Tinker:
Fair? The very meaning seem empty of truth these days.
How can we get fairness out of a treachery filled environment like this.
Where people keep stepping into the lower bowels of humanity. Spreading terror.
What kind of confession can we hope to hear from the trusted people,
who censor out how, what, when, and where,
for their own purpose.
As if god is not there.
Lying is the new art form of people pretending to know true wisdom.
Where all of us are weighted down into a paralyzed moment in time.
Where no one person can change the way people have built this society.
Over entire lifetimes. generations after generations
Structured like a sinful complication maze that no one can escape
We are stuck into a quicksand pulling us all under ground.
Both the innocent and the damned
Much like the television shows that we look at,
day, after day.
Prayer is for real the only way out now.
That the lord might save us all in spite of ourselves?
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Dandy Don's LSU Sports Report
With only eight days remaining until National Signing Day, Tiger Fans will be eagerly eyeing the recruiting trail. I have confirmed that LSU is continuing to pursue Priest Willis and that Coach Les Miles made an in-home visit him yesterday. I think it’ll be hard for LSU to flip Willis from UCLA, but I fully expect LSU to pursue him until the very end as safety remains the biggest position of need in this year's class.
According to reports, LSU’s most high-profile target, Robert Nkemdiche, has cancelled his scheduled visit to LSU and is set to commit to Ole Miss. As most of you know, Nkemdiche’s brother, Denzel, plays linebacker for the Rebels and his mother would very much like to have her boys on the same team. Make no mistake about it, Nkemdiche is a big target for LSU, but the good news is that LSU already has three outstanding defensive end prospects in this year’s class including Kendell Beckwith, Michael Patterson, Frank Herron, and Lewis Neal.
At this point, the other remaining Tiger targets that everyone is monitoring are Tashawn Bower, Eddie Jackson, Jamal Carter, Duke Riley, and Cethan Carter, but I would not be surprised at all to see another name or two surface between now and NSD.
In other football recruiting news, today I have continued revealing my list of Top Louisiana Prospects for the Class of 2014 by posting numbers four and five. One thing is certainly clear - Louisiana is loaded for 2014. The even better news is that LSU is in very good shape with many of the top prospects. I look for the 2014 signing class to be one of LSU's best ever. To check out my running list-in-progress, which currently includes numbers 6-50 and a brief description of each, please click here.
4. Speedy Noil (WR, 5'10", 175, Edna Karr)
5. Jacory Washington (6'5", 220, Westlake)
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The Reveille
Football: Jacory Washington embraces switch to tight end
Junior recruit making the transition to tight end
Posted on
January 28, 2013
- Shawn Demeritt
- “There’s going to be a little different curve for him because he’s traditionally played wideout, and he’s going to have to learn to block defensive ends like Florida and Alabama have.”
Jacory Washington
The transition from high school competition to the college game is a difficult one for any football recruit.
For Jacory Washington, that transition has a more challenging curve.
The Rivals four-star recruit and ESPN watchlist member began making the move from wide receiver to tight end toward the end of his junior season, and now LSU is looking for him to man the position in a few years.
Washington, a class of 2014 recruit out of Westlake High School in Westlake, La., will be joining the Tigers in two years after committing to the program in January, but he’ll have some bulking up to do if he wants to live up to LSU’s expectations.
“The players [in the Southeastern Conference] are bigger, they’re faster and they’re stronger,” said Shawn Demeritt, Washington’s coach at Westlake. “There’s a learning curve for every kid. That’s just part of it. There’s going to be a little different curve for him because he’s traditionally played wideout, and he’s going to have to learn to block defensive ends like Florida and Alabama have.”
Throughout most of his career, Washington has found himself lining up against opposing defensive backs as a wide receiver.
“He’s just kind of grown into a tight end body,” Demeritt said. “The last two games of the year, he started playing a little more tight end and started putting his hand down and started playing on the ball. He had 35 catches and seven touchdowns [as a wide receiver and tight end], and he’s going to be in a very similar situation next year.”
To properly make the transition to an SEC-caliber tight end, Washington will have to pack on the pounds. Washington currently stands at roughly 220 pounds. For comparison, two of the top receiving tight ends in the SEC last season, Florida’s Jordan Reed and Tennessee’s Mychal Rivera, weighed in at 243 and 244 pounds, respectively.
Demeritt said he doesn’t expect the recruit to grow much taller, but he is looking for the receiver to tilt the scale in the coming years.
“He’s mainly going to grow in terms of weight from here on out,” Demeritt said. “I’m expecting him to be at about 228 [pounds] by next season. When he gets to college, I expect him to be around 235 [pounds]. With all the weight training and nutrition programs they have [at LSU], he could easily weigh in at around 245 pounds his freshman year.”
That bodes well for the Tigers, and Washington appears to have the proper attitude to complete the transformation.
Demeritt said Washington is easily coached, as the recruit also excels at basketball and is a member of the Westlake track team.
The Westlake coach boasted about the recruit’s personality, noting that Washington is the perfect person to take the next big step to the college level after his senior season.
“He’s a pretty laidback type of guy,” Demeritt said.
------------------------For Jacory Washington, that transition has a more challenging curve.
The Rivals four-star recruit and ESPN watchlist member began making the move from wide receiver to tight end toward the end of his junior season, and now LSU is looking for him to man the position in a few years.
Washington, a class of 2014 recruit out of Westlake High School in Westlake, La., will be joining the Tigers in two years after committing to the program in January, but he’ll have some bulking up to do if he wants to live up to LSU’s expectations.
“The players [in the Southeastern Conference] are bigger, they’re faster and they’re stronger,” said Shawn Demeritt, Washington’s coach at Westlake. “There’s a learning curve for every kid. That’s just part of it. There’s going to be a little different curve for him because he’s traditionally played wideout, and he’s going to have to learn to block defensive ends like Florida and Alabama have.”
Throughout most of his career, Washington has found himself lining up against opposing defensive backs as a wide receiver.
“He’s just kind of grown into a tight end body,” Demeritt said. “The last two games of the year, he started playing a little more tight end and started putting his hand down and started playing on the ball. He had 35 catches and seven touchdowns [as a wide receiver and tight end], and he’s going to be in a very similar situation next year.”
To properly make the transition to an SEC-caliber tight end, Washington will have to pack on the pounds. Washington currently stands at roughly 220 pounds. For comparison, two of the top receiving tight ends in the SEC last season, Florida’s Jordan Reed and Tennessee’s Mychal Rivera, weighed in at 243 and 244 pounds, respectively.
Demeritt said he doesn’t expect the recruit to grow much taller, but he is looking for the receiver to tilt the scale in the coming years.
“He’s mainly going to grow in terms of weight from here on out,” Demeritt said. “I’m expecting him to be at about 228 [pounds] by next season. When he gets to college, I expect him to be around 235 [pounds]. With all the weight training and nutrition programs they have [at LSU], he could easily weigh in at around 245 pounds his freshman year.”
That bodes well for the Tigers, and Washington appears to have the proper attitude to complete the transformation.
Demeritt said Washington is easily coached, as the recruit also excels at basketball and is a member of the Westlake track team.
The Westlake coach boasted about the recruit’s personality, noting that Washington is the perfect person to take the next big step to the college level after his senior season.
“He’s a pretty laidback type of guy,” Demeritt said.
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NCAA hopes sports science center helps with safety
By MICHAEL MAROT (AP Sports Writer) | The Associated Press
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- The NCAA says it is committed to
ensuring the safety of all college athletes and plans to open a national
sports science institute to make playing sports safer.
The comments came in a statement emailed to The Associated Press on Monday night, the day after President Barack Obama acknowledged that if he had a son, he would have to think about letting him play football. The NCAA did not specifically address Obama's comments about football, choosing instead to address the broader issue.
''Student-athlete safety is one of our foundational principles,'' the statement read. ''Throughout its history, the association and its member institutions and conferences have specifically addressed the prevention of student-athlete injuries through a combination of playing rules, equipment requirements, medical best practices and policies.''
But now the governing body is taking a bold new step - starting the NCAA's Sports Science Institute, which will be run by Dr. Brian Hainline, a neurologist with extensive sports medicine expertise. He was hired as the NCAA's first chief medical officer in October so he could lead the center.
''In an effort to identify solutions and opportunities to ensure student-athlete health and safety, the NCAA will continue to lead extensive outreach and collaboration with the medical, scientific and athletics communities,'' the NCAA said. ''This Institute will function as a national resource to provide safety, health and medical expertise and research for coaches, medical staff, and athletics administrators, including a national task force for collegiate football safety.''
This isn't the first time college football has come under fire from an American president.
In 1905, with violence on the rise, President Theodore Roosevelt asked football coaches from Harvard, Princeton and Yale to visit the White House. There, he encouraged them to reform the game, and that winter, they created the organization that became the NCAA and legalized the forward pass.
The change worked.
Within two decades, the popularity of college football was so great it led to the formation of a pro league that would be renamed the National Football League in 1922.
Now, Obama is weighing in.
''I think that those of us who love the sport are going to have to wrestle with the fact that it will probably change gradually to try to reduce some of the violence,'' Obama told The New Republic.
''In some cases, that may make it a little bit less exciting, but it will be a whole lot better for the players, and those of us who are fans maybe won't have to examine our consciences quite as much.''
College football, however, drew some of Obama's greatest criticism.
''The NFL players have a union, they're grown men, they can make some of these decisions on their own, and most of them are well-compensated for the violence they do to their bodies,'' Obama said. ''You read some of these stories about college players who undergo some of these same problems with concussions and so forth and then have nothing to fall back on. That's something that I'd like to see the NCAA think about.''
The recent emphasis has been on concussion awareness.
Some schools, such as Indiana and Virginia Tech, have used sensors inside players' helmets to measure the impact of hits to a player's head. Both the NFL and the NCAA have instituted stricter policies about allowing players to return from concussions, and both the NFL and NCAA have been named in concussion-related lawsuits.
The movement has even trickled down to youth football.
USA Football, an organization backed by the NFL, has introduced the Heads Up program - an online educational program for parents, youth coaches and commissioners that teaches proper tackling techniques they hope will lead to fewer concussions. In March, USA Football, which is based in Indianapolis, plans to bring more than 20 current and former coaches to Indy to help train a group of ''master trainers'' that will help more than 100 youth leagues across the nation.
Some players at the Super Bowl said they had no problem letting their sons play football. Count former NFL offensive lineman Tony Boselli among that group. He responded to Obama's comments on Twitter, by writing: ''Interesting, I do have boys and I am thinking long & hard about them getting near politics. No problem them playing football.''
The comments came in a statement emailed to The Associated Press on Monday night, the day after President Barack Obama acknowledged that if he had a son, he would have to think about letting him play football. The NCAA did not specifically address Obama's comments about football, choosing instead to address the broader issue.
''Student-athlete safety is one of our foundational principles,'' the statement read. ''Throughout its history, the association and its member institutions and conferences have specifically addressed the prevention of student-athlete injuries through a combination of playing rules, equipment requirements, medical best practices and policies.''
But now the governing body is taking a bold new step - starting the NCAA's Sports Science Institute, which will be run by Dr. Brian Hainline, a neurologist with extensive sports medicine expertise. He was hired as the NCAA's first chief medical officer in October so he could lead the center.
''In an effort to identify solutions and opportunities to ensure student-athlete health and safety, the NCAA will continue to lead extensive outreach and collaboration with the medical, scientific and athletics communities,'' the NCAA said. ''This Institute will function as a national resource to provide safety, health and medical expertise and research for coaches, medical staff, and athletics administrators, including a national task force for collegiate football safety.''
This isn't the first time college football has come under fire from an American president.
In 1905, with violence on the rise, President Theodore Roosevelt asked football coaches from Harvard, Princeton and Yale to visit the White House. There, he encouraged them to reform the game, and that winter, they created the organization that became the NCAA and legalized the forward pass.
The change worked.
Within two decades, the popularity of college football was so great it led to the formation of a pro league that would be renamed the National Football League in 1922.
Now, Obama is weighing in.
''I think that those of us who love the sport are going to have to wrestle with the fact that it will probably change gradually to try to reduce some of the violence,'' Obama told The New Republic.
''In some cases, that may make it a little bit less exciting, but it will be a whole lot better for the players, and those of us who are fans maybe won't have to examine our consciences quite as much.''
College football, however, drew some of Obama's greatest criticism.
''The NFL players have a union, they're grown men, they can make some of these decisions on their own, and most of them are well-compensated for the violence they do to their bodies,'' Obama said. ''You read some of these stories about college players who undergo some of these same problems with concussions and so forth and then have nothing to fall back on. That's something that I'd like to see the NCAA think about.''
The recent emphasis has been on concussion awareness.
Some schools, such as Indiana and Virginia Tech, have used sensors inside players' helmets to measure the impact of hits to a player's head. Both the NFL and the NCAA have instituted stricter policies about allowing players to return from concussions, and both the NFL and NCAA have been named in concussion-related lawsuits.
The movement has even trickled down to youth football.
USA Football, an organization backed by the NFL, has introduced the Heads Up program - an online educational program for parents, youth coaches and commissioners that teaches proper tackling techniques they hope will lead to fewer concussions. In March, USA Football, which is based in Indianapolis, plans to bring more than 20 current and former coaches to Indy to help train a group of ''master trainers'' that will help more than 100 youth leagues across the nation.
Some players at the Super Bowl said they had no problem letting their sons play football. Count former NFL offensive lineman Tony Boselli among that group. He responded to Obama's comments on Twitter, by writing: ''Interesting, I do have boys and I am thinking long & hard about them getting near politics. No problem them playing football.''
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Tinker Town Tiger: College
football schedules really don't matter to the sports news media today.
Because they think that god himself is not there. Fairness to them is
now out of the modern day question.
Are you looking at them. That is what truly matters to them. College football, Politics, law & order, what does that matter? And if the higher institutions of learning can't play along. That is just to bad?
------------------------Are you looking at them. That is what truly matters to them. College football, Politics, law & order, what does that matter? And if the higher institutions of learning can't play along. That is just to bad?
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College Football Nation Blog
Congressmen want PSU scholarships back
January, 28, 2013
By
Brian Bennett | ESPN.c
The NCAA is facing more political pressure to lessen its unprecedented sanctions against Penn State.
The Associated Press reports
that Pennsylvania congressmen Charles Dent and Glenn Thompson
co-authored a letter to NCAA president Mark Emmert asking that the 40
football scholarships taken away from the Nittany Lions be restored. The
scholarship reductions were part of the heavy sanctions Emmert levied
against Penn State for the Jerry Sandusky scandal.
Dent and Thompson argued in the letter that the loss of scholarships only deny opportunities and do nothing to punish those associated with the scandal.
"I want to make it clear to the NCAA who they are really hurting with this scholarship reduction," Dent said in the letter. "It’s not Jerry Sandusky and it’s not the University. They are hurting young people who are completely innocent of anything relating to the Sandusky situation and who through no fault of their own are being denied a chance to get a great education.”
This latest action comes on the heels of a federal lawsuit filed by Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett, who is seeking to overturn the NCAA sanctions. And, of course, the NCAA is under fire for how it botched the Miami investigation, announcing last week that an enforcement officer acted improperly and forcing the organization to investigate itself. The NCAA might not look too popular in many courtrooms these days.
Will any of these things wind up lessening Penn State's burden? It's very difficult to say. We must note that the school itself is not a part of these proceedings and agreed not to appeal when university leaders signed the consent decree accepting the penalties. So this is entirely externally driven, and there's no doubt that politics are playing a major role here.
Emmert seized unprecedented power to levy the sanctions against the Nittany Lions, so it's hard to see him giving in now. Then again, his power may be fading after a series of missteps. We've never seen anything like the penalties handed out to Penn State before. Who's to say we won't be surprised again in this case?
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SEC Blog
Florida, Alabama top recruiting rankings
January, 28, 2013
By
Chris Low | ESPN.com
We're a little more than a week away from national signing day, and the latest team recruiting rankings by ESPN are dominated by SEC schools.
There are still several highly rated uncommitted prospects that could impact the final rankings, and there are always going to be those prospects who change their mind at the last minute.
But right now, ESPN has Florida's class ranked No. 1 nationally and Alabama's class ranked No. 2.
Texas A&M is No. 6, LSU No. 7 and Georgia No. 9 to give the SEC five teams in the top 10.
One of the fastest rising schools in the rankings is Ole Miss at No. 13. The Rebels are thought to be the leader for defensive end Robert Nkemdiche, the country's No. 1 overall prospect, while five-star offensive tackle prospect Laremy Tunsil is now giving the Rebels strong consideration after visiting Ole Miss last weekend.
Auburn moved up a spot to No. 15 after flipping ESPN 300 receivers Tony Stevens from Texas A&M and Dominic Walker from Nebraska.
Here's the latest rundown of the SEC schools ranked in ESPN's top 40
- 1. Florida
- 2. Alabama
- 6. Texas A&M
- 7. LSU
- 9. Georgia
- 13. Ole Miss
- 15. Auburn
- 17. South Carolina
- 21. Vanderbilt
- 27. Mississippi State
- 33. Tennessee
- 36. Missouri
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Trivia time for Spurrier, Gamecocks
January, 28, 2013
By
Chris Low | ESPN.com
As long as Steve Spurrier is around, South Carolina is always going to be relevant.
That’s one of the perks when Spurrier is your coach.
He’s the quintessential newsmaker, as we were again reminded of this past weekend. Spurrier played a little trivia with media members at halftime of the Gamecocks’ basketball game and wanted to know if anybody could name the four teams (from BCS conferences) who’d won 11 or more games each of the past two years.
The answer: Alabama, Oregon, Stanford and … South Carolina.
A couple of media members answered correctly, and Spurrier rewarded them each with $100 from his own pocket.
I need to make sure I get in on that action the next time I’m in Columbia. Maybe we can set up our own little SEC-based Trivial Pursuit game.
First question: How many SEC schools have won 11 or more games in three straight seasons since the league expanded and split into divisions in 1992?
The answer: Only one. LSU did it in 2005-2007. The Tigers won 11 in 2005, 11 in 2006 and 12 in 2007.
Not even Alabama has had three straight 11-win seasons under Nick Saban, and Florida didn’t do it, either, under Urban Meyer. For that matter, Spurrier didn’t win 11 in three straight seasons at Florida during his first tour through the league when he led the Gators to four straight SEC championships from 1993-96.
“For South Carolina to be in the same neighborhood with (Alabama, Oregon and Stanford), that’s sort of neat,” Spurrier said. “Certainly, we’re fired up about what we’ve been able to do the last couple of years as far as total wins.
“We need to start winning some more Eastern Division championships, and hopefully, an SEC [championship] someday soon.”
Spurrier doesn’t need any history lessons on how difficult it is to continue winning at the rate the Gamecocks have the last two seasons, especially given the fact that South Carolina had never won more than 10 games in a season until 2011.
“We know we’ve got to scrap, fight and claw and win close games,” said Spurrier, who was quick to point out that the Gamecocks weren’t going to out-talent two-time defending national champion Alabama.
“We don't have four or five first-round picks like Alabama, and we're not going to out-recruit Alabama. So we've got to play well. We've got to play smart, disciplined and really take advantage of all of our chances and all that stuff if we're going to continue winning 11 games."
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They are not kidding?
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New Orleans is ready for Super Bowl week
By Bill Speros | Special to ESPN.comLSU is losing 10 underclassmen to the NFL draft. What are your thoughts on the Tigers in 2013?
“Our recruiting continues to be tremendous. We’ve just finalized Les Miles' new contract extension [which will pay him $4.3 million annually, up from $3.751 million through 2019]. One of the hardest things in sports is taking over for a legend -- and Nick [Saban] was a legend. Under Miles' period, LSU moved up to second in the SEC behind Vanderbilt in graduation rate of players. The players love the guy. Do we all have our moments when his quirks come out and leave us scratching our heads? Yes. But he has a kind of quirkiness people like in Louisiana. He's a character. He's very good with parents and players, and he’s very good with their academic requirements.”
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