I think this continual assumption of some folks that they understand football better than a guy who has made mince out of opposing defenses with the kind of talent that usually goes an unwatchable 7-9 is ridiculous. His offense hasn’t relied on the zone read to this point, why do you assume he’s going to increase it’s…

Oh no, a newspaper article got something wrong! Heavens to Betsy!

“does Chip run the zone read as an integral part of his offense?”

Read the article pal, it wasn’t an option play. Nobody was left unblocked to be read by the QB. It was just a rushing play out of the shotgun.

And I think you’re missing out on some basic things about college sports that differ from pro sports, namely that players aren’t drafted. They are recruited. They pick the school they want to play for, and their decision is overwhelmingly due to connecting with their coaching staff.

I’m saying that the NLRB expected more than one school’s employee athletes to unionize when it made it’s ruling, and only 1 school’s even attempted, and the attempt failed according to a lot of people close to it. They reversed their original ruling because they figured out at best only one or two school’s athletes…

1. Compare the Northwestern union vote to the firestorm Gawker set off when they voted to unionize. Within a very short period of time, a host of other new media sites’ employees either voted to unionize, or began talking about it. No other private college’s employee athletes even thought about a vote seriously.

Sure sure sure. The NLRB just randomly decided to fuck Northwestern players over. Whatever you say.

Pretty simple: you ask the players off the record, and combine who is willing to talk to you with public statements. Far more players were on the record supporting Fitzgerald in his anti-union push than went on the record supporting.

The one school that had players who expressed any interest in unionizing (Probably, according to nearly every reporter close to the situation) voted against a union. This decision conveniently kept the results of that vote from becoming public. No other private college even attempted a vote, which says a great deal.

If the Northwestern players had voted to unionize, you probably wouldn’t have seen this ruling.

LSU looks vaguely butt-ish this year. They seem most likely to finish at the bottom of the division. Their defense has carried a lackluster offense for years, and then the DC flees and gets replaced with an idjit. Just has the recipe for one of those sudden collapses for a head coach with a great track record who is a…

Loved this piece. Loved every dang thing in it.

The website EverydayShouldBeSatutrday.com made that “accusation” up as a joke YEARS before the Leach stuff because he was the worst announcer ESPN then employed and the site reasoned the only way to get him fired was to make up an awful rumor and spread it.

About every Big 10 blog I follow was in a deep state of mourning when the conference ended up with Rutgers, when they could have had Missouri. Every year that Mizzou does well in the SEC just makes it hurt more.

Didn’t say Maryland was bad at sports (Rutgers is the one that’s mediocre-to-awful at every sport), but they have very minimal fan support, as evidenced by the near constant money problems the department has had for decades now. And their football team has been mediocre for pretty much half a century now with short…

Yeah when the whole unbundling of cable happens and the Big 10 Network and its ilk have to start convincing people to subscribe, there’s going to be some real crying about making conference membership all about MEDIA MARKETS instead of “do you actually have fans who will pay to see you?”

Pshaw, why would the Big 10 want Oklahoma or Missouri or Kansas when they could take RUTGERS and MARYLAND. You know, the school that sucks at every sport and the school with such rotten fan support that they’re totally broke.

And if West Virginia had been patient instead of insisting on breaking their contract with the Big East early, they probably end up in the ACC instead of Louisville, where they should have been all along.

Real weird how so many members of college Greek life end up having some severe problems with the whole “how to be a human” thing.