February 26, 2015
LSU, SAINTS, KENTUCKY
More sports publications will be for sale/auction in the days/weeks to come, but at present, what ArrestedDevelopmentMediaGuides lacks in quantity, we make up in quality. Right now on auction are a 1981 LSU Post-Season Basketball Media Guide (Final 4 season), 1971 New Orleans Saints media guide and a Lot of 3 Kentucky Wildcats National Championship Season Media guides (77-78, 95-96 and 97-98)
Sold this week were 2008 BCS National Championship Program (2007 season)—LSU-Ohio State and 1980-1981 Notre Dame Basketball guide
Visit ArrestedDevelopmentMediaGuides on EBay.
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THE WIZARDRY OF OS
Assistant Basketball Coach and Head Swimming Coach at Central High
I am in a mood this week. So all I have is questions, and you can draw your own conclusions.
With the issue of students storming the court at college basketball games, how about by-passing the post game handshakes in these instances? If you don't like that idea, maybe we could give major penalties to fans who storm the court while the opponent is still on the court? After that, let the bulls run.
Since the NFL puts the combine on TV, how about putting the players through some real drills? Would it be too much to ask the quarterbacks to throw in a drill that they don't know where they are throwing before they take their drops?
Speaking of the combine, how long is it going to be funny watching announcers run the forty? Why are the forty times unofficial for two hours? Is the NFL not willing to invest in the same technology track and field uses? Does the technology not exist to get a forty time in real time?
Finally, why on earth do we care about the broad jump? I have seen tryouts for high school teams in many different sports at different schools and I have never seen a coach use the broad jump as a measure in their tryouts. But the NFL finds it useful?
Did you see the girls high school playoff game in Tennessee where both teams tried to lose the game? I have coached games where the tallest player on my team is six feet tall and we are playing a team with three quality players over six foot seven. We have had a difficult time convincing our team to hold the ball for a while and force the other team to leave the lane to guard us and play to our strength.
For the life of me, I don't understand how those coaches convinced the players to walk back court, miss free throws, stand in the lane, and all the other things they did to try to lose. I wouldn't want those coaches at my school or coaching my kids, but don't they apparently have to have a great ability to get the kids to believe in a plan?
Is the Big Ten really considering making freshmen ineligible again? In college basketball, the players can leave for the NBA after one year. So, someone thinks it is a good idea for a player to sit for a year and then go to the NBA?
High school football players are playing in All Star games and 7 on 7 tournaments all over the country while in high school, but they need a year to adjust to college football that is limited to 20 hours of practice a week? College athletes need a year to adjust while student managers and trainers work unlimited hours as freshmen? College students that have nothing to do with athletics work full time jobs so they can make their loan payments, but athletes need a year to adjust? Where is the data that suggests that freshmen athletes are struggling?
Speaking of college football, should we still call it "spring" football when teams are practicing in February?
Did you see MLB is considering dropping to 154 games? Why on earth would that make a difference (don't tell me three missed home games would sway the budget much)? I could not tell you the difference between eating 162 and 154 skittles, much less playing or watching 162 and 154 regular season baseball games.
In case you are wondering, "Man, he is in a mode, I wonder if he is okay?" The answer is....check back with me next week.
HEY REF
By Dennis Dearie
Veteran Louisiana High School Referee
This is the time of year when every NFL team gets down to number crunching. All year long fans are bombarded with train loads of stats. Seems there’s a category for just about everything from most yards on third down with the wind coming out of the east versus winds coming from whatever direction you come up with. I have to admit I’m one of those fans that get disgusted with all those endless number games. But to many players those very stats will cost some of them jobs while on the other hand some will reap millions of dollars.
I always hear “There is no I in team” but to the agents and players out there the only way they know how to spell team is with just I’s. Baseball pitchers are the worse about negotiating with a stat pad but that’s for another day. One player to be cut from an active roster is former Saints’ running back Reggie Bush. The 29 year old player was let go Wednesday by the Detroit Lions with about two weeks till the opening of “Free Agency”. Bush signed a four year deal with the Lions just two years ago in 2013. He ran for over a thousand yards in that first season. After leaving New Orleans and Miami it looked like Reggie had finally found a home to finish his career.
But things turned sour when health issues kept him off the field and out of the lineup 2014. He seemed on course to another great year but injured his ankle in a week 5 game against the Bills. He never really overcame that injury as he played in just eleven games, rushing for a very disappointing 297 yards and scored just two touchdowns.
But Reggie consistently tried to play through the pain and even played hurt in the playoff game versus Dallas. His final game’s stats were just eight carries for 37 yards, three catches for a meager 10 yards and one touchdown. He received rave reviews from Lions’ general manager, Martin Mayhew, and was quoted saying “He’s (Bush) a warrior. In that Dallas game he played hurt. But he went out and played his butt off”…
The move (cutting Bush) saves the Lions $1.7 million in cap room for 2015. But the soon to be 30 year old seems to be a victim of GREED. I say this because his salary as it stood meant the Lions would’ve been hit with a $5.2 million cap charge this year. The CAP CHARGE is like a self-imposed fine assessed to a team when it violates the salary cap for a certain year.
Getting back to my GREED charge, there’s no secret Detroit will be hard pressed to come up with the extra cash they’ll need when they start negotiations with Ndamukong Suh. The move saves the Lions $1.7 million in cap room for 2015, which of course they’ll need to re-sign Suh. Talk all off season has been just what will the Lions do as they attempt to keep the franchise’s top priority playing an expected 4 or 5 more seasons in Detroit.
It wasn’t that long ago that the players went on strike to supposedly gain some security since the average career is an estimated 6 years. I said it back then and I’ll say it again (since I’m right; again!!!) the players that took a pay cut were rookies and free agents. The beginning salary was slashed for most of the new players just starting their playing days. Only a select few, those declared as a top tier player aka the ones drafted in the first 10 rounds are given what’s known in the business as a “SIGNING BONUS”.
Many veterans such as Reggie Bush will see their playing days cut short because of greed by a few “Big Dogs”. I wouldn’t have mentioned this move made by the Lions but when it comes down to releasing a player such as Bush so you can give more to the dirtiest player in the league, AKA NDAMUKONG SUH, then there’s a problem with the system.
The Lions should’ve saved money by cutting Suh because it would’ve made a statement about where the league is going. But as it has done so many times the NFL has bowed down to a player better described as an OG; ORIGINAL GANGSTER. The league will never be able to clean itself of these players until ticket buyers stand up and say “enough is enough”. The only thing that gets the attention of NFL owners is the “ding” of a cash register. If we are to see a cleaner played game by the best players then it’ll take less and less of those “dings” made by fans before greedy billionaires will listen and do something to remove the problems.
Till next week…
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