Football is no longer a meritocracy
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.”
February 20th, 2016 at 10:13 PM ^
A cage match is a form of meritocracy
February 20th, 2016 at 11:05 PM ^
a schooner IS a sailboat, stupidhead
February 21st, 2016 at 12:06 AM ^
There is no Easter Bunny.
February 21st, 2016 at 2:23 AM ^
But there IS an ether bunny.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=ether+bunny
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February 21st, 2016 at 11:39 AM ^
Who would have thunk it
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!!
February 21st, 2016 at 1:28 AM ^
I'm going to assume English is not your primary language.
February 21st, 2016 at 2:36 AM ^
In the truth.
February 21st, 2016 at 1:59 AM ^
Tell us how you really feel. Caps and exclamation points would probably help.
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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".
February 21st, 2016 at 4:04 PM ^
Was Swenson's dad really posting here complaining, or was it just a random troll???
February 21st, 2016 at 7:38 AM ^
But who is making it a cage match? Harbaugh, unilaterally. It is truly an autocracy now.
February 21st, 2016 at 11:40 AM ^
Interesting...
February 21st, 2016 at 11:53 AM ^
Lest we not forget: It is a cage match in a submarine.
February 21st, 2016 at 4:03 PM ^
Ric Flair will be the special guest referee!
February 20th, 2016 at 10:14 PM ^
In before Teddy complains that we're not handing the reigns to people like Swenson. They have to work.
February 20th, 2016 at 10:16 PM ^
Is determined through a cage match. Let the competition begin.
February 20th, 2016 at 10:19 PM ^
and hence I will use and support both, if another one comes along I'll be down with that too!
February 20th, 2016 at 11:46 PM ^
Just literally one of the best characters ever.
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.
February 21st, 2016 at 12:06 AM ^
That's why it's funny. Michael Scott would expect people to remain in the cage indefinitely.
Much like he expected some result from simply shouting out loud that he was declaring bankruptcy. He's very much a literalist.
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?
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.
February 21st, 2016 at 12:07 AM ^
Two men enter. One man leaves. The rules of the cage are as unforgiving as they are irreversible.
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February 21st, 2016 at 12:14 PM ^
Are you dumb? There's pure logic behind this. 2 men, a cage. 1 leaves. The end.
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February 21st, 2016 at 11:43 AM ^
That's what she said.
February 20th, 2016 at 10:35 PM ^
Hopefully not a cage match like Kimbo slice vs dada 5000....
February 20th, 2016 at 11:05 PM ^
God that was terrible. I'm pretty certain I could have won that fight versus either of them. All I would need to do is use my minimal athletic ability to evade the blistering 4 mph jabs/shoves, then wait until mid third round and push him with force equal to what I use pushing my trash can to the street.
February 21st, 2016 at 3:01 AM ^
Nice fantasy, but the reality is that even a crappy or washed up professional fighter can easily dispatch most amateurs, especially the "toughgest guy" in your local bar.
February 21st, 2016 at 8:54 AM ^
you clearly did not watch the fight
February 21st, 2016 at 2:24 PM ^
I'm going with poster above............. you and every single poster here would lose to those guys within 20 seconds.
February 21st, 2016 at 8:45 AM ^
The title of the article says it all
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2618304-aint-no-circus-like-a-bellator-circus
February 20th, 2016 at 10:39 PM ^
Looks like we'll be having tryouts...
February 20th, 2016 at 10:44 PM ^
there's no magic tricks.
February 21st, 2016 at 2:52 AM ^
But it's all part of the plan!
February 21st, 2016 at 11:46 AM ^
I read the whole article, and there is a nice video of Kemp wherein he sounds and looks like a mature 30 year old man. And I don't have the cooties.
February 20th, 2016 at 10:52 PM ^
So...football's still a meritocracy.
I'm glad we got to the bottom of this.
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February 20th, 2016 at 11:00 PM ^
Why does your title say "football is no longer a meritocracy"? He clearly says, "...it is a meritocracy."
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February 20th, 2016 at 11:08 PM ^
He goes on to say: "Cage match. Let's move from meritocracy to cage match." That's why... It can be both - you trump Harbaugh and tell him what his team is!
February 20th, 2016 at 11:58 PM ^
It actually can be both. The cage match is the way your decided who is meritorious. Idiot.
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February 21st, 2016 at 11:48 AM ^
You know that line you can cross where you're reading too much into it? Yeah.
February 20th, 2016 at 11:03 PM ^
as Mean Gene Okerlund.
February 20th, 2016 at 11:04 PM ^
Perhaps I've been misinformed.
February 21st, 2016 at 9:51 AM ^
No, you're thinking of Nicholas Cage Matches, where his many illegitimate children fight over his estate...
February 20th, 2016 at 11:05 PM ^