Big Ten football media days just completed a two-day run in Chicago, where the only thing deeper than the pizza was the manure coming from coaches’ mouths.
One account had reporters wearing hip waders to step through the spin. So inflated was the hype that media members were tasked with holding guide ropes to keep coaches’ heads from floating away. One rumor had Jim Harbaugh’s ego being invited to the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade.
All unsubstantiated, of course.
As with rhetoric at political conventions, it takes a trained ear to translate what is said into what it really means.