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<blockquote data-quote="Skeptic" data-source="post: 162262" data-attributes="member: 2175"><p>Both you and takethepoints are right, he said from the balance beam. The desire for cash, and lots of it, has diluted major league baseball, and threatens to again, as well as the NFL and NBA. All these expansion teams very suddenly need knowledgeable writers at the local papers and knowledgeable talking heads on the telecasts. Then ESPN starts signing contracts with every league in the western hemisphere, and now they all need at least three every Saturday: two in the booth, one expected to actually know the game and the teams, and the sideline reporter (His or her job apparently is to stick a camera in front of a coach losing at halftime and brightly ask, "What do you plan to do differently in the second half?" Here Johnson when he permits such intrusion clearly laps the field. "Play better." Oh.) </p><p></p><p>But now all the low hanging fruit is gone. Seriously. That field is diluted along with the player pool. I know the broadcast teams are supposed to spend some time during the week with the coaches and players of both team. Can't prove it by me. I get more, a lot more, insight into the spread option and drive or dive blocking on this board than any analyst other than Kirk Herbstreit ever imparted. Even he, whom I consider the very best, screwed up, in carefully chalk talked diagramming, the option man on an early play against FSU. And will we ever get past the blithe "chop block" references to cut blocks? Bob Davie, a coach, was the worst. </p><p></p><p>Lastly, and way too long, RLR -- still on a roll I see -- is on target with marketing the product and merchandise and exposure. I cannot imagine a more interesting, creative or innovative offense in the country than GT. It ain't a gimmick, it ain't high school, it is an explosive, in your face, mixture of 4-5 yard and 10 yard dives and sweeps, and exciting long runs in open space, with the occasional over the top 45-yard pass instead of the dink it along first down mindset. The triple option is the most sublime play in football. How does the ACC treat it? As the product of a cranky tinkerer of eccentric turn of the century (20th) gimmick offenses run by colleges and high schools. There are other examples other than Tech, I'm sure. Maybe the problem is the people marketing the sports don't now diddly about them, and think they are selling soap, which for most people is needed, and the ACC is not.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Skeptic, post: 162262, member: 2175"] Both you and takethepoints are right, he said from the balance beam. The desire for cash, and lots of it, has diluted major league baseball, and threatens to again, as well as the NFL and NBA. All these expansion teams very suddenly need knowledgeable writers at the local papers and knowledgeable talking heads on the telecasts. Then ESPN starts signing contracts with every league in the western hemisphere, and now they all need at least three every Saturday: two in the booth, one expected to actually know the game and the teams, and the sideline reporter (His or her job apparently is to stick a camera in front of a coach losing at halftime and brightly ask, "What do you plan to do differently in the second half?" Here Johnson when he permits such intrusion clearly laps the field. "Play better." Oh.) But now all the low hanging fruit is gone. Seriously. That field is diluted along with the player pool. I know the broadcast teams are supposed to spend some time during the week with the coaches and players of both team. Can't prove it by me. I get more, a lot more, insight into the spread option and drive or dive blocking on this board than any analyst other than Kirk Herbstreit ever imparted. Even he, whom I consider the very best, screwed up, in carefully chalk talked diagramming, the option man on an early play against FSU. And will we ever get past the blithe "chop block" references to cut blocks? Bob Davie, a coach, was the worst. Lastly, and way too long, RLR -- still on a roll I see -- is on target with marketing the product and merchandise and exposure. I cannot imagine a more interesting, creative or innovative offense in the country than GT. It ain't a gimmick, it ain't high school, it is an explosive, in your face, mixture of 4-5 yard and 10 yard dives and sweeps, and exciting long runs in open space, with the occasional over the top 45-yard pass instead of the dink it along first down mindset. The triple option is the most sublime play in football. How does the ACC treat it? As the product of a cranky tinkerer of eccentric turn of the century (20th) gimmick offenses run by colleges and high schools. There are other examples other than Tech, I'm sure. Maybe the problem is the people marketing the sports don't now diddly about them, and think they are selling soap, which for most people is needed, and the ACC is not. [/QUOTE]
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