Social media shouldn’t be available to some people.
Ian Poulter is an example.
The British golfer recently chimed in on the controversy surrounding the disqualification of Camilo Villegas from last week’s Hyundai Tournament of Champions in Hawaii. Villegas was bounced for signing for an incorrect score after he failed to penalize himself for violating the rule of golf concerning the removal of loose impediments (in this case, some tufts of grass) while his ball was in motion — rolling back toward him after his chip failed to clear a bank in front of a green.
Poulter used his Twitter account to tweet: “No one likes a snitch.”
Poulter forgot that one of the foundations of tournament golf is players have to be “snitches,” to use that ugly word. A better way to put it is “protecting the field.”
Reporting rules violations, whether it was a guy who saw it on TV or someone’s playing partner, is necessary. It’s not about punishing one player to benefit another. It’s about everyone else in that tournament field who might be penalized if that one player gets away with cheating.
And Poulter, a world-class player and ordinarily a gentleman, should know that before he pops off on Twitter.
One of the frequent criticisms about the bowl season is that teams have as much as six weeks between their final regular-season or conference champion game, and the bowl game. That can result, the critics harp, in rusty performances, especially on offense.
They had a strong case in the sloppy 22-19 victory for Auburn over Oregon Monday in the BCS national championship game. The combined 41 points was about five touchdowns less than most over-under numbers coming out of Las Vegas.
Which leads to the question: Which bowl games have been the most offensive-minded in recent years?
One of the top in that regard is in Jacksonville.
Since the BCS national championship was created as a stand-alone game with the 2007 meeting between Florida and Ohio State, the highest-scoring bowl game traditionally played on New Year’s Day or after is the Fiesta Bowl, averaging 60.2 points in the last five games (a total of 301 points). The Progressive Gator Bowl is second with 299 points (59.8 points per game), and the Sugar Bowl is third with 286 points (57.2 points per game).
The BCS national championship game has averaged 53.2 points per game since the Gators beat Ohio State 41-14. The Rose Bowl averages 52.2 points over the same span, followed by the Cotton (50.0), the Outback (48.6), the Capital One (47.0) and the Orange (46.6).
Fired Michigan football coach Rich Rodriguez apparently isn’t leaving with hard feelings.
Rodriguez, who was dismissed as the Wolverines coach earlier this week and replaced by Brady Hoke, dropped off 12 bags of Michigan apparel to a Salvation Army store in Wayne, Mich., on Thursday. Major John Aren of the Salvation Army told the Detroit Free Press that Rodriguez personally delivered 432 items to the store, located about 15 miles from Detroit.
And a lot of it can be put to good use during a Midwestern winter, since it included warm-weather garb such as jackets.
The Salvation Army store is planning a “Coach’s Closest Sale,” today from noon to 2 p.m., with prices starting at $6 on the items.
Rodriguez was fired after the Wolverines lost to Mississippi State 52-14 in the Progressive Gator Bowl Jan. 1. It was the only bowl game Michigan played during his three years, and his final record as the Michigan coach was 15-22.
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