Football is no longer a meritocracy

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I won't link a story from the Freep, but it has Carlo Kemp's name in the title.  Go find it if you want to...  Essentially, Coach Harbaugh switched things up - football is no longer a meritocracy, its a cage match!

“We’re a total of 103 on the team,” he said. “There’s no difference between scholarship and nonscholarship to me. That’s the team, 103 right now. There’ll be 22 more coming. Plus preferred walk-ons coming as well. We’ve got to be 105 when we start training camp. Cage match to begin on Feb. 29.”   ...   

“It’s always a competitive thing is happening at whatever positon it’s at. That’ll be something that’s happening at quite a few positions. Might as well say all of them. Nothing’s set in stone. As we said, it is a meritocracy. Cage match. Let’s move from meritocracy to cage match.”

Truthbtold

February 21st, 2016 at 1:19 AM ^

BUT IT WILL BE A BULLSHITCRACY AGAIN JUST AS SOON AS HARBAUGH NEEDS A EXCUSE TO FUCK OVER SOME YOUNG COMMITED KID A FEW DAYS BEFORE NSD. YOUR COACH I A SHAMEFUL EMBARRASING PATHETIC COWARD OF A COACH. EVERYONE THINKS SO, EVERYONE!!

Voltron Blue

February 21st, 2016 at 11:27 AM ^

I'm sorry, Mr Swenson. Despite the fact that it was much much more than "a few days before NSD", that was definitely unfortunate and the vast majority of us, including Mr. Harbaugh, hope to have better communication in future instances. I know this doesn't help your son, but really, Oklahoma is not quite so bad as to call it being "fucked over".

Stu Daco

February 20th, 2016 at 11:50 PM ^

I have to confess this is one of the few Office quotes I've never really understood. Why is this funny?  Even if cage matches didn't work, you wouldn't expect people to remain in the cage indefinitely.

Stu Daco

February 21st, 2016 at 12:15 AM ^

Right, but I still don't understand the correlation between them "working" and the number of people in the cage.  It doesn't make any sense.  Even taken literally, why would everyone remain in the cage if they didn't work?

Easy Day

February 21st, 2016 at 12:33 AM ^

Because the cage only unlocks when there's a winner. If cage matches didn't "work" (i.e., produce a winner), then everyone would still be locked in the cage.

Michael can't imagine any other scenario (like you, I, or any normal person could) explaining how people would get out of the cage, therefore cage matches must work.