It’s come to
this: Notre Dame has issued a set of rules restricting what can be shown and
reported of its football practices.
Coach Brian
Kelly doesn’t want the opposition to find out what the Fighting Irish are
planning or thinking or which of them has been hurt. The restrictions are too many and too bizarre
to cite here. Suffice it to say that a
department of an institution dedicated to higher learning could pass for the
Ministry of Truth a la 1984.
The scary thing
is that other college football teams are trying the same out of fear they could
lose an edge in the next game. Guys,
what’s new under the sun in your business, I mean, after forward pass? The trick play by itself doesn’t win the
game. No, it’s knowing when to call the
triple-cut-left.
If Kelly were a
baseball manager, he wouldn’t let anyone see his starters warming up in the
bullpen for fear that someone might see all their pitches. As my friend Forrest would say, stupid is as
stupid does.
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