Virginia preps regarding Phil Robbins

No one seems to mention the quote he gave in the preseason publication about humility, being prepared for every team and not being cocky. Seems to undermine some's notion about Phil's lack of class/humility/whatever.

But alas, this is the defintion of a bias. Having a preconcieved notion or belief and then simply looking for what justifies that belief, yet ignoring what could possibly discredit it.

Ox is also correct; to get to know one's character takes more than just reading snipets of an interview; only those who have dealt personally with Phil for an extended period of time have a legitimate claim to know his personality. Writers cant put ever word in an article...one could be extremely gracious and then make one negative remark and that would be the one that got published.

Finally, as for the Giles game. We tried to run out the clock on them. We ran the ball on 1st, 2nd and 3rd down out of 3 wides. What did they do? Load the box with 9 guys (leaving one WR uncovered) and proceeded to call timeouts after every play. All they had to do was let the clock run. To do that, and then not have enough wherewithal to cover the slot receiver practically daring us to throw it to him, I really have no sympathy for that. We gave them the opportunity to allow the game to end and they made it apparent that they desired to continue play. So on fourth down, we threw it to the UNCOVERED, UNGUARDED receiver...AFTER we tried to run out the clock, which they refused to allow.

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And I have heard that that play wasn't even really intended to be a touchdown. Well I should say expected.

And then the Giles people on VA preps have done nothing but whine when one even so much mentions Coach Robbins. I believe he even said in the review of that game in the paper that he didn't like that it had to happen. Kindly correct me if I am wrong.

Sometimes I don't like Phil Robbins and sometimes I do. He's a human being. Every human coach, band director, or any other authoritative figure is gonna be a jerk at least a few times. I was section leader for the PV trumpets last year and assistant section leader my junior year. It's happened to me a couple of times.

But my point really is, I'm sure a lot of coaches have gotten disgruntled. May not have shown it over the newspaper.

When he said that about Haysi against Giles, that could have been interpretted many different ways. "Good enough to lose to Giles by 2 or 3 touchdowns". Maybe he could have meant that Giles is really good and that no team around here could beat them and maybe Haysi may be able to keep the score within that margin. I don't know. Because I don't have his brain so I really know didley squat about his intentions. Neither does anyone else. But whatever he meant by that comment, he was asked. He spoke his mind. It was a year ago so it's time to move on and get over it.