I've been fighting it, but no more. From this day forward, based on the way they handle their business, I will give college football coaches every bit of respect that they deserve.
Which is to say ...
None.
Honestly. Read this week's Top 25 --
and read them all, not just the coaches poll -- and tell me that the average college football coach is smarter than a squirrel.
Prove it. Prove to me that he's smarter than a squirrel. Based on this week's Top 25, he's not -- and I've seen some stupid squirrels. Ran over one just the other day. Silly thing wouldn't get out of my way.
Now it's the coaches. They can't get out of their own way. They want to be taken seriously, I suppose, as leaders or BCS contributors or as people who give more to society than the spread option and those polyester shorts some of them still wear. But how do you take a college football coach seriously when he ranked California six spots ahead of Oregon in this week's Top 25?
Oregon and Cal played five days ago, and Oregon won -- 42-3.
And this week, Cal is ranked No. 19. Oregon is 25th. Imagine if Cal had scored late to get within 42-10 -- the Ducks probably wouldn't be ranked at all.
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