After seeing the tight configuration required to fit a football field in the home of the Chicago Cubs, Jim Delany, the commissioner of the Big Ten, announced that the teams would run all of their offensive plays in one direction, toward the western end zone. Every time the ball changes hands, the players will be turned around so the action heads west — toward the third-base dugout and away from the right-field wall.
With the Tide's opener against Florida State looming on Sept. 2, Saban was asked how Miller was faring in practice. That was all the opening Saban needed to start venting.
"Oh, I don't know. You guys make all these predictions about everything, about guys who are going to be great players, that have been here for two years. Who's gonna win all the games? I don't even know why we play," Saban told reporters. "Why do we even play? Why do we even have practice? Why do we compete? Why do we coach guys? How they need to improve. I mean, you guys got all the answers to how guys are gonna be, what they're gonna do.
"Sometimes I wonder ... why do we play? Why do we even have practice? Because you guys have got all these conclusions already drawn about who's what, how good they are, what they can do. So why would you ask me? That's what's puzzling to me. Why would you ask me? I read stuff all the time, like, 'Oh, that's nice to know. Where'd that come from?' And then you ask me? Shit."
SATURDAY, AUGUST 26
3:00 PM Portland State @ BYU ESPN Mark Neely, Trevor Matich
3:00 PM Oregon State @ Colorado State CBSSN Carter Blackburn, Aaron Taylor, Rick Neuheisel
6:00 PM Hawaii @ Massachusetts Eleven
7:30 PM South Florida @ San Jose State CBSSN Ben Holden, Randy Cross
10:00 PM Stanford vs Rice (in Sydney) ESPN Roy Philpott, Tom Ramsey
without ND on my locklist every week, i'm not sure how i can lose betting
super parlays will be so easy
10/12 and 11/12 early games will be no more
if i hit a super parlay the first week i'll spend the season in the outer exumas w/ a prostitute and nbc 500 miles away