"WE HAD, I TOLD THEM, THE WORST SHOWER DISCIPLINE OF ANY TEAM I'VE BEEN AROUND": The Tennessee Volunteers, now with 100% fewer Layla Kiffins, have had some locker-room staph problems. So their coach, Derek Dooley, did what any crusty ol' ball coach would do -- teach a master class on how to shower. That team is lucky Dooley is their coach, both because now they finally know how to use a loufa and because you do not want to take that seminar if your coach is, say, Rex Ryan. Or Joe Paterno.
One thing Dooley said that is likely to draw some derision is that cutting corners in how you shower "shows in how you practice and elsewhere." But I'm kind of on board with that. I used to laugh at the segment in the John Wooden documentary where a series of UCLA greats talk about how the first thing Wooden did at the first practice every year was break down exactly how to pull on one's socks. Now I'm acutely aware, when I go to the gym, of exactly when I've been sloppy in putting on my socks and lacing my shoes. If Dooley wants to mold his team into a squad of precision showerers, I say it can only help them.
