Is Meyer hiding behind his ‘quality control’ coaches?
Mr. Stein: I don’t know if you haven’t received letters about Brian Hartline’s role as a “quality control” coach, or if you just chose not to print them.
My question is: Why isn’t the $6 million man — Urban Meyer — the quality-control coach?
Also, after last year’s fiascos at Penn State and in the bowl game, you’d think that Meyer would have learned that “too many cooks spoil the soup.” Or is it that with all these assistants, including one for “quality control,” he’s better able to deflect blame?
Larry Garrison, Columbus Larry: Pretty much every major-college program these days is bloated with unofficial assistants with titles like
and and such. My guess is that anyone with a whistle, including the head honcho, is a quality-control coach.
Editor: After Monday night’s misdirected demonstration by an ungrateful group of Cleveland Browns players, who are making millions from the country they hate, I am no longer a Browns fan, or of the NFL.
Why not give some of your millions to the poor? Do some good instead of whining about how you are mistreated.
Robert J. Overman, Columbus Robert:
Mr. Stein: After reading the (Aug. 15) article about the NBA scheduling metrics, I wondered why the NBA doesn’t schedule like Major League Baseball.
Playing two or three games at a time in one city would cut down on travel time and costs, as well as player fatigue. If teams don’t play each other more than three games in a season, do a home-andaway swap from one season to the next.
Linda Elick, Columbus Linda: Baseball plays almost twice as many games in a season, of course, and sometimes goes more than a month without a day off. Plus, an NBA schedule is always put together with the best matchups for television in mind.
Ray: Absolutely unbelievable. The local professional Major League Lacrosse Ohio Machine team wins the championship by scoring seven unanswered goals and — wait for it — The Dispatch on Page 1 of the Sports section runs a story of a Westerville-Pickerington high school football scrimmage and an OSU-bound tailback!
A very brief article appears on Page 3, of course minus any photos. No words are adequate to describe such clueless sports coverage — even for you, Ray.
Jim Amber, Delaware
Jim: To each his own, obviously, but I would not describe a 400-word story as “very brief.” As for the popularity of high school football vis-a-vis professional lacrosse, well, to each his own.
Mr. Stein: Who do I complain to about the lack of respect given to women’s golf (last Sunday) by Channel 4? I turned on the TV at 4 o’clock (as directed by The Dispatch) to watch the final day of the Solheim Cup, and to my surprise, Channel 4 is showing the Steelers and Atlanta Falcons in a preseason game.
You cannot be serious. This is a slap in the face to women’s golf and an excellent United States team that deservedly won the competition. Too bad we didn’t get to see it!
James Wallace, Columbus James: Yeah, that was an unpleasant surprise, like stepping on a nail and then discovering it had rust all over it.
On the bright side, I can now say I watched a bit of an NFL preseason game for the first time in more than a decade.
Unfortunately it was a Steelers game.