In case you want to delay the day a bit further, look here for an excellent rundown of coaches and their various situations, run down conference by conference. Ron Zook gets best hire in the Big Ten, which just goes to show that accolades, whether you get them by default or not, are still accolades.
The offseson forces writers into corners. Nothing doing, spring practice brewing, and program either imploding under the weight of boosters’ expectations or cruising happily under the radar. Oh, or undergoing NCAA investigation, which would worry most programs if having the NCAA examine your program’s practices wasn’t akin to having MC Hammer audit your tax return.
One angle writers milk the hell out of in the offseason is the follow-up, since it takes little but a barn full of quotes and a few questions with the subject of the article to make a pretty little package of a story. Today’s feature, though, goes a bit above and beyond the usual follow-up story, since the topic of Willie Williams never fails to attract attention-both from football fans and Miami area law-enforcement officials.
You may remember Willie from his infamous recruiting diary, published online at the Miami Herald. (We’d link to it, but sadly, they now charge $2.95 for the whole article, which would put us 12 bucks out for the whole thing. Would really cut into our online porn budget…)
The diary disclosed that, among other things:
-Recruits get a lot of steak and lobster thrown their way.
-Recruits get a lot of women thrown their way.
-Larry Coker greets prospective recruits in a white Cadillac Escalade.
-Larry Coker can do this with a straight face.
It really was superb work, high on the Bill Simmons’ scale of Unintentional Comedy. Willie concluded the tour de force by actually getting arrested during the recruiting tour he was chronicling, not just on one but a slew of counts involving a bar fight, setting off fire extingushers, and hugging a woman against her will. This brought his total up to 11, all accomplished before he ever enrolled at a university and most involving petty theft.
Looks like Willie’s been stealing something else this offseason: the hearts of Miami fans and teammates! (Cue groan.) Here’s the follow-up on Willie and how’s he’s working hard to overcome his, uh…”stealing stuff and beating people up problem.” Congrats to the AP beat writer who copped a free trip to Miami and per diem off this: it’s your world, we’re just living in it.
Oh, not rushing to judgement here…but when there’s a grand jury involved, the state talking about reopening a prior investigation, and a university president gone (yes, we know about the Ward Churchill thing, but the football program certainly didn’t help, we have to think the CU football program tips toward critical mass a little faster now…
This report doesn’t make things look any better. “Stabbed in the back”? We all know what that phrase meant for Kelly on Survivor, now don’t we? We predicted earlier that this whole thing would end with Barnett gunning Kenny down-the little man in the orange hooded sweatshirt needs to start worrying now.
Orson Swindle and Stranko Montana are two men pushing thirty who should know better than to run a college football blog, but evidently don't. Both graduated from the University of Florida, and both agree that college football is far too important to be left to the professionals.
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