of the observer - and his prejudices. Anyone who argues that UAB entered upon its upward trajectory in football in 1990 with all the facilities it needed for success would be dreaming, not thinking rationally (see early statements by FBHC McGee). It is not just coincidence that facility development began to move from "planned" toward being "in place" when FBHC Clark was hired. He has learned from the experience of others before him that promises of "future facilities" will not enable him to succeed NOW so he likely had them understood as a condition of his employment. If two or three more years elapse before anything is actually done, UAB may be looking for its next coach too. I doubt that Clark will wait a decade and a half for anything to be done as Watson Brown did.

Is Clark a better coach with a better staff than Brown? We shall see if all other things remain equal.

So ESPN Gameday had a clip on Zero & in zero's own words he said he was a real bad loser.

He's worse at winning.

It's gameday. Could we have a Watson Brown free day. No fans still bitching about him. No trolls praising him. Let's focus on the present.

My problem with the article is that the entire thing paints him as a victim of circumstance. It doesn't address the fact he's just a crappy coach, period, and for reasons no one can understand, he keeps getting head coaching jobs.

Personally, based upon his behavior the last two years he was at UAB, I think the man has no morals and no ethics, and would kill his own mother to save his reputation from complete ruin.

(09-27-2014 12:08 PM)Grammar-Nazi Wrote:  My problem with the article is that the entire thing paints him as a victim of circumstance. It doesn't address the fact he's just a crappy coach, period, and for reasons no one can understand, he keeps getting head coaching jobs.

Personally, based upon his behavior the last two years he was at UAB, I think the man has no morals and no ethics, and would kill his own mother to save his reputation from complete ruin.

a guy who worked with him at vandy described him to me and someone who would stab anyone in the back if he thought it would benefit him. he also said he would smile to you face and then talk bad about you as soon as your back was turned.

(09-27-2014 10:41 AM)Memphis Blazer Wrote:  It's gameday. Could we have a Watson Brown free day. No fans still bitching about him. No trolls praising him. Let's focus on the present.

Apparently not.

(09-27-2014 01:19 PM)rook360 Wrote:  

(09-27-2014 10:41 AM)Memphis Blazer Wrote:  It's gameday. Could we have a Watson Brown free day. No fans still bitching about him. No trolls praising him. Let's focus on the present.

Apparently not.

This is a historic moment. After I get home and finish watching the uab game I will look up the result of the tenn tech game and will celebrate if he gets the record.

(09-27-2014 12:08 PM)Grammar-Nazi Wrote:  My problem with the article is that the entire thing paints him as a victim of circumstance. It doesn't address the fact he's just a crappy coach, period, and for reasons no one can understand, he keeps getting head coaching jobs.

Personally, based upon his behavior the last two years he was at UAB, I think the man has no morals and no ethics, and would kill his own mother to save his reputation from complete ruin.

That is out of bounds. Shame on you.