Gardenhire sells the couch
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I doubt that it is a drug test or straight up discipline issue. Petersen says "no comment" about discussing player discipline. The only way that would make sense is if Gardenhire peed in a cup and immediately tweeted out that he was leaving before the results even came back, because he knew he'd be in the shit. Seems unlikely. And he'd have to have been leaning towards leaving already.bananasnblondes said:Most likely scenario:
-Gardenhire failed a drug test
-Pete told him he was done for the year
-Gardenhire sees the writing on the wall that
A. Guys are coming into the program that are better than him (Rapp's emergence has already pushed him back on the depth chart) and
B. He will be in the doghouse.
One ripple effect this may have is that DB commit Keith Taylor is supposedly really tight with Gardenhire and Nate Dogg Jr and has been retweeting their stuff today. If Taylor decided to explore his options, there could be room for a guy like Palo-Mao (which might be just fine with Coach Lake).
Sorry for the TBS talk
More likely, when Petersen said "philosophical differences" it means that Gardenhire didn't like his role, spot in the pecking order, practice reps, etc.. He must have let it be known to Lake and/or Petersen that he felt that way and they basically told him "that's too bad".
No way is this Petersen pulling the lever on the "Saban" trap door here. I mean, if it were after the season I'd think that was it, but it is four days before the biggest game of the year. -
Ummmm...TSIO. HTHAtomicDawg said:What a vagina if he quit over playing time. Wait til the season is over.
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Philosophical differences= Love, Gilchrist and Murphy are next years starters and he would be riding the pine behind them and possibly passed by true freshman.
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PM gardenhire and young Nate dog
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Edgy. I think you'd relate better to these players.WeAreAFatLesboSchool said:PM gardenhire and young Nate dog
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Sorry but I don't buy the "didn't like his role" argument. You don't just leave in the middle of a 10-1 season unless something actually happened
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Up in smoke
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I don't want to go to prison.GrundleStiltzkin said:
Edgy. I think you'd relate better to these players.WeAreAFatLesboSchool said:PM gardenhire and young Nate dog
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It could have been a "didn't like his role" that blew up into more like disparaging teammates or fighting with coaches. Just speculating, but something had to have happened.dhdawg said:Sorry but I don't buy the "didn't like his role" argument. You don't just leave in the middle of a 10-1 season unless something actually happened
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