lol
― New No-No Bettencourt (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 11 July 2023 16:03 (one year ago) link
Seems he was at least not doing enough to protect his student athletes in the locker room. I don't think ignorance is a great defence here.
― New No-No Bettencourt (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 11 July 2023 16:20 (one year ago) link
to me the real story is that the defense is "this is just the nature of football culture so why is pat fitzgerald being singled out and punished," and i'm sure that first part is true. i don't get the sense that anything being described is uniquely bad, just that fitzgerald got "caught." even from the outside, frankly, these stories seem pretty benign for what i imagine football locker rooms are like
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 11 July 2023 16:32 (one year ago) link
i used to spend a lot of time around a major D1 baseball program when i was a kid & one time after a game i peeked into the locker room and one of the players was in there on the floor w/ no clothes on wrapped up in athletic tape as some of the other players like pelted stuff at him. to be clear i'm not excusing pat fitzgerald, just that in a larger sense that focusing on him or framing it as some sort of issue w/ northwestern or w/e obscures the real issue of... locker room sports culture in general -- especially, i would imagine, college locker rooms, where the only actual adults in the room are the ones looking the other way
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 11 July 2023 16:37 (one year ago) link
i don't really disagree, but i think what administrators are willing to brush off has changed pretty radically since you were a kid, and fitzgerald is accused of doing a bit more than looking the other way.
Fitzgerald's tenure unwound after a former player, who has since transferred, reported the program's hazing activities to the school in late 2022. The former player, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, told ESPN on Sunday that hazing was organized and widespread in Northwestern's program, often led by a group of older players called the "Shrek gang." The group would lead a hazing activity called "running," usually against freshmen or younger players who had made mistakes in practice, he said. According to the former player, older players wearing masks would restrain the victim in a dark locker room and engage in sexualized behavior. The former player said he was "run" as a freshman and also said Fitzgerald signaled for players to be added to "Shrek's list" with a specific clapping motion during practice. He said he saw Fitzgerald make the motion at least five times since the 2020 season.
i think the key there is 'sexualized behavior'. like, you can make kids run extra sprints or whatever, but after sandusky and nassar you cannot do anything along those lines.
nor is northwestern the kind of school where the football program basically owns the administration. fitzgerald was the best coach they ever had, but they went 1-11 last year. lots of people can do that without getting the school sued straight to hell.
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 11 July 2023 20:18 (one year ago) link
Shrek's list
― symsymsym, Tuesday, 11 July 2023 20:29 (one year ago) link
oh i think everything that has happened to fitzgerald since the news started leaking has been entirely predictable & justified. this was only ending one way
but to my point about how focusing on fitzgerald runs the risk of not addressing the larger issue at hand, northwestern has announced that they're retaining all of his assistants. it's not hard to understand from a logistical standpoint why they made this decision (hiring an entire football staff in july is probably next to impossible) and i'm sure all those guys will get cycled out when they hire a new coach, but the implication that fitzgerald was solely responsible for the culture of hazing is of course farcical. i guess we're supposed to believe that the hazing there will now cease because the rest of the coaching staff will have been scared straight or something?
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 11 July 2023 20:40 (one year ago) link
lol at northwestern's entire athletic department -- apart from chris collins! -- being exposed/fired during the handful of summer days when essentially nothing else is going on in the usa
also lol at the corruption that's going on in athletic departments elsewhere that actually have good players
― mookieproof, Friday, 14 July 2023 05:49 (one year ago) link
should have thrown their one win of last season to keep suspicions low
― New No-No Bettencourt (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 14 July 2023 14:31 (one year ago) link
https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/38156010/georgia-fires-staffer-survived-fatal-crash-sued-bulldogs
It's probably safe for me to ignore college football for the rest of my life
― omar little, Thursday, 10 August 2023 18:47 (one year ago) link
looking forward to 66 big ten schools battling it out with 67 SEC schools to determine -- What we all want, right? -- the Best of the Best
folks, let's see what right honorable justice clarence thomas thinks about today's showdown
fair enough! i don't think nebraska can consistently throw the ball either. who wants to Feed Him Shit via our exclusive deal with fanduel? i'm sure those randy vandy fans have other ideas, if no particular reason to escort a supreme court justice around the country. BOOM
― mookieproof, Friday, 11 August 2023 05:50 (one year ago) link
Only took one night of college football for some social media person to get fired pic.twitter.com/H7jsITbCoW— Zac Jackson (@AkronJackson) September 1, 2023
― mookieproof, Friday, 1 September 2023 08:18 (one year ago) link
what a gratuitous joek
― symsymsym, Friday, 1 September 2023 15:49 (one year ago) link
coach prime was right
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 2 September 2023 19:51 (one year ago) link
travis hunter is an absolute freak
― is he disgruntled adrian? (voodoo chili), Saturday, 2 September 2023 21:41 (one year ago) link
yeah that was extremely impressive. his INT was crazy
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 2 September 2023 21:58 (one year ago) link
not sure i can handle several months of coach prime hype
also the wolverines' various tributes to jim harbaugh are embarrassing
― mookieproof, Saturday, 2 September 2023 22:37 (one year ago) link
I watched that documentary on Florida off Netflix this weekend. That movie makes me embarrassed for humanity. Football is so f'd up.
― earlnash, Sunday, 3 September 2023 12:47 (one year ago) link
mookie
― cracked fixed view mire (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 5 September 2023 02:48 (one year ago) link
el KO
― cracked fixed view mire (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 5 September 2023 02:51 (one year ago) link
i was all like, why is clemson only favored by 12
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 5 September 2023 03:12 (one year ago) link
embarrassed for dabo
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 5 September 2023 03:27 (one year ago) link
One of my favorite things about the impending chaos of the in-state rivalry gang (which isn't of course isn't THE rivalry) is that students always paint bedsheets with messages belitting harbaugh for petty imagined offenses and hang them on the front of their houses - like "harbaugh drives with his mask on" or "harbaugh posts 'how to open pdf' on facebook".
I want to make one this year that says "harbaugh allegedly committed 'Level II: Significant Breach of Conduct' and 'Level I: Severe Breach of Conduct' violations of NCAA rules"
― joygoat, Tuesday, 5 September 2023 17:22 (one year ago) link
"Harbaugh wants you to carry your pregnancy to term."
― cracked fixed view mire (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 5 September 2023 18:16 (one year ago) link
"and then Harbaugh will take your baby"
― symsymsym, Wednesday, 6 September 2023 01:38 (one year ago) link
They added the Feinbaum show to the local ESPN radio a few months back. Sports talk radio is filled with clones and crazy takes but those regulars on that show are something else. It makes Rome's show sound like NPR.
― earlnash, Thursday, 7 September 2023 21:32 (one year ago) link
Nebraska's offense is about as competent as the Carolina Panther's last year. That QB was having all sorts of problems with the fumbles. Their D held up pretty good for a good part of the game with Colorado until they ran out of gas being on the field all day.
Be interesting to see if Colorado looks past Colorado St to their match-up against the Ducks, which will be a better thermometer of how good they might be. They definitely got a few players that are really talented, but I kinda doubt they are ready for prime time.
― earlnash, Sunday, 10 September 2023 02:55 (one year ago) link
good lord the degree to which the Badgers are getting jobbed out of this game
― frogbs, Sunday, 10 September 2023 02:57 (one year ago) link
LSU managed to cover the 56.5-point spread at home against grambling, so i assume brian kelly's bayou accent will become more pronounced this week
i would never actually root for texas but that will not prevent me from being all lol bama
i hate to *not* blame matt rhule, but nebraska has been bad for a long time now and they are not the team to beat coach prime in boulder
unfortunate about appy state
― mookieproof, Sunday, 10 September 2023 05:42 (one year ago) link
ex-Stanford coach David Shaw breaking down the death of the Pac-12 was pretty interesting to me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MB_5nuvD8A
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Saturday, 16 September 2023 18:49 (one year ago) link
They definitely got a few players that are really talented, but I kinda doubt they are ready for prime time.
Coach Prime: "I felt a great disturbance in the Force."
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Saturday, 16 September 2023 19:54 (one year ago) link
mizzou walks it off with a 61 yard field goal
― is he disgruntled adrian? (voodoo chili), Saturday, 16 September 2023 19:58 (one year ago) link
Watched the last quarter and a half of Colorado and Colorado St. game. It was pretty entertaining. Sanders pretty much put the team on his back and got them a win. Took a nasty hit near the end of the game. I guess the hit on Hunter early on in the game was bad too.
― earlnash, Sunday, 17 September 2023 14:37 (one year ago) link
I had not heard that Cal and Stanford were going into the ACC. College sports is so fuct up, that is hilarious.
They should call it pro sports and tax the fuct out of the lot.
― earlnash, Sunday, 17 September 2023 14:40 (one year ago) link
xp That hit on Hunter was a total cheap shot. The guy who took it should have been ejected.
Now, Hunter is out for some weeks due to an undisclosed injury. I'm guessing it's a bruised sternum, maybe a broken rib or two? Hopefully nothing more serious.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 18 September 2023 15:03 (one year ago) link
awful that he'll likely miss oregon and usc
― The Xenaverse Connection (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 18 September 2023 15:35 (one year ago) link
colorado snapping back to reality
― mookieproof, Saturday, 23 September 2023 20:45 (one year ago) link
Getting hit in the face with it, more like.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Saturday, 23 September 2023 20:58 (one year ago) link
This could really end up ugly, college football quite often don't put on the breaks.
I remember back in the old days that Switzer at Oklahoma used to just love absolutely destroying teams, like going for it 4th and short up 50+ points.
― earlnash, Saturday, 23 September 2023 21:48 (one year ago) link
seemed pretty obvious something like today would happen
― k3vin k., Saturday, 23 September 2023 22:29 (one year ago) link
The weaknesses of the Colorado offensive line and secondary were pretty apparent even against weaker opponents. Their run defense has been nonexistent today. It’s as though they forgot how to tackle.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Saturday, 23 September 2023 22:37 (one year ago) link
Marvin hurt himself holding too hard
― Sufjan Grafton, Sunday, 24 September 2023 01:29 (eleven months ago) link
one of the best catches in all of history
OH MY!!!! WHAT A CATCH @S1ickSzn 😳💻 ESPN+ pic.twitter.com/4zzupSxOfJ— Florida Gators Football (@GatorsFB) September 23, 2023
― lag∞n, Sunday, 24 September 2023 02:04 (eleven months ago) link
Right knee down
― Sufjan Grafton, Sunday, 24 September 2023 02:47 (eleven months ago) link
almost impossible for me to choose between ND and OSU but sufjan + green unis swayed me towards the papists
sorry man
― mookieproof, Sunday, 24 September 2023 02:55 (eleven months ago) link
it's ok. Was our best shot. Glad the game was classic.
― Sufjan Grafton, Sunday, 24 September 2023 03:00 (eleven months ago) link
and thank you, mookie. Glad we were on the same side in football for a night <3.
― Sufjan Grafton, Sunday, 24 September 2023 03:02 (eleven months ago) link
I once heard a man scream "it's ohio vs the world!" because they were removing him from a Cici's pizza for trying to fill a backpack with slices.
― Sufjan Grafton, Sunday, 24 September 2023 15:04 (eleven months ago) link
Ohio State fans are the WORST, a buckeye is a worthless nut.
― earlnash, Sunday, 24 September 2023 22:58 (eleven months ago) link
it's the mookiebowl, baby
― Sufjan Grafton, Saturday, 30 September 2023 16:51 (eleven months ago) link