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Posted on 06/16/2003 3:42:10 AM PDT by putupon
Pickin' and Grinnin': College football goes to the courts
June 12, 2003
The unthinkable has happened. College football is now mirroring society. Let's all officially welcome the group entering through the back door, with their shiny suits and plastic hair and their arguments for the sake of argument. Ladies and gentlemen, lawyers and politicians have their slithery sights set on our sacred game.
The problem: They were invited by five jilted and jaded girlfriends from the Big East, who can't understand why The Bachelor didn't pick them.
Officials from Virginia Tech, West Virginia, Pittsburgh, Connecticut and Rutgers have filed suit against the ACC, charging that the league and Miami and Boston College conspired to leave the Big East more than a year ago, despite Miami's assurances that it wasn't going anywhere. Yeah, so?
It's as comical as it is pathetic. The ACC decides to expand and invites Miami, Boston College and Syracuse. Those who don't get invites revert to a cycle that any freshmen psychology major could explain. First you kiss, then you beg, then you file suit.
And if all else fails, call your governor for help.
Someone please tell the honorable Gov. Mark Warner that his state has a $535 million shortfall of support for basic education. Let's see, the Hokies in the BCS (which is what this is all about), or the educational welfare of children in Virginia?
A quick aside to the honorable West Virginia Gov. Bob Wise: Don't even think about it. You've got a school there in Huntington that, along with the other 50-plus teams not in the Big Six confernces, has been getting screwed by the BCS since its inception. Can't back one state school and not the other; let WVU take this frivolous fight alone.
The Futile Five started out by joining hands and pleading for unity at the Big East meetings last month. This was the kissing stage. We still love you, we can make it work, we'll pay more attention (give you more money) to you. Then comes the begging stage. For this, we look to Virginia Tech.
First, the Hokies tried to get Warner to politically pressure Virginia into agreeing to expansion only if Tech was involved. Didn't work. The Hokies also tried a fancy double reverse, having a group of university bigwigs travel to the ACC offices and beg for admission. Once that failed, the next stage was inevitable: litigation.
Since when did entitlement become the right of every American? The Futile Five weren't too concerned about the rest of the Division I teams getting hosed by the BCS's monopoly not so long ago. So now, when it suits their needs, they're high and mighty.
What we have here is a group of schools getting booted from an exclusive club they helped form in the 1990s, and now their noses are suddenly pressed against the windows looking in. Does anyone else see the irony?
Instead wasting time and effort and money with pointless litigation, perhaps the Futile Five and Big East commish Mike Tranghese should focus their efforts on landing Notre Dame and keeping their automatic BCS bid. There's a solid base with the Futile Five; Pitt and Tech are among the nation's top 25, and West Virginia is on its way back. Then there's Connecticut, which could be a major player, given time.
And if all else fails, simply adhere to the last stage of denial: acceptance
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Never said it hasn't happened before...John Chichester...John Watkins...John Warner...Tom Davis...Stan Parris...
I said George Allen and Jerry Kilgore aren't RINOs. I know that for a fact. I've worked for or with both of them.
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I still don't get it.
Kiddin'! Jus' kiddin'!
That'll teach you to go to a yankee school...
You know, it's one thing if you don't like Tech's actions against the ACC. But now you're just being stupid.
Not to mention annoying.
I'm just getting started.
You want to know what annoying is? Annoying is having a bunch politicians come in and trash your football program through the courts and political arm twisting.
You boy Kilgore can kiss the Guv. office good bye. He's toast. The GOP better find someone else quick and Jerry Boy better take his consequences like a man by shutting up and sitting down. He's damaged goods now.
If he fights for the nomination, it's going to get ugly, ala Hager/Early.
Back to Tech's future, this poster is very credible. He has good sources and is usually right. VPI is back in the mix, but they have said now that they wouldn't take an ACC offer and they won't abandon their Big East bretheren.
What are the turkeys going to do, maintain their honor (honor? VPI? snicker, snicker) and stay in the BE, or go back on their word?
And if they do whats expected and leave, does that mean they and Jerry Boy are suing themselves?
Hardly. There will be no fight for the nomination. And I lived through the Hager/Earley fight (John Hager is a personal friend). I lived thru the Williams/Allen fight. I lived through the Coleman/Trible/Parris fight. I lived through the Durrette/Parris fight.
If you think Jerry is going to lose the nomination, you're either not paying attention or you're politically naive.
And let me assure you, a Kaine Governorship would be worse than a Clinton Presidency. If you can advocate that (because that's what you're doing if you abandon Jerry), then you're on the wrong forum.
And BTW, they trashed your football program? Oh yeah, that's right, you were lying last week when you said you had no allegiance to either side.
I'm thru arguing with a liar.
I supposed you would pick up by the " ;-) " after my obviously slanted comments that the "allegiance" was sarcasm.
As for Jerri, I'm not saying he won't get the nomination, but he's going to be hearing about this little adventure from the left who will capitalize on it, and people on right who are not amused by frivilous lawsuit filing bullspitters.
If The University/ ACC expansion deal doesn't happen, he's the first blame bearing political target that alot of people who will be holding very strong grudges can get at.
They same goes for MarkyMark and his people; alot of Dims are gunning for him over this.
Sic Semper Tyrannis
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