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I agree with this. I also think the only way that this causes any positive change is bigger name agents will have to be caught or confess. I also think that players from schools that are perceived as clean will have to be named for any real change to happen. Still way to easy for fans from schools that "are above this kind of thing" to point at the WSU, USC, and other schools and say that it is an issue with those renegade programs and not with us. This isn't about schools paying guys to play but agents paying soon-to-be pros in order to get their business when they declare, right? I don't think it's really sports specific. so USC shouldn't have been punished for what happened with Reggie Bush? That's not what I said. The story is agents are paying players to get their business when drafted. I don't think it matters what schools are involved from a "how do we change it" standpoint.

Whatever it is, I really hope he has a future at LT.

Um, it is him as well. He's not an agent anymore. You can't tell me that just because he's not an agent anymore, he's free from the court of public opinion. He was an agent, so what people think of him probably wasn't a major concern in his life. And what can public opinion possibly do to him. Last week nobody heard of him, now he's a pseudo celebrity. I'm not sure how he's suffering at all.

I guess that's possible but I'm not sure what benefit there would be. If he's got a sore hammy, he can either play or not. Obviously there's a difference stepping back as a LT pass blocking, but you're still relying heavily on your legs.

I agree with this. I also think the only way that this causes any positive change is bigger name agents will have to be caught or confess. I also think that players from schools that are perceived as clean will have to be named for any real change to happen. Still way to easy for fans from schools that "are above this kind of thing" to point at the WSU, USC, and other schools and say that it is an issue with those renegade programs and not with us. This isn't about schools paying guys to play but agents paying soon-to-be pros in order to get their business when they declare, right? I don't think it's really school specific.

So basically you're saying that Ricketts is dumb enough to be duped by Hendry's friendly demeanor and the good word of his competitors and underlings? Isn't this guy supposed to be some investment mogul? Sports fans in the investment world are just as sports dumb as sports fans in other industries.

Sure it's possible. But moves like signing Soriano were very instrumental in turning a sub .500 Hendry team into a decent ballclub. Without that reckless spending Hendry's resume looks even more pathetic than it already looks.

I think it's a really bad sign. Omiyale is not good. None of the other tackles are good. If Williams cannot lock down a tackle spot the need for more heavy spending on the line skyrockets. If he can play guard well, it fills a role...not as important a role as LT, but still...see if you can find a spot where he can excel. I guess I'd rather him be a success as guard than a total failure at LT. Absolutely, but it's still disappointing and a bad sign.

I think it's a really bad sign. Omiyale is not good. None of the other tackles are good. If Williams cannot lock down a tackle spot the need for more heavy spending on the line skyrockets.

yowza Isn't this how the Raiders ended up getting something out of Robert Gallery?

1976 hockey is meaningless.

Um, it is him as well. Not really, since he's not doing that job anymore and therefore can't really suffer consequences of this news getting out.

Great? Really? I'd describe his play as fine or average, nothing great about it.

My impression is they made a concerted effort to get more guys who could make the bigs but not necessarily have a ton of upside, which makes it possible to list several products of your farm system on your team but difficult to get a lot of guys on top lists.

Would have thought it'd be a couple months before the goalie controversy.

Are you a teetotaller or something? Why would you make that conclusion? 1. I would rather watch any game from the comfort of my own home. 2. Sundays are the only day I get to spend all day with my son. Not spending half of it at a bar. Well I was just kidding about the ability to go to the bar but I completely understand your desire both to watch at home and (mostly) to have the opportunity to spend all day with your son.

I WAS LONELY!!! Oh wait, you're talking about agents aren't you?

Not even Dubois?

Are you a teetotaller or something?

I can't believe that's true. In this day and age, I'd find it hard to believe there are HS football teams that don't squat nor college programs that don't do Olympic lifts. How does somebody complain about no squats and then say he never did any squats while at school when all he had to do was do a squat if that's what he wanted? PSU was a pretty damn good program the past 4 years or so. That doesn't add up.

Rangers just swept the Yankees a couple of weeks ago. Before the playoffs started I thought the Yankees were a better matchup for the Rangers than the Rays. Congrats to Nolan Ryan. Knowing he will need to lean on him for the rest of the playoffs was it necessary for Washington to let Lee go out for the ninth with a 4 run lead and wind up with 120 pitches? I still want to know why he was warming up in the bullpen in game 3.

Yeah, he's bad. But we need at least one enforcer. So who suits up on the blue line tonight? Keith, Seabrook, Leddy, Boynton, Scott, and ???? I guess Hendry? I've lost track of him. Has he been a scratch so far this year or is he hurt? Why do you need an enforcer? Especially one who actually sucks at hockey. You don't. They haven't had one for years yet went from also ran to contender to champion regardless. People just get hung up on that nonsense.

I'm talking about coaches the stature of Gruden, Dungy and Cowher. There are fringe coaches like Wannstedt and Devine who bounce around some, but a coach who has had a good deal of success at the NFL level has not made the move back to college football. If it was the easy, plum job you make it out to be, wouldn't more coaches do it? All sorts of coaches have spent considerable amount of time in the NFL only to go back to the college ranks. Some have become established college coaches only to dip their toes in the NFL and move right back to college. Coaching is not a career that has a particularly long shelf life. The 40 year old head is kind of unique to recent times, as is the money bag college head coach. Wanny was hardly a fringe coach, he was a big name NFL coach for well over a decade. Al Groh, Nick Saban, Jim Mora, Bobby Petrino and many others have moved back to the college ranks. Others, like Kirk Ferentz, who has seen the NFL in person, has chosen to take his name out of the running of multiple NFL gigs because of the preference for NCAA life. Somebody like Mike Ditka, who spent his entire career coaching in the NFL, or Bill Parcells, who coached in the NFL and then moved into personel, or Mike Holmgren who coached/GMd until he was in his 60's were never good candidates to go into the college coaching ranks. If your only exposure to college football was the relatively laid back version of the 60's/70's, you might not see the draw. Most coaches burn out sometime in their 50's or early 60's, so the idea of building up your resume until you are an elite NFL head coach and then going back to college isn't all that realistic anyway due to time. There are big name and well paid coaches who have chosen college over the NFL, either by leaving or never going in the first place. Maybe Gruden, Dungy or Cowher never will, but there's no reason why some other late 40's early 50's established NFL coach won't choose to go to college, still rake in big bucks with better stability a longer term focus and less demand on his time.

They go to the TV booth because it's an incredible little amount of work for really good pay and they get to spend significant portions of time with their family. Leaving the NFL to get paid well to do very little work is semi-retirement. Leaving the NFL to go coach a college team for a little less money is taking a step down in stature and something that no well-established coach has done before – and likely for a good reason. Your arbitrary notion of what well established means is silly. The difference in stature is not what it once was.

why would you want that playoff choker?