John Bear A Good Description

[Randall Flagg]

Those who have a need to "puff out their chest" and brag about how great they are, lack self-esteem and are insecurity about themselves. Just ask George Dana Gollin. When your wife is more sucessful than you are and you are kicked to the back burner of importance, I guess his remedy is to hang on the coat tails of those who are famous and well known in a sad attempt to elevate his own status. Where's our psychology majors, isn't there a name or phrase for this type of behavior?

Gollin Fails as Teacher:  

Fall 2005 Excellent Teachers: Physics 
One can only wonder how George, the self-proclaimed genius, missed out on being selected as an excellent teacher. I mean it is a closed shop. Only a fixed number of people in one department qualify, I mean it's not open to every physics professor in the U.S., and, he didn't MAKE IT. Hmmmmmm!!  

It seems the DL expert?? isn't so expert as a physics professor, according to this University of Illinois List.  Perhaps he is no better a teacher than as a DL researcher.

*Lance Cooper is rated outstanding.  But maybe he is doing his job and not spending his workday on other matters, or, maybe he is just better at what the State of Illinois is paying him  to do.