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UD can feel it. Can you feel it? It’s PRE-SEASON EXCITEMENT.

The later it gets in the summer, the closer it gets to college football season, and UD‘s following Nevin Shapiro’s University of Miami with special eagerness. UM, with its history of spectacular on and off field violence and equally spectacular rules violations (put MIAMI in my search engine), is just now, just barely, coming off of its latest NCAA suspension (all them prossies drugs cars cash bets etc. Shapiro provided), and everyone’s watching to see whether this off-season’s flurry of player fuckups will keep them suspended.

In the case of UM, the NCAA should probably institute a Permanently Suspended status… Something that’s not quite the Death Penalty but conveys the idea that this majorly criminalized institution will never be able to join that venerable community of nations which is America’s Football Nation…

This time around it’s all about a local dealer giving Yukons and Escalades to a bunch of players which, speaking of venerable, is truly one of the very old-style violations, truly one of the fuckups that goes all the way back to the birth of college football.

One of the players currently being, er, investigated by UM

missed 2014 due to suspension. He was reportedly involved in an altercation with his roommate, who is said to have broken his nose in the incident.

UD appreciates the writer’s delicate, passive-voice, way of putting it… Not that his fellow player smashed his fist into his face and broke the guy’s nose… That would be, description-wise, rather unseemly… No… He is said to have somehow who knows how have experienced an outcome from the incident which involved his apparently having broken his nose… Or some such thing…

“Reportedly” (which doubles up on the said to have) and “altercation” are also very good. The lads had a bit of a set-to. Bit of an altercation.

Margaret Soltan, June 26, 2016 8:02AM
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One Response to “UD can feel it. Can you feel it? It’s PRE-SEASON EXCITEMENT.”

  1. dmf Says:

    http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/27/opinion/ken-starrs-squalid-second-act.html

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