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Posted on 11-04-2007 at 11:31am
College football jokes
Filed Under (Football) by John Hutcheson on 11-04-2007

1. The educational experience for big-time college athletes. Witness the quotes from today’s Biddle column in the Tennessean sports section made by a former University of Florida football player. The player’s current team (the NFL Dolphins) played in London lat week.

I couldn’t find London on a map if they didn’t have the names of the countries,” the player* said. “I don’t know where nothing is. I know Italy looks like a boot. I know London Fletcher. We did a football camp together. So I know him. That’s the closest thing I know to London. He’s black, so I’m sure he’s not from London. I’m sure that’s a coincidental name.”

According to Biddle, the player didn’t know that people in England spoke ENGLISH. How in hades can a person graduate from high school and attend college not knowing that they speak English in England? How can you attend school for any number of years and not accidentally find out that London is in England?

Is our children learning? Don’t eeeven think that the educational experience at Florida is any different than any other football factory school.

2. Notre Dame Football. In Ty Willingham’s 3rd year of coaching Irish football his team went 6-6 and he was fired. In the third year of the Charlie Weis era, the Irish are 1-8 after losing a close game to Navy (a team that Notre Dame had beaten for 43 consecutive freakin’ seasons). My money says that Weis will be coaching the barely-fighting Irish next season.

There appears to be a double standard in play here. You make the call…

*If you want the name of the player in question you’re gonna have to read it in Biddle’s column.

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Comments

Jim on 4 November, 2007 at 12:00 pm #

The player you didn’t name has pulled off the biggest jerking of the media’s chain in a long time.


Glen Dean on 4 November, 2007 at 4:09 pm #

I think Notre Dame fired Willingham because they thought they had Urban Meyer lined up.

I’m glad it didn’t work out for them. I hate Notre Dame.


Ron on 4 November, 2007 at 4:39 pm #

Notre Dame fired Ty Willingham because he can’t recruit. What’s the problem he’s now having at Washington? No recruits.


John Hutcheson on 4 November, 2007 at 4:43 pm #

Ron - the problem with your theory there is that Weis won with Willingham’s recruits. Now that it’s a ‘Weis’ team, you can see the results.


Paul Chenoweth on 4 November, 2007 at 5:51 pm #

I’ve never been a big Notre Dame fan…and I should be ashamed of myself for enjoyng the agony that this season is bringing to Regis Philbin. Ha! NOT!


Vol Abroad on 5 November, 2007 at 4:44 am #

When my husband had his tux fitted for our wedding in Lawrenceburg, a gal who worked in the store told him she loved the way he talked and asked him where he was from - “Britain” he said.

“Do they speak English there?” she asked.

Bless him - he answered “Well, some people speak Welsh and some Gaelic, but most people speak English.”


CeeElCee on 5 November, 2007 at 9:18 am #

Take a look at the last three coaches:

Bob Davie
1st season 9-3 w/Holtz’s players
4th-last season 5-6 fired so they could hire George O’Leary (oops)

Ty Willingham
1st season 10-3 w/Davie’s players
3rd-last season 6-6 fired so they could hire Urban Meyer (oops)

Charlie Weis
1st season 0-3 w/Willingham’s players
3rd (not last) season 1-8 to date

The similarities are eerie. It’s like that Lincoln/Kennedy coincidental stuff. The main difference is that ND already stupidly gave Weis a 10 year extension out of irrational exuberance midway through his first year.

Dumbasses.


michaelinLV on 5 November, 2007 at 12:09 pm #

I’ll pile on ND too.

Not just ND, but everyone, including UT, who are into recruiting wars. Weis got the best player from Tennessee (Golden Tate), he got Jimmy Clausen, and every other top notch recruit. Look, they suck! The only thing that matters with recruits is that they fit into your system.


loonytick on 5 November, 2007 at 2:32 pm #

You know, my dad went to USF ages ago because it had no football program (long story). And now it’s a football factory turning out the likes of that guy. SIGH.


Jay on 5 November, 2007 at 6:17 pm #

See how many of ND’s players graduate compared to the real football factory schools.