Is it really an investment when the contracts are not guaranteed, loaded with performance incentives, and players can get cut at a moments notice for any reason?

Tim Tebow was never, ever, ever making that team. While Kap has never received any offers of employment since the 2016 season ended, if he’d wanted to degrade himself by taking a sham of a tryout for PR reasons like Tebow did, he probably could have.

You should try having a real thought.

I’ve never been particularly fond of this analogy, especially considering that playing sports is an entirely voluntary act.

I would too, but Patrice was firmly part of Dave’s generation. 

He was pretty famous for quite some time before his comments about Cosby. 

They’ve had an eye on him for some time.

At least until Eric shot him

Meh

Right, that’s my point. I don’t really consider Dave to be of “this” generation. He’s 17 years past his prime. The lame-ass Netflix specials are nostalgia/cash-in, like when WWE brings back old-timers to main event Wrestlemania. 

Agreed, that’s the lone exception. I enjoyed that one as well.

look no further than the greatest comedian of this generation—Dave Chappelle.

Agreed, but he’s literally not on trial, and headlines like these only serve to promulgate and normalize exactly the kind of fuckshit you’re talking about.

Uh...I don’t think he’s on trial.

Yep. While most of it is many years ago, Bieniemy has a lot more legal trouble in his past than most college/NFL head coaches do. That, and the fact that he’s an OC who’s never primarily called plays in the NFL, are two pretty sizable elephants in the room that the people beating the drum for him to be a head coach…

Yep. Might’ve had a shot at a split national title if they’d won that game, but got smoked by a UCLA team that came in like 6-4-1, I think? Oh well. Football has two primary functions around here: serves as the backdrop to some of the best tailgating in the country, and kills time until hoops starts.

No matter your level of success, almost everyone eventually becomes a victim of it if you stagnate at that level. At Illinois we always semi-joke that we’d build a statue for any football coach that could average going 7-5 or 8-4. But if we established ourselves as a solid, fringe top 25 program like that on average,…

Has there ever been a successful NFL coach who just up and went back to college?

I think the “unrealistic expectations” bit doesn’t really apply to schools that have multiple national titles in the last 20 years.

Sure, maybe he’s the first head coach ever who isn’t in it for the money. Anything is possible.