Meat on the hoof on the move! For all the big boys out there, your five seconds of glory: the tackle eligible, executed to perfection here by Colorado’s Sam “Lightnin’” Wilder.
Even Musburger couldnt’ work up the nerve to say “If he breaks that tackle…”, a sentence only appropriately completed with “he goes another two yards and collapses due to a pulmonary embolism.”
The NCAA released their report on race in NCAA athletics this past week, citing statistics submitted by member institutions that the NCAA says were “robust enough to be meaningful” despite only 782 schools out of 1,054 member schools responding. According to the report, the total number of men’s and women’s basketball and football coaches increased by 76 percent over the past decade.
Nevertheless, the report sounded a note of brutal honesty in assessing the disparate numbers of black head coaches and assistant coaches in collegiate sport:
“Overall, if you look at the growth of student-athletes of color who are involved in NCAA athletics, the big takeaway from this report is that the growth is not being reflected in the numbers of individuals who are either choosing or receiving the opportunity to become assistant or head coaches, directors of athletics and senior woman administrators,” (Charlotte Westerhaus, NCAA Diversity-type) said.
Charlie Strong, turned down for half the coaching jobs in the SEC, would agree.
National championship defensive coordinator. 24 years experience. Someone give him a head job, please.
Per the request of commenter Oops Pow Surprise!: the cover that really should be the frontpiece for NCAA 2008.
Ned–never forget…
Ivan Maisel and company are currently rolling through a weeklong series on the follies of Arkansas athletics, with Maisel turning in his bit on Houston Nutt’s disastrous offseason of FOIA requests, accusations about his personal life, and his struggle with a crack cocaine habit that Whitney Houston called “scary, man.”*
Whitney Houston: could have, in a parallel universe, commented on Houston Nutt’s nonexistent but dramatic crack habit. Rumorz r funn!
At one point, Maisel referred to the tactic of accusing Nutt of cheating on his wife and lying about who he contacted and when as “Rovian,” a reference to Karl Rove, head political adviser for Bush and possible sheepfucker**. Maisel, who himself spends his weekends out of the office doing GOD KNOWS WHAT with local teens***, wrote this:
The innuendo came at no extra charge. Nutt’s detractors have put him in the impossible position of proving a negative — he must have cheated on his wife because there is no proof that he did not.
It is a maneuver borrowed from national politics, Rovian in style and execution.
Fair enough–it’s a page straight out of backwoods politics as played by both parties but perfected by the Lee Atwater school of campaigning, summed up best in Atwater’s famous quip “Let’s strip the bark off this son of a bitch.” (more…)
The ghost of Garret Bushong still inhabits Purdue. If you’ll recall, Bushong inhabited the prestigious third-string TE spot at Purdue when he was charged with operating a vehicle while intoxicated. Bushong boldly defended himself in deathless prose in the student paper (The Exponent, a title so boldly nerdy you have to tip hat) in a letter that featured this quote:
We run this place and if anyone begs to differ, I’ll say what my good buddy Brandon Kirsch once said. “You know where to find me, locker number three, so come and say what you need to say to my face.â€
Why thank you, Lattimer! A.J. Jacobs of The Know It All fame once joked about identifying a “trend of two” as a desperation move in creating a new story for Esquire. We’ll go ahead and call a trend of two for reserve tight ends at Purdue, as Jerry Wasikowski was arrested on May 22nd for DUI in West Lafayette at 5 in the morning.
Again: next time, just sleep on the nearest couch or floor. You may want to spend the night in your own bed, sure, but chances are you’ll just end up flopping into bed anyway smelling like the inside of a Guangzhou taxi cab. You’ll accomplish several things this way: preventing a DUI, opening the gate for potential late-night random sex, and ensuring that you’ll transfer the reek of your clothes into a stranger’s couch and not your own sheets, which you’ll have to wash, sir/ma’am.
Ugly, put sometimes essential: just stay on the nearest couch, no matter how rank.
Two points for generic DUI to Purdue, who still runs this place.
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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