With all due respect (in light of DBT's recent posts :smile2
... there is another side to this.
I recall that in 1997 Skippy the Neu got all over John Hessler on the sideline during the game in Ann Arbor (I was there BTW ... as I was in '94 for the "Miracle in Michigan" ... although for that one I was still a Michigan fan as a long time resident of the Ann Arbor area, thus I have the distinction of having been on the losing side for ALL of the CU-UM battles in the 90's ... but I digress :smile
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Anyway ... I recall thinking that Neu really ****ed up berating a kid DURING a game ... and I also recall others saying the same thing in the press and in letters to the Camera and the Denver papers (I wasn't on any BBSs at the time ... hell .. I hardly knew what the interwebs were back then :huh
. It seemed to me to be counterproductive for Slick to be in Hessler's face when he ****ed up against what was a very good Michigan defense that year (you may remember that UM shared the MNC that year, largely because of their D).
Hess was a kid who had performed so well for us in '95 when Koy went down ... then sat on the bench for virtually all of '96 without complaint .. but after that game in Ann Arbor I don't know if he ever really got his confidence back.
So ... just sayin'.