Football related hours mentioned in Harbaugh article
OK, I perused a bunch of stuff this weekend, so it could have been the Harbaugh article in either SI or ESPN the Mag this weekend or just an espn reference to the upcoming season, but I couldn't help but laugh when they mentioned that Stanford's QB was spending 10 hours a week studying film this offseason. Did anyone else catch the article and am I the only one who notes every mention of time in discussions of NCAA players. I immediately thought "boy, you add in weight room time and he is pretty close to his limit in off season football related hours."
Except, that, he can study film as long as he likes in his spare time.
Just like Devin Gardner purportedly does.
I guess I assumed if he was in a football facility studying film that it would count as football related. Either way, my point is that I am now instinctively counting hours.
Film study does not count. The clock starts if the coach is in the room and working with you. By yourself, the clock doesn't start.
10, or 20 or 40 hours on football. If he wants to. It is only supervised, "countable" hours that count.
And of course that is where Rosenberg and Snyder failed. They got it wrong. One of them interviewed Je'Ron Stokes and Brandin Hawthorne, and got quotes that were no more informative than the ones in the Harbaugh story mentioned abve, but twisted it into something sinister. The NCAA investigated, and we now know that nothing that Stokes or Hawthorne were referring to was ever found to be an NCAA violation.
If Rich Rodriguez was so upset by the Free Press' sandbagging of his two freshman that he was close to tears, he had every right to be that upset. Rosenberg and Snyder, more or less deliberately, butchered the story. What they did with, and to, the then-freshmen, was and is a disgrace.
I really wonder why any Michigan man -- any current player or coach, any former player or coach, any faculty member or administrator, any supporter of Michigan athletics -- would ever agree to speak with Rosenberg or Snyder, other than to demand answers from them about their reporting.
I have come to really respect everything that you have to say besides that.
I completely agree if I ever see them I will personally ask them WTF their problem is. Of course I'm terrible with faces and can't even recognize football players let alone 2 guys who look like average joes/tools (except Sharpe cuz ya know the whole I'm cool cuz I wear a biker jacket thing).
If I did see Rosenturd I wouldn't be able to keep from imagining him peaking around the corner with a goofy grin like the poster here likes to embed.
One of them interviewed Je'Ron Stokes and Brandin Hawthorne, and got quotes that were no more informative than the ones in the Harbaugh story mentioned abve, but twisted it into something sinister.This remains the most salacious and disgusting part of the whole affair. That was pure journalistic malpractice.
We need to get Rosenberg and Snyder on the case.
Their too busy writing disclaimers for any cures discovered for sick children at Mott's.