Spring ball is over. The draft is done. Even most of the offseason conference meetings are finished, meaning we've officially entered the deadest two-month stretch of the college football calendar.
And that's a drag.
Sure, now's the time of year to gripe about some NCAA governance issue or continue the ongoing argument about the merits of 8 vs. 9 conference games that certainly will be viewed as the Lincoln-Douglas debates of our time.
But we've still got a whole bunch of days to kill before college football gets geared up again. And over these next few months, news is sparse. A commitment here. An arrest there. Summer workouts that aren't a whole lot more interesting than players running 7-on-7 drills in shorts. A -- yawn -- court case about player likenesses that might be seismic but is about as far from a football field as you can get.
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Occasionally some news will happen, however. And I use "news" in the relative sense. If this stuff happened during the season, 95 percent of it wouldn't warrant a headline. But here in the void, it's something that people pay attention to.
So just in case you aren't properly prepared, this handy flowchart will serve as a guide for how most fans react to offseason news in my experience (even for the APR release, which was Wednesday). Stick to this script and before you know it, the mid-July media days will be here with training camps just around the corner.
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