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Shaw to Rome...."I plan to be here a very long time." - SUBuddha - 09-25-2013

I don't get to listen to radio very often since I commute on a motorcycle most days, but today was different. I had to take the family third vehicle to emissions today, so I, as always, listened to sports talk in the car. Shaw was on the Jim Rome Show today in the last segment. For those interested here is a summary and a link to the audio at the bottom.

http://jimrome.com/2013/09/25/david-shaw-i-plan-on-being-here-for-a-very-long-time/#.UkNSVDYzsB0.twitter

Re: Shaw to Rome...."I plan to be here a very long time." - wyattp - 09-25-2013

I will hold back on my thoughts about Jim Rome, but good interview

Re: Shaw to Rome...."I plan to be here a very long time." - SUBuddha - 09-25-2013

I have a soft spot for Rome. I worked for the Ticket 1050 in the Mid 90's and got to meet him, really nice guy in person, not at all like his on air persona. He has mastered selling what he thinks the public wants, much like Stern (whom I abhor).

Re: Shaw to Rome...."I plan to be here a very long time." - Bruce Wang - 09-25-2013

Us '94 guys understand: happy wife = happy life.  Shaw has the strongest credibility among college coaches for staying put.  That has to be a selling point with recruits.

Speaking of Rome, one of the all time most phenomenal sports show moments has to be LA Ram QB Jim Chris Everett visiting Rome.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57W05-oopNA

Re: Shaw to Rome...."I plan to be here a very long time." - SUBuddha - 09-25-2013

LOL I watched that one when I lived in the Suites sophomore year. FYI Shaw was my neighbor that year. It was also the year I met 2 for 2028 if I recall correctly.

Sadly... - Mick - 09-26-2013

(09-25-2013, 05:23 PM)Publius link Wrote:Us '94 guys understand: happy wife = happy life.  Shaw has the strongest credibility among college coaches for staying put.  That has to be a selling point with recruits.

Speaking of Rome, one of the all time most phenomenal sports show moments has to be LA Ram QB Chris Everett visiting Rome.

That clip embodies why I can't stand Rome.  He provokes a genuine athlete, cowers like the coward he is, then brags about it later as if he'd won something.  It catapulted him from nothing into well-known sleaze.  Selfishly, I was rooting for Everett to deck him.  What he should have done is just walk off.

Re: Sadly... - wyattp - 09-26-2013

(09-26-2013, 10:14 AM)Mick link Wrote:[quote author=Publius link=topic=8472.msg69125#msg69125 date=1380155013]
Us '94 guys understand: happy wife = happy life.  Shaw has the strongest credibility among college coaches for staying put.  That has to be a selling point with recruits.

Speaking of Rome, one of the all time most phenomenal sports show moments has to be LA Ram QB Chris Everett visiting Rome.

That clip embodies why I can't stand Rome.  He provokes a genuine athlete, cowers like the coward he is, then brags about it later as if he'd won something.  It catapulted him from nothing into well-known sleaze.  Selfishly, I was rooting for Everett to deck him.  What he should have done is just walk off.
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This is my sentiment exactly.  For me however it was a show he did on Barry Bonds during the single season home run race that happened to be broadcast on a cruise ship I was on....

Re: Shaw to Rome...."I plan to be here a very long time." - Bruce Wang - 09-26-2013

(09-25-2013, 04:53 PM)SUBuddha link Wrote:I have a soft spot for Rome. I worked for the Ticket 1050 in the Mid 90's and got to meet him, really nice guy in person, not at all like his on air persona. He has mastered selling what he thinks the public wants, much like Stern (whom I abhor).

Hey SUBuddha does he have that douche-y bro voice normally?

Re: Shaw to Rome...."I plan to be here a very long time." - Leftcoast - 09-26-2013

I never listen to Rome and will actively walk out of a room when his show is on. 

The Chris Everett show was unforgivable but the whole package  - the "Are you cool enough to hang with me?" attitude, the attention seeking clones and jock sniffing suck-ups to interviewees - is like fingernails scraping across chalkboard to me.  If Jim Everett had given him one good smack no jury in the world would have convicted him. 

Is it a generational thing?  Maybe this plays better with folks under 30?

Re: Shaw to Rome...."I plan to be here a very long time." - SUBuddha - 09-26-2013

Publius- Yes he does, but with smack talk inflections when one on one.

Shaw to Rome - Redrum - 09-26-2013

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The shame is that Everett didn't hit him hard enough to give him a persistent speech impediment.  Then let Rome watch all the comedians come in like sharks to do not very kind send-ups of Rome interviews. 

Re: Shaw to Rome...."I plan to be here a very long time." - SUBuddha - 09-26-2013

Despite the vitriol aimed at the interviewer, I still think Shaw did an excellent job and said all the things I, for one, wanted to hear.

Re: Shaw to Rome...."I plan to be here a very long time." - terry - 09-26-2013

Yeah, Shaw said the right things. Nice to hear it.

But often, comments like that don't mean much. Most coaches claim to be happy in their current job.

What coach ever said something like this -- "I'm open to moving if I get an offer for a lot more money, or if the A.D. doesn't give me enough respect or a big enough raise, or if I sense our program beginning to go south. If those things happen, I'll be out of here."

I'm not saying Shaw is looking to move, and I think he's more likely to stay than most coaches out there. But it's a business, and there are no guarantees.

Re: Shaw to Rome...."I plan to be here a very long time." - SUBuddha - 09-26-2013

Terry-
Point taken, however, knowing David, if he left of his own accord in the next 5 years I would be not only surprised but devastated.

Story for you all. I took my dad (BA '65 MS in CE '67) to the U of A game 3 years ago. Some might remember that as the game where Skov blew up his knee. I got us sideline passes for pre and post game. I have worked security for 22 years to supplement my undergrad (anyone remember Halftime Bar and Grill), grad school and teaching income, so we got a bit closer than the passes allowed. My father was the 3rd generation to go to LSJU, but had, to this day, not met a Stanford coach aside from the 3 days he tried to walk onto the team his freshman year. After the game, I took him down to the field, and while Shaw was talking to a Tucson recruit, I called David's name. Mind you, I have not seen him since our senior year when I crammed for finals with he and Stenstrom on our phil 101 exam. David looked at me, recognized me, despite my lack of hair, and came over to us. I asked him if he would mind taking a pic with my dad, since he was a brobdingnagian fan, David obliged, and said simply, "I am happy to meet the you sir." I asked him how it felt to be coaching the team, his reply was "Surreal, I hope they keep me around."

The beauty of attending a school like Stanford is we all have similar stories either from on the Farm, or after we left. We get to mingle with the intellectual and athletically elite. But, to know that an alum who coaches there holds the passion for the school (as subsequent emails have further indicated) reinforces, for me, his commitment to the school.

Forgive me my sentimentality, I am grading exams, and as such drinking bourbon to quell the pains of seeing people misuse affect and effect, or weather and whether on an essay.

Re: Shaw to Rome...."I plan to be here a very long time." - Griffins78 - 09-27-2013

Great story SUBuddha. Thanks for sharing.

Re: Shaw to Rome...."I plan to be here a very long time." - Bruce Wang - 09-27-2013

(09-26-2013, 09:15 PM)SUBuddha link Wrote:Forgive me my sentimentality, I am grading exams, and as such drinking bourbon to quell the pains of seeing people misuse affect and effect, or weather and whether on an essay.

Welcome to the World Wide Web's most grammatically correct message board.  You will love it here.  Grammar is never the issue here. Style is.

I get so concerned about my grammar and usage here that I go back and edit previous posts.

Thought Skov blew up his knee vs. Duke - Redrum - 09-27-2013

Did he do it another time vs. someone else?  Does he have exploding knees?

Re: Shaw to Rome...."I plan to be here a very long time." - yvonne - 09-27-2013

(09-27-2013, 05:53 AM)Publius link Wrote:[quote author=SUBuddha link=topic=8472.msg69228#msg69228 date=1380255333]
Forgive me my sentimentality, I am grading exams, and as such drinking bourbon to quell the pains of seeing people misuse affect and effect, or weather and whether on an essay.

Welcome to the World Wide Web's most grammatically correct message board.  You will love it here.  Grammar is never the issue here. Style is.

I get so concerned about my grammar and usage here that I go back and edit previous posts.
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Well, now that you brought it up, I wonder whether any of SUBuddha used he instead of him.

Re: Shaw to Rome...."I plan to be here a very long time." - SUBuddha - 09-27-2013

Sorry all I will try harder to edit my posts.  :)

Re: Thought Skov blew up his knee vs. Duke - fullmetal - 09-27-2013

(09-27-2013, 09:05 AM)Redrum link Wrote:Did he do it another time vs. someone else?  Does he have exploding knees?

Thought it was vs. Arizona back in 2010...I was watching the game at the Chula Vista OTC dining area with a friend late at night.