2008 National Champ

Funny how Utah State is on its third head coach in three years and they still do well. Smith is the fruit of the poisoned tree. He never would have gotten the Utah job but for Harlan not wanting to be bothered and doing an actual coaching search. If you look at all of the teams that Utah has beaten this season, well, they’re teams that any P4…[Read more]

I disagree. If Dampier does well next season, he’ll declare for the NFL.

Mike might not last the whole season. And what I mean by that is that at this rate, he might be gone before the season ends. It really looks like he lacks the physicality to play a P4 schedule.

He who laughs last, laughs best. We’ll see what type of career Hunter has. One thing is for certain. At the next level, he’s going to have to settle on either being a DB or a WR. Even Roy Green played strictly as a WR starting with his fourth NFL season.

Which one of these two players is the actual difference maker? In my view, it’s Jenty and it’s not even close. You could even make the case that Hunter wasn’t even the best receiver in his team. However, what kind of started putting me off on Hunter is when I heard him say that “no one had ever done what he was doing this season.” Well,…[Read more]

I would actually say that, right now, it’s not really a job but a one way street in the direction of the athletes. I don’t know of many jobs where you can collect a $100K check and skip town the next day to a better “job” like Damien Martinez did last year. I also don’t know many jobs where you can’t perform in anything approximating an adequate…[Read more]

This article from Johns Hopkins takes into account both sides of the issue:

The Evidence—and Lack Thereof—About Cannabis

Some summary points:

1. Does cannabis have viable medicinal uses?

The evidence is mixed at this point. There hasn’t been a lot of funding going into testing cannabis in a rigorous way. There is more evidence for certa…[Read more]

There’s a profit sharing agreement with the players on the horizon. Preparation for that is one of the main reasons why Oklahoma State forced Gundy to restructure his contract.

Well, LOL, the great man himself is a Cougar…hard to get away from stuff living in Utah…

Well, they’re in the G6 so they don’t really count…I should have specified that I was talking about P4 specifically…

That’s what I’m thinking…it should be once a year right after the end of the Spring semester…you could even keep the 16-25 April that’s already there. Sports and NIL are really starting to affect the university experience to the extent that I fear a backlash will be coming soon.

One of the problems with the current system is that there aren’t any real contractual obligations. Dampier could sign with Utah, start pocketing NIL payments, and then jet on April 25 having done absolutely nothing for the Utes. Damien Martinez waited until he received his last $100K NIL check from Oregon State and then immediately transferred…[Read more]

Talk to me once football season starts. In the new environment, Dampier could have a great spring camp, be offered by another school, and be gone before he ever even played one game for Utah.

Rick, the road to hell is paved with good intentions and not all change is progress. I have to imagine that the federal government will be forced to get involved if we start seeing a system where athletes, a huge of number of which are minorities, no longer have an opportunity to attend college (in essence, become disenfranchised) because the new…[Read more]

The answer is really simple. If you as a fan don’t like the current product on display or the ecosystem it’s in, then opt out. I haven’t watched an NBA or MLB game in over half a decade, and I’ve been a huge fan of baseball and basketball for almost my entire life. Once some time passes, you realize that you don’t miss the sport and you’re…[Read more]

Likely the end game is that big-time college football is restricted to 30-40 schools, which is exactly what the networks want, and everybody else just drops sports altogether in a competitive manner. Think about it, why would an educational institution all of a sudden be beholden to sports in general and add a thousand more “employees” that…[Read more]

There is none. College football and basketball have jumped the shark.

Personally, I think that, in some undetermined future, when athletes are considered school employees, a number of schools will cut the cord with organized athletics. I fully expect that to be the case with the high-end academic schools like Cal, Stanford, Northwestern, Vanderbilt, and many others. What I think will happen is that the academics…[Read more]