Digger Phelps Is Awful Again This Year

As you know, I enjoy college basketball. And in case you don't remember, I correctly picked the Final Four in last year's tournament. But no, I did not win the office pool.

And with a new season now upon us, I just watched the first 10 minutes of an early season basketball version of "GameDay" on ESPN. And of course, there was Digger Phelps -- the master of talking and simultaneously saying nothing -- reminding me once again why he's so bad at his job.

If you watch a lot of NCAA basketball, be prepared to hear these things often for the next five months:

+ Get it done, as in, "They can really get it done."
+ Why, as in, "They can really get it done. Why? They have the senior leadership and . . . "

Digger doesn't need to ask himself why if he's just going to keep talking and not take a breath. In the second example above, remove "why" and tell me if that changes anything Phelps is trying to say. But once Digger finds a little trick, he uses it more than Charlie Sheen would.