tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33624629.post116541165150945017..comments2024-03-17T03:18:56.070-04:00Comments on Dan Shanoff: Wednesday 12/06 A.M. Quickie:Wait, Is T.O. the "Sportsman of the Year?"Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger62125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33624629.post-1165525688088274502006-12-07T16:08:00.000-05:002006-12-07T16:08:00.000-05:00O'Brien is an excellent coach that doesn't get alo...O'Brien is an excellent coach that doesn't get alot of credit for overcoming many significant obstacles. BC is a small school, with a consequent tiny alumni base. To further compound the problem, Boston is a pro town with many other colleges. Even the Harvard v Yale game garnered more interest this year than several of our home games. The Northeast is not a hotbed for HS recruits.We play in a small stadium (only 44,000), and yet seats are often empty sometimes. Yet, DESPITE ALL THIS, O'Brien and his coaches recruit well. With alot less talent under bc O'Brien has just missed a BCS slot by the slimmest of margins in 2 of the last 3 years.<BR/><BR/>I think this move is in the best interest of all involved. TOB will get NC State back on its feet and to a consistent level of respectability. With the less stringent academic standards, he might be able to recruit the players that can finally get him over the hump. NC State will give him a significant raise, too.<BR/><BR/>It's obvious that he has plateued at BC. With Wake winning the ACC, he is out of excuses for why he has been unable to bring home one conference championship in 10 years at The Heights. Forget a conference championship, he hasn't even given BC a decent bowl game. He likes to blame the fans for that (as he did on his radio show last week), but the truth is that the Peach and Gator bowls aren't in the habit of inviting teams with 3 conference losses unless they have to. TOB has had 3 conference losses in all but one of his 10 years at BC. In 2004, he had 2 but choked at home against a 4-7 Syracuse team with a BCS berth on the line in the last game of the season. If he expected to get a Gator Bowl invite after that embarassment. He blames the fans for getting slighted, and we blame him.<BR/><BR/>So I think it's best that we all move on. I thank TOB for what he did for BC and wish him well at NC State. I also look forward to the future of BC football.<BR/><BR/>There are plenty of good coaches who can and will come to BC. Now it is on Gene and Father Leahy to do this right. I just rattled off 18 guys. There are many more out there who could win at the Heights. For those looking for my summaries they are linked below. All that said, these are the five guys I would talk to first:<BR/><BR/>There are plenty of good coaches who can and will come to BC. All that said, these are the five guys I would talk for bc to first:<BR/><BR/>1. Paul Johnson HC Navy<BR/>2. Steve Kraglethorpe Head Coach, Tulsa<BR/>3. Doug Flutie. Commentator, ABC Sports.(not hc, but qb coach)<BR/>4. Mark Whipple(QB coach Steelers)<BR/>5. Al Golden Temple head coach)Legacy Userhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01223476570957646586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33624629.post-1165512054884671062006-12-07T12:20:00.000-05:002006-12-07T12:20:00.000-05:00Fair enough, Sheldiz.Fair enough, Sheldiz.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33624629.post-1165472351308071092006-12-07T01:19:00.000-05:002006-12-07T01:19:00.000-05:00Re: Sainty McSaint's drug suspensionCorticosteroid...Re: Sainty McSaint's drug suspension<BR/><BR/>Corticosteroids AREN'T PERFORMANCE ENHANCING! Only anabolic steroids increase bone and muscle mass. How can the NFL make them illegal if they only serve a medical benefit? They put the "ass" in asinine.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33624629.post-1165463414580307872006-12-06T22:50:00.000-05:002006-12-06T22:50:00.000-05:00This will probably piss people off but I really do...This will probably piss people off but I really dont have much sympathy for the people of new orleans. Sure it sucks that they got hit by a hurricane but hell I live in florida and when I lived on the water I knew the inherent risk of living there. PEople who live near the water int he gulf and on the southern east coast know that they are at risk to be hit by a hurricane. Similarly people in CA know they are at risk of having a huge earthquake and people in the midwest might be caught by a tornado. Wherever you live you probably have some sort of risk from mother nature. I think that the citizens need to quit placing blame on the government and realize that it was their choice to live in a city that is below sea level. If you can't handle the consequences then dont live there. Regardless, with all the media hype you have to give the saints some props as being one of the biggest sports stories of the year. They have helped bring pride to a city that was pretty down on its luck. <BR/><BR/>I think that maybe lavar arrington is right in saying the union is like organized crime. There has to be something fishy if a guy can be suspended for having a documented need for this asthma. My mom has been taking medication to help her lungs recover from having cancer surgery. If she didn't take this medication she might die. I wonder how great the backlash will be against the nfl if a player dies from not being able to take necessarry meds. <BR/><BR/>Jerry greene in todays sentinel wrote how selig should force bonds to have to play for the d-rays. That would be so amazing as he would easily hit some moonshots that would hit the outer rings on the dome and be homers as well as smacking the crap out of the batters eye restaurant window in center field. There might be no better spot to see a homerun hit than to be in that restaurant on a sunday eating prime rib when a line drive scares the crap out of the other patrons. I wish there was a way we could make this happen. Hell it is a win win situation. Bonds goes to the equivalent of baseball purgatory and the d-rays have a guaranteed 12-15k fans a night which is a hell of a lot better than their average of 8k.The heroin sheikhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16860402732123149415noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33624629.post-1165449481404097832006-12-06T18:58:00.000-05:002006-12-06T18:58:00.000-05:00Looks like the Yankees are planning to sign Lilly ...Looks like the Yankees are planning to sign Lilly and Pettitte with Pavano to be traded during spring training.....if he doesn't hurt his ass again. Pettitte, Wang, Mussina, Johnson, Lilly vs. Schilling, Beckett, Papelbon, Penny, Matsuzaka. Good times in the AL East.Jonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16291036839803295637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33624629.post-1165445149206547332006-12-06T17:45:00.000-05:002006-12-06T17:45:00.000-05:00@ chaddogg:"Hand it over to Griese, perhaps, and l...<I>@ chaddogg:<BR/><BR/><B>"Hand it over to Griese, perhaps, and let the dominant defense and special teams carry you to the Super Bowl"</I></B><BR/><BR/>I cannot believe that someone is openly pining for Brian Griese to be the Quarterback who will <B><I>"not turn the ball over and maybe put up 10+ points a game"</I></B><BR/><BR/>Wow. Grossman must really be getting some bad press. I mean, Brian Griese is great to hold a clipboard and save a floundering team for a game or two every year. But I don't think he's the guy you want leading the NFC's #1 seed into the postseason.<BR/><BR/>I think we all need to give chad a mulligan on that one. :)Big Dhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11478232002387175988noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33624629.post-1165442689059675902006-12-06T17:04:00.000-05:002006-12-06T17:04:00.000-05:00i don't think we're entirely disagreeing, solomon....i don't think we're entirely disagreeing, solomon. i definitely agree with you that there are many facets of this story, and many different people to blame.<BR/><BR/>i just place less blame on the citizens of new orleans than you do.Sheldizhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01198083524704018695noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33624629.post-1165442260733400582006-12-06T16:57:00.000-05:002006-12-06T16:57:00.000-05:00People aren't still camping out in the SuperDome a...People aren't still camping out in the SuperDome are they?<BR/><BR/>Evacuation PLANS don't cost very much money. New Orleans was pretty much a sinking ship and they stuck to the Titanic plan: those in steerage had to save themselves. This is what happens when your leaders are partying on the promenade.<BR/><BR/>How many times will you say it's someone else's fault? There were elections this summer in New Orleans. But the bread and circuses routine still goes on.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33624629.post-1165440213194382022006-12-06T16:23:00.000-05:002006-12-06T16:23:00.000-05:00Dan,As a Chicagoan and Bears fan, you have to unde...Dan,<BR/>As a Chicagoan and Bears fan, you have to understand that we don't HATE Grossman at all. In fact, many of us think he might be a good QB in the future, and love what we saw from him early in the season.<BR/><BR/>What has Bears fans in conniptions is that Sexy Rexy may not be right for THIS year. Look, with the Bears defense and special teams, all the offense needs to do is pretty much not turn the ball over and maybe put up 10+ points a game. We should be able to do that with TJ and Benson running, and quick checkdown passes to whoever is open. No need to go deep all the time a la Rex.<BR/><BR/>So Bears fans, hungry for their first Super Bowl taste in 21 years (and only 2nd ever, I might add, in the Super Bowl era), are thinking that Rex, as much as we like the swagger and moxie, is not right for THIS year. Hand it over to Griese, perhaps, and let the dominant defense and special teams carry you to the Super Bowl....let Rex develop a little more after we got our ring.Chaddogghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05381349910580062539noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33624629.post-1165439172797807922006-12-06T16:06:00.000-05:002006-12-06T16:06:00.000-05:00"But an organized evacuation would have been enoug..."But an organized evacuation would have been enough to save lives. And that would have cost, what? $10k maybe? Pay for some extra signs and explaining to bus drivers and hospitals what was going to happen? Pay for some extra shifts of drivers and armed guards?"<BR/><BR/>10K? Try millions of dollars. And where are you going to evacuate these people to? Drop 'em off at the state line? Many of them either have no place to go OR everyone they know is ALSO being evacuated. <BR/><BR/>It was a terrible situation, but i think its difficult to place much of the blame on the people living there. <BR/><BR/>I'm assuming, by your indication that the people wanted the stadium rebuilt, that there was some sort of vote?Sheldizhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01198083524704018695noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33624629.post-1165437979238846992006-12-06T15:46:00.000-05:002006-12-06T15:46:00.000-05:00I mean both. No one can stop a natural disaster, ...I mean both. No one can stop a natural disaster, I'm not suggesting that. There's a reason I won't live in the Gulf area or LA. I know they need aid, and they should get it. Even if they had planned ahead, many people would still need aid.<BR/><BR/>If a fire happened at your house, I would be sympathetic, that can happen to pretty much anyone. If your children died because you ignored the fire alarm and had bars on the windows, that would be different. I'm sympathetic to New Orleanians, people too poor or too old to help themselves, people who thought they'd always be ok because they always had been. Residents who were abandoned by their nurses and policemen.<BR/><BR/>Having said that, you're assigning all the blame to the "powers that be" and none of it to the residents in a democracy?<BR/><BR/>National Geographic had an article about what was going to happen to New Orleans, MONTHS ahead of time (and scientists saw this years before the NG article). New Orleans still didn't evacuate the retirement homes, the poor residents didn't get bused and there were no plans in place for either improving the levees or improving the wetlands (they didn't have enough time for the latter, I know). But an organized evacuation would have been enough to save lives. And that would have cost, what? $10k maybe? Pay for some extra signs and explaining to bus drivers and hospitals what was going to happen? Pay for some extra shifts of drivers and armed guards?<BR/><BR/>But in America, it's always someone else's fault.<BR/><BR/>To review: Arizona doesn't have enough water, neither does LA. San Fransisco might have a huge earthquake and people in New Orleans can have another hurricane that floods everything (this hurricane wasn't strong enough to flood NO on its own, it needed the levees to breach). This wasn't a worse case scenario by a long shot.<BR/><BR/>It's as simple as this: the levees are at inadequate pre-Katrina levels for this Hurricane season, but the football stadium is in fine shape. Why? Because that's what the people want.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33624629.post-1165433004619613622006-12-06T14:23:00.000-05:002006-12-06T14:23:00.000-05:00I think I'd have rather taken Trot Nixon at half t...I think I'd have rather taken Trot Nixon at half the price of Drew....and I hated Nixon for the last five years or so. I swear, half the people commenting here could get Nixon out by pitching lefty. And I'm talking about the natural righties trying to throw opposite-handed. So who's left from '04, anyways?<BR/><BR/>Damn free agency! Bring back the reserve clause! Athletes aren't labor!<BR/><BR/>Seriously, though....they had a Players' League back in 1914-15 that folded. How would something like that come off in this day and age? It's real easy to milk $15 million out of a billionaire, but what if it's the players' own operating capital?<BR/><BR/>Heck, how about the Pittsburgh Pirates Employee Stock Ownership Plan?Brian in Oxfordhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16053368055698118199noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33624629.post-1165432753460447212006-12-06T14:19:00.000-05:002006-12-06T14:19:00.000-05:00i'm going to give solomon the benefit of the doubt...i'm going to give solomon the benefit of the doubt and assume he was referring to the powers-that-be and not the individual residents.Sheldizhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01198083524704018695noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33624629.post-1165431162180620642006-12-06T13:52:00.000-05:002006-12-06T13:52:00.000-05:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.marcomarcohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17507640418000407851noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33624629.post-1165431100407931872006-12-06T13:51:00.000-05:002006-12-06T13:51:00.000-05:00I think we should have co-sportsmen of the year be...I think we should have co-sportsmen of the year between Dick Pound and Dick Advocaat. Nothing says 'sportsman' like those names.Stevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07353671003212539401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33624629.post-1165430959006840372006-12-06T13:49:00.000-05:002006-12-06T13:49:00.000-05:00Sidney Crosby is good enough to be a popular athle...Sidney Crosby is good enough to be a popular athlete with casual fans, but he's not there yet. He needs real accomplishment, which I guess was the argument for DWade.<BR/><BR/>I don't agree with the hype on the Saints. It sounds like everyone likes that pick, though, and SI would have sold a ton of copies in that area, so it was the better choice. <BR/><BR/>I just wish the Gulf Coast had cared as much about their safety prior to Katrina as they cared about football. It's always someone else's problem.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33624629.post-1165430515765285412006-12-06T13:41:00.000-05:002006-12-06T13:41:00.000-05:00Sox sign JD frickin Drew for 14m, when we could've...Sox sign JD frickin Drew for 14m, when we could've had Schmidt for 2m more and 2 yrs less?<BR/><BR/>Johnny Damon throws like a girl, but he would've been cheaper than JD frickin Drew and better offensively. They are the same age!<BR/><BR/>Someone please explain this to me. Theo must be on crack.<BR/><BR/>On that note, how can he seriously justify only offering 8m for Dice, and paying Lugo MORE?marcomarcohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17507640418000407851noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33624629.post-1165429978564247932006-12-06T13:32:00.000-05:002006-12-06T13:32:00.000-05:00Carl Lewis had been caught for doping before the 8...Carl Lewis had been caught for doping before the 88 Olympics and shouldn't have even been competing in the event in the first place. Yes Ben Johnson is a national discrace in Canada, but he was treated unfairly given that everone else was doping then.<BR/><BR/>http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/04/17/1050172709693.htmlWilliam Josephhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09781712150988671050noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33624629.post-1165429908725525972006-12-06T13:31:00.000-05:002006-12-06T13:31:00.000-05:00I hate how NFL steroid stories get swept under the...I hate how NFL steroid stories get swept under the rug as much as anyone, but this guy seems to have a legit excuse. He didn't try the "how'd these steroids get in my supplement" route, he takes a prescribed steroid to fight his very serious asthma. He admits to this.<BR/><BR/>How the NFL lumps this in with the rest of the jacked up jokers with a blanket 4 game suspension is beyond me. When the big guy collapses on the field cause he isn't allowed to take his meds, there'll be a much bigger problem, no?Jeff Baumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15682623265951157515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33624629.post-1165429832053261362006-12-06T13:30:00.000-05:002006-12-06T13:30:00.000-05:00http://msn.foxsports.com/mlb/story/6242312Looks li...http://msn.foxsports.com/mlb/story/6242312<BR/><BR/>Looks like the Dodgers' rotation just got a little stronger...<BR/><BR/><BR/>Also, this flows in nicely with the ESPN Deportes report that the Dodgers are offering Brad Penny and a couple prospects for Manny Ramirez... I think it's safe to say that if this trade happens, both LA & Boston are tied for having the best off-season to date.Big Dhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11478232002387175988noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33624629.post-1165429690545408872006-12-06T13:28:00.000-05:002006-12-06T13:28:00.000-05:00At least you Orioles fans have sniffed .500 past M...At least you Orioles fans have sniffed .500 past Memorial Day recently.<BR/><BR/>My Buccos watched the slow ass Sid Bream beat Bonds' throw home, and we haven't dreamed of .500 baseball since. Save for the glorious season of 1997.<BR/><BR/>Yes, we went 79-83 in 1997.Joshhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08338217120051516790noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33624629.post-1165428228353240502006-12-06T13:03:00.000-05:002006-12-06T13:03:00.000-05:00I guess I was somehow too harsh on TO. I was just...I guess I was somehow too harsh on TO. I was just comparing his media coverage in proportion to his influence. He is a great player, but his media coverage is way out of whack to that value. The bimbo summit girls have exactly zero influence or contributions to society, so anything other than their phone numbers on a bathroom wall is too much coverage. I am sorry TO, you are no Paris.Mikepcflhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08980600874603719777noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33624629.post-1165426999869881182006-12-06T12:43:00.000-05:002006-12-06T12:43:00.000-05:00mikepcfl,T.O. at least has talent and contributes ...mikepcfl,<BR/><BR/>T.O. at least has talent and contributes to his team (unlike the no talent ass clowns Paris/Britney/Lindsey). That's a real harsh comparison - T.O. doesn't deserve that<BR/><BR/>- I also really thought we could go w/o a ND comment in todays comments but someone had to bring up Weis as Sportsman of the year (and yes I realize it was a joke - i hope)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33624629.post-1165426851684487932006-12-06T12:40:00.000-05:002006-12-06T12:40:00.000-05:00Pppppplayoffs?Pppppplayoffs?Jonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16291036839803295637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33624629.post-1165425497917535622006-12-06T12:18:00.000-05:002006-12-06T12:18:00.000-05:00Cal is too decent of a guy to rip ANYONE, much les...Cal is too decent of a guy to rip ANYONE, much less McGwire. I doubt the guy would even have anything negative to say about Barry Bonds.<BR/><BR/>What does the media expect out of him, exactly?MPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05833230465240793728noreply@blogger.com