Let he without sin cast the first illegal payment
After reading my colleague Stewart Mandel's scathing column on Alabama football and the subsequent responses from the Tide faithful, it strikes me that the very religious Alabama faithful who helped drive Mike Price out of town seem to be violating one of the Ten Commandments about not having false gods. Sure they may be going to church on Sunday, but on Saturday they're attending the church of Alabama football. By the way they hold Bear Bryant, he might as well be god. (Although I guess the saying goes is that he's "coaching God's team," although I doubt that if some of those things from The Junction Boys are true.)

As for Larry Eustachy, so much for declaring he wouldn't resign. I suppose the move was inevitable, and as long as he got some money for all of his troubles, it was worth fading away, albeit with a huge black mark on his reputation. Although my friend Sean Keeler brought up an interesting point in one of his columns that Eustachy may not have gotten the boot so quickly had he been winning more (andl living up to the distinction of Iowa's highest-paid state employee).

Since the whole Bob Knight fiasco, it seems like schools are acting quicker to get rid of coaches with "character issues." Fair or not, that's the way it is these days, and it doesn't help that the rumor mill fires up much quicker, especially in the college sports world where it can be used for negative recruiting. If it's "sexy" or illegal, someone will know about it and put it out for people to see as soon as possible, even before the reviled "media" can get a hold of it. I suppose both of these stories are of the "This is what the media isn't reporting" variety that gets conspiracy theorists in a tizzy.