It's that magic time of year. Heat indexes throughout the Midwest have climbed into the 100's, school children are trying desperately to eek out the last bit of fun in their final weeks of freedom, and Big Ten football fans are feverishly counting down the days until the season starts. In the midst of this boiling teapot of late summer madness comes a very special event. The Big Ten Media Days.
Where else can you see a spectacle that includes a perpetually surly, combative, and surly Kirk Ferentz with Tim Brewster Beckman, the off his rocker coach who thinks the media is supposed to be a personal cheerleader and who wishes his Mom a happy birthday every single year (even though it is never her birthday when he does it)?