We’ve reached that weird point in the summer where we want to pretend college football season is here but — in reality — kickoff is more than a month away.
The source of all this undue excitement is nothing other than “Media Days” — the annual preseason media conference where beat reporters, columnists and radio/TV guys converge in a single location for two-to-three full days of press availability.
Coaches, shielded by a savvy media relations team, do their best to speak for a full day without actually saying anything. Members of the press goad them — looking for any semblance of news that could feed a nation of ravenously hungry college football fans.