It was awesome meeting the young patients, learned a lot from them https://t.co/hGZ1F4wc3n
— Matt Kaskey (@mattkaskey78) July 13, 2020
And here was a story last month from the Panthers' Fansided site (LINK) under the headline, Panthers No. 63: Can Matt Kaskey take advantage of OL depth problem?
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If this were a normal year come Sept. 22 Dartmouth defensive coordinator Don Dobes would be prepping his team for how to stop – or at least slow down – Towson running back Shane Simpson. But this is no normal year, of course.
Dartmouth won't be playing Towson this fall and Simpson, the preseason All-America selection who had been awarded a sixth year by the NCAA, won't be playing for the Tigers. After they called off their season he entered the transfer portal.
Instead of playing for Towson, the FCS All-American will be lining up for Virginia, after spurning interest from Texas, Florida State, Penn State, Pitt, Duke, Wake Forest and Northwestern among others.
And how did the graduate transfer choose Towson over Florida? He literally picked UVa out of a hat. (LINK)
Green Alert Take: It would have been so much fun to see what Dobes would have come up with against Simpson after seeing his schemes and players frustrate so many other great backs and quarterbacks over the years.
Green Alert Take II: Picking your school out of a hat kind of puts the lie to the importance of education in the graduate-transfer scenario, huh? And if you think college football at a certain level is out of whack, keep reading.
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As player demands shake up the Pac-12, the MLive media group sports page has a story citing a few jaw-dropping thoughts under the headline, U.S. senator: Jim Harbaugh’s pay illustrates ‘civil rights crisis’ in college football. From the story (LINK):
“Unpaid (Michigan) football players are playing in the middle of a pandemic to assure their coach can get his $7.5 million salary,” (Sen. Chris Murphy, a Democrat from Connecticut,) wrote. “If Harbaugh made $1M instead, each player could get a $50K annual stipend to help their families pay for rent, health care, etc.”
And . . .
But Harbaugh wasn’t the only person or institution Murphy took aim at. The senator openly advocated for slashing Pac-12 commissioner Larry Scott’s reported $5.3 million annual salary to benefit football players.
“If the only reform was to make his salary $450K (still a top 1% salary), every (PAC-12) football player could get an annual $5,000 stipend to help their families with rent, health care, food, etc.,” Murphy wrote.
Then Murphy worked his way to the ACC, where Clemson promotes its ritzy football complex that opened in 2017 with a price tag of $55 million, enough to include an indoor slide, bowling alley and miniature golf course, among other amenities.
“That $55M could have set up an endowment to give every player forever a $40K annual stipend to help their families pay for rent, health care, etc.,” Murphy wrote.
Green Alert Take: The revolution will not be televised. Or will it?
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GREEN ALERT TAKE
I watched a good bit of the WGC-FedEx St. Jude Invitational golf tournament over the weekend and marveled again at how effectively Nick Faldo in Orlando could comment on the action in Memphis. But maybe I shouldn't have been surprised.
I've covered the Masters twice, the U.S. Open at Medinah and Baltusrol, and several other PGA tournaments and found that a great many golf writers spend a good deal of time covering the action – and some of them virtually all of it – via the TV broadcast instead of being out on the course. It makes sense because on site you can only watch the action in front of you while big things may be happening elsewhere.
Me? I was out on the courses because my situation was different. At the Masters I left the play-by-play to the wire services and wrote features about the Augusta National scene. One day I arrived early and sat in the grandstand at one hole all day. Another day I tried following a very popular player and another I tried wandering the course to try to find where the best action was at any time. At the U.S. Open I was following local players (which wasn't hard because they were playing in front of friends-and-family galleries).
The bottom line: If you want to really know what's happening in a pro tournament, you really are much better off sitting in front of a TV than being on site. (That said, if you have a chance to go to the Masters, don't turn it down ;-)
