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I know a lot of sports journalists are morons, but wow…

http://www.nptelegraph.com/sports/local ... 891d2.html


First off, was Kramer even there when this game was scheduled? Not to mention head football coaches don't usually schedule the games. Then there's this paragraph:

OK, this is really my problem with the whole thing. If you're head coach of an FCS program, shouldn't the goal be to pull off the program-defining upset for $600,000 instead of being the scrimmage partner? Shouldn't the athletic director be asked to find a program like, well, Colorado? Colorado State? Kansas? Or maybe New Mexico?

Is this guy serious? CSU couldn't hope to offer $600,000 for a game like this. Any AD who doesn't take the $600,000 should be fired immediately. A slight chance at upsetting Colorado State isn't even vaguely worth not shoring up your athletic budget.

He seems to be referencing this article - http://www.nptelegraph.com/sports/huske ... db8d6.html
which says that Tingey had the choice of Colorado State or Nebraska and Kramer chose Nebraska, but it also says that CSU was only going to pay about half as much. The columnist should learn to read before writing.

Aside form getting the payout wrong. He's spot oin with his assessment of the "We're going to lose anyway" comment. F'ing coaching fail!

andy7171 wrote:Aside form getting the payout wrong. He's spot oin with his assessment of the "We're going to lose anyway" comment. F'ing coaching fail!

That was actually the AD that said that, and, yes, that was not something to be said publicly (though it's the right assessment of the situation).

I'm mainly going after the writer's argument that somehow the money doesn't matter, when—in reality—it's pretty much the only thing that matters in a paycheck game.