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I see they've cleaned up the headline. Yesterday it was "Worker accused of masturbating in Tulane office sues university after campus police shot him," which was hard to process.

Also, the guy seems to be a midget in his mug shot, so it seems to me NOLA.com's really "buried the lede" here. I mean, if there's one thing more exciting than a masturbation-fueled shootout, it's a masturbation-fueled midget shootout.

I know it's not all about wins. The problem is the same problem that finally sank Hopson: you have all these defections, and what coaches used to call "distractions."

A coach would be crucified for using that word now, but that's what they are. Scotty's voice has to compete with ESPN, preacher man, and the likes of "Coach Paulie G." None of them are saying, "go bust your ass and win games for Nowhere State" anymore.

There's still some cachet in a flat-billed crimson hat with an "A" on it, but everywhere else, it's really hard to convince the players they're not dupes of the "system" now. Losing streaks don't help- whether Scotty's the best football coach we have a shot at or not.

And if Scotty does get the job, non-interim, he needs to make a seven-figure salary. If "we's really that po," then "we's really needin' to drop football." 

In fact, me watching in 2021 (to say nothing of spending money) is 100% contingent on USM paying its coaches the prevailing wage for what they do. That's a promise. I wouldn't watch Sean Payton coach USM for $500,000. I am done. Figure it out, or do it without me (and a lot of other people, I'm sure).

Seems like a really, really bad decision in hindsight.

That sounds like a very depressing slogan for an insurance company.

For "Coach Paulie G"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZjgoWFiX6g

I think Tech was down to ~40 healthy players last week, some of them walk-ons. I think chance of playing is less than 50%, based on that. "If" "we" play it'll be interesting to see. I don't think they're a prohibitive favorite according to Vegas... not that you can go by that with USM.

Interesting to note that the latest US News "Best Colleges" rankings were released yesterday, and Tech lost the "Tier 1" status that it always liked to throw in ULL's face. 

Source: https://ca.sports.yahoo.com/news/colleg … 37636.html

LA Tech has some weird snobby attitude that will probably keep them from ever playing in a conference with ULL.

It's the same with NMSU and UTEP. You'd think maybe UTEP would want their biggest rival (and the only  other FBS school in that part of the country) in the conference, but there's just way too much bad blood there.

"We" just shoot ourselves in the foot with some of these backfill conference invitations. None of the upside claimed for the 2011-2012 additions has materialized... absolutely none of it.

I think that people who are talking about Freeze, or Fedora, etc. right now are revealing themselves to be pretty ignorant of USM football. Making Walton the interim HC is a pretty aggressive move. There is more drama and fuel for speculation in that than in any pie-in-the-sky crap about Freeze or Fedora coaching USM next season.