Re: _Tuesday Evening Coach Potato_, Ed Grinnell wrote to All  on 23 Sep 97:
 EG> I wonder if the Irish will be turning down that bowl bid this year.:-
I think not.  :^)
 EG> What gets me is that in one breath, the pollsters whine about a team
 EG> running up the score and they penalize them by voting them lower in
 EG> the polls. Of course, IF the team DOESN'T beat up their opponent by 40
 EG> or more points, they turn around and vote them lower in the polls.
What pollsters?  I've heard some in the media whine, but none that have 
identified themselves as pollsters.  Frankly, I think Spurrier SHOULD run up 
the score as much as he can, under the current system.
 EG> I suppose that when Davis finally does release Dismal, there'll be
 EG> someone out there willing to listen to his "I wasn't given a chance"
 EG> speech once again.
Al loves trophies, doesn't he?  He way overpaid for Larry Brown's Super Bowl 
MVP trophy, too.  Ironically, the one trophy he let get away, Marcus Allen, 
came back to bite him, repeatedly.  And Raider fans still think this guy's a 
genius?
 EG> As the NBA season gets closer, I begin to laugh even more at the
 EG> foolishness that is the NBA. The owners and the Sterno allowed the
 EG> writers to fool them into moving the 3-point line back because it was
 EG> their contention that it was the reason that scores were dropping.
The latest rumor I heard was that they're considering allowing zone defenses, 
because they think the clear-out play is keeping scores down.  And they think 
zones will make scores go UP?  If so, they really ARE stupid.
 EG> When asked about Jerry Jones' recent comments, most of the Cowboys
 EG> laughed them off.
What recent comments?  From all accounts I read and saw, this is VERY OLD 
stuff, that has just recently been drudged up by the NY Times and blown way 
out of proportion.  AFAIK, Jones has never said there was any chance he WOULD 
coach, but only that it's always been a dream of his, but that he couldn't do 
it realistically. 
Of course, long after Jones flatly denied there was any chance that he'd ever 
coach, Brent Musburger was still trying to make a big deal out of it. 
... Hockey players do it between periods.
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