NCAA Gives Jim Haslett a Facial

The Saints just can't buy a break. Getting a win last week was just too much prosperity for the franchise, so it was time to take them down a notch. It would have been too blatant for Tagliabue to screw them over- he's already done enough. So this time the NCAA took their shot. The Saints are about to be moved to a high school for the next few weeks while the NCAA takes over the Alamodome for the Women's NCAA Volleyball tournament. According to the story:

The football team's locker room will move to a high school baseball field. The weight room will go into a tent on the field's parking lot. The front-office personnel will relocate to a city water works building.

Listen, I like women's volleyball as much as the next guy. In fact, it's a safe (and a little too revealing) bet that I like women's volleyball a lot more than the next guy. Something about the ponytails, I suppose. And I'm sure the tournament draws a few thousand parents, err...fans. But this scheduling conflict has been known by both parties for a few months. In that time, the NCAA could have and should have found an alternate site for the tournament. Maybe the NCAA could recognize the Katrina Relief fund- play at Minute Maid Park in Houston and let refugees in for free. They already have practice chanting from their days stranded at the Superdome when the only authorities that would visit were news crews. Just modify their old "fooood! chant to "roooof" and they'll fit right in.

Sure, the shops at the Riverwalk may lose out on some precious scrunchie income, but such is the price of dignity.