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The Revolution Will Not Be Televised, But It Will Have Technical Difficulties
Published 3/1/2007 by T Kyle King at Dawg Sports: Front Page Posts
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Where Quantity Is Job One
Published 3/5/2007 by SMQ <info@sundaymorningqb.com> at Sunday Morning Quarterback: Front Page Posts
... Remember also - and this is easy to forget - that lispin' Lou Holtz knows way more about football than any of us amateurs on the couch. There can't be much doubt about this. He's a former championship coach with decades of firsthand experience. But this fact is useless to his role in a studio, which requires him to babble on at a generalized level SMQ would place slightly below that of the average diehard fan in terms of insight, and much farther below for actual entertainment value (Exhibit A). The existence of his job is based on his knowledge as a coach, but it doesn't give him any opportunity to employ that knowledge in a potentially enlightening way, i.e. assessing players and strategy from the perspective of a coach. Holtz and ex-sideline cohort Lee Corso serve mainly to apologize for current bosses (a coach, employed or not, will never under any circumstances levy a public indictment against another coach, unless th