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Friday, August 17, 2007

Your Guides to
College Football




'Fox has found a whole new reason for viewers to avoid its NFL pregame show like the plague. It will have not one but two analysts who were among the most detestable coaches in college football.

... Fox announced earlier this week that ex-Oklahoma, ex-Dallas coach Barry Switzer will join ex-Oklahoma State, ex-University of Miami, ex-Dallas coach Jimmy Johnson in a "Coaches Corner" segment to discuss both the NFL and the BCS.

Their, um, debates will be refereed by Terry Bradshaw — who is to Fox's NFL coverage what Krusty the Clown is to "The Simpsons."

Fox is the home of the patently unfair Bowl Championship Series. Are we to expect impartial analysis from the network that's in bed with the BCS?

It is true that Johnson and Switzer know both the ins and outs of college football. Johnson won a national championship coaching Miami; Switzer won two coaching Oklahoma. Which is about as "in" as you can get.

But they both have more than a bit of experience on the "out" side of college football. Under Johnson, Miami was widely perceived as an outlaw program, with myriad off-field problems including a play-for-pay scandal.

Switzer was forced to resign from Oklahoma after he landed the program on probation. And his team had numerous off-field problems, up to and including rapes and shootings...'



---deseret morning news---