It’s definitely part of it as @Mdemorest4 outline above.
but it isn’t really true.
I mean honestly you can’t definitively say that right? I get that you might not call people coach, and maybe the people that you interact with on a professional basis might not do that. But we’ve all heard reporters address coaches as “Coach X” plenty of times, especially in interviews or media sessions directly to their face.
I mean, in this clip from a 60 Minutes feature on Pete Carroll when he was at USC, the reporter addresses Pete Carroll directly as “Coach”, without even putting a name afterwards. I’ve time stamped the link but if it doesn’t work go to around 2:45. 60 Minutes is one of the standard setters in this country for quality journalism, so if a 60 Minutes journalist addresses Pete Carroll as “Coach” I think it’s safe to say that isn’t an uncommon practice.
Obviously things have changed in the 12.5 years since that interview occurred so maybe it’s not as frequent anymore, and as I said above I totally get the reasons why. But that doesn’t mean it doesn’t happen on a regular basis, especially in a state like Mississippi to a football coach where football is king and Southern mannerisms make that kind of deference a lot more common. So I don’t think any of us can sit here and say that if he did feel that way, it’s definitively true or not true one way or another.
This will be my last post on the topic though, since this is pretty off topic at this point and probably all that’s needed to be said about it has been.
Sorry my point was plenty of people say Coach X and plenty say First Name. No matter the coach. The idea that one is inappropriate when both are used constantly is what I take issue with.
It isn’t uncommon for someone to address any Coach by their first name In a press conference.
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Ok, Webmaster Burkhardt
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Blogger Burkhardt to you.
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Oh, so you’re one of those blogger boys that Dan Dakich always talks about!
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This is some heart_of _the_offseason material here. 
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Before today I had no idea Deion Sanders was coaching anywhere, much less Jackson State, and I bet I’m not alone in that. He’s just earned his program some free publicity.
Well done, JSUHCDPTS.
(Jackson State University Head Coach Deion Prime Time Sanders)
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Michigan actually accepted a WR transfer in football this year from his school that had a really good season last year and is expected to contribute. Personally I don’t get the angst over what people call you in a press conference - and if it is something that you care about, address the media once about your preference and then things should be fine.
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So this could get interesting, looks the Big 12 is getting blown up
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As a bigger basketball than football fan, this realignment could turn out great for the B1G
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I wish they weren’t a cheating cesspool of a program.
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I’m really curious what the B1G’s response to the OU and Texas thing will be. That move basically solidifies the SEC as the #1 across the board. I always thought the B1G should try to get them but they may be too late. The B1g has a lot of ok but not great options.
KU is great for basketball, but their football team is a disgrace. KC is a solid sized market but would it be a new one? I’m not sure. That could be a benefit for them. Looks like they’re in the AAU so no issue there. If their football team wasn’t literally the worst P5 program over the last decade they’d be a no brainer
There’s Pittsburgh, but they’re meh across the board. AAU instution. Don’t add a TV market.
UNC adds TV markets and is an AAU member. But would they leave Duke?
UVA same thing but Virginia Tech
Iowa State is also meh across the board, doesn’t bring a TV market. AAU member also.
Notre Dame would be the best add personally, just makes a ton of sense, but they’d still need another.
Syracuse? Are any ACC teams actually up to leave or is it just the remnants of the B12?
I think Cincinnati would make sense but doesn’t match up academically and OSU would throw a fit. Doesn’t add TV money either. But should TV money even matter at the rate tv is going?
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Notre Dame and KU would be the best options. CFP might force ND to join a conference
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If Notre Dame joins any conference in the next several years, they’re contractually obligated for that to be the ACC.
But outside of them, there is no school that moves the needle like Texas and OU do for the SEC, or even raises the average for the conference.
Count me in for a big B1G - Pac 12 alliance with a conference championship game played in Pasadena.
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I think tv money still matters, but the strategy to just jump after bad teams in big tv markets to leach off grandmas with basic cable isn’t a viable strategy anymore.
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Alliance with the pac 12 and packaging the football tv rights together makes the most sense to me. Nd isn’t coming and the acc is tied to a rights deal through 2035. I’d be shocked by a ku addition as it would likely decrease the money b1g teams would make. Overall I think this is a pretty devastating move for b1g football though, sec was starting to get a huge recruiting bump from being viewed as the best conference(just look at the Ohio and Michigan kids that go to uk over better or equal b1g schools). This just furthers moves it more to college baseball(where pretty much all the recruits want to play in the sec).
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What does several mean? OU and Texas isn’t going through for a long time.
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Not sure…from memory, I thought it was 2026, but this article implies it may be way longer than that, like 2037.