Out of sight out of mind

Justin McMillan is going to Tulane.

Former LSU quarterback Justin McMillan announced on ESPN 104.5 radio in Baton Rouge on Friday morning that he was transferring to Tulane, immediately bolstering a depth-shy position.

McMillan, a fourth-year junior who earned a degree this summer, can play right away and will have two years of eligibility left. Tulane has not officially confirmed his enrollment yet.

It's more and more difficult to be a football fan these days. And there's good reason for that beginning with the mounting medical evidence that the game probably shouldn't be played at all. There are also the myriad political problems. The NFL is a cabal of entitled and rapacious billionaires hoovering up public subsidies, spewing out paid military propaganda, and exploiting female employees in a number of disgusting ways some of which verge on human trafficking. The NCAA is arguably even worse given that it runs entirely on slave labor and arbitrary justice. (That last link has a somewhat happy ending albeit one that only further highlights the absurdity.)

The point is, just paying attention at all weighs heavily on the brain. Not quite as much as actually playing football does but, still, it's a lot to overcome. And yet we continue. Maybe out of habit. Maybe we're the last generation to have been sufficiently acculturated to maintain the cognitive dissonance necessary.  If so, that's probably a good thing. The best outcome may be that all of this dies with us.

For the time being, though, we're still gonna watch. And while that happens, we're still going to point out that LSU went out of its way to block McMillan from transferring to any school it might consider a rival. 

As a condition for his release, McMillan was barred from transferring to another SEC school or any team the Tigers were playing in the next two years.

Which is how he ended up at... Tulane.