re: Goodbye, Sweet Princesses

See you brother. Come back anytime.

I’ll be following you soon. My heart is just not in it anymore.

Will you still pop in on the outdoor board? You're the board expert on falconry, not sure you're allowed to just retire without training an apprentice first

I respect your feelings, sincerely.

I guess I am an outlier, and not popular in some quarters because of it, in that while I absolutely cherish the experience of college football in the fall … if heaven is better than being in a full SEC stadium on a crisp autumn day with all the colors and sounds and smells, and two teams giving everything they have with much on the line, it must be a special place … I have never had any illusions that the sport was pure and righteous, wave the flag, kiss Mama and serve the apple pie.

I guess it’s because, in what I did for a living, I spent two decades up close with major college sports and saw and heard a seamier side of things that regular folks never saw or heard. I’m not saying that to brag, it is what it is. And it’s made me a very cynical person about college sports.

I wasn’t posting here, but every time the TV contract got insanely larger and every time coaches’ salaries got insanely larger, I told friends and colleagues that eventually the players were going to seek a cut of that action, it was absolutely inevitable that tuition, books, room and board was not going to satisfy them, and that the courts were going to look favorably toward their cause.

And we are where we are.

And I am troubled about where we are, but I am not ready to fold yet.

Amen brother. I gotta get out of here too.