Is it okay for your football coach to be good at golf?

A unique aspect of college football is that it often feels like there is no offseason, thanks to recruiting. And this country’s sports culture in general reinforces the idea that if you aren’t working all of the time, you’re falling behind. So there are always people within any given fanbase that are outraged to discover that their team’s players or coaches have outside interests.

Interests outside of football run contrary to the delivery of football happiness that these people think they’re owed. Golf in particular can be a lightning rod. But a lot of college coaches do play golf, and many of them play frequently enough to get pretty good at it, so there’s really no big deal to be found here.

But the lunatics will tell you that this is exactly the problem, that coach ain’t hustling. Coach needs to be thinking about his plan on 4th-and-3, not how he can hole out the fourth in three!

And you know what? Those people are absolutely right.

WE JUST LOST A DATGONE BOWL GAME TO GUYS WEARING PURPLE ON PURPOSE WITH THE OFFENSIVE LINE LOOKING LIKE AN ELECTRIC FOOTBALL GAME CIRCA 1968 EVERY OTHER WEEK. WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU HAVE A TOP-20 HANDICAP? OH YOU HAVE A HANDICAP, ALL RIGHT, BUB.

Ahem. Sorry. I blacked out. I forgot what we were talking about.