You possibly can all the time go along with a potted plant. Possibly a framed household image. Orbs are kinda cool, too.
No matter, do one thing as a result of it’s not simply nature that abhors a vacuum.
When you’re Mike McDaniel or Nick Sirianni, you could fill the mantel area the place you have been going to stay your 2023 Coach of the Yr trophy.
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Man, speak about whiplash. Even an off-the-cuff observer of soccer feels the necessity for a fast look-see within the blue tent, simply to verify your schools are certainly intact.
Bear in mind when the Eagles have been unbeatable and the Dolphins untameable?
For what it’s price, Philly followers bear in mind, however no less than they’re being affordable of their disappointment. They’re not really advocating the tar-and-feather therapy for Sirianni, only a routine one-way ticket to a coordinator job some place else. Wherever else, frankly.
No matter occurred to “what have you ever finished for me currently?” At this time, it’s what are you doing for me at the moment and tomorrow. The stymied “tush-push” on that ill-fated 2-point strive would possibly’ve been the proper marriage of symbolism and actuality.
McDaniel’s nerdish high quality was quirky and downright cute for fairly some time. Then his Fins misplaced 4 of their final 5 in opposition to succesful NFL competitors. Now he is simply the coach with foolish pants who cannot punch above the bantamweight class.
Bear in mind when the Jags have been this shut to clinching the AFC South and Trevor Lawrence was a franchise anchor at QB?
When Invoice Belichick was going to blow the doorways off Don Shula’s all-time wins document — and, after all, do it in Foxborough? The dreamers at the moment are fantasizing about him going to Dallas and changing Mike McCarthy, who’s produced three straight 12-win seasons, by the way in which.
Cowboys and Belichick? Is there a physicist in the home? What occurs when two polarizing forces come collectively? And Jerry Jones is the intrusive father-in-law? They’d make Sammy Hagar and the Van Halen boys appear to be Ozzie and Harriet.
Bear in mind when Jon Gruden was banished from the NFL? He was seemingly sentenced to a life sentence of tee occasions and the occasional visitor spot on a distinct segment podcast the place he might rehash his biggest hits, opening with “Spider 2 Y Banana.” Phrase on the road — Bourbon, that’s — says the Saints would possibly rent him as offensive coordinator.
Pete Carroll received the “amicable” boot in Seattle and, good Lord, even Mike Tomlin is sleeping with one eye open in Pittsburgh. Sounds about proper, as a result of in Pittsburgh they’re due for a training change about as soon as each Mesozoic Period.
All of this makes issues look calm and routine over there in faculty soccer, the place the constants will all the time be loss of life, taxes and Roll Tide. Proper?
Oops, maintain the cellphone.
Is there a extra thankless process in your complete world than the one Kalen DeBoer simply willingly accepted? Changing Nick Saban in Tuscaloosa? May as nicely comply with Sinatra on the Sands.
It was about 10 years in the past, give or take, on a stretch of Interstate 10 in a rental automotive with no satellite tv for pc radio. The AM dial in some way picked up a call-in sports activities present from Alabama, the place the subject was … what else?
Anyway, a caller was speaking in regards to the underclassmen returning for the subsequent season, together with the latest top-ranked recruiting class, and really uttered the next sentence: “Gotta say, simply our roster and the non-conference schedules forward, I don’t see us dropping a recreation over the subsequent three seasons.”
In Alabama, that doesn’t precisely qualify for outlier standing. Good luck, Kalen. Phil Bengston on Line 1, by the way in which. (Do your individual analysis on that one.)
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