as throwing it into the paraplegic ward (do hospitals even have those?). I don’t know how I did it either. But it was funnier.

I am excited about the Hawks front 7 and they could be truly dominant if the offense keeps them off the field for long stretches. Clayborn is man beast and I love the news of him creating havoc in the backfield.

Ferentz received many accolades for the dominant Olines in the early 00s and the great special teams. Since then, the Hawks offensive line is in constant rebuilding mode and the Hawks special teams have been piss poor but I have not read one article detailing these facts or criticizing Ferentz.. He does not call plays for either side so it would seem these are 2 areas the head coach with a NFL Oline background would be held responsible.

Any guess what college coach is a top Forbes overpaid list?

http://www.forbes.com/2008/08/13/football-carroll-tressel-biz-sports-cz_pjs_0813coaches.html

I am just happy to see Iowa atop a list that does not include arrests.

http://www.forbes.com/2008/08/13/football-carroll-tressel-biz-sports-cz_pjs_0813coaches_slide_7.html?thisSpeed=20000

I’m just trying to understand why the August scrimmage is being labeled as a spring game. It’s over my head, though. So, a syrah with lunch. Life is filled with compensations. Sometime, the strange associations of BHGP will — be-bing — become clear.

The real story here is that the coach followed up this unfortunate non-football event, even if it wasn’t a Spring Game requiring a Recap, by saying he didn’t understand why the team he chose, recruited and signed wasn’t fired up and fighting for the starting slots. Implications are that he meant the O, since they had their butts handed to them by the D, and Kroul and Unusual play D, next to Clayborn, and … no one is challenging their motivation, are they?

Well, I dunno, Coach.

I think I’ll stop now. The Maine Event, our storied intersectional rivalry game advances — we’re damn lucky we get them the week before they get Monmouth and Stony Brook: no doubt they’ll be looking ahead. Any team playing any team playing legendary football factory Monmouth — is that in New Jersey? — is a team that had best be on its toes, and no sounds of one-hand clapping, please. And to think we used to sneak around padding our schedule with USC, Notre Dame, and Nebraska. Now we’re playing teams that play Stony Brook. Well, hells bells, Stony Brook has an awesome physics department. No wonder they’re good at football.

Do you mean, Spring Game Redux? I understand we didn’t block anyone in that scrimmage, either. Perhaps you meant that.

Anyway, at this point, I don’t really care if we’re any good. It’s a game, Iowans are fun to hang out with in the fall, and we’ll still beat someone like Zook like a cheap set of bongos at a frat party. I do care a lot if there are any more violent sexual crimes alleged — so far so good — and I care also that the guys who wear the uniform act like they care about the game. Their coach is saying they don’t. He recruited them and is paid a little bit to motivate them. What the heck is that about?

I do read, word for word. It’s one of my habits. Glad it’s not me. Otherwise I’d have to trade the Syrah, for Calvados, for … Cassis. Of course, Cassis is sometimes fatal. Like running the same 11 plays for 10 years, consecutively.

Am I a (an) Hitler Grammarian? (That’s what the dude suggests.) If you like. Pretty harsh there, pal.

What I like? Zero — ZERO — assault police blotter sh*t. The Sanctuary. Dave’s. The Mill, if it’s early. And a little mystery in the offensive game plan. What’s objectionable about all of that? And I like the memories of Sunday morning in the kitchen of an Iowa head coach, who just beat someone more notable than an idiotic opponent called “Maine”.

Florida International, I get. It’s an airport with parallel n-s runways, wide open for the Germans in search of sun.

If we don’t beat Maine by 40, we are hosed.