The CheckerBoard

Most reporters cover a football coach who only wants to talk football and even then say as little as possible. Just think of how the other reporters envied Wes because for the past three years he got to cover a football coach who seemed to want to discuss everything but football. Wes never had to work hard - just turn on his tape reporter and the story wrote itself - minus those parts where Doolander cussed him. Now comes Butch Jones and Wes' quote machine dries up. Now he has to work to dig quotes and come up with interesting angles for what is essentially the same story day after day.

So, to make poor Wes feel better (or maybe worse) I offer up the following:

"We’re water and bamboo. That’s about all I can say. Bamboo sits there and you water it, and you water it, and you water it. It sits there and it doesn’t grow and it doesn’t grow and you water it and you keep watering it and nothing’s happening. If you don’t understand bamboo, you say it’s never going to grow. And then you come out and it goes ZHOOM! That’s what’s going to happen. I don’t know when that is."