Month: November 2021

College football coaches are dropping like flies (well, rich flies)

  In January of 1999, Rick Neuheisel was introduced as the new University of Washington football coach, at an eye-opening salary of $997,000 annually. Rounding up a few shoe-shines, Neuheisel was the fifth college-football coach making a mil a year.   A decade later, in 2009, I can recall...

Jimmy Lake did a lot of stupid things last week, but that final punt wasn’t one

  You could say the last week hasn’t been the best for Jimmy Lake. Seemingly, only Aaron Rodgers absorbed more derision.   Wayward comments about academics at Oregon, striking/pushing one of his University of Washington football players on the sidelines, claiming he didn’t hit him, losing a game to...