Undefeated

    One good thing about the coach leaving mid-season is that there's a chance that the new coach will have a chance to be undefeated for a while. That is indeed the case with Downtown U., although the way they played suggested that this won't be lasting too long. It occurs to me that one drawback of having a coach who says that college players should be paid might be that you get a lot of players who also think that they should be paid. Anyway, that's the way they've been playing, and that's to put it charitably. The new coach probably won't be able to rah-rah them into too many more wins, nor will he likely be able to get the permanent job. But he seem like a good guy and hopefully will find a head coaching job somewhere.
    I don't know who had the brilliant idea of scheduling homecoming during the State Fair, but apparently it didn't end well. The radio guys kept saying that they could see the traffic coming to the game and that all the parking was full and people should persevere but they eventually stopped talking about the stadium filling up. Either people turned around and went home or just went to the Fair instead. I never heard an attendance figure for the game, but it sounds like it was bad. The fair has been set up all month; they could just as easily be open an extra Saturday and then close for a game-day Saturday. Or some damn thing. Or, you know, move the Fairgrounds away from the stadium, like they did with the Farmers' Market. But that's just crazy talk.