The Morning After: January 7, 2009
Happy Hump Day! Ok, so it’s not a holiday. So what? It’s been the “Holiday Season” for so long, how are we supposed to move on!? How can we be expected to transition immediately back to 5 day work weeks after multiple 3 or 4 day weeks!? Those are unrealistic expectations and somebody should call OSHA or the ACLU or somebody else that may care. Maybe the Utah Attorney General? He seems to have extra time on his hands…
Here we go: Part I - Lawsuits (Courtesy of said Utah AG)
To succeed in a lawsuit, he would have to prove a conspiracy exists that creates a monopoly.
i.e. The BCS isn’t capitalist. In fact, it’s illegal…and it’s communist! And if we actually vote the BCS CG winner as the national champion, the terrorists have won! You don’t want that on your conscience, do you!?
At first, I wasn’t sure how I should feel about this. But then , I realized this is a good precedent and probably a sound business decision. Of course, I should preface by saying that I’m not pretending to know the intimate details of Jagodzinski’s contract or relationship with Boston College administration. In my mind though, and in the simplest form, if the coach has a contract with a school and can pay a buyout to leave at any point to take a different job or can be paid a buyout to be fired for poor performance, then interviewing for a different job can and should be viewed as disloyal and a firable offense. In fact, I think if a coach interviews for a different job without the blessing of his current employer, the coach should be eligible to be fired without a buyout. So…there.
Where to, Jeff Robinson? Seton Hall? Saint Joe’s?
Here we go: Part II – Everyone’s a Champion!
- The case for Utah (this one’s my favorite though)
- The case for USC
- The case for Texas
- What the hell…split it into 4 pieces!
Shaq, buddy…you’re reaching, brah. You paid $18.8 mil, originally asked $35 mil, and you think dropping down to $25 mil is doing somebody a favor?
Let’s talk a little race, shall we?
- Yale has hired its first black head coach since ever. I bet you guys didn’t know that Tom Williams will only be the second black head coach in Ivy League history; the first was Norries Wilson at Columbia in 2005. Even the SEC had a black head coach in Sylvester Croom before the Ivy League.
- Whoa; hold your horses on the SEC diversity pride…black Florida defensive coordinator Charlie Strong is claiming that his interracial marriage to a white woman is causing him to lose job opportunities in the south. And, apparently, this isn’t the first time this has come up this year:
NBA Hall of Famer Charles Barkley said last month when he said “race was the No. 1 factor” why Auburn chose Iowa State coach Gene Chizik over Buffalo coach Turner Gill. Gill, a black man, also is married to a white woman, and ESPN later reported that two Southeastern Conference coaches said Gill got passed over for the job partly because of his interracial marriage.
Apparently, the reporting done by ESPN was Mark Schlabach reporting to “Outside the Lines” that (via Deadspin) “two other SEC coaches told him, straight up, that Gill would never get the Auburn job, because he’s married to a white woman.” Those are strong words.
Lebron, you know I love your skillz, man. But please, explain to me what a “crab dribble” is and how it can be effectively and legally executed. I need to know this.
(Warning: NSFKBD*) WHOA…just, WHOA!! GREAT BALLS OF FIRE!! For any of you single whippersnappers out there, don’t cross an Aussie lass.
*Not Suitable For Keeping Breakfast Down
Wanna look back at that draft-day deal that the Memphis Express Grizz made with the Minnesota Timberwolves? By the way, when did OJ Mayo = maturity!? I thought he was supposed to be selfish with a shoot first mentality.
It looked pretty wet in Mobile (Mo-beeyl), AL (Alabammer) last night for the GMAC Bowl. Tulsa rolled Ball State. There’s only one bowl game left!
Not good…Titans center won’t play against the Ravens this weekend.
Obligatory Lukewarm Stove update: Hoffman to the Brewers? Juice-on Giambi to the A’s?
There was some roundball last night: NBA – here’s some scores, looks like Gilbert’s showing progress toward reinjury, stay tuned for GITC’s Studs & Duds (I bet there won’t be too many Celtics Studs), College – couple of big Big East wins last night (UConn, Villanova in OT), Sparty did their thang to tO$U, unranked Arkansas overcame a halftime deficit to beat Texas, and there was other stuff too.
Happy Russian Orthodox Christmas! Get you some coffee and hang out for a bit.
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FIRST BITCHITOS!!!!
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C’s – Lost
Lakers – Lost
Magic – Won
Magic in 4
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I think KG is mailing it in…in an effort to make a case for Marbury.
/mikey zone’d
//since everyone else is asleep, I may go back to bed’d
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mikeyzone at 7am, wowza
/fourth
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early early…
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I think the Celts have given up knowing the Magic are sitting right there.
It’s very obvious.
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magic suck.
first!
/before miz, suck it.
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/to be completely accurate.
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Charlotte cheated. That’s why the C’s lost.
/the truth
//75-7
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Those crazy sue-first ask questions later Mormons always crack me up.
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The SEC is a good basketball conference…
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john-i would stay tuned for an extremely important post about the defending NBA Champs.
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Can’t wait…
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btw, Michigan State is going to win the Big 10.
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kwsn- rut-roh, purdue in trouble.
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a certain genius already predicted this, sparty:
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If MN finishes 3rd in the Big 10, I would be happy. I think 5 teams make the tourney.
Spartans
Boilers
Gophers
Ohio St
Badgers
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Kalin Lucas is getting better and better. leads the nation in Assist/TO ratio.
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pki-if michigan goes .500 in conference, they will make the tourney.
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so you think 6 teams?
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maybe 7. Penn State doesn’t look bad.
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that same previous mentioned genius called Penn State in the tourney too…
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stop editing the posts, miz.
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stop telling your lies, sparty.
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i have no idea what you are referring to?
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mize–Surprised you didn’t use “Great Balls of Fire” for your NSFKBD link.
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I’d rather have this guy, instead of Sabathia or Burnett.
Uehara, Orioles agree to deal
/gitc’d
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that’s why you should be editor, rek. that’s good stuff!
Ed note: post updated accordingly.
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Good thing that there is no more racism now that Obama is president.
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Oh, BC firing their coach for interviewing with the Jets is idiotic. The coach now gets the buyout, is free to go where he wants and more importantly for BC – who the fuck would want to coach there now?
Unless all schools start firing their coaches for interviewing or putting clauses in their contracts, teams that do it are just putting themselves at a competitive disadvantage. BC will lose their recruits and be behind everyone else once they hire a new coach.
Also, I would go apeshit if I got fired for interviewing for another job. Now I am not a public figure so typically nobody would know. I think the BC athletic director is not only a manipulative dick, he is stupid.
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Boston Sucks
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You’re welcome mize.
I could seeing firing a coach for looking to take a position with a rival team (not that it’s necessarily right), but firing him for wanting to try and get a more lucrative job and possibly better his career? That kinda sucks. Even though he was only there for 2 yrs, you can’t fault the guy for trying to capitalize on an opportunity that may not come very often.
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…but Jags is essentially getting fired, because he didn’t tell the BC AD that he was going to go interview for the Jets job. The BC AD found out from a reporter that Jags was going to interview with the Jets.
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Well, in that case, Jags probably deserved it.
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Yes Sparty, Purdue is reeling. But they were playing without Hummel and Kramer last night, 2 pretty key players. Like you said, March is what matters not January.
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Boston will be fine. They did learn from the Pats 16-0 season by saving something for the playoffs.
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