intense media put-down of Kiffin

That stuff will linger if or until he starts winning. Mainstream media was all over Saban for the way he handled his departure from Miami, but a few years later, he's in the SEC championship game, and all is forgotten.

he's a sportswriter from Boston, where they have to justify their total disregard for college athletics every chance they get. i lived there for two years and didn't bother picking up the Globe if i wanted to read about college sports.

perhaps the most absurd thing about that article is the notion that "everything is out in the open" in professional sports. i mean, that's true, provided you ignore steroids, filming of other teams' practices, habitual free agent tampering, etc.