Ah, just kidding. I appreciate the feedback — I’m still fairly new at this, and I’ll try not to make the same mistake again next time.

…the whole Saban left us thing. It don’t exactly make us special. And he didn’t force the admins to hire Bobby Williams (though they’d have had a lot of trouble after that bowl win not hiring Bobby) and John L. Smith.

My personal list would be mostly Gary Bettman and Bug Selig. Both are scum, who put the interests of team owners over that of the sport as a whole. I don’t care so much for baseball, but the fact that Selig is allowed to transfer the Brewers to his daughter and be commissioner is the farcing farce of farces. Goodell puts me off (do I have a problem with authority?), but he seems to govern for the good of the league in general.

Who else? I’m not sure if I can really still work up much hate for Digger Phelps, who just seems a pathetic figure after the Spartans fast-breaked over his credibility. I could list a whole bunch of other media blowhards who don’t demonstrate any real knowledge above the average fan about sports, but I’ll lump them into one Voltron-style entity with Jim Rome for a leg, Colin Cowherd for an arm, Digger as the hindquarters, etc. Charlie Weiss, because of the non-slap, the ’we’ll never lose to MSU on my watch (reportedly) and just the suspicion that he and ND still think their better than us after going .500 against the John L. teams.

I’d say no this year. If he can keep his nose clean academically and behaviourally, then in Spring 2010, he can come back.

Sorry for the lack of explanation. Basically: I don’t know how you can play a kid who, instead of working out with the team all summer, has been in jail. He’s probably not in football shape, but even if he is, he brought substantial disrepute on the program, and there have to be consequences for that.

I’d love to have him back eventually; he showed a lot of promise last season. If he stays out of trouble, he should be able to return in 2010. But keeping him off the team this season would be justified for punishment, and especially deterrence, reasons alone. I’ll take the tradeoff of losing a potentially valuable contributor for a year in order to prevent a Fulmer Cup points-producing culture from taking root.

I was afraid of this.

The distinction is that I only abandoned my blog (for a new one), not my team/conference.