We made it to our appointment with Rivals Radio’s Bill King early this a.m. despite having nary a drop of coffee in our system. Coherence reigned, though we continued our bull-in-a-china-shop streak of talking over our host yet again. (That’s twenty-two in a row, we think.)
Listen here. Bill is a very prepared and together guy, period; however, he’s particularly together for someone with eight kids.
Orson Swindle: poorly trained radio livestock.
Also, we cobbled together the following math for creating Dan Hawkins:
We expected, with typical sour foresight, that the NCAA Rules Committee would do the wrong thing when it came to revising the mess that was Rule 3-2-5-e. (The rule that ate around 12 plays a game last season. See that link for a USA Today article if you’ve been asleep, or busy actually doing productive things for the past year or so.)
Who says Americans have balls? If the NCAA Rules Committee really had them, they’d emerge from the undisclosed location they meet in, face a few flashbulbs, and saunter up to the mike to read a statement that read in total like this:
Hi. We fucked up. Blame our lucrative television tie-ins. We’re going back to the way it was. Apologies.
And in essence, that’s precisely what they did. For that, we grant the Rules Committee our respect and the award of their balls back–in fact, we award them an unstoppable European cycling team in the balls department.
Balls, gentlemen. Even when you can’t feel them like competitive cyclists can’t, they’re still there.
The rules committee engaged brain and determined that, unlike the profoundly unwise decision to remove actual clock time, the peripheral dead time surrounding much of the game could be trimmed to speed up the game and thus keep the potentates of various network sponsors happy. (more…)
Sure, it’s not directly football-related. But with Alabama paying Nick Saban the GDP of Cote d’Ivoire to coach their football team, Alabama’s had to make some cuts elsewhere, right? As reader Kemp pointed out in one of the ten emails sending this to us:
I guess per diem isn’t what it used to be at Bama.
Evidently not. Eat it, buddy!
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