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Texas Tech has fire their football coach for basically locking a player up in the storage room. There seems to be a rift between coach and player and when the player was injured in practice with a concussion this was the coaches punishment to him.

Since I am from the old school I came up during the time of "Bull in the ring". If you were put in a circle with five or six players surrounding you with each having a number. When your number was called you tackled the player in the middle. You would move back to your position and another number was called until the player in the middle was exhausted. If you failed to tackle him once the player basically went down to his knees and couldn't get up, you were put in the ring.

My Junior year the first week of summer practice our second string quarterback's family went on vacation and he missed the first week. His first day to practice we went through a normal practice and after we had done our conditioning sprints and suicides we were told to go down on one knee at the back of the end zone. Our coach called for vacation boy to come forward and proceeded to make him continue to do sprints in front of the team until he quit the team.

As the years have passed coaches have become more humane in their treatment so locking a player in a storage room is mild to what I grew up being exposed to.

Now days if the player can't follow your rules kick him off the team and don't worry with him any more or make him follow the rules to come back.

I know they are out there on the other coast but the people who pull for UCLA must be pulling their hair out at this season. The leading NCAA basketball championship school is only 7-7 so far this year. Carolina has lost three games this year and Carolina fans are pulling their hair out over that.

Kentucky in the middle of December became the first major college to win 2,000 game. That is impressive but I have to give Carolina some love here. Kentucky has been playing basketball for seven more years and it will not take Carolina seven years to hit 2,000. Maybe next year?

The ACC loses another bowl game. Miami was man handled by Wisconsin but the game was not as close as the score.