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The legendary and often misunderstood Jake Scott took time out from his busy fishing-and-traveling-the-world schedule to be interviewed via conference call this past Friday. The occasion for this rare media opportunity was Scott's recent selection to be inducted into the National Football Foundation's College Football Hall of Fame. The actual induction ceremonies will take place in December at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City.
Scott, a native of Greenwood, S.C., who played football for Georgia from 1966-68, was an All-SEC and All-America safety and kick returner for the Bulldogs. He still holds the school record for career interceptions with 16, which he collected in the only two seasons he was eligible for the Bulldogs, 1967-68. Freshmen were ineligible to play in 1966 and he controversially left the team to play in the Canadian Football League in 1969 (the NFL wouldn't draft underclassmen in those days).
After one year of CFL ball, Scott embarked on an all-star professional career with the Miami Dolphins. In Miami, Scott was selected to five Pro Bowls (1971-75), played in three Super Bowls and was named MVP of Super Bowl VII in 1972 when the Dolphins finished 17-0. He intercepted 49 career passes and recovered 13 fumbles as a pro, including three seasons with the Washington Redskins.
Scott largely disappeared from public view after retiring from the NFL in 1978. After living high up in the Rocky Mountains in Colorado for a while, he moved out to the island of Kauai in Hawaii. He still resides there, staying fishing, playing golf and hanging out with friends. He also travels extensively between Hawaii, Georgia, Key West, Fla., New Zealand, Australia and other parts unknown.
Following is the exchange between me and Jake and a few other reporters who called in to take part in what ended up being a 20-minute interview.
Q: Jake, I have to ask you the most important question of all. Did you really ride a motorcycle across the top of Stegeman Coliseum?
A: "Well, you've got to call Brad Johnson [UGA running back, 1966-68] because he was the witness. That is an important question. It was an exciting ride. I had an old BSA. I went over the top. Going down the other side was tough. That's when I got afraid."
Q: How do you feel about being selected for induction into the College Football Hall of Fame?
A: "I think it's a team honor more than it is a personal honor, because football is a team sport and if it wasn't for the good players around me at Georgia or the good players around me in Miami, I wouldn't be there. If you're a loser, you lose. But if you win, you've got to win as a team. I'm just thankful for my teammates. I'm appreciative of what I'm getting but I wish they would've gotten more publicity. I can't even remember what I did. That's when you know you're old. I've been real lucky and I'm thankful for it. I try to have some humility about it."
Q: You've kind of infamously been out of the limelight since your retirement from the NFL. Can you explain why you've been somewhat hidden from public view?
A: "Well, there's a great world out there and you need to get out there and see it. You can get caught up in your own life too much. You should go out and see other cultures and see other people and meet different people and just understand what's going on in the whole world and understand what it's about. That's my advice. You're not going to get really rich, but you're going to have a good life. You can stay in one place all you like, which is great. But if you get out you find out everybody has the same problems, any races, any cultures, any creeds. That's what you'll find out; we're all stuck here together. We should try to figure out a way to get along."
Q: When asked about your inclusion in the Hall of Fame, your former coach Vince Dooley said you were the best overall athlete he'd ever coached. What did you think of those remarks?
A: "Well. I don't know, he's had some great players there. I must've blackmailed him or something for him to say that. But I appreciate that, because we had some great players come through Georgia and some great players who played for Coach Dooley, so I appreciate that statement. I'm not sure if it's true, but I appreciate it."
Q: Is it true that you had a rift with Coach Dooley over him accepting a bid to play in the Sugar Bowl rather than the Orange Bowl in 1968? And is that why you decided to leave after your junior season?
A: "Our whole team — and I think Coach Dooley put it in his book — something happened and we were promised we could pick where we wanted to go. And something happened with [former athletic director Joel Eaves] and Coach Dooley where they took the Sugar Bowl. We felt like we had a chance to play for the national championship. This was a team thing. We just felt like he didn't think we could go over and beat Auburn and that really hurt our team. That's what it was about, because we thought we were headed for the Orange Bowl. I think we were [ranked] 3 or 4 and 1 and 2 were playing in the Rose Bowl, and we thought we had a chance to win a national championship at the time. That's how we felt.
"We all wanted the Orange Bowl. We were scheduled to play Kansas in the Orange Bowl. I could be wrong; that's been a million years ago. But I think that's what it was. So everybody on our team was really upset because we felt like, if you've got a chance to go for the ring, go for the ring.You know, what the hell!"
Q: So was that why you left?
A: "Yeah, that's why I left. I went up to Canada to play wide receiver. Brad Johnson and I went up to the B.C. Lions and I played wide receiver for a year, just because I wanted to play some offense for a little bit. I got drafted by Miami and Joe Thomas bought me out of my contract and they got me down to Miami. That's what happened."
Q: So what have you been doing with your time?
A: "Nothing, just fishing and playing golf. I come back to the mainland a lot. My girlfiend, Laura Braswell, she's got Buckhead Periodonics. And my mom [Mary H. Scott], she's in assisted living — well, she calls it 'independent living – at Merrill Gardens there on Johnson Ferry Road in Atlanta. So I get back and forth a good bit. But mostly just messing around between Hawaii and Georgia and Florida. I get down to Key West where my sister lives. I see her a good bit. Just traveling. We head to New Zealand every now and then and Australia and mess around that way. Mostly traveling and relaxing and fishing, doing what you're supposed to do when you're retired, if you're lucky."
Q: Do you visit with your former Dolphins' teammates much?
A: "Every now and then I talk with them. I ran into a bunch of them when I went back down last year [for the Honor Roll induction]. [Larry] Csnoka is always trying to get me to go on his fishing show. But I said, 'the hell with that.' If you want to come over here [to Hawaii] I'll show you the real show on how to fish. We talk to each other every now and the. I talk to Dick Anderson and Jim before he passed away last month. But I always stay in touch."
Q: What is your most profound on-field memory from Georgia?
A: "I guess when we got lucky and tied Houston [10-10 in 1968]. We went 8-0-2 and Houston just kicked the hell out of us. We got lucky and tied it up. Afterward, Coach Dooley said 'I hope we can meet them again in a bowl somewhere.' And Brad Johnson and me looked at each other said, 'I guess he wasn't at the same game we were at; I don't want to see those guys again.' That's a true story.
"If you look it up, they killed us. Erk Russell said we're going to have to hold them to 200 yards rushing. I think they had 220 yards in the first half and they fumbled like five times inside our 2-yard-line. But that was an embarrassing game and we got lucky to tie. They were running the veer option and we couldn't stop them. We got lucky at the end of the game and Jim McCullough kicked a field goal to tie the game for us. We had a guy named David Rholetter, he was All-SEC tackle, and he went up to McCullough and looked at him and said, 'McCullough, if you miss this field goal I'm gonna kill you.' That's a true story. But you remember your losses more than your wins. "
Q: Some of said that '68 team was as good as any Georgia has ever had?
A: "We had a great football team; we really did. Nobody could block [Bill] Stanfill and we had some great players and some great guys. That's why I thought we should've tried for the national championship. We could play with anybody at the time, except maybe Houston. They had like six No. 1 draft choices.
"We should have won the Tennessee game. We messed up in that one. We should have lost the Houston game, so things balanced out I guess. You can't worry about it."
Q: Do you ever get back for Georgia football games these days?
A: "I went to the Alabama game when they lost three or four years ago. They asked Brad Johnson and me to be honorary captains for the coin toss. That's been about it. I don't get back much for football games. Crowds, too many people. Can I tell you the truth? Too many people; too many [expletive]. That's not politcally correct but that's the truth."
Q: I loved the story Dave Hyde of the South Florida Sun Sentinel did back in 2006 when he tracked you down in Kauai. Did you read it?
A: "He had it wrong; most of it was wrong. He went to the Tahiti Nui [lounge] and had a few too many beers. But he did a pretty good job. He wrote a good story. I'm just kidding. He made me look a lot better than I am. I think he enjoyed himself while he was here."
Q: I guess the big question now is whether you'll actually show up for the black tie induction ceremony at the Waldorf Astoria in December. So will you?
A: "What really happened, I had a good friend, Jim Mandich [former Miami Dolphins player and talk radio personality]. Well, 'Maddog' Mandich passed away last month. He called me [earlier this year] and he said, 'if I get you in the college Hall of Fame, will you cooperate?' I said, 'whatever you want me to do, Jim.' So I'm going."
Q: So will you continue to keep a low profile?
A: "I haven't been hiding out. I've just been somewhere else."
May 23rd, 2011
4:34 pm
Good read Chip. Loved to watch him and Anderson in that Dophin secondary. As an Auburn man, not so much at Georgia.
May 23rd, 2011
4:35 pm
May 23rd, 2011
4:36 pm
Awesome Jake!
May 23rd, 2011
4:39 pm
Nice … Scott sounds like a real character who would be fun to hang out with.
May 23rd, 2011
4:40 pm
This man gets it.
May 23rd, 2011
4:58 pm
A former roommate of mine told me a story about Scott after he had been kicked out of McWhorter Hall, which was the athletes' dorm at the time. He got placed in my friend's hall and was either really really mad or really really loaded one night and walked down the hallway knocking holes in the wall with a broom handle. Everybody was afraid to confront, so they called the UGA police, but they didn't want to get close to him either. He ran out of hallway (or consciousness) and just walked away.
THAT's the kind of guy we need in the defensive backfield today.
May 23rd, 2011
5:09 pm
Jake is the coolest dude, to ever play , at Georgia
May 23rd, 2011
5:10 pm
Question….what's the "expletive" that wouldn't have been politically correct to put in the piece??? Any hints or similar verbage?
May 23rd, 2011
5:15 pm
What's it mean to keep a low profile and out of the public view? It means not taking one of those hanger-on jobs like being an NFL analyst or taking some blowhard job with ESPN. It means going out and living the rest of your life.
May 23rd, 2011
5:20 pm
I played golf with a guy who was his roomate on the freshman team. It was a pleasurable round of golf and he certainly confirmed a lot of the old stories and told new ones that aren't fit to print in a family newspaper.
Unfortunately, men like Jake Scott wouldn't last ten days in Athens (or Tuscaloosa for that matter). Just too damn wild, but the man gave 110% until it was in the bag. Damn Good Dawg!!!
May 23rd, 2011
5:21 pm
He played before my time, but he sounds like one heckuva character and an even better teammate. You couldn't come close to getting away with the things some of the athletes did back then. Different times I guess.
Ron Roberts,
My guess would be "a–holes", but who knows for sure.
May 23rd, 2011
5:22 pm
I'm guessing the end of the G-I tract……
May 23rd, 2011
5:23 pm
Great article, Mr. Towers.
May 23rd, 2011
5:24 pm
Chip, probably your finest article…thanks. Jake and I had several classes together and he was one of a kind. Too bad we don't have these "characters" around anymore.
May 23rd, 2011
5:26 pm
Jake was 16 when he was Kelley's (Athenians will know who I'm talking about) only helper on the annual Athens YMCA California bus trip I went on in the 6th grade. Never saw him again before he was playing football at UGA. Never talked to him during his UGA years saw him in Athens after he won Super Bowl MVP during thier undefeated season. Was amazed that he remembered my name. Had nice chat with him. Could not have been nicer. Agree with Black Mtn. Dog – he was the coolest dude to ever play for the Dogs.
May 23rd, 2011
5:30 pm
Great article. I would love to see more players (and coaches) like Jake Scott today.
May 23rd, 2011
5:32 pm
@Effie's…I bet Jake spent more time with Athens' telephone operators than visiting at your boarding house.
May 23rd, 2011
5:38 pm
UGA Football needs more Jake Scotts…
May 23rd, 2011
5:48 pm
Jake Scott was my favorite football player ever. And ever is a long time as I am seventy one now. Larry Csonka would be a close second and Dick Anderson would be in there too. These guys were all amazing and a lot of fun to watch and root for. Bob Griese was the smartest quarterback if not the most talented, and the whole team back then was just amazing as the 17 – 0 season suggests. I miss them like I miss Johnny Cash.
May 23rd, 2011
5:51 pm
Great interview. Great Bulldog.
Needs to grow up. A man who holds a 40 year grudge (against a class guy like Dooley) about which bowl game to play in has real issues.
May 23rd, 2011
5:53 pm
Outstanding article about an outstanding player.
Word was always out on campus about which athletes you did not
mess with unless you had drawn your will and had lots of life insurance.
Jake Scott was on that list as was Ray Jeffords of the roundball team.
Throw in Dennis Hughes just for good measure and you always kept
your distance around those guys.
I was in the student section at the 1968 Houston game and that was
probably the greatest talent gap in a game other than the 1971 Sun Bowl
playing Nebraska and Rich Glover. How UGA managed a tie with Houston
is one of life's mysteries.
Kind of like knowing whether Jake drove the cycle across the top of
the Coliseum !!
May 23rd, 2011
6:03 pm
Vince Dooley has no more class than Jake Scott.
May 23rd, 2011
6:05 pm
I was in college at UGA when Jake played and I honestly believe he was the best football player I have ever seen (including Herschel)! He was so 'in the zone' it was unbelievable. Scott Woerner was a great defensive back in his day but he was no Jake Scott!
May 23rd, 2011
6:06 pm
"Vince Dooley has no more class than Jake Scott."
May 23rd, 2011
6:32 pm
Jake is a free spirit and could care less what anyone else thinks. He has better things to do with his time. My favorite story about Jake happened after he moved to the Rockies. Jake was in a bar and a big guy walked up and asked if he had really been an NFL player. Jake said yes and the big guy told Jake that he was the toughest SOB around and that he was going to kick Jake's a$$. Jake decked the guy with one punch and knocked him out cold. Jake looked around the bar and said"is he really the toughest guy ya'll have around here?"
May 23rd, 2011
7:18 pm
No.13 was a football player.
May 23rd, 2011
7:19 pm
RIP Jake Scott football player. Kick ass Jake Scott loving life guy
May 23rd, 2011
7:30 pm
Fantastic interview. Thanks to all who made it happen.
May 23rd, 2011
7:44 pm
I was at Tech when Scott was at UGA. I have to tell you, he was amazing. There have been very few like him. A truly great player.
I remember him so well. He was always doing what it took to win.
A prototype winner. Great article. Thank you.
May 23rd, 2011
7:52 pm
patrocket you know nothing about georgia football jake scott the greatest character to ever play at georgia
May 23rd, 2011
8:02 pm
Let's not paint Jake as some kind of disjointed individual. Jake is one of the nicest guys you could meet. He didn't look for trouble, but did not back away from it. His mom was a professor and if I am not mistaken, a PHD.
A great athlete and always friendly. Like someone said, also one of "Kelley's Boys" growing up at the Athens Y.
May 23rd, 2011
8:16 pm
Chip, I LOVE that you were able to share this convo with all of us….THIS guy, sadly, represents the dying breed of football player that made college football so great! He was never about the spotlight and opts to LIVE life now as opposed to living in the past! "I haven't been hiding out. I've just been somewhere else"….GREAT LINE! As Jake Scott might say, "That's a true story"!
May 23rd, 2011
8:48 pm
Loved the interview. Scott was one of the best and exciting players to watch. He was tall and had long legs and when he got the ball he could make people miss. I remember the Houston game. Vintage Dooley-Russell football. Bend but don't break. Keep the other team from scoring and score a field goal to win it. The 1966-68 teams were gutsy and fun to watch.
May 23rd, 2011
8:51 pm
Jake Scott and Ronnie Lott! Best I have ever seen!
May 23rd, 2011
9:28 pm
Jake's 90-yard punt return gave UGA the lead in the 1968 opener at Tennessee, but the Vols came back to tie it 17-17. I was there.
May 23rd, 2011
9:59 pm
Doesn't sound like he is holding any kind of grudge. He has moved on and is living his life to the fullest. Bothe he and Dooley are classy individuals and any effort to paint either in any other light would be a travesty.
May 23rd, 2011
10:14 pm
Asa, I've forgotten more Georgia football than you will ever know. As I said, Scott is a great Bulldogs.
What I said is that a man who holds a 40 year grudge, over what was at worst a mistake in judgement has issues. I standy by that. Dooley didn't sleep with his wife or steal money from him.
And pforan, if he has indeed finally moved on, that is a great thing. But apparently he wouldn't have anything to do with the program as long as Dooley was there (per the Sun Sentinel). He has held a similar grudge against Don Shula for some perceived slight. Dooley and Shula are almost universally recognized as men of sterling character.
May 23rd, 2011
10:27 pm
You are one of the best athletes to ever play for the Bulldogs. Brad Johnson was in my gymnastics class and you would come in and the end of class. I almost got you killed by daring you to vault the horse. You did but fell on the vault. I almost had heart failure when you fell. I hope Rita is doing well. I was in highschool with her at Athens high.
May 23rd, 2011
10:47 pm
I too wish UGA COULD have players like Jake Scott today. Of course, in this ultra PC environment and with the intrusive eye of the NCAA, "Jake Scott" would be banned, if he was ever even recruited. I miss the good ole days. I too was at UGA with Jake, Stanfill, Cavan, et al.
May 23rd, 2011
10:53 pm
Stories like these are classic. Gotta wonder what would happen in todays environment if things like this happened. Like the pig roast in 1980. Jake was leaving as I was becoming a fledgling Dawg. He sounds like a guy I would get along with. What's the difference between guys getting into trouble now and then? Different times I guess, I sure preferred the old times. Thanks Chip.
May 23rd, 2011
11:00 pm
As a Tech fan I don't have any problems declaring Jake the best college db I've ever witnessed. He was a pleasure to watch and is one of my all-time favorites. Good article Chip!
May 23rd, 2011
11:08 pm
May 23rd, 2011
11:23 pm
Reminds me of another colorful player from SC, Alex Hawkins…… It's actually Johnson Ferry Rd, without the 's' at the end to indicate possession, but you're excused Mr. Scott & Mr. Towers. Amazing how many people live near the road and call it Johnson's Ferry; perhaps you, dear reader, will have your misperception corrected too…(Mr. Scott sounds too dangerous to tell about this)
May 23rd, 2011
11:24 pm
Good job. That was fun…
May 23rd, 2011
11:26 pm
I'm guessing the deleted expletive was "a-holes", but I may be wrong. Chip, can't you help???
May 24th, 2011
12:11 am
Paratrocket, the "perceived" slighr from Shula was that Shula wanted Scott to shoot up his hammy with pain killer to play in a pre-season game. Shoot up with a pulled hammy and you can't feel a tear. Tear a hammy and your career is over. Jake refused and Shula told him that if he didn't want to play the Dolphins had some young DBs that wanted to play. Scott said play'em and trade me. I heard this from a team mate of his in Miami. BTW, Scott was traded to the Redskins and got a 100,000 dollar raise. Not bad for being fired, huh? Pro football is a business and players are a commidity. The sooner a player realizes that he is a piece of meat and loyalty belongs to himself and not the team, and damm sure not the owners, the better off he will be.
May 24th, 2011
1:54 am
played freshman ball with Jake…no doubt, he could have started at any position he wanted…qb, wr, s, whatever… he could read a qb's mind like you and I read a book…..nice as they come…serious, but always a grin…everything came easy for him…probably reading all this stuff and remembering why he went away to begin with…no disrespect to Hershel, but Jake probably is the best athlete to ever come through UGA…..Jake, glad I saw you at the reunion of the 65 freshmen team…regards.. … keep having a good life…scratch…:)
May 24th, 2011
2:26 am
I too am curious as to what Jake and/or Mr. Towers would consider to be a non-politically correct expletive. I sure hope it would not involve prejudice of any kind and if he believes his '….we're all stuck here together…(and)…need to figure out how to get along', it couldn't.
And as for whether or not it is, or ever was, Johnson's Ferry, my bet is that one had to pay Mr. Johnson to ride on 'his' ferry-boat if one wanted to get to the other side.
May 24th, 2011
4:33 am
Met him at Sidelines several years ago & he couldn't have been nicer or more humble. Dooley was over-rated in my opinion & I've heard Shula could be an arse! Oh well, we all can!
May 24th, 2011
6:43 am
Jake "The Snake" Scott was a legend in athens– IN A LOT OF PLACES! (If you know what I mean) If not, don't ask.


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Yesterday we rated the quarterbacks in the SEC East. Today let's look at the SEC West, where the landscape has changed a little in the past 72 hours.
Remember that these rankings do not have anything to do with a player's NFL potential. This is strictly about the players' ability—or potential—at the college level.
If you disagree, and I'm sure many of you will, please give me your rankings and why. Here we go:
1. Ryan Mallett, Arkansas: Look at Mallett's numbers from last season, when he completed "only" 55.83 percent of his passes, and try to project them should he get into the 60 percent area, which I think he will this season. He threw for 3,640 yards. Tim Tebow was a distant second in the SEC at 2,895. His touchdown (30) to interception (7) ratio was 4.28. Only Tebow (4.2) and Alabama's Greg McElroy (4.25) were even close to that. He was seventh nationally in passing efficiency. Only one other SEC quarterback, Tebow at No. 1, was in the Top 10. The point is that last year was Mallett's first in Bobby Petrino's offense and he was able to put up those numbers. He is only going to get better. The only question I have is whether or not there will be any lingering effects from offseason foot surgery. I think Mallett can get into the Heisman Trophy race if he plays well in back-to-back games at Georgia (Sept. 18) and at home against Alabama (Sept. 25).
2. Greg McElroy, Alabama: I'm a big believer that great quarterbacks are not defined by what they do, but rather what they DON'T do. For Alabama's national championship team of 2009, the senior from Texas was the perfect quarterback. While the offense was leaning on running back Mark Ingram, who went on to win the Heisman Trophy, McElroy was the model of efficiency. He completed 60.9 percent of his passes for 2,508 yards, 17 touchdowns and only four interceptions. His interception percentage of 1.23 (4 interceptions in 325 pass attempts) was the lowest in school history and the second lowest in SEC history (in 1995 Peyton Manning had only four interceptions in 380 passing attempts, 1.05 percent).
But what impressed me the most about McElroy is when he hit a lull in the middle of the season he just kept playing through the tough times and then finished strong. There is a reason that, dating back to his senior year in high school, he is 30-0 as a starting quarterback.
3. Jeremiah Masoli, Nathan Stanley, Ole Miss: Before Masoli becomes the starting quarterback at Ole Miss he has to first win the job from Nathan Stanley, who had it coming out of spring practice. But based on the numbers he put up last season at Oregon, you'd have to give Masoli a real shot at being the starter by the time the Rebels play their SEC opener against Vanderbilt on Sept. 18.
Masoli had 386 yards of total offense (222 passing, 164 rushing) in a 44-10 destruction of USC. He had 389 yards of total offense against Stanford and 345 yards against Arizona. Yeah, he was doing it against Pac-10 defenses but still, the guy can make plays. Let's just say that Ole Miss thought it might have to put the "Wild Rebel" formation in mothballs because Dexter McCluster was gone. Nope. I think we'll see a lot of that shotgun formation with Masoli.
4. Cameron Newton, Auburn: The former Florida quarterback returns to the SEC after a stint at Blinn Junior College where he won a national championship and posted 3,488 yards of total offense and 38 touchdowns (22 pass, 16 run) in 2009. Newton is just a splendid athlete and has all of the physical tools to add yet another dimension to Gus Malzahn's offense. Newton is surrounded by playmakers at running back, wide receiver and has a veteran offensive line in front of him. Now opposing defenses, which could ignore a running threat of 2009 quarterback Chris Todd, will have to watch Newton every time he carries the ball with his 6-6, 247-pound frame. The only question I have is whether or not Newton can quickly adjust to the speed of SEC defenses. I'm betting he will.
5. Chris Relf, Tyler Russell, Mississippi State: Relf deserved the job coming out of spring practice because of the way he played at the end of last season, when he had 131 yards rushing in a big 41-24 win over Ole Miss. Relf was the better quarterback in the spring.
But at the end of last season I starting hearing that the best quarterback in camp was the guy they were redshirting, freshman Tyler Russell (6-5, 225). Both quarterbacks are going to play and when Russell comes off the bench the defensive coordinators are going to squirm in their seats a little. Dan Mullen was 5-7 in his first season in Starkville and there is no doubt that he is going to miss RB Anthony Dixon, who led the SEC in rushing per game (126.5)in 2009. He will need both quarterbacks because after the opener with Memphis, the Bulldogs play Auburn, LSU, and Georgia in consecutive weeks. Then there is a non-conference game with Houston followed by a trip to Florida.
6. Jordan Jefferson, Jarrett Lee, LSU: I had a chance to meet Jefferson during SEC Media Days and was impressed by his poise. There is a lot of pressure on this kid to play well in 2010. If not, the heat could get turned up on a lot of people in Baton Rouge. We forget that Jefferson was just a sophomore in 2009 and, at 19 years, 12 days, was the second youngest quarterback to ever start a season opener at LSU (Y.A. Tittle was 25 days short of his 19th birthday when he started for LSU in 1944). Jefferson's numbers really weren't that bad. He completed 61.5 percent of his passes for 2,166 yards and had 17 touchdown passes against seven interceptions. But LSU simply had no running game to take the pressure off Jefferson. Lee will always be remembered for a brutal 2008 season when he threw 16 interceptions including six that were returned for touchdowns. I just get the feeling that Lee is not done playing yet. At some point this season he is going to get another chance.
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August 3rd, 2010
7:38 am
Nobody's talking about Auburn as the dark horse in the West. Watch out for the War Eagles, folks. They seem to be on the rise.
August 3rd, 2010
7:38 am
Does UT have a QB?
August 3rd, 2010
7:39 am
Great article Tony, still surprised to see Nutt bring on a thug like Masoli..
August 3rd, 2010
7:44 am
Well Jimmy B, Tennessee does have a QB but they are in the SEC EAST. Get back to work at DaveFM.
August 3rd, 2010
7:47 am
Good article. But imagine what it would have been had you put five to seven spaces between each paragraph!
August 3rd, 2010
7:50 am
Its great to be an Auburn Tiger!! War Eagle!!
August 3rd, 2010
7:55 am
On the rise? Auburn? Wheres the proof of that? Is it your miserable record down the stretch last year, your pitiful conference record or your thrilling win over that powerhouse Northwestern in the crap alot bowl?
Cant wait ti thump you in November again!!!! GATA
August 3rd, 2010
7:58 am
August 3rd, 2010
8:03 am
reagle beagle war damn eagle,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,bwahahaha
August 3rd, 2010
8:05 am
Chazzo, until Auburn learns to tackle somebody they're a 7-5 or 8-4 team at best.
August 3rd, 2010
8:08 am
1957……………….whoa nellie!
August 3rd, 2010
8:11 am
Dawg Bone – you don't really follow college football do you (just UGA)? Auburn's record down the stretch last year was poor – but they've got one of the top offensive minds in the country and they finished pretty well under the 1st year coach. Add to that a top 5 recruiting class and they're on their way. Course you don't know about anything that's not in Athens.
August 3rd, 2010
8:18 am
So Prof, you base your thinking on theory and not facts. They stunk down the stretch with that great offensive mind of a coach, struggled to win a bowl game against Northwestern and your geeked up on a recruiting class? Typical auburn delusion. Must suck living in a state where your main rival is the champ and your other Rival UGA beats you like a rented mule.
Good luck with that. haha, hope keep on hoping auburn!
August 3rd, 2010
8:22 am
So we have two criminals quarterbacking in the west. Newton the thief and Masoli the thief. Keep a hand on your wallets around those two felle's!
August 3rd, 2010
8:28 am
Mallet appears to have the QB tools required but will he have a team behind him that can play for and win the division..? I know that in itself isn't the criteria for Mr. CFB's QB rankings but it will play out going into the Dome. Mallet can be a difference maker but the same was said for Snead last year… McElroy was blessed to have a great supporting cast surrounding him in 2009. For now the only question is will all Alabama's 2010 replacement players help carry the load and do their jobs, giving McElroy the opportunity to play once again for the SEC Championship. IMHO, McElroy probably won't make Garcia type mistakes as he did in the LSU game last year…Newton is getting attention. May be a perfect fit for Cheesestick's O. I'll help sing his praises if he can make good on his expectations…Masoli comes from a Ducky background that knows offense and how to move a ball forward. His main drawback could be from a coaching standpoint that may play too conservative compared to Oregon's all out offensive attack. Again, we'll see…The rest of the SEC West QBing bunch, good luck.
August 3rd, 2010
8:32 am
This dawg bone clown talking about criminals……….priceless!!! THuga is now a maximum security facility with classrooms and this leghumper wants to try and point a finger at OTHER programs and call THEM criminals??????? Typical delusional mutts.
August 3rd, 2010
8:34 am
………….and you chime in about criminals Lane?
August 3rd, 2010
8:36 am
The only thing Masoli has to do to get the starting QB job at Ole Miss is to stay out of jail. If he doesn't care about staying eligible should Ole Miss make a bowl game, he doesn't even have to attend a grad school class in the one semester he'll be there.
August 3rd, 2010
8:36 am
i think mallet is kind of a punk and his maturity will define his season more than anything else.
August 3rd, 2010
8:36 am
Het guys, I'm Cam Newtons ankle monitor. Will I be able to get in the games and see some SEC action or will I be removed and watch from the bench waiting for Cam after the game?
August 3rd, 2010
8:52 am
Well, here we go again….the media loves mallet….and masoli. Both put up stats and have stories that the espn zombies will read. Someone has to take up the Tebow vacuum.
As usual…..let's go for the stats and stories instead of the substance. Let's remember that these were the same folks who ranked UGA pretty much an undisputed #1 at the start of the season a few years back, when they were holding their team together with duct tape and bailing wire. Why was UGA #1…..Stafford and Moreno….ooh….aah……wow……all style, no substance….any championships there? naah…..
give me a lunchpail QB who does his job, keeps the mistakes to a minium, stays out of jail, and I'll take your gunslinger with the big stats to the woodshed everytime.
But, that doesn't sell newspapers or generate clicks or gets the ratings up………
Until Mallet leads Arkansas to a MNC, he aint above the bammer boy. Period.
August 3rd, 2010
8:52 am
Rooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooll Tide!! Roll!!
The other team has to have the ball to win.
This will be the difference in the conference. Bama is bigger, faster, and has improved on offense this year. Only close games will be at Auburn, Arkansas, Mississippi. …………………………………Florida won't even win their division!..Bet on it!!
Good luck to everyone!!!
August 3rd, 2010
9:00 am
Interesting to see almost no returning starters in the SEC East, and all (more or less) with solid experience in the West. This year could be even more lopsided than last year.
August 3rd, 2010
9:01 am
Phat Tony….Jordan Jefferson last?????
I know you have a disdain for LSU, but come on give the kid a break….
Geaux JJ
August 3rd, 2010
9:03 am
Look out for the new comer "cam" the bam. This offense will be unstoppable. Cam should put up top sec numbers being surrounded by play makers. With his speed and "big" arm opposing defences won't have an answer.
August 3rd, 2010
9:04 am
LOL! Now Mutts you're QB isn't even ranked! This is getting better and better! ROTFLMAO!! OMG!! LOL!!
Here's the pizza money, now get off my porch! Burn.
August 3rd, 2010
9:06 am
Atlanta Jackets, uh, it ranks the SEC WEST QB's. Learn to read down there in the city!
August 3rd, 2010
9:06 am
There seems to be more wild-cards in the west. The east seems to have more Field General types while the west clearly has more criminals. Mallet is the class of the west but I want to see what Auburn can produce on offense. That's always interesting. And then there's Ole Miss. I want to see them play. In the same way I have to watch the freaks at the circus. You just can't seem to turn away when you start watching them.
August 3rd, 2010
9:09 am
Here's my rankings:
1 Mallet (Ark best QB corp in the country–Tyler Wilson is terrific too)
2 Jefferson (LSU is solid at QB)
3 McElroy –good at handing off to Ingram
4 Cam Newton–not much if Newton gets hurt
August 3rd, 2010
9:11 am
Tony, where would have put Nathan Stanley and Randall Mackey if Masoli didn't come to Ole Miss?
August 3rd, 2010
9:18 am
The Detroit papers are reporting that Stafford for sure has an NFL arm…and…."great leadership"…is this the same UGA Stafford?
August 3rd, 2010
9:23 am
Jeffferson will make you eat that ranking.
As for Jarrett "Pick 6″ Lee I hope his @ss stays where it should be, holding a clip board.
August 3rd, 2010
9:25 am
Also Tony
What did Methlet do against solid defeneses in the SEC?
Answer NOTHING!!!
August 3rd, 2010
9:41 am
Who is Methlet? LSU education at its finest.
August 3rd, 2010
9:43 am
There's never any "proof" of programs rising or falling in college football (see UGA's 2008 preseason ranking). However, intuitively-
Auburn finished with a winning record and bowl victory in the first year under Chizik
Auburn ranked very highly in almost every single offensive category, despite being dreadful in 2008 and anemic the 2 years prior to that.
Auburn's depth on defense was incredibly thin, and we have to hope that a top-5 recruiting class will play a role in fixing that.
Unlike UGA, Auburn has something to look forward to. Any UGA fan that really thinks the future is bright with the current uncertainty and direction of the program is delusional. Look for a new coaching staff within 2 years, and you'll only be wishing you could turn things around as quickly as Auburn seems to be doing.
August 3rd, 2010
9:45 am
There's Mallett and then McElroy and then far behind all the rest. Masolli is in a new conference, in a new system, hasn't practiced withthe team and will only be there one year and hasn't played in the SEC and he has a criminal record. Nutt should have passed on him.
August 3rd, 2010
9:50 am
McElroy will get his 1st losses this year. Joe Cox was undefeated in High School too, big deal.
Saban's only finished consecutively in the top 10 1x in his entire career.
Alabam won't finish in the top 20 in 2010.
August 3rd, 2010
9:50 am
WOW…you have 2 outstanding leaders, students and football players as #1 and #2 then you have 2 thieves, thugs and players that were kicked off their previous teams due to arrest. I'm sure Ole Miss and Auburn Alumni are very proud of their schools.
August 3rd, 2010
9:53 am
As you say WDE. "turn things around as quickly as auburn SEEMS to be doing". Your words not mine, even in your writing you guys subconciously write the truth, "SEEMS". You guys are delusional as any fan base in the SEC or country for that matter.
August 3rd, 2010
9:55 am
Frank you're an idiot. Saban finished #6 in '08 and #1 in '09 and Saban was never at Bama before.
August 3rd, 2010
9:55 am
Frank, your right Saban is awful! I bet you would keep Chizik forever, afterall, he's a proven winner right?
August 3rd, 2010
9:56 am
He completed 61.5 percent of his passes for 2,166 yards and had 17 touchdown passes against seven interceptions
That is pretty good numbers for Jefferson, and you put him behind 3 players that have not even started in the sEC? Biased much?
August 3rd, 2010
9:58 am
1. McElroy was beaten out in Spring games by his back up, much the way Murray was beaten by Mett & Gray
2. Saban's inconsistency is well known, 50% of seasons 7 wins or less, .700 winning %, and practically never has 2 great seasons in a row.
August 3rd, 2010
10:01 am
Frank, thats classic. Auburn has a criminal for a QB and your come back is Saban is a very good coach…bwahahaha.
August 3rd, 2010
10:03 am
War Eagle
Ryan "Meth Head" Mallet= Methlet.
Now 31-10 and 3 in a row BIIIITTTTCCCHHHH!!!
August 3rd, 2010
10:04 am
I think we have some aubbies that are upset about the criminal qb and so they are trying to make stuff up about what most call the "best coach in country". I guess chesnik's 2-11 season has no reflection on his ability at albarn.
August 3rd, 2010
10:09 am
LSU Fan, the beatdown you will get this year from Auburn will be a classic, you guys will be lucky to finish fouth in the west, bammers lucky to finish third. Auburn has the momentum like no team in the west right now!!!!
August 3rd, 2010
10:12 am
My God, you auburn red necks are as delusional as it gets. Your win over Northwestern has givin you more Momentum than say the team that won the BCS Title game recently? Oh my god?
August 3rd, 2010
10:13 am
August 3rd, 2010
10:13 am
Whatever, the mutts still stink. LOL!
I can't wait to see the Robot rocking number one in the charts on the ACC and NCAA lists!


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|Katie Taylor winning Gold for Ireland.....
Before the start of the Games, there was a bizarre mix of unexpected elation and a degree of panic in the British press. The elation came from the fantastic reception of the Olympic flame as it travelled around the whole of the UK – including us over here – and to Dublin. I wasn't sure whether this was a nice neighbourly gesture, or perhaps required by the sponsors to make it worth their while crossing the Irish Sea, but there was a great reception nonetheless. The panic came from security, border control and transport issues, which surely helped to highlight the problems with contracting out (security) and public sector cuts (border control and transport) when you really need something to work. But in the end there were no disasters, not even with the transport system which can be dreadful on a normal day.
|..... and Jessica Ennis for GB/NI
And then we had the bonkers opening ceremony, the only one I've ever watched and only because it was Danny Boyle. I must say most of it did nothing for me although I did like the James Bond moment, the emphasis on diversity, and the lighting of the beautiful Olympic cauldron including the involvement of human rights activists. And, of course, the big cheer for the Irish team. It was far too long – as was the egregious closing ceremony – and I suspect little would have been understood outside the UK.
After that I became far more absorbed than expected. I watched the sports for people who don't like sport: gymnastics, swimming, diving, a bit of athletics. Amazement at how the gymnasts and divers, in particular, do what they do. The BBC coverage was amazing, and like many others I lost hours of my life to the red button and catch up internet sessions. My only grumble came when I tried to find out how Katie Taylor had got on – all the focus was on the UK boxers and I had to turn to RTÉ to see her get her medal, in a chokingly emotional ceremony for all Irish passport holders, even though I think boxing is barbaric and shouldn't even be in the Olympics. One of the contradictions of the Games. Another was the debate on sport and class which meandered on as more and more posh people won GB medals. Great to be discussing sports education, but not so great when the Tories tried to claim that liberal-leaning state school teachers discourage competitive sports. Is that really still true? Certainly not in Northern Ireland. And in a competitive society, how important is it anyway?
More local colour with the three GB medals won by Coleraine residents and two out of the five Irish medals won by Belfast boys. Involvement in both the British and Irish teams may confuse those who don't live here, but it's in the spirit of the Good Friday Agreement and I would like to have seen a joint reception at Stormont for all the NI athletes from both teams. Perhaps at the next Games Team GB might consider changing their name to Team UK also. Other feel-good factors were the high profile of women athletes and the stories from the volunteer Games Makers, who were obviously having the time of their lives.
Inevitably there were low points – the US accusing a winning Chinese swimmer of using illegal drugs and the South Korean, Chinese and Indonesian Badminton players disqualified for trying to lose. But these episodes contrasted with the sporting nature of most contestants. There was the walk through a shopping mall to get to the Olympic Park and complaints about the cost and availability of food and drink – but less than had been expected. And the disappointing closing ceremony, with the only good bits being the extinguishing of the cauldron and The Who – unlike Paul McCartney, Roger Daltrey can still belt it out (at 68! - go to section 18 on the video) and it was a fantastic end to the event.
And now there is the question of the legacy. First, a new and very positive spin on British (or rather English) identity was presented – diverse and tolerant, a bit odd but very creative with it, and very fond of the NHS. If it leads to more discussion on what it means to be British in the 21st century then that'll be very positive. However, I suspect economic realities will intervene again and stop that. Secondly is this sense of collectivity and involvement, including the higher profile of volunteering. Again great if this keeps going, not so good if volunteering and the Big Society continue to be used by the present Government as a substitute for proper funding of public services. Third is the question of tourism and private sector investment. Although London (and other parts of the country) presented a very positive face to the world, it's hard to know whether there's really any added value in these events if they are held in cities which are already well known destinations for both. And finally, of course, there is the built environment legacy, particularly in East London. The Olympic Park, the sports facilities and the housing, about a quarter of which is for social renting. So we'll have to wait and see which of these factors has an impact in the longer term.


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Thomas F. Cohen's Playing to the Camera: Musicians and Musical Performance in Documentary Cinema analyzes the way documentary footage treats the musical performance, and goes far deeper into the subject matter than most contemporary musical studies. While those books — at best — gloss over the possibilities offered by deep analysis, Cohen delves deeply into the musical performance film. Playing to the Camera offers up the first scholarly dissection of musical performance in documentary film. That particular phrasing is important, as musical performance in film could be an encyclopedia's worth of books.
Cohen's method of approach is fairly straightforward. Utilizing a series of films, starting with Jazz On A Summer's Day and working through some obscure video works, the author traces the way these films evolve. It's intriguing, as it seems that film starts out less interested in the actual performances and more with using the music as a soundtrack to visuals that are evocative, and then the musical performance itself evolves into something worth capturing on film.
It's that development of performance image that really makes Playing to the Camera such a fascinating book. The idea that seeing can be a distraction from hearing versus the possibility of image augmenting what is heard is Cohen's through-line. Whether it be Jimi Hendrix's change from guitar-burning voodoo man in Monterey Pop to stock-still guitar god in Woodstock or the way Isaac Stern considers facial expression reflective of "passion" in From Mao to Mozart, the visual is inexorably tied to the aural.
Now, whether that's a good or bad thing remains for the reader to decide. However, Cohen certainly provides a plethora of opinions on each side of the argument in Playing to the Camera. Either opinion could be ably debated using this book, and I'm certain that this will become a valuable text for film and music scholars for years to come.


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The AL outfield prospect scene is the California goldfield of fantasy fool's gold players.
That's partially due to sheer numbers: there are more outfield prospects than offensive prospects of any other ilk (#analysis). It's also partially due to the requisite skill sets that outfielders possess. Some are very fast. Some are very powerful. And some tease enough of both tools to make fantasy owners feel special feelings.
Yet with all this potential for fantasy glory comes an equal chance of heartbreak. And so without further ado, the next piece in our Fantasy Fool's Gold series is comprised of five AL outfielders. You can check out the venerable Bret Sayre's piece on NL outfielders from yesterday here.
Abraham Almonte, OF, Mariners
So has Seattle finally found a diamond in the rough among in its pile of broken prospect toys? Don't bet on it. Almonte was hitting well in Double-A this season when the M's decided to promote him to Triple-A, where he hit an outstanding .314/.403/.491 in 396 PA. That line was buoyed by a .363 BABIP, though, and the power he's shown this year looks fluky compared to the rest of his MiLB career. While it's natural that a 24-year-old would start hitting for more pop, Almonte is just 5-foot-9 and power has never been a part of his projection. To his credit, he does possess above-average speed and has gone 26-for-34 in stolen-base attempts this season.
It's possible that Almonte is a late-ish bloomer who's finally figured it out and can stay on a shallow M's team for a while. But even if he does spend the majority of 2014 in the majors, there's not much to suggest he'll contribute enough in any one category or cumulatively to warrant attention in mixed leagues. In a sadistic way, it's fun to imagine an organization failing to develop Jesus Montero and bringing the best out of Almonte, but don't bank on those odds.
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Nuclear Options: When is a Pre-emptive Nuclear Strike Moral?
Israel's leading military ethicist, Moshe Halbertal, argues that in some cases a pre-emptive nuclear strike might be moral while nuclear retaliation might not
He told me our conversation was his "first extended" one on something he had been thinking about but had not addressed formally. "All this has become unfortunately very real," he said. He's talking about Iran and what Israel will have to do about it. Ten days after Halbertal and I spoke the following report appeared on a web site called DEBKAfile known to be a conduit for Israeli information and disinformation. It's not clear which this was, but since Israel does not officially admit to having nuclear weapons, it was remarkably detailed technically. That doesn't mean the voyage described wasn't manufactured out of whole cloth. But if so it was designed to paint a picture for the Iranians of a voyage that could take place:
04 Oct. [2009] Western naval sources report that Israel's German-made Dolphin submarines have been heavily modified: its torpedo tubes enlarged to accommodate missiles, new electronics installed and its fuel capacity expanded to keep the vessel at sea for 50 days without refueling. Eight years after receiving the first three Dolphin subs from Germany and two more last month, naval sources rate them the most modern non-nuclear [-powered] subs in any world navy. Israel has equipped the new Dolphin-class subs with homemade 1,500-km range cruise missiles carrying 200 kiloton nuclear warheads and 135-km range US-made Harpoon missiles also fitted with nuclear warheads. These missiles, fired through the newly-enlarged 650mm-26-inch tubes, can reach Iranian coastal targets including its nuclear sites as well as naval, port and Revolutionary Guards facilities. The Dolphins' expanded fuel tanks enable them to cover distances of up to 10,000 kilometers from their Mediterranean home port (instead of 8,000 kilometers heretofore) and spend more time—up to 50 days—off the Iranian coast.
DEBKAfile's military sources note: "Their presence outside Israeli waters is a powerful deterrent to any surprise nuclear or conventional attack, endowing Israel with an instantaneous second-strike nuclear capability."
It seems likely someone in the Israeli high command authorized this leak, wanted to paint a detailed picture for most likely the Iranians—and for anyone else who thought a nuclear strike on Israel would go unpunished. There's no point in Israel having five German-made submarines unless it were for the purpose of having an invulnerable second-strike retaliatory capacity. I certainly think DEBKAfile's sources wanted its readers in Islamic capitals to believe that nuclear retaliation was inevitable.
I asked Halbertal, "Does nuclear war change traditional just-war thinking?"
"Yes," he said. But added: "I must say I'm in agony about it. I don't have a clear answer to it. I'll tell you what's my dilemma. I don't think that 'Supreme Emergency' is a reason for intentional killing of all civilians. I don't think you are allowed to do it, morally."
"Now, 'Supreme Emergency'—that's Walzer's term, right?" I asked him.
"And when you say 'intentional killing of all civilians' with regard to nuclear war that would mean either a preemptive or a retaliatory strike?"
"Right, but leave nuclear war aside for a moment and look at the difficulty of 'supreme emergency.' "
"Supreme Emergency" is a phrase adopted by Walzer from a 1939 speech by Winston Churchill in an attempt to reconcile just-war ethics with the killing of innocent civilians entailed in the nighttime bombing of German cities. Halbertal began contextualizing his views on nuclear war by tracing the differences he and Walzer have over what recent historical events qualify as supreme emergencies.
He points out that Walzer first used the term "supreme emergency" when discussing Churchill's decision to bomb German cities and the civilians who lived in them in 1940.
"Here was a supreme emergency," Walzer writes, referring to the period after the fall of France and before the entrance of the United States in the war, "when the victory of Hitler's evil seemed assured, where one might well be required to override the rights of innocent people and shatter the [Geneva] war convention" that requires distinguishing between combatants and noncombatants.
Walzer concedes that its morality is not a sure bet: "Should I wager this determinate crime against immeasurable evil [of a Nazi victory]?," he asks. His answer: yes.
Walzer's use of the word "wager" is almost shocking in its lack of conviction. It's just a bet that bombing civilians might be the right thing to do when weighing the determinate against the immeasurable. He chooses his words carefully and tentatively because he knows he's treading on a minefield. This is the kind of wager in which one just can't calculate odds. Only in hindsight, but not when the choice is made. Then one must trust in "moral luck."
Halbertal too is troubled by the fact that "supreme emergency" is a subjective judgment. And there are some moral minefields he's not willing to follow Walzer into, including Churchill's decision to bomb those German cities in 1940. It's not an easy question. In hindsight one can understand the rationale for Churchill's orders even if one does not accept it: Hitler's victory in France in 1940 and the paucity of British defenses at the time made it seem like the conquest of England would be short work and would subjugate the entire continent to a thousand-year reign of evil. Does this imminent threat not count as a supreme emergency, even if the purpose of bombing German cities is morale-building mass slaughter? Even if it's based on weighing the immeasurable more heavily than the determinate? Could England have survived without it? Churchill didn't think so but he couldn't know.
"No, you cannot save your life at the expense of actual targeting of innocent people," Halbertal said, emphatically disagreeing with Walzer—and Churchill.
This is the unshakable foundation of Halbertal's thinking: "You cannot save your life at the expense of actual targeting of innocent people." But his thinking can lead to some surprising conclusions such as his argument that in certain cases a preemptive nuclear strike can be moral while retaliation after being struck by nuclear weapons cannot be.
He accepts the supreme-emergency exception but locates the moral problem, the one that may be impossible to find an objective answer to, in the "threshold" issue. What is the threshold of a supreme emergency? What makes an ordinary emergency so supreme, so urgent that it justifies lowering the threshold of the distinction between combatants and noncombatants? Is it timing, the imminence of threat, or is the magnitude of threat or some algorithm that links them? Alas, problems of morals are not soluble the way problems of mathematics are.
"Now when it comes to nuclear weapons," Halbertal said, "that's where I think [Walzer] is rightfully very critical of the way nuclear weapons were used to end the Second World War." He's talking about Hiroshima and Nagasaki. "He's right that there could have been a cease-fire, or a treaty without actually the absolute surrender of Japan." What Walzer says is that "to use the atomic bomb without even attempting such an experiment was a double crime."
Halbertal takes issue as well with another argument in favor of dropping the bomb—that it would save the lives of soldiers who would otherwise die in an invasion of the Japanese home islands. "Something [Walzer] doesn't raise, but I don't think he'd approve of, is the argument that you save even a hundred or two hundred thousand soldiers of our stripe by absolute indiscriminate intent of killing Japanese children."
Actually most estimates are higher for U.S. invasion casualties. (And those numbers don't include the million or more Japanese civilians who might die in an invasion, five times more than in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.) Note though, the uncompromising language of his description of the indiscriminate killing of the innocent in Hiroshima and Nagasaki—"absolute indiscriminate intent of killing Japanese children."
It wasn't really the main intent, to kill children, but it was the effect. And Halbertal's way of thinking about these things demands that states take responsibility for the effect as well as the intent of their acts—as if the effects were included in the intent.
So it didn't entirely surprise me when he said, "So when we come to nuclear war things are a little bit changed. Now when it comes to strategic deterrence, you might threaten it as a strategic thing, that's fine as long as you're not going to use it—or then you're going to have an esoteric morality for strategic reasons."
An "esoteric morality?" I asked him.
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