Gary Pinkel: No more Mr. Nice Guy E-mail
Written by Matt   
Tuesday, 14 July 2009 14:55

According to Dave Matter's blog Gary Pinkel is done with the whole nice guy schtick:

A reader or two asked me earlier if Missouri had any response to K-State’s onside kick late in the fourth quarter Saturday. It didn’t come up in the postgame interviews, but Pinkel saved his comments for his radio show Monday night.

Here’s the play in question: Nursing a 41-10 lead with 1:25 left, Pinkel called for a running play on fourth-and-12 from the K-State 13 — rather than run up the score with an easy field goal. Asked why he didn’t kick, Pinkel said on Monday, “I would have if I knew they were going to do that,” referring to the onside kick after KSU’s ensuing touchdown. “I was trying to be a nice guy, but I guess I learned it doesn’t pay to be nice. I’m done being nice.”

Pinkel was laughing when he made the comment but not necessarily joking. After KSU scored another quick touchdown against Missouri’s backups, Pinkel was done playing nice and reinserted Chase Patton to uncork a deep pass with 19 seconds left. It fell incomplete, but I thought it was an appropriate answer to K-State’s last-minute antics.

On this week's podcast I commented on how big a dick Ron Prince was for doing this and I wish the media would have done a better job of blowing the whistle on him for it. But they couldn't do that because Ron Prince is the nicest guy alive because he addresses everyone as "Sir" so pointing out what a poor sport he is would be way out of line. What a load of shit.

As I mentioned during the podcast, Prince did the same thing two years ago in Columbia. In the final two minutes of that game Prince used all three of his timeouts despite the fact that there was a torrential downpour and it was fucking freezing. Oh, and the game was WAY out of hand just like it was this year.

In my opinion, there's something between Pinkel and Prince that we don't know about. Or it could just be that Prince is a total dick and Pinkel, being an advocate of good sportsmanship, doesn't like dicks.

 Either way, following one of the dozen timeouts Prince took Pinkel stood at about the Mizzou 30-yard line—directly across the field from Prince—and proceeded to laserface the living hell out of Prince. Then on the first play after the Tigers got the ball back Pinkel sent his receivers deep and had General Patton let 'er rip. Even though the pass fell incomplete it was good to see GP throw sportsmanship to the wind for once. 

So in closing: Screw you Ron Prince. Good luck finding a job because here in a couple weeks you're gonna be in the same exact boat I am... except for that damn $300,000 buyout. 


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