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With the one back set the norm in college football, this type of running is needed. More of this guy please. "If you try to run outside, you'll never get there. If you run inside, you'll get outside." Jerome Bettis.

It's hard to pick where to start so I'll just make a general comment. The education one receives at Can't is laughable at best. Only an idiot would go to this school. It's one thing to be born an idiot and try to improve yourself as life progresses. It's another thing to be born an idiot and pay to go to a school that would make one a bigger idiot.

From the looks of lance99's post, you are right on the money. My guess is there are problems throughout LA in terms of the condition of buildings in higher education. I still feel good about what these players did and I wish there would be more from other schools in the future. It's time to shake up the power structure in college athletics and make them a little nervous.

Thanks for posting. What a sense of relief they all must have felt.

Was your high school have a contract with NBC to nationally televise an annual game against Southern University?

Article This article doesn't go into detail about how bad the conditions at Grambling are, but you can look that up for yourselves. Let's just say, mold growing on walls and floors, mold growing on players equipment, lockers falling down, floors falling apart and staph infections. When adults around athletics, meaning administration of schools and NCAA, don't do what is right by the players, they players have to take control. They did in this case and everyone who watches college football should note that social causes start out slowly and then build a momentum of their own. Yes, the All Players United (APU) is a social movement that probably quietly picked up some steam last weekend. Without the players, there are no games. The members of the NCAA should take note of what happened last weekend. It will be happening again more in the future. I was watching Lou Holtz carry the party line about the players having to play on Saturday because of what not playing will do to Jackson State. It's amazing, homecoming went on without them and people still had a good time. What Holtz probably has no idea of is that of all the people in the country who would understand when injustice is being committed, people in Jackson, MS at an HBC would understand the most. Holtz really sees it through the eyes of college coaches. Most coaches and ADs wouldn't care if every player on their team had a staph infection as long as they were winning. But then again, I would assume that some on the board think mold, staph infections, buildings in disrepair, etc are all OK as long as the coaches/ADs get the money they have worked for as long as the players get a nice trip to Hawaii or something. Right CK?

Zips get mention in LA Times. Second page. link

Good job Zips! Goes to show how hard it is to get winning. Even with the game in hand, the Zips were searching for a way to lose. The great news is they found a way to win instead of finding a way to lose.

I don't follow soccer. My guess...Most Wake fans never get too excited or too upset. Sports are something they all do to take a break from counting their money.

I don't like the term retread either, but not sure what other word to use.

Thanks for posting this MDZip. Interesting indeed. Goes to show how many bad coaches there are out there. It is true Miami is in around the same position we were a couple of years ago. How the two programs got so bad though are completely different stories. Miami got bad as a result of a good AD who had lost interest in the school. Akron got bad as a result of a terrible AD who had no clue what he was doing. Miami has a long road ahead of them. It could be a suicide mission for a young coach. I look for them to hire a retread who is willing to take the job.

If so, they aren't committed to anything and my score could be more lopsided.

They will score easily late in the game against the same back-up players some people wanted to see start last week. Our starters will handle them easily.

I like the Zips winning big this weekend. Teams that fire their coach mid season either get a spark from it or they flame out. The flamed out last weekend. They are counting the days until the end of the season. Akron 35 Miami 14 Never even that close. Miami scores a late TD to add some respectability to the score.

Below is a picture of the stall doors that were auctioned off. Thank you and have a nice evening.

There might still be a free one along the fence by the runway.

Yesterday was a suckers bet for NIU fans. I agree, never bet in favor of or against the Zips right now.

Article I recommend his book as well cited at the bottom of the article.

Are you saying unpredictable is the only predictable?

Photo 1 makes me feel old.

I was watching ESPNU yesterday and they did a breakdown on trends in college football play calling in the spread offense and I found it fascinating. Basically, team are running two different plays at the same time in different areas of the field. The QB decides after the ball is snapped which to run. Watch for this the next time you are at a game. Example 1: A team snaps the ball to the QB. He looks left at two receivers running standard drop back pass patterns. Seeing they are covered and with the running back sneaking out of the backfield to the right where the two WRs on the right are running roll out pass patterns. The QB rolls that way and completes a pass. Example 2: Trips left and the receivers run the bubble screen. The play isn't there so the QB hold the ball and gives it to the RB next to him. The OLine is blocking for a run play and the team gets good yards with the play. The modern spread offense gets better and better with time. Every time defenses catch up a little, wrinkles like this are introduced. I'm totally fascinated with it and Saturday at 4 PM you can watch Oregon, a team that has mastered it, run it. I wouldn't want to be a defensive coordinator right now. How do you stop two plays being run at once? It's a nightmare. So much has to go right.

Look, I don't want it to seem like I'm passing judgement on guys who find it homoerotic to watch MMA. If they enjoy it and get an emotional response from it, then I say live and let live. You say tight shorts. Some might call them tights. Others might call it . Edit: Don't shoot the messenger. When I read about it not being homoerotic because men have wrestled together in the nude since the first Greek Olympics, I think of a joke a friend of mine down here in Charlotte, from Norton and a Greek, tells. Question: How do you pull two Greek men apart? Answer: A crowbar.

The NFLPA turned its back on former players years ago. Mike Ditka once gave unusually cogent testimony in front of Congress about it.

Or, there is a large part of the population that simply doesn't care if someone gets killed playing football as long as it isn't someone in their immediate family. We live in a country where MMA is a huge sport now. I would contend it is human cockfighting that caters to a society where pornographic images (not nude photos, but the true definition of pornography which is an image designed to provoke a strong emotional response) are common to the point most people are numb to it. Quite frankly, I think MMA satisfies homoerotic feelings some men may have. Some men fantasize about two women in their underwear hitting each other with pillows. Some men fantasize about two men in their underwear rolling around in a cage punching/kicking at each other until one is knocked unconscious or is hurt to the point he has to quit. I'm not a judgmental guy, so if either fantasy makes someone happy, so be it. The former makes me happy. Many Americans have bought in to the notion that football is a "violent" game and the want to see images like James Harrison taking cheap shots with his head. They watch to see it. Therefore, since it is violent, some level of death and permanent injury should be expected and disregarded. The NFL created this idea of football, now they are having to change their ways.

I would also like to add that it is bad for the game. Weight gain, along with rule changes, have made it impractical to run the ball. The line is so big now there is nowhere to run when the back gets the ball. In a 16 game season, a running back still getting 1,000 yards in a season is a big achievement. It's only 63 yards per game. If they aren't going to adopt weight policies, I would like them to adopt a rule the CFL has. The d-line must play one yard off the ball. Doesn't seem like much, but it forces linemen on both sides of the ball to be more nimble. Therefore, they don't have all the fat guys across the line and even though they only have three downs, team can still run because there are holes created.