He picked Daunte Culpepper over Drew Brees, followed up his 9-7 year with a 6-10 record, then bailed after only two seasons and promising he wasn't going to become Alabama's next coach. I don't know a single Dolfan that pines for those days.

A lot of people shared that sentiment. Frankly, I always hated Penn State because they were so goddamn sanctimonious and up their own ass about how they did things "the right way" when you knew they were just like every vilified SEC program. The only reason why they never engendered a Duke-like hatred was because the…

Ah crap, just saw the details of the punishment. You can dismiss these last two comments.

Welcome to my state!

All of those successes were during Belichick's days in Cleveland, and almost all of them went on to be assistants elsewhere before becoming a head coach. So, Drew's argument still stands. And as much as I hate Favre, he wasn't responsible to Mangini's tire-fire of a job in Cleveland.

Technically, Nick Saban was a Belichick acolyte as well, although ironically that was when the Grumblelord was shitting it up in Cleveland and before god gave him Tom Brady. Granted, he was terrible with the Dolphins and has only succeeded at major college programs butLOOKATALLTHEMCHAMPEENSHIPSPAWWWWL!

The fine just pisses me off the more I think about it. Why can't the NCAA do to PSU like they did to Baylor basketball after Dave Bliss was found covering up a murder? Why are members of the team forced to endure through this if they don't want to? And why isn't it stipulated that the money comes out of football…

The school should definitely be punished, but there should also be some consideration for collateral damage. The fine sends the wrong message: it implies that PSU can simply pay its way to redemption. If they had done bowl bans and TV blackouts, then allowed every member of the PSU team to transfer scot-free to…

There is no evidence that anyone at the Big 10 knew about the Sandusky affair or covered it up. As for the "creating a culture" argument, you're assuming that conferences hold massive sway over these schools. They don't. Schools are autonomous organizations, and as this episode demonstrated time and again even many of…

The death penalty certainly triggered the massive exodus that dissolved the SWC. Had that penalty not occurred, the conference would have almost certainly lasted another few years, which could have changed a ton of things: the SEC might have added Florida State and Clemson like they wanted instead of Arkansas and…

The "don't ever fucking let this happen again" penalty.

I think it'll be a "death penalty in all but name" type of deal. That'll keep the B1G Network happy, shows the NCAA is serious about anything that constitutes lack of institutional control, and doesn't set a precedent that gets other schools nervous. If the NCAA just changed the rules that allowed it to drop an…

The other thing to keep in mind is that technically, the "death penalty" can only be levied on a program that's already on probation. PSU doesn't fit that bill so they can't go the SMU route. My guess is they'll do to PSU what they did to Baylor after the Dave Bliss scandal and allow all players to transfer without…

Fuck, now my master's thesis topic on manifesto texts just sounds boring. I'll just use that as my excuse when it gets rejected like all my other rhetoric papers.

My senior thesis for my Economics bachelor was based on this topic. It was good enough to get my degree, nowhere near good enough for publication. I study rhetoric now, and am still receiving paper rejections. Such is life.

The steroids scandal is baseball is also somewhat similar to a Prisoner's Dilemma. Although the socially optimal outcome would be for no players to be on the juice, on an individual level players had more incentive to cheat out their brethren than to cooperate. Likewise, as in the Dilemma, players that didn't cheat…

Also a benefit of Pey-Pey doing well: trolling the Fat Humps while they watch their rookie QB win only 3 games.

I guess it can lead to wackiness. Most of the long-distance runners I've known (albeit not competitive ones) are just huge stoners.

Totally agree. Distance running isn't nearly as reliant on coaching as sprinting, where technique can mean the difference between 1st or 4th. If he's pushing himself and maintaining a good training regimen and diet, he'll be fine. Also, questioning the "heart" of a guy who's been running competitively at the top level…

Why would Vikings be shaped like squares? Or is Square Vikings in Greenland some new hipster band?