Wednesday, September 8, 2010

Mythbusters: Cheronis DID actually coach at Florida!

Today we got confirmation that he did! Nick Cheronis _was_ real! This is like getting confirmation from the CIA that the Great Pumpkin exists.
After the unceremonious end of his time in Gainesville, you may recall that we weren't sure if we had imagined the whole... 17 years of his time with the Gators or what. But the Gainesville Sun article today admitted that yes, it did happen.

"Although the Gator volleyball team isn’t your typical organization, the fingerprints of former assistant Nick Cheronis are all over the program’s 5-0 record and No. 4 national ranking."

Well, that's just poor field work by Cheronis. Everyone knows you wipe off your fingerprints before leaving the area.

"Replacing Cheronis wasn’t an easy task."

I'd imagine not. I mean, how do you replace 17 years' worth of experience and know-how?

"Chris Keen was the team’s volunteer assistant for two years..."

Right... what? They replaced Cheronis with a volunteer?

"...studying under Cheronis, and was ready for the 12-inch move to the next seat over on the bench."

While it's nice to see the Gators don't use the metric system for their promotions, I'm still trying to figure this out. I'm sure Keen does a bang-up job for the Gators, but why him?

"'One of the things that allowed me to survive and sleep at night without Nick was to have Chris, a familiar face,' Wise said."

Uh...
So, everyone's familiar with "misplaced modifiers," right? Can you spot the misplaced modifier in that quote?

Language is a funny, funny thing. 

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