The decency barriers keep coming down.
Best of all, with unlimited texting, it’s easy to multitask at someone’s funeral!
The decency barriers keep coming down.
New NCAA rule allows college coaches to go to funerals of recruits or their family members. pic.twitter.com/5CaueMdwtt
— Michael Casagrande (@ByCasagrande) April 19, 2016
Best of all, with unlimited texting, it’s easy to multitask at someone’s funeral!
Filed under Recruiting, The NCAA
“Every guy on our team is a potential cornerback right now.” — Kirby Smart, AB-H, 3/2/21
…and college football somehow manages to get even more disgusting.
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Where is Robin Williams and his Cadillac with a Michigan license plate when you really need him? I think there should be “Harold and Maude” designates to every funeral of recruit families. One could wear a Michigan hat and another an FU hat and stand side by side to designate who they really are.
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Doesn’t the requirement that the recruit be already committed make this a bit nicer? Or is an NLI not binding?
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Grief is nature’s most powerful aphrodisiac. HEY MOM! CAN WE GET SOME MEATLOAF! What is she doing back there? I never know what she’s doing. MOM! MEATLOAF!!!
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My first thought as well:
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Cue Homer Simpson: “I thought this thing was gonna be catered! It’s not fair! It’s not fair I tells ya!”
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My wife does at lot of texting and FB stuff during funerals.
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Plot: Jim Harbaugh stars as a tormented actor playing Nosferatu, head coach of Michigan, who runs away to small towns in Florida and Alabama to distract Greg Sankey from important business
Jim teams up with people while delivering eulogies and other pep talks like commencement, putting out fires and directing Spring Break activities.
Through a series of absurdist consequences, Jim eventually finds a form of redemption notwithstanding having a longstanding B1G nemesis who has many things forever remaining on his mind, Irwin
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When will the first coach kill a recruit’s relative to gain more access, and who do you think that coach will be?
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You’re on it!
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The first coach to surmise the greatest number of recruits related even obscurely to a designated potential victim.
FPI = Funeral Potential Index.
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I guess I could see Mike Leach whacking Craig James just for the heck of it. But the recruit wasn’t worth the trouble.
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“Can someone tell me what this ‘Designated Mourner’ support staff requisition is doing on my desk this morning?”
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“Just sign it. I’ll explain it to you in July”.
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I just wonder which support staffer gets stuck with the job of scouring the obituary pages of every newspaper in the South.
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This only applies to 4 and 5 star funerals right? No coach in his right mind would bother with a 2 star funeral right?
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Woody Hayes (if he was still around). If he’ll punch a kid on national TV he’ll do just about anything.
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Sorry, the above was meant as a reply to Corrected Visionary.
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Son, have you considered having the funeral in Coral Gables? Your Mom would have wanted it that way.
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