Oversleeping On Tuesday

Random thoughts on a morning in which I overslept by 35 minutes and
thankfully was saved by my wife who woke up before I did:

It’s funny how most of us are on such a regimented time schedule that any diversion can kind of throw us off. Sleeping late meant I got out of the house behind schedule, stopped for my coffee later than usual and had to scramble once I got to work. Of course for those of you who commute and might have to catch a bus or train being late can have far greater repercussions.

I don’t really know Joe Scarpelli well, having only met the former Brick mayor on a few occasions. He was sentenced to 18 months in prison Monday for accepting bribes while in office and many I’m sure will look to “kick him when he’s down.” However Scarpelli was a pretty good public servant and a dynamic mayor for many years and certainly deserves some of the credit for creating the atmosphere which brought so much new business to Brick. Here’s hoping he does his time and is able to go on with his life.

As sports fans many of us rip professional athletes for their lack of loyalty and usually in the end following the money and caring little about the uniform. That’s what’s happening in college sports, but it’s the coaches not the athletes who are the ones not being loyal. The latest is Rich Rodriguez, who Monday accepted the football coaching job at Michigan. He leaves West Virginia University less than a year after he was courted by Alabama but turned them down thanks in part to a new contact at WVU. Rodriguez is a West Virginia native and said being a Mountaineer player and later a coach was all he ever dreamed about and there’s nowhere he’d rather be than Morgantown. However when Michigan came calling all that turned out to be talk and despite having a contract, despite his team having a bowl game in two weeks and despite recruiting players by saying he would not leave…he did just that. The hypocrisy of it all is that he leaves free and clear and the players can’t…unless they want to transfer and lose a year of eligibility.

The only bright spot is that young men get a good life’s lesson….the rich (as in Rich Rodriguez) get richer.