Housekeeping: For letters selected, we may ask if it’s
ok to use your full name, but it’s completely up to you. (Meant to ask everybody but breaking
down game tape took precedence, only got around to asking Tom.)
From: Tom Pounds
What is the all-knowing Seer's record since he
started prognostications, years ago?
A: Going into ‘03, the Crimson Seer has compiled a 202-99
record since 1998; a 67% clip.
For comparison
purposes; In 2002, the Seer checked in at 68%. That percentage bested all five
self-titled ‘experts’ at CBS Sportsline.com. None too surprising when you consider
the Sportsline 117, their marquee poll. They actually dropped
Washington State two slots to #31 this week after WSU pitched a shutout and
racked up 300+ on the ground.
Wonder what needed to be done just to remain at #29.. I’m also wondering what the expert’s
entrance exam looks like over there..
Must be rigorous.
From: Anonymous
Can you elaborate on what the supplemental draft
is? I believe Timm
Rosenbach was a #1 pick in this kind of draft in
1988/89.
Briefly, the
supplemental draft is usually held in the summer but can occur anytime and
multiple drafts have taken place in the same year, (in ‘85 there were
four.) Using the previous year's
draft order, a team can make a selection in all 7 rounds. If a team makes a pick, they forfeit
that round’s pick in the subsequent regular draft. Entire rounds have gone by with no
picks, as well as entire drafts with nary a player selected.
Players are available
in an SD for varying reasons.
Simply put, Rosenbach decided after the 1988 season to enter the NFL but
had missed the deadline for the regular draft. There has been no appreciable salary
difference because a player is a supplemental draft pick.
From:
Anonymous
The Fight Song; did WSU change the lyrics at some
point in the last 20-30 years, if so, when, and why?
A: The “WSU Fight Song” remains the
same as the day it was written by music majors Zella Melcher and Phyllis Sayles
in 1919. There are different versions such as the
'spell-out'. "Cougars" was officially adopted by the student body as
Washington State’s mascot six months after the fight song was penned -
therefore the word "cougar(s)" is not included.
The
official alma mater, “Washington, My Washington” was written in 1914 by
J. DeForest Cline and was judged as honorable mention in a national alma mater
contest. The alma mater is also
played and sung at each home football game.
From: Christopher
A.
With QB Alex
Brink, I know the coaches are going to do everything they can not to burn
his redshirt. How much can someone
play before they give up their redshirt?
A: Excellent question but damn you, sir,
for asking it - as I had to unpack my NCAA rules book. (I miss RN.) Non-injury exceptions are perhaps possible regarding redshirts, but the NCAA rule states,“It
does not matter how long you were involved in a particular competition (for
example, one play in a football game, one point in a volleyball match); you will
be charged with one season of competition.”
An
extra year of eligibility can be granted via a "hardship waiver" if a
student-athlete suffers an incapacitating injury or illness during the season.
It must occur during the first half of the season and the student-athlete, in
Divisions I and II, must not have participated in more than two contests or 20%
of the school's completed contests, whichever is greater.
The Jimmy
Mail
From:
Anonymous
..Isn’t it obvious WSU has no chance to beat Notre
Dame? Don’t you think WSU will
be in awe of the mystique? Isn’t it
clear the (Cougs) will be lucky to win more than 5 games this
year?
A: No.
From:
Richard
What did
you think of Idaho on Saturday?
A: Jimmy thinks Idaho is better than many
believe. Idaho’s D played very well
before tiring, RB Malfred
Shaw is a player and the coaching staff
put forth an excellent plan while making several prescient game calls.
Sports Illustrated had Idaho 116th out of 117
D1 teams. Jimmy thinks SI has been
drinking a Beano shake twice a day during the offseason. What is it with these hacks? Jimmy doesn’t think Idaho is a Top 25
team but second to last? No
chance. Its more than ok to be
wrong, but not because you’re too lazy to do your job. Jimmy’s list of media laggards to email
& laugh at continues to grow to record proportions..
From:
Michael
..With
Keith Gilbertson talking about bringing back DJ’s Tower, any chance we’ll
see a similar structure on the Palouse?
A: Jimmy likes your style. The answer is No, but you already knew
that. Jimmy is having a hard time
making fun of Gilbertson. It would
certainly be helpful if Gilby could say and do things more like his
predecessor. Or at least build that
stupid tower. Nonetheless, Jimmy
soldiers on..
Because
Jimmy has connections. Should Gilby
bring back that bygone relic, Jimmy will take flight in the Blue Angels C-130;
Fat Albert. (It’ll be like
the mother ship, calling him home.)
Jimmy
thinks the second it goes up it’ll be time. Time to buzz the tower.
Jimmy’s
crazy that way.
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