Hey, if you need to get your blood boiling today, Ken Starr is doing a live Q&A right now. Sample bullshit:
Yeah, that’ll work.
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College football is a forgiving place.
It’s moments like this that make you realize Art Briles isn’t delusional to believe he’ll be coaching somewhere next year.
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False bravado is false.
… But that presentation does help explain what Auburn athletic director Jay Jacobs meant when he said this to myself and Chris Carlin last week in an interview for a SiriusXM show: “There are 12 other programs [in the SEC] that would love to be in our position.”
Alabama’s getting its Chris Black story straight.
Another day, another rationale.
Now, instead of the dog eating the homework paperwork getting lost, it’s just your basic “we didn’t need the kid anymore, so we wish him well” stuff that’s SOP at ‘Bama. That at least has the virtue of familiarity going for it.
By the way, I just bet Saban can prove that every incoming transfer to his program has come for “clear non-athletics reasons”. In other words, they’re still BSing.
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One of the talking points in the Maurice Smith transfer situation is that Alabama let another player, Chris Black, transfer to Missouri last season, which is inconsistent with Saban’s stance now regarding Smith. Evidently the school is prepared to let everyone know that Black’s transfer doesn’t count. Wanna know why?
Because nobody was paying attention. No, really.
Schools have seven business days to either approve or deny a player’s request for a release, according to an NCAA Bylaw.
What happens if a school doesn’t respond within seven business days? The school has to give the player a full release.
That’s what happened with Black, sources told AL.com.
The wide receiver put in for his release leading up to Alabama’s game against LSU in early November.
It was a huge game, No. 4 Alabama against No. 2 LSU. With people inside the Tide building being as busy as they were leading up to that game, Black’s request for a release either got forgotten about or went unnoticed until it was too late, according to sources.
Like with Smith, coach Nick Saban didn’t want Black transferring to another SEC school. But that’s why Black was able to.
We’re supposed to believe that the man who embodies being a control freak with the largest support staff in college football didn’t keep track of a player’s transfer request because he was too preoccupied? Sorry, but that dog won’t hunt.
I hope somebody calls Saban on this whenever the topic of Smith’s transfer is raised in his next presser. Maybe the Coke bottle can shed some light on it. Seriously, if this is the best he’s got, he might as well go ahead and throw the towel in already.
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Shorter Literal West Virginia President E. Gordon Gee: “We didn’t want to be seen as poachers of other conferences. We wanted to make sure schools would approach us so we’d have clarity on their interest.”
Uh hunh. Right.
“That will change the entire mood of SEC football games.”
This deal with LSU banning opponents’ marching bands from performing at half time just gets weirder and weirder. On the one hand, there’s an attempt to make it sound as if something sinister happened.
There have been incidents involving opposing band members, Nunez noted, but he declined to reveal specifics.
“Risk (management officials) looked at this because of a couple of situations that have happened in the past — very close situations, things considered something we needed to keep our eye on,” he said. “They asked us to look at this. If you remember, a year and a half ago, we went and added a fence behind our home team bench. It was part of this whole situation, trying to create a buffer.”
The incidents have not involved LSU band members, Nunez said.
“There are some situations, not between band to band,” he said.
“Usually the band communities are very cordial. They work well with each other. That’s never been a problem. Again, it goes back to some safety issue we’ve had in that small space.”
I said sinister. Nobody said anything about coherent.
But even with that ominous cloud hanging over LSU’s brave move, there’s still a chance this aggression might not stand.
Eddie Nunez, LSU’s deputy director of athletics, said athletics officials plan to meet with members of the school’s risk management team soon to devise a safer plan for the cramped sidelines, allowing the school to lift the policy — potentially ahead of the upcoming season.
“We’re still looking at this. This is still being assessed,” Nunez said this weekend. “This is not a dead decision. This is something we’re actively looking at, going to be meeting with risk management again. We’re going to try to do what we can to make this work. If we can, we will try to make it work. We would love to continue the pageantry.”
Really, guys, if piped in music is that important to you, just go ahead and say so. Besides, think of all that extra revenue you can take in when you sell those seats you used to give to other schools’ bands!
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