OT: Bryce Brown Leaves UT...again?
I thought Bryce Brown already left Tennessee...hmm. Regardless, doesn't surprise me that Brown left via text message. It would only make sense if he went to USC.
Didn't he say he was going to KSU a while back, to play on his brother's team?
I'm guessing his pay went down considerably since Lane Kiffin left. After all, he did choose UT because the CFL didn't offer him enough money. That should tell us something.
Seantrel Hederson....version 2009
shouldn't Seantrel be Bryce Brown version 2.0?
Maybe Bryce Brown was the beta and Seantrel the release-to-manufacturing.
I think this must mean that Seantrel and Bryce are shopping themselves as a package deal to the highest bidder.
coach jus so u no Ima leav, play fr ksu. i need my cds bak.
Just laughed in a meeting - thanks
Checking MgoBlog in a meeting? That's ballsy. I think this is a good topic for a thread. What is the most inappropriate time you visited this site? And did you get caught. Sure, it's not like a porn site, but it's basically sports porn.
Hmmm... are you sure? Well dang it! Then why the heck do I always get an erection while posting?
edit: NM.
I once LiveBlogged during high holy day services.
One of these days, the rabbis who decide the Jewish calendar and Michigan are going to have to sit down and work this out.
I know some Jewish people take the whole, "Rest on Saturdays" to an intense extreme. Like, walking is a sin. So, what do they do if they're a college football fan?
Sorry...
There are a pretty strict set of rules, but yeah, walking isn't one of them. If you're Shomer Shabbas (DONNY!) and you wanted to attend games, you could. You'd just walk and do the whole game day thing. You probably wouldn't eat (stadium food isn't kosher unless you find something vegetarian... and depending on when they started cooking it you wouldn't eat it for other reasons)
Also, there would be an issue with the tickets - Traditionally you can't carry money, and for some, the ticket might qualify (like a credit card does). So I'm not sure how to find a ticket loophole... but yeah, as long as you "carry on shabbat" (yes that's what it's called, and it's not about drugs or guns) you should be fine
I didn't mean to imply that walking was actually a sin. I don't have a clue about that stuff. I just meant I know some are very strict about the "no work" and exactly what it means.
hope my explanation helped some.
TV would open up a whole other set of issues (if traditional Jews could watch it on TV) that I don't really want to take the time to get into, but the biggest issue I could see is with carrying a ticket.
In school a charity event I was involved with was partially sponsored by Hillel and on Saturday night. We were able to work it so that anyone who didn't want to carry a ticket but come (doors were before sundown, so it was technically still Shabbat) could get their name placed on a list. The idea being anyone religious enough to not want to carry a ticket isn't going to scam their way into a charity show. My guess is they could do the same type of thing for football, but they wouldn't carry ID either, and M football is a bigger production than a 1 night show at the Michigan Theatre
My best friend through most of college was a really religious woman whom I don't talk to very often now (she got married right after graduation). She used to call me her "Shabbos Goy" since I'd follow her around on Saturdays and flip on lights, open the fridge, and generall do all of the things that Shomer Shabbos people can't do.
Among my duties: carrying her Michigan tickets to every home game, and giving them to the gate-guy. Part of the deal was I got her extra ticket when she couldn't make it, though I think I got this once.
So yes, the ticket thing does apparently count, but it's nothing a Shabbos Goy (or Shabbos Reformie) can't handle.
Obvs, since I just admitted to liveblogging on the holiest day of the year, I'm pretty un-offendable.
This year it's even worse: I'll be flying home from Germany on Yom Kippur. Couldn't be helped (it's for work and I'm not paying for the ticket) but I did talk to my rabbi about the potential six extra hours of sunlight to add to the fast day (and since that's also the start of Oktoberfest, if I can put off Kol Nidre)
...you will not only be eating pork in hell for doing that but the devil is going to circumsize you every day for blogging during services! :P
In my defense, I was being dragged to services with Misopogal's family at their temple which is like the SEC of temples, complete with sponsorship on frickin' everything,* after we had already done the same service at 7 a.m. with my family, and it wasn't during the religious parts but when their asinine rabbi who is like the sworn enemy of my parents' synagouge was giving a 90-minute spiel about how we had to donate more money to the temple.
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* Not like "okay folks, we now invite Nancy Silvermanbergstein to join us on the the Belle Tire bimah; we rise as the we open the Pepsi Arc, and recite the She'mah, brought to you by Bud Light" but everything there has some sponsorship family name on it -- like you'll be sitting in the "Peterman" seats while they invite the three largest donors to take big comfy chairs in the front so we can worship them and their largesse (and I happen to know one of the guys in the big comfy chairs is one of Michigan State's biggest boosters). As such, the iPhone was kind of a protest, as much as a Michigan football problem, though I do have a Michigan football problem.
There ain't currently any Michigan football!
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Regarding Sponsorship: I have the same problem when I go to Mass with my wife (I'm Protestant, but her family is seriously Catholic). I get mad because all of the printed material is full of ads for businesses in the community. I always ask her, I say, "You know, Jesus went totally Hulk all over a synagogue once for having business in the place. How do you get away with this?" Apparently, you're supposed to read them "outside the Church", so it doesn't really count as ads inside.
Could have been worse...
From what I've read this is a family related decision in that he wants to go back to Kansas to be closer to home. Kind of a shitty way to leave, but the kid is still a kid and probably didn't know the best way to approach the right people. Regardless it is still unprofessional and hopefully he finds some maturity back home.
See - I don't buy the "kid is a kid" thing about how he handled this. It's ridiculous and shouldn't receive a free pass because he's a kid. There have been many transfers throughout the text message era and while I don't have official knowledge on this, I'm pretty sure they didn't go out the way Brown did.
The fact that he informed his coach of his decision to leave via text tells you everything you need to know about his character.
Having lived in Tenn. for the past 28 years I can speak to this. After Kiffin left, Brown began to have 2nd thoughts on his future in Knoxville. He spoke about leaving but stayed around and even came to spring practice to watch. He talked to Dooley about possibly staying and was told he'd only be allowed to come back if his teamates voted to take him back (which most publicly stated they would). He kept putting off deciding what he was going to do. He then, showing the class of Lane Kiffin himself, snuck off without so much as a word to Dooley or any of the other coaches (except for the text). All the friends I have that are Tenn. fans were ready to be done with his crap, so they're just ready to move on.
....he can be persuaded by Lane Kiffin. That's the main problem right there.