when i was growing up, i hung out a lot at the barbershop right near prairie view's campus. i'd be there just about every day for a while, and all the older professors got haircuts there. one was a dude named professor stewart.
prof. stewart didn't have much reason to go to the barbershop, but mr. kirby would always comb his hair up and cut it like mr. clarence cut cuba gooding's hair in coming to america. scissors moving, but no hair hitting the ground.
prof. stewart would get up and pay with a check.
anyway, i didn't know very much about prof. stewart past coming in the barbershop. i'll never forget the succinct way one of my dad's friends described stewart.
"that man got a ph.d in math from the university of texas in 1964." that was all he needed to say.
i didn't realize prof. stewart was the first black man to get a ph.d in math from ut, but he was. can you *imagine* what that man had to go through to get that far? and how cold he had to be to make those white folks treat him with even a modicum of respect?
anyway, to where this thread started: every school should probably have a statue for its first black athletes in a sport. it was almost a requirement they be excellent men or women, on teams where everybody else just got to be whoever the hell they were.
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gets to virginia tech as a five-star recruit. shares the job with sean glennon as a freshman (tangent: if you want to see a game where it seems like the defense has 15 players, check out va tech-lsu from 2007).
plan was to redshirt him in '08, but tech lost to east carolina in their first game, and the line was too bad for glennon to do anything behind it.
sooooo welcome back, tyrod. that's...not really a good break for tyrod. you get to play because you're fast enough to save yourself
something folks probably can't get from watching on tv is how the former athletes who are now my colleagues take the same approach and pride in their work from the field and use it in broadcasting. and they're *much* more open to critique than us "real" journalists.
and @Foxworth24 isn't just jumping on tv talking. he's hitting the road, doing magazine features, something i personally wouldn't have had the confidence to do until very recently. a rare talent indeed.
re: haskins, this is also what happens when the folks who drafted you move on. daniel jones won’t see the pine as long as gettleman is there, for example.
i just wanna know who encouraged those ohio state players to put that out. wasn't any need to, as far as i can tell. i think that's the part that's uncomfortable. feels like someone grown encouraged them to undercut their peers.
just wanna point out that kirk ferentz did that whole I DIDN'T KNOW! routine last month, and the college football media gave him the benefit of the doubt.
only to find out the school already investigated this and ferentz already knew the findings.
so, college football media, anyone wanna explain how they let ferentz play them when what he had to say to the press last month was obviously implausible? how'd you fall for that?