In something of a semi-surprising move, assistant coach Ernie Nestor resigned as a member of the Missouri basketball coaching staff to take a similar position at the Naval Academy. Naturally, this has increased the angst of the Tiger fan base as this is the second assistant to leave during this off season. You may remember that Issac Chew stopped for a cup of coffee at Illinois before he moved yet again to Marquette. The popular theory among our more doomsday scenario fans are that these are guys bailing before Frank Haith gets zapped by the NCAA for violations reportedly committed at Miami. I somehow doubt this is true as no one has any idea what the NCAA might be thinking or if they are capable of thought. I do know that Nestor coached under Navy head man Ed DeChellis at Penn State who left the job because, in his words, "They just didn't care". He's 65 years old and has lived and coached on the east coast for the majority of his career. It may just be that simple. As for Chew, he left a position as # 3 coach to move up to first assistant. That's what young coaches do. If the Tigers are successful again this season you can expect head coaching jobs will become available to current # 1 Tim Fuller. If you're winning, your assistants are in demand. Pardon me if I wait a bit longer before I panic.
In what would be called a completely assed surprise, Alabama head coach Nick Saban says he's actually prefer a 9 game conference schedule, despite the coaches voting 14-0 to keep it at 8 games. Actually from what little I've been able to glean from how Mike Slive and the SEC work as a unit, I personally believe this is just letting the networks, such as ESPN know that the conference would be willing to add more conference games to provide content for an SEC network that all of us know is coming. Yes, I know that winning in the SEC is tough and that their champion will be a likely participant in the national championship game, or tournament if that's what happens. The coaches would prefer to schedule some cupcake instead of another conference match up, but if it were to bring in another 8 to 10 million dollars per team with a new network, well, then so be it. You can expect an announcement coinciding with an SEC channel press release. First and foremost, it's an arms race and the SEC has no intention of being #2.
No idea who these gals are? Well the one on the left is named Robyn Ereth, who was immortalized by You tube and Facebook as the bulbous bitch that ripped Donald Driver's shoe out of a kids hands that Driver was obviously tossing to him as a souvenir following a charity softball game. Then, just to add insult to injury Ereth was stupid enough to post a photo of herself on Facebook with her equally unattractive friends boasting of collecting this sweaty piece of memorabilia. Deadspin was on the spot and outed her, her Facebook page was deleted and now she say's she's sorry. Half of America thinking you're a cunt will do that to you. But as an aside, Driver was able to find the boy and make it right with him. Donald Driver goes into my list of favorite athletes.
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