Quick College Football Thought

What LeGarrette Blount did was moronic, and a suspension was in order, but killing off his college career says a lot more about the situation at the University of Oregon than it does about Blount himself.

If you're a high school player and the UofO comes calling, remember how they treated Blount here, and how absolutely unprepared they looked against this Boise State team, and find somewhere else to go to school. This is not a coach who will ever amount to very much.

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Deep Thoughts on the Sun Bowl

Go Beavers, but that game sucked a lemon. Oy.

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Ya Think?

Headline from the Friday Seattle Times:

Will Economy Hurt UW, WSU Stadium Plans?

Well, it damned well better. That, and both teams stinking. If teachers lose their jobs while the University of Washington and their billion-dollar endowment get a new football palace, then our priorities are waaaaaaaaaay out of whack.

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You Can Tell It's Apple Cup Week....

....because there's a big uptick in searches coming in from Google for "Wazzu Sucks" and "University of Washington Sucks."

Check out David Duffey's Bottom 10 column for more smack on the upcoming pillow fight between the Huskies and Cougars. The caption for the game: "They Can't Get Along, So They're Gonna Get It Wrong!"

Hooray football!

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FOOTBALL!

It's good to be the #1 team in the country, according to USA Today:

The team's practice field is better maintained than some golf courses. The team's stadium sits in a bowl, like that at Clemson University, and the scoreboard has a jumbotron. The team has its own film room, as nice as a college's lecture hall. But the program's biggest advantage is its shiny Olympic-style weight room and its full-time strength coach, Mike Srock.

By the way, that's a high school football facility. Holy Lord, but that is amazing.

In other football news, Fire Willingham.

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Mike Colbrese: Dick.

The good Mr. Colbrese is the executive director of the Washington Interscholastic Activities Association (WIAA), the governing body for prep sports, debate, and the like here in Washington State.

Ferris High School in Spokane has a player by the name of DeAngelo Casto, a definite next-level prospect who helped them to win the 4A basketball championship last year. He transferred to Seattle, then came back, but was declared ineligible because of the WIAA regulations. He appealed, lost, appealed to a higher level, and was reinstated on December 18th because his lawyer got him declared homeless.

Where this story turns ridiculous, though, is the quote from Colbrese that appeared in the December 18th edition of the Spokesman-Review:

“The most I can say is that he demonstrated a hardship that was unique to him,” Colbrese said.

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Nevertheless, Colbrese didn’t even consider the McKinney-Vento argument. In his eyes, Casto’s hardship was enough to approve the appeal, Colbrese said.

“We felt that there was enough of a unique situation here,” he said.

Awww. Contrast that even-handed, level-headed approach with the Mike Colbrese who tossed out Archbishop Murphy’s entire football season and kicked them out of the playoffs because a second-string player had a physical that was more than a year old. A mistake that wasn’t caught at the school because the head coach/athletic director had died of cancer at the beginning of the season; Sound Politics has more.

Double standard? Piss-poor judgment? Both?

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