Recent content by ChiefGritty

If you asked me two weeks ago I would have said this isn't gonna pass, but it sure looks like I was wrong. (Relatedly, the NCAA hiring Charlie Baker is a first ballot entry into the Lobbying Hall of Fame) I guess my fundamental complaint about the bill is that it etches into stone in...

It probably risks being applied to way too many players, but I like "initiator wing" as a player type description a lot. It captures how Vaaks is different than Wagler or KJ. Really Malcolm Hill is probably the last Illini player who fully embodied that concept. People will say Domask with...

All the "elites" so to speak in college sports want the bill to pass, so it's no surprise ESPN is echoing that, it's not really an SEC vs Big Ten thing. Just as unsatisfactory and more-questions-than-answers as everything else that has emerged with this, frankly.

I did wonder if they might give it to Kaner, but this feels right. It's your team now, kid.

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7595747/2026/09/14/espn-naacp-ted-cruz-protect-college-sports-act/ ESPN is stacking the deck like crazy to gin up public support for this bill.

Oh, sure, I think there's always been a good alignment and understanding between the two of them. Clock control has been a huge, HUGE aspect of the whole theory of the program, that has woven through all three phases and all of our recruiting. My biggest worry right now is that BB doesn't...

It's a battle between what we've got in hand after two games, which this is a very reasonable assessment of, versus a smart coaching staff and a winning culture within the building, which we know having been on the other side of it for so many years just has a way of finding wins. The wheels...

Well that was fun

Hurley is very similar to Bobby Knight in that unlike many blustering college coaches, it's not a WWF act, he's in fact just as crazy as he looks. It all ends in some sort of ugly incident I suspect, that's not a guy who is in control of himself.

I think very, very highly of Barry Lunney, who is not the one who chose the change in philosophy, but between that new philosophy and the strengths of his new quarterback, he needs to chug a Red Bull and embrace his inner Dana Holgorsen. We kept trying to run an immaculate, clock-absorbing...

6-6 is a miracle from here.

Claims that Houser was better than Altmyer were, uh, let's be nice and just say premature. Houser is a talented kid, but I think all the way around that team needs to look itself in the mirror and realize it is now in the shootout business.

That's a nice win for them, but it has been at no point anything less that crystal clear that that remains the bad team it has been since returning to FBS.