As usual, 100% in agreement with you 81, and I thought about your post from yesterday about Leach - it didn't take long for your critique to be trenchant.
And yes, it's utterly bizarre that Leach gets away with what he gets away with. Any other university employee would be disciplined if he or she talked about their students that way. The Pirate's antics are exemplary of my ambivalence about the coming professionalization of college football. On the one hand, I think it will be bad for the sport; on the other hand, the sooner college football teams are removed from colleges, the sooner sanity will return. In the mean time, we have adult leaders who act like teenagers, and teenagers being exploited by adults who purport to know something about leadership.
Moreover, with rising and legitimate concerns about the long-term effects of even mild concussions, it's probably not going to be too much longer before schools like Stanford stop funding the sport. All it will take is one student/alum lawsuit that gets before a jury and the tide is going to turn real swiftly. I suspect in 20 years we'll look back and realize the Luck and Gronk retirements were the canary in the coal mine.
And yes, it's utterly bizarre that Leach gets away with what he gets away with. Any other university employee would be disciplined if he or she talked about their students that way. The Pirate's antics are exemplary of my ambivalence about the coming professionalization of college football. On the one hand, I think it will be bad for the sport; on the other hand, the sooner college football teams are removed from colleges, the sooner sanity will return. In the mean time, we have adult leaders who act like teenagers, and teenagers being exploited by adults who purport to know something about leadership.
Moreover, with rising and legitimate concerns about the long-term effects of even mild concussions, it's probably not going to be too much longer before schools like Stanford stop funding the sport. All it will take is one student/alum lawsuit that gets before a jury and the tide is going to turn real swiftly. I suspect in 20 years we'll look back and realize the Luck and Gronk retirements were the canary in the coal mine.