It sounds like an the whole thing is just cover because a middle-aged white guy doesn't feel he can admit he wants grills for his own reasons.
Truly, racism makes victims of us all.
I mostly wonder about the coaches who use systematic, pre-planned smoke bombs at their breakfasts.
A doomed breed. Everyone knows that no smoke-bomb schedule survives contact with the enemy.
So, I read the first part of the article. If this guy coached women's basketball or something, he'd be explaining stuff to a disciplinary panel at the university.
Great article.
On one of the college football podcasts the hosts expressed their consensus view that if you want to find a new coach for your program, you need to find one who has an answer to the question "What was your favorite rap album in college".
Although it is noticeable that still, the only celebrities who have come forward to say they are fans of Donald Trump, and expect it to enhance their popularity, are sports coaches.
I confess that 5 was my first thought but 1 is a much better first thought.
Common factor: Men wearing underwear that doesn't cover their butts.
OT: Important moments in the history of philosophy.
Kevin Sorbo and the other Hollywood conservatives know they are a niche group with a niche following. But in sports you have people like Mike Leach going out there and talking about how you'd have to be crazy not to vote for Trump and it's just common sense, like he can't imagine someone thinking worse of him (or deciding not to play college football for Washington State in the middle of all-white nowhere) as a result of his love for Trump.
There's a certain personality type that is in love with Trump -- the personality type of Chris Christie or football head coaches. I find it a bit mysterious. I mean, I think if I were a loudmouth blowhard, I would be better equipped to see through the tricks of other loudmouth blowhards. But apparently the opposite is true.
But in football, loudmouth blowharding is a necessary skill. A college football coach's literal job description is to get somebody to run as hard as they can into somebody else for no reward outside of emotional satisfaction.
Chris Christie knows that if people start doubting the competence of loudmouth blowhards he is in trouble.
I bet Christie can't run a 40 in under a minute.
Anyway, without President Trump to pardon him, Christie is probably going to prison for Traffic Gate or whatever they call that.
Yeah, Christie's already in plenty of trouble. And he's given plenty of evidence for his incompetence aside from his loudmouth-blowhardness.
OSU's old OC. BUT he lost to Navy and barely hung on vs Tulsa, so I wonder if the sheen is off a bit.
I mentioned it to Jammies, who said that the Houston coach is everybody's newest great sensation, and he'll have his pick of contracts if he wants to move to a big school.
Him and PJ Fleck are the newest great sensations. Fleck is more in the old school mode of making comically bombastic speeches and making up catchphrases based on debunked historical anecdotes. Which for a guy who got the head coaching job at age 32 means he is walking on the razor's edge of "Is this guy taking himself seriously?" and if his team starts losing it will be a quick plummet into laughingstockism.
I think we should all pause and reflect on the importance of the Buckeyes instead of these newcomers.
14: But wouldn't you think that's the exact kind of person who would be immune to the tricks of someone else trying to get them to run into a brick wall.
Or somebody who thinks running into a brick wall is a worthy goal.
This coach reminded me of the way actor Michael Rooker is in person. He really, really wants to hug every single person around, and somehow manages to keep it from being creepy.
16- Let's be fair, I'm sure he can walk more than 1.4mph and that he can walk 40 yards.
24
It's "grit," but only if you are in New England.
I'm watching this thing with the Cubs. It's pretty good.
I'm reliably informed that LA used up all its good pitchers tonight and that they need to rest for like three days.
That's baseball, Moby. This is a football thread.
Now in Zagreb (Dubrovnik was lovely) and about to take a shuttle bus to kill 3 hours and see what I can see.
Again with the OT! We're five comments from the threshold at which that's acceptable, people.
Sorry for violating blog norms but it's sports talk which is meaningless to me. Also nervous about leaving the airport for a few hours.
And lost.
As was befitting of any team from that filthy town where hope goes to die (homicides for the year passed 600 this weekend, total shootings are just shy of 3500).
Sorry for violating blog norms but it's sports talk which is meaningless to me.
Falconry counts as a sport, dude.
Tho if you want to talk about Kevin Sorbo's career in game. Andromeda was derivative but fun in parts.
So has gswift decided to shift his role from defending police in general to talking shit about Chicago, or what?
40 The true bloodsports are exempt.
I've been so busy in just catching up on last few days worth of posts comments.
I've been so busy in just catching up on last few days worth of posts comments.
I've been so busy in just catching up on last few days worth of posts comments.
43: Do they do any cockfighting over there? It strikes me as more of a Southeast Asian thing.
And Latin America, but that's not really your bailiwick.
Not that I've ever heard of. I suspect it would be haram.
Bus driver is playing Nobel prize winning music on this bus.
50 The cruelty of it. Also ythe gambling i suspect. Though I'm not sure how exactly the case would be laid out. Hunting not being considered cruel so falconry is fine.
Anything new and bizarre happen in Trumpland these past 6 days?
42: I prefer to think of it as lobbing some reality in the general direction of you credulous fucking hippies.
But of course I've got to talk some shit on Chicago because they're playing my home team and TBH I don't follow baseball hardly at all anymore but I'll happily watch it every day in the pursuit of not hearing one more godamn minute of coverage about the worst election in my lifetime.
53: Well, my understanding is that it's very popular in super-Muslim Indonesia, so. But on the other hand, Trump is doing quite well in super-Christian America, so.
Anything new and bizarre happen in Trumpland these past 6 days?
Trump's effectively tied with Clinton in Alaska.
56 right of course. Geertz wrote a famous book on it, how could I have forgotten?
the worst election in my lifetime
Buck up swifty! You have lots of years left to see worse ones!
The real sports talk all right thinking people should be engaging in should be whispers of awe at the monster card that is UFC 205. Even if you've never watched a minute of MMA in your life you should buy this PPV.
Used to be, rugby players tried to sell me potato chips. Now baseball players try to sell me whisky. MMA fighters have never tried to sell me anything.
They're selling you a modern day bloodsport you ingrate.
Boxing is frustrating as hell lately. Joshua/Klitschko and Kovalev/Ward should be awesome but Canelo ducking Golovkin at middleweight is getting ridiculous and welterweight is likewise a shitshow with Garcia and Thurman putting off fighting Errol Spence.
Sitting in the cafe at the Museum of Broken Relationships. The woman who runs the Museum part hasn't shown up yet.
There are some eligible looking possibly heart broken women sitting at a few of the tables here.
Or try to sell someone a falcon. I don't know.
65 A cockfight might be how this whole thing got started in the first place.
It's an interactive exhibit! You get stood up!
Wow that was pretty amazing. Some were very amusing and some were a punch in the guy. More later.
Gut! Gut gut gut. Damn you autocorrect.
With clarity like that, Barry, I bet you've never had relationship trouble at all.
Hey you guys, there's free food and drinks in the business class lounge and they didn't even check to see if I belong here. Did you all know this before?
It must be all the falconry. Improved posture and haughtiness and such.
It's like discovering a secret world that's been there all along.
You just need some persistence in the coat check.
Is it like this in all business class lounges?
Just my luck that the free beer on tap is out of order. Free. Beer.
They're great, aren't they? I don't particularly mind flying in economy because I tend to just sleep through the flight anyway (as long as there are no small children howling in the seat behind me; thank you British Airways flight 011 from Narnia Prisoncamp airport to Knifecrime Island's Stabsville Hellscape airport) but the business class lounges on the layovers make life so much more pleasant. Showers! Clean towels! Nibbles! Comfortable chairs!
53 seems likely: the BBC's explanation of Islam in bullet point format notes that
Muslims are instructed to avoid:
treating animals cruelly
over-working or over-loading animals
neglecting animals
hunting animals for sport
(hunting for food is permitted if the animals are killed humanely)
cutting the mane or tail of a horse
animal fighting as a sport
factory farming
Delta lounges always check to see if you're a member.