July 1st, 2008 Keith Godfrey
Did Mike Barwis inexplainably give rise to the major increase in focus by writers into college football’s strength and conditioning programs. All the rage used to be on the kind of crap people like Urban Meyer could come up with or what play Charlie Weis’ fupa might call next. Now, everyone I turn its strength and conditioning this, strength and conditioning that. Heck even Terrelle Pryor wore a ‘diaper’ in the name of finding injuries before they happen.
There are some more slightly awkward. Such as Keith Wells
Like, zoinks Scoob, when did the Buckeyes sign FloJo?
I digress.
I’m interested in what the next fad will be in college football. The interest used to be the cool coach (Pete Carroll), the next offensive genius (Meyer, Rodriguez), the classy stand up guy (Tressel), the fupa (you know who).
Schools are in an arms race to have the greatest facilities and recruits are as interested in those facilities as they are playing time. It seems weird to me. I suppose increased preparedness leads to the increased likelihood of early playing time. Something tells me there is more to it. The steroids era.
Everywhere you turn the crackdown on steroids, methamphetamines, etc., has become all the rage. Now don’t get me wrong as it still takes a lot of work to get that big and strong; however, having an unfair anabolic advantage does it make it easier to get to the end result. This kids nowadays need the same results as were seen before but without the addition of drugs into their body. Does anyone else see the connection between the crackdown and the rise in interest? Seems obvious to me.
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February 17th, 2008 Keith Godfrey
I know I am getting a bit off topic from my usual postings but there has been something that has just been eating me up inside. Congress and this whole steroids mess. Now, you can add Al Sharpton to that list.
Sharpton compared the treatment of home run king Barry Bonds to that of star pitcher Roger Clemens. Sharpton said the members of Congress who questioned Clemens at Wednesday’s hearing acted as if “they were at a fan club meeting.”
“You’ve got to understand that the fight has always been about the criminalization of black men,” Sharpton said.
First of all, I have been immensely annoyed with the Congressional involvement in private business operations. The annoyance is only compounded by the fact that there are endless issues facing this nation that require more attention than who is and who isn’t injecting steroids into his or her buttocks.
Granted Sharpton may be on to something seeing as how it is Barry Bonds on trial right now and Marion Jones is the one who is serving time in prison but something tells me that race is not what caused them to perjure themselves; that would be a character issue.
Perhaps Sharpton has forgotten what a fool Mark McGwire was made to look when he pleaded the fifth during his Congressional testimony. There is a good chance it has at the very least delayed his entrance into Cooperstown.
Although from that same time frame when Rafael Palmeiro stated he did not use steroids under oath and then went out and tested positive during the next season there were no perjury charges brought against him.
I think Sharpton’s point is being missed … while he is concerned that this is the criminalization of the black man I am concerned that this has been criminalized at all. Congress needs to butt out of baseball, Spygate, and other sports. This grandstanding is positively ridiculous and a complete waste of tax payer money. If Bud Selig, Roger Goodell, and other leaders of their respective sports want to clean up their sports …. that is up to them.
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