Rockne's Roundtable

Wow! Way to welcome a guy to the board. He was just expressing his opinion. You must have been picked on as a kid, huh?
@Stanley2008: Don't worry about some of the responses you'll get here. For the most part, the guys on here are a good group with some really valuable insight. Enjoy the meat and spit out the bones (IrishWon)

I went on facebook for hafis williams page and did not see anything. Has anyone else checked. Maybe you have to "friends" with him on there to see all but his page looks public. Just wondering.

He only cares about the spread!

*sorry had to lighten it up in here

Well said...er...typed.

How do you know exactly what they are talking about. You don't and no one does. Thanks again for getting people in a NEEDLESS frantic. This is ridiculous. Hey Merlin you go be the coach next year. This is meaningless.

Bob...with all due respect, what the players were talking about on Twitter is very, very clear. If you go back and watch BK's media session and then weed through the Twitter conversations between the players, you can tell they were offended.

I'm no Merlin fan and I think he's unnecessarily stirred the pot more than a few times this week, but this isn't one of those times.

Further evidence, Brian Smith's Twitter:

@mjb32982 I'd be pissed because they are busting their a** just to be told they are not bought in. Low blow. But BK knows what he is doing.

He has a number of other comments about the situation. See www.twitter.com/bcsmith58 for more.

if you are a first round lock jump on it.

In kelly's last presser he said the players are bought in it's more or less unmotivated at times.

IMO it comes down to this, you know what they say about a wild animal when you break it's will? They lose the will to fight. Coach stating the difference between "his" guys and the old regime might have been taken out of context. "His" guys don't know what it's like losing every year so i'm sure they come to practice fired up with swag ready to go while the older players have the attitude of "here we go again" so they just go through the motions.

Look at it like this he's been here for a season and a half and he does know what he's doing and i'm sure he's coaching his ass off, but maybe every other technique he's tried with the guys hasn't been working so sometimes you gotta fire them up, piss them off a little see how they react if they react at all. Some coaches i had weren't the nicest guys and they didn't always say the nicest things and it pissed me off so i played harder to prove them wrong. At the end of the day i thanked them for that because sugar coating it would've never worked needed a fire lit under my ass. Maybe thats his angle? not sure.

Exactly what I was thinking. Who else would he be playing for? When on the field or in war you only have your brothers. That comment really confused me.

As a former player I've said stuff like that before. Trust me is called venting they just do it on the computer these days. I'll take your word Domer. But believe me it's meaningless. As far as you Merlin this board doesn't need your type of posting. I'm done. I will no longer respond to this type of detrimate type of thread about meaningless dribble. Have fun Merlin.

Correct you didn't, but what you did show is how much you like to post negative B.S. some of us come on daily and i'll be damned if you i ever see you post when things are going good. Your one of those dudes that loves chaos because they lack control in there own personal being/life. Which is cool, but when your dealing with people who are really passionate about something and you only post when things are going south of coarse you gonna get people fired up. In other words your just a HACK.