Kevin Sumlin (OC Maryland Terrapins)

[OSU_Buckguy]

Reasons that indicate this is a hoax:
1.) Handwriting is likely a female, and an older one since it is in cursive.

fact: old women can't be racist.

2.) If this were an actual racist letter what are the chances the author would put a return address?

fact: racists always post their actual address on their hate mail.

3.) The Houston County Club seems to be the perfect return address if someone were trying to frame this letter as being written by a rich white racist person. BTW the address is misspelled

fact: racists are great spellers and always have a completely rational plan when sending hate mail.

4.) How many fans actually know the coaches home address?

fact: racists don't know how to google.

5.) Why is the wife concerned about her kids opening the mail? Do her kids really open letters addressed to Kevin Sumlin? Or is she trying to get some emotional mileage out of this letter?

fact: all families that receive fan mail regard the fan mail exactly the same.

6.) Wife's twitter profile picture contains her wearing a t-shirt talking about how all races are one human race. Race is obviously a topic that is on her mind a lot.

fact: racism isn't an issue for black people.

7.) This seems to be the nicest hate mail ever with a random n-bomb dropped in the middle. "You suck as a coach" and "you can't win" "get lost".

fact: racists only burn crosses and post in "stuff."

8.) The timing is awfully convenient. Framing the Texas A&M fan base as hating Sumlin because he is black seems to be the only way that he could possibly keep his job at this point.

fact: fans loved sumlin after the game and would only send him love letters.

 

[OhioState001]

fact: old women can't be racist.


fact: racists always post their actual address on their hate mail.


fact: racists are great spellers and always have a completely rational plan when sending hate mail.


fact: racists don't know how to google.


fact: all families that receive fan mail regard the fan mail exactly the same.


fact: racism isn't an issue for black people.


fact: racists only burn crosses and post in "stuff."


fact: fans loved sumlin after the game and would only send him love letters.

1.) I'm willing to guess that their aren't many old women writing hate mail to college football coaches.
2.)Of course they don't put their actual addresses but they also wouldn't put an address that reflects stereotypes of racist white people
3.) However someone creating a hoax letter would put a Country Club as the return address if they were trying to frame racist white people
4.) It's not as easy to find a coaches address as you would like to believe. It's much easier to send it to their address at the school or just email them
5.) You actually believe they let their kids open random fan mail addressed to Kevin Sumlin?
6.) People never exploit race for personal gain. See Michael Bennett this week
7.) Nope, but the language in the letter is very light other than the n word

 

[Dryden]

Kevin Sumlins thread. This isn't the poli board. Save your speculations until after the Oklahoma game.

You may think you have a point to share that's really important... this is not the place.

Opinion and speculation on motive and legitimacy, etc aren't news, and really not helpful. Please self-censor so mods don't have to.

I posted Mrs Sumlins original tweet because it is now national news. Not sure we need to deep dive further than that just yet.

 

[Roundabout]

if you think black people are sub-human animals, then rooting for blacks playing a sport, especially a violent one, is hardly different from rooting for a rooster in a cockfight or a pitbull in a dog fight. i find very little cognitive dissonance in a white racist rooting for black athletes. blacks exhibiting athletic prowess only enforces this line of thinking from a white racist -- and even moreso when considering that owners, coaches, and quarterbacks are overwhelmingly white.

Thanks, hadn't ever thought about it that way.... makes ya think.....

 

[Steve19]

This is a video of the Falcon 9 first stage making a touchdown. It also has nothing to do with football or Kevin Sumlin. Not that I am without sin, but can we move back to topic?

 

[Jaxbuck]

Kevin Sumlin is not good at coaching the foosball

 

[sparcboxbuck]

The Shag doesn't seem to know about Occam's Razor.

Um, excuse me. Urb playing 4-D recruiting chess is exactly the simplest explanation for pretty much everything... everything except that letter.

 

[sparcboxbuck]

Reasons that indicate this is a hoax:
1.) Handwriting is likely a female, and an older one since it is in cursive.
2.) If this were an actual racist letter what are the chances the author would put a return address?
3.) The Houston County Club seems to be the perfect return address if someone were trying to frame this letter as being written by a rich white racist person. BTW the address is misspelled
4.) How many fans actually know the coaches home address?
5.) Why is the wife concerned about her kids opening the mail? Do her kids really open letters addressed to Kevin Sumlin? Or is she trying to get some emotional mileage out of this letter?
6.) Wife's twitter profile picture contains her wearing a t-shirt talking about how all races are one human race. Race is obviously a topic that is on her mind a lot.
7.) This seems to be the nicest hate mail ever with a random n-bomb dropped in the middle. "You suck as a coach" and "you can't win" "get lost".
8.) The timing is awfully convenient. Framing the Texas A&M fan base as hating Sumlin because he is black seems to be the only way that he could possibly keep his job at this point.

I sincerely hate to believe that this could ever be the case.

On multiple levels, that would be incredibly sad.

 

[Dryden]

He gone.

 

[Dryden]

It's come to my attention A&M owes Sumlin a $10.4mm buyout, due in full within 60 days, and it does not get reduced if Sumlin takes another job.

Scratch previous gif and replace with this:

 

[Bestbuck36]

I could see him at ASU actually. He's recruited Arizona pretty well and they need someone with a clue coaching that team that can recruit. Decent fit in my opinion.

 

[MaxBuck]

It's come to my attention A&M owes Sumlin a $10.4mm buyout, due in full within 60 days, and it does not get reduced if Sumlin takes another job.

Scratch previous gif and replace with this:

Sumlin gets $10 million and no longer has to deal with the dog-fucking inbreds in College Station.

I'm struggling to see the downside.

 

[ScriptOhio]

$10 million bill for Kevin Sumlin’s firing comes due for A&M today

Much to the delight of Kevin Sumlin‘s bank account, it’s the day of financial reckoning for Texas A&M.

On Nov. 26 of last year, A&M announced that it had fired Sumlin after five seasons as its head football coach. Per the provisions in Sumlin’s contract, he was owed the entire amount he was due to be paid if he had coached the 2018 and 2019 seasons — $10.4 million — as the buyout from his deal.



Aside from the, ya know, eight-figure payout, the best part of Sumlin’s A&M contract — the one no one wanted to claim responsibility for — is that there was no offset language contained in the deal. That means that, despite signing a five-year contract to become the head coach at Arizona that will pay him $2 million in 2018, the amount of Sumlin’s buyout will not change.

Entire article: http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsport...-kevin-sumlins-firing-comes-due-for-am-today/

 

[sparcboxbuck]

$10 million bill for Kevin Sumlin’s firing comes due for A&M today

Much to the delight of Kevin Sumlin‘s bank account, it’s the day of financial reckoning for Texas A&M.

On Nov. 26 of last year, A&M announced that it had fired Sumlin after five seasons as its head football coach. Per the provisions in Sumlin’s contract, he was owed the entire amount he was due to be paid if he had coached the 2018 and 2019 seasons — $10.4 million — as the buyout from his deal.



Aside from the, ya know, eight-figure payout, the best part of Sumlin’s A&M contract — the one no one wanted to claim responsibility for — is that there was no offset language contained in the deal. That means that, despite signing a five-year contract to become the head coach at Arizona that will pay him $2 million in 2018, the amount of Sumlin’s buyout will not change.

Entire article: http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsport...-kevin-sumlins-firing-comes-due-for-am-today/

So, a $2M per year bonus not to deal with the Jizz Jar-heads?

I’d do it for half that.

 

[Nutriaitch]

I think the reason I brought that up is that from what I've heard (again, probably not entirely accurate representation), the south is MUCH more tolerant of the racism.

i’m just now reading this, so sorry so late to the party.

I don’t normally get into political discussion, but this issue has always bothered me.

i think the region as a whole gets a bad rap for this.

are there parts of the south that is really racist? yes. absolutely. and i have personally seen/heard some disturbing shit in my travels around the south.

but for the most part, it’s not nearly as prevalent or as big of an issue as some want to point out.

for example, the Confederate Statues in New Orleans.
the white folks who were upset (for the most part), weren’t upset because the statues were removed.
they were pissed because that city has MUCH bigger issues that need fixing than statues. Yet the mayor made those statues his major point of focus.

but the media paints it as racist white folks demanding their Confedrrate heroes stay up.

when in reality, we don’t actually give that much thought to the men depicted by those statues. they’re just iconic looking statues that have been standing in same place for generations. Some of them were very picturesque.

but when they mayor attempts to tell us the way to solve the cities biggest problems (crime rates worse than anywhere else in America, shittiest schools in the country, a floundering economy, etc.) is by removing a fucking statue, people tend to not be happy about that sort of thing.

i mean are we seriously supposed to think that the reason the murder rate is so high is because there is a statue of Robert E Lee in the middle of Lee Circle?

are our schools complete crap because of the Andrew Jackson statue?

maybe the reason our economy is so dreadful is because we had a statue of Beauregard.