College football season is upon us and the game has been plagued by malapropisms, misnomers, and the such for years. The phrase QB keeper gave way to zone read and now the new broken phrase is RPO or run-pass option. Joel Klatt thinks the west coast offense is the only way to go- making him a schematic dinosaur. Then there’s Kirk Herbstreit and his confused commentary regarding RPO’s. Chris Spielman denying the benefits of Rugby tackling (Hawk tackling) was another misstep in pushing college football in the right direction.
Announcers are horrifying and the Solid Verbal fellas have their “fantasy things draft” about what gets mentioned by college football the most and my podcast, Coachspeak, has a phrase called “muted musings” which is about the phrases the announcers use that force us to mute our TV’s.