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I was flipping through the channels earlier tonight and stumbled across some Nike-sponsored 7-on-7 competition on ESPNU. Buncha blue-blue chip high school kids heading to SC, Bama, Florida, tOSU, etc. It was basically touch football with no pass rush and the QB had to throw within 4 seconds of the snap. Seemed like an entertaining way to get a cheap football fix in late July. Plus, Dan Hawkins was coaching one of the teams, and I wanted to see how terrible they'd look.

My buddy and I watched about four or five scoreless minutes of the first 20-minute half. Then, after a commercial break, they come back and pull the old "due to time constraints, we're moving forward in the game" routine, and suddenly it's 7-6 late in the first half. My friend and I both find it odd that they'd show us five scoreless minutes and then skip over two scores, but whatever. Maybe it turns into a shootout or something, right? Long story short, the final score was 14-6. So out of three scores in the game, they saw fit to show us exactly one of them.

Hawk's team lost, BTW. He looked as inept as ever.

i wonder if Dan brought his Boise Playbook? the one where you switch O's every year and in opposition to actual personnel.

Cody was awesome in 7 on 7. if he didn't throw over the actual LOS, he was tough to beat.

If ESPN had any dignity whatsoever, they would respectfully let go of Lee Corso. Due to his condition, he can barely formulate a coherent thought, and it appears to have gotten worse this year. Yet they trot him out there to be a cartoon character, just like Lou Holtz.

Assholes.

MgoBlue-LightSpecial wrote:If ESPN had any dignity whatsoever, they would respectfully let go of Lee Corso.

And plenty of others after him.