His views on todays CFB its state, realignment and other views he has on modern day sports.


http://www.texasmonthly.com/story/dan-je...ing-sports

Found the views expressed poignant on how OU HC was the best job in America, in comparison to UT's HC job.

Some great quotes:

JS: That whole romantic newspaperman’s world is vanishing now.

DJ: There’s no there there—there’s no bar to go to, you can’t smoke, there are only two or three people in the press box that aren’t morons.

JS: With all the concern over head injuries, people are starting to suggest that football itself is politically incorrect. Do you think the handwringing about concussions is overblown?

DJ: Yes. It’s a tough game, and they know what they’re getting into. But I do worry about what’s going to result from that. My greatest fear, and I won’t live to see it happen, is for the United States men to win the World Cup [in] soccer. It would start something.

JS: I think it’s already started.

DJ: A little bit. I go back to something someone else said: “I can't get interested in a sport where nobody falls on a loose ball.”

JS: You write that pro football today is what college football once was.

DJ: Just in terms of coverage. People your age think there’s always been pro football around Texas, but there wasn’t. The Cowboys came in 1960. If you wanted to see baseball, you went to St. Louis. We had high school football, which was enormous. College football was king. Golf was semi-king. Track and field was a major sport—now you can’t find a result from one of the relays in the paper. Pro football did it. Pro football ate newspapers alive. So did baseball. And the NBA, which I hate.

(02-20-2014 09:26 PM)bullet Wrote:  Some great quotes:

JS: That whole romantic newspaperman’s world is vanishing now.

DJ: There’s no there there—there’s no bar to go to, you can’t smoke, there are only two or three people in the press box that aren’t morons.

JS: With all the concern over head injuries, people are starting to suggest that football itself is politically incorrect. Do you think the handwringing about concussions is overblown?

DJ: Yes. It’s a tough game, and they know what they’re getting into. But I do worry about what’s going to result from that. My greatest fear, and I won’t live to see it happen, is for the United States men to win the World Cup [in] soccer. It would start something.

JS: I think it’s already started.

DJ: A little bit. I go back to something someone else said: “I can't get interested in a sport where nobody falls on a loose ball.”

JS: You write that pro football today is what college football once was.

DJ: Just in terms of coverage. People your age think there’s always been pro football around Texas, but there wasn’t. The Cowboys came in 1960. If you wanted to see baseball, you went to St. Louis. We had high school football, which was enormous. College football was king. Golf was semi-king. Track and field was a major sport—now you can’t find a result from one of the relays in the paper. Pro football did it. Pro football ate newspapers alive. So did baseball. And the NBA, which I hate.

In some ways I feel we are the poorer for it.

"Semi-Tough" is a great novel. Sort of the comedic/gonzo version of North Dallas Forty.

The movie with Burt Reynolds and Kris Kristofferson was decent but several notches below the book...