The College Football Playoff is fine as it is. Administrators thinking about tinkering with it need to take a deep breath and focus their attention on wrecking something less important and perfect. Expanding the College Football Playoff for this season – or forever – is a terrible idea for more than two reasons, but only two matter. There […]
Fan frustration and confusion because the Big 10 and Pac-12 canceled college football is being driven by inconsistent protocols designed to help preserve health and life that are applied unevenly. Click here for your copy of “Oops – the Art of Learning from Mistakes and Adventures” by Kent Sterling There are questions and anecdotal reports from friends, […]
“Never rush to solve a crisis,” is a quote that should be hanging in the office of every manager, coach, and department head, and the Big 10 is on the precipice of violating that immutable tenet. Big 10 presidents are meeting this morning to decide how to handle the building storm surrounding the decision to play […]
College football will likely not be played this fall. The MAC punted their season yesterday, and the Big 10 in likely to say adios tomorrow, according to reports. And that is bad news for everyone. Conversely, Big 10 universities plan of being open for business. Yes, the dorms, frats, and sororities will be filled with 18-to-22-year-olds […]
I love Jim Harbaugh stories. They make me happy because I empathize with his athletic director, who has to embrace or at least tolerate the level of crazy Harbaugh brings to his work as football coach at the University of Michigan. Working with crazy people is exhausting no matter how good they are at their […]
ESPN’s Paul Finebaum was the second grader who ran around the classroom screaming, “There’s no such thing as Santa Claus!” on the last day before Christmas break. He’s also the guy who calls to tell you he heard your job is being eliminated. Then as you are ready to start the final season of “Breaking […]
Pac-12 football players have lost their young and mostly unformed minds. They have authored a letter published in The Players Tribune with a series of demands the Pac-12 must acquiesce to if they are to play this season. I am a big honk for student-athlete rights, but several of these demands are in direct opposition to binding contracts, […]
What will college and professional football players be willing to sacrifice in order to play this fall? That’s the question that will determine whether their seasons are lost or found. College players are going to have to do the impossible – stay sequestered away from the general population of their universities for four months. It […]
Gambling happens. If there is a game, someone has money riding on the outcome. Russian ping pong during the early parts of the pandemic taught us that. Still, Heather Lyke, the athletic director at Pitt, testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday that she and every other AD in the ACC would like gambling on […]
Clemson Football has 37 players who have tested positive for COVID-19 – roughly one-third of Dabo Swinney’s Tigers. That’s a huge percentage if his program is paying attention to protocols for safety. It’s easy to make an assumption or two, start connecting dots, and come up with an intriguing and (hopefully) ridiculous conspiracy theory about why Clemson’s infection rate has risen […]