to some extent the first point is a huge contributor to the second.
As far as Brady's pass after the pick, hey, the defenders made a highlight reel play. 99 times out of 100, its incomplete, 2nd & 10. that being said, it was not Brady's best game.
Free,
I agree and thought about your comments when typing my post. I know it's more complicated than this, but one of my short-stroke reasons is that collectively northeast colleges place a far greater focus on academics than they do athletics. The sphere of influence of the Ivy league education tradition effects most colleges in their backyards to prioritize similar missions, ie, UConn benefits having Harvard, Yale and Brown within 80 minutes of campus. And it doesn't hurt having Wesleyan and Trinity as neighbors, too. Once the Ivies got out of revenue driven football, I believe the entire northeast educational infrastructure followed suit. And in the big picture, that's what colleges should do. But, there should be a respectful and honorable balance between the two entities. When done right, big time college football enhances the college experience and reputation.
I know you already know all of this, I'm venting because the Big East conference has betrayed you, me and others that have Big East DNA by not being visionary in providing a college football conference that would make the region proud.
When Tranghese asked the acc to let the football schools play football down there because we only want them for basketball, he should have been
The NFL is #1 in fan popularity and college football is #2 and growing. And the northeast for the most part is a non factor in spite of the fact as the Big East conference like to say "is home to 25% of the nation's TV sets."
Anyway, enjoy the rest of your day, Free.