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TE Coach Bob Wager resigns

Without knowing all of the facts, I will refrain from calling the man an alcoholic or otherwise passing judgement on him with regards to how many times he has done this same thing and all that jazz.

He clearly made a careless mistake and he has lost his job and probably the chance of ever making $300k per year again. He might be able to get a job coaching high school again, but....it will be a minute.
 
Remember when booze bottles came with a strip over the top of the cap? I remember (maybe an old wives tale) that if that strip/seal was broken and you were driving, that you could be cited for having an "open container"
That is true
 
Without knowing all of the facts, I will refrain from calling the man an alcoholic or otherwise passing judgement on him with regards to how many times he has done this same thing and all that jazz.

He clearly made a careless mistake and he has lost his job and probably the chance of ever making $300k per year again. He might be able to get a job coaching high school again, but....it will be a minute.
This one is one that I was upset. Dude was a Texas high school legend. Contrary to your assessment, I suspect he will have a Texas high school job in about ten minutes. I also disagree with Sean and Sipp. He may not be killing it in Ainsworth, but I suspect he was big in Dallas and San Antone. Plug in another guy I guess. This kind of sucks though.
 
This one is one that I was upset. Dude was a Texas high school legend. Contrary to your assessment, I suspect he will have a Texas high school job in about ten minutes. I also disagree with Sean and Sipp. He may not be killing it in Ainsworth, but I suspect he was big in Dallas and San Antone. Plug in another guy I guess. This kind of sucks though.
Those two are idiots. Just had to chime in when a guy is down. Never see them pop off about a guy that is still employed with the University.
 
This one is one that I was upset. Dude was a Texas high school legend. Contrary to your assessment, I suspect he will have a Texas high school job in about ten minutes. I also disagree with Sean and Sipp. He may not be killing it in Ainsworth, but I suspect he was big in Dallas and San Antone. Plug in another guy I guess. This kind of sucks though.
Maybe he will be working sooner than later. The DUI will probably carry enough points on his CDL to suspend it. Some school districts down here require all coaches to get their CDL so they can drive the busses.
 
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Maybe he will be working sooner than later. The DUI will probably carry enough points on his CDL to suspend it. Some school districts down here require all coaches to get their CDL so they can drive the busses.
Yeah I'm thinking full conviction of dui revokes your cdl but 1st offense with judge might help
 
Those two are idiots. Just had to chime in when a guy is down. Never see them pop off about a guy that is still employed with the University.
Sip, with his new gig, has really changed. Like, he feels more freedom to say "mean" things.
 
It will raise it...not lower it. The shot you take at 12;04 doesn't kick in until 12:20 and it doesn't leave your body until 5am
You’re making assumptions on the timing of the blood draw. It takes a considerable amount of time to get it done and there’s no way to know what time he started drinking and what his BAC was in the hours leading up to his arrest.
 
You’re making assumptions on the timing of the blood draw. It takes a considerable amount of time to get it done and there’s no way to know what time he started drinking and what his BAC was in the hours leading up to his arrest.
It can, if there is a reason for it to take a long time.

But usually you are tossed in the car, taken to the hospital and a nurse comes and draws blood.
 
Whitewashing extreme malfeasance - we are slowly but surely leaning into the big ten culture
Tongue Goat GIF
 
He's a 52 year old man. He went from making maybe 75K-100K a year to 300K. That's a cool $ 1M dollars he cost himself and his family over the next 5 years.

I think its just as likely his rah-rah-rah-sis-boom-bah act didn't play in college. It's easy in high school to blow smoke up somebody's ass. Sounds like he wasn't impacting anything at this level.

Dude made his own bed. He'll recover and hopefully go on to coach somewhere again. He'll also likely drive drunk again.
 
Ehhhh, this would be a 2 minute "court case" where he would probably not even have to appear, it would be a 3 month suspension and 6 months probation.

Assuming it is all his first time. It would be done and over in 10 minutes.

I have two friends that only do DUI's and they LOVE it...1000-1500 dollars for about 25 minutes of work.
They sound like real zealous advocates for their clients. Even better that they boast about it.
 
I respectfully disagree. I was really stupid in highschool and college. But I believe you hit a certain age where you can process these type of things and have control of ones actions.

Not knowing his story what so ever maybe there is an alcohol fueled problem with him. I don't know
Booze doesn't just make you stupid as a high schooler / college kid. It makes you stupid as an adult too.

Should he have known to stop drinking so he wouldn't make stupid decisions? Absolutely.

But he didn't so at that point of being as drunk as he was, he's less likely going to make smart decisions.

Really you & I agree more than disagree on this. We're arguing semantics at this point.
 
This one is one that I was upset. Dude was a Texas high school legend. Contrary to your assessment, I suspect he will have a Texas high school job in about ten minutes. I also disagree with Sean and Sipp. He may not be killing it in Ainsworth, but I suspect he was big in Dallas and San Antone. Plug in another guy I guess. This kind of sucks though.

I think that was the plan, but I’m not sure that was actually happening yet. On TOS they said Wager went to Rhule earlier this Summer and said he was in over his head and thought he should resign and Rhule talked him out of it. Big time college coaching isn’t for everyone, it takes an insane amount of time and commitment.
 
odd we had an experienced backup just happened to be on staff.
alcohol is one fickle mistress.
Not just an experienced backup, a more experienced backup who also looks to have deep ties to Texas. Frost would have had to promote a GA with a year of experience as a GA coaching DE's at Northern Iowa or somewhere.
 
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