Lalos capped his college career by being named team MVP at the Hula Bowl all-star game and is drawing attention as a pro prospect.
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A Tweet from Associated Press college football writer Ralph Russo sounds a warning:
Spoke with an AD today who is going to have his staff start modeling out what it means to the dept to have:— Ralph D. Russo (@ralphDrussoAP) March 26, 2020
10-game football season
Losing 1 home game
Losing 2 home games
No fans all season
No fans through Oct.
Along with other less optimistic scenarios.
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College football analyst Kirk Herbstreit is certainly less optimistic. From a posting on The Hill site:“I’ll be shocked if we have NFL football this fall, if we have college football,” Herbstreit said in comments highlighted by TMZ. “I’ll be so surprised if that happens.”And . . .
I don’t know how you let these guys go into locker rooms and let stadiums be filled up and how you can play ball. I just don’t know how you can do it with the optics of it. Next thing you know you’ve got a locker room full of guys that are sick. … As much as I hate to say it, I think we’re scratching the surface of where this thing’s gonna go," he said.
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A loyal reader passed along a link to a NJ.com story spun out of the growing list of Ivy League basketball players moving on to big-time programs under the headline: Ivy League’s transfer policy makes it fertile recruiting ground for top programs like Seton Hall. (LINK)From the story:
The Ivy League doesn’t grant medical redshirts and it doesn’t allow graduate students to play sports, so if a player suffers an injury that causes them to miss all or part of a season during their four years at the school, they effectively have to transfer out of the league to recoup their eligibility for the year or years they missed.Green Alert Take: While the writer got that first part about medical redshirts wrong – athletes who miss most of a season due to injury can, in fact, petition to return for a fifth year – the gist of the story is accurate. The Ivy League's refusal to join the real world once again and allow its athletes to compete as graduate students is leaving a lot of the best and brightest no alternative but to go elsewhere or give up their sport.
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EXTRA POINTIn dire need of doing something mindless, Mrs. BGA and I watched the movie Caddyshack last week. It doesn't make the list of my 10 favorite sports movies of all time, but it was pleasantly distracting from the headlines of the day.
Here is an off-the-cuff list of my 10 favorite sports movies, keeping in mind that I haven't seen a great many of the movies on widely publicized "best all-time sports movies," and that it's been so long since I saw Pride of the Yankees and a few others that I didn't feel comfortable ranking them. That out of the way, here's my list, in no particular order:
Tin CupThe remake of The Longest Yard and Invincible didn't make the cut but deserve honorable mention because one of my favorite people was in each one. (LINK)
Hoosiers
Field of Dreams
Breaking Away
Rocky
Endless Summer
The Sandlot
Bull Durham
Free Solo
Secretariat
(If you'd like to share your Top-10, send it along and I'll post it here in the coming days. I promise I won't identify you by name – unless you want me to.)
