In a blog post about the latest sleaze under Florida coach Urban Meyer, Pete Thamel writes:
Coaches in college football have long histories of ignoring serious transactions for the sake of winning football games…
Interesting slip… Coaches in college football are of course very serious about one transaction: Their contract, with its millions of dollars in yearly compensation and its massive buy-out clauses and all. But when it comes to recruitment, the blogger’s correct: The transaction’s not serious at all. It’s this wild and crazy thing where you have the university admit people who aren’t going to be able to graduate, and who have significant criminal records, and then you just hope like hell they behave til you get some touchdowns out of them. It’s insane.
And then when they don’t behave – when they rob people or drive drunk or whatever – everybody rushes to sympathize with the coach, the same person who fucked up the university by admitting them… Poor Coach Meyer! How’s he holding up?
Coaches like Urban Meyer make Lawrence Summers look fiscally responsible.
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Update: A commenter really gave Thamel hell about transactions. (Scroll down the comments a bit.)
Thamel thanked him and changed it to transgressions.
I’m less inclined to give bloggers hell about these things, because I know how easily mistakes get made when you’re blogging a lot.
On the other hand, you’re supposed to read over what you’ve written a lot, too.
And on the other other hand, if you write for the New York Times, don’t you have editors?
December 1st, 2009 at 12:56PM
Let’s add this report of one of his players being busted for DUI:
http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/news?slug=ap-t25-florida-dunlap-dui&prov=ap&type=lgns
I wonder, how long before this is "an in-house issue that has been dealt with," and the player is on the field for big games?
December 3rd, 2009 at 10:16AM
UD, I read major media outlet (newspaper and magazine) blogs and catch them on grammatical errors often. Most of the time, the errors are pitiful, especially from folks calling themselves pros. No wonder print media is going out.
Keep up the great commentary!
Note: writing this comment as I am having a .ppt read to me in a med school lecture hall.
December 3rd, 2009 at 11:33AM
Thanks very much for the comment, AJ S.