Holy COW is all I have to say about this. The football coach appears to be a done deal.. Superintendent's hiring retired fed judges to investigate claims of unethical academic procedure. Affairs... This is wild stuff and dominating the local news from the Gulf to Tennessee.. i guess the best reports on this can be found here: http://capstonereport.com
oh yeah <r>i forgot to mention the reporter being fired for calling the Fineturd show.. awesome..its a train wreck.. old boy network meets freedom of the press? well shall see... oh wait, no... not here <E></E></r>
Interesting stuff. I listened to that link and I didn't hear the guy call in and fire the reporter though. Terry
This thing is getting ugly. Hunter Ford, the reporter, was fired. He's standing by his story. Finebaum interviews Rush off the air and Rush reminds him that they have the same Lawyer. So rush suggest he's going to sue Hunter Ford. Then Rush's brother Philip calls into the show and threatens Ford on the air with another lawsuit. This is nuts.
How in thee hell did high school sports get so far out of hand? This kind of over-the-top nonsense isn't just happening in Alabama. Its everywhere and I have no idea how to put the genie back in the bottle. All I know is: somebody should try to do that...
Once public high school sports become enough of a draw to put on national TV (not just the games but the team, their families, their girlfriends etc) you are asking for trouble. High school football in Alabama is big, and Hoover HS is the biggest of the big. I'm sure Texas and California must have similar situations. Finebum is loving this. A big controversy and the mudslinging is primarily on his show.
Gerry Faust may have created one of the first mega HS football programs, at least in the midwest , around 1970. His Cincinnati Moeller team was the perennial state big school champ. They got so big that they began traveling the country in the mid 70's, taking on the best teams from NYC, LA, , New Orlreans, Detroit, Florida etc. and beating them all... badly. They had corporate sonsors who bankrolled a lot of their activities along with the usual bake sales. It was widely rumored that he had realtors and banks at the ready to swiftly handle the requirements of families who suddenly found Cincinnati as THE place for junior to play ball and moved into their jurisdiction. I was on a team that played them in a pre season scrimmage in 1972. We would go on that season to a 9-0-1 record and a #11 ranking in AAA football that year. They must have had 7-8000 fans there for a scrimmage. They beat us 40-0 with a relatively small team of maybe 30 players. We never saw Faust. When we asked why after the game we were told that we had just played the 3rd and 4th string squads. Faust and the 1st and 2nd teams were in Lexington, KY., stomping the defending Kentucky state champs in another scrimmage. None of us felt cheated :wink: