Ralph Cipolla

I have long considered creating a breed of topical and timely “Infographic” that goes beyond the typical format you see all over the web – the infographic populated by elementary school-level shapes, washed-out primary colors, with humans represented by the asexual icons you see on the door of every public restroom.  

My first effort – Stairway to 40 – was done to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Stairway to Heaven release.  It landed on the websites of several Rock radio stations, was picked up by @GuyKawasaki (thanks to the awesome @AnnieColbert), and re-Tweeted/linked-to by over 50 kind folks of exceptional taste in the graphic arts (you can see it on the ‘music’ page on this site).  

Here, I decided to tackle a topic that never gets old – NCAA Div-I coaches and their uncanny ability to:

• Make the same stupid mistakes previously perfected by countless other blind, arrogant, and blindly-arrogant big-time coaches,
• Egregiously violate the same small set of unambiguous common-sense NCAA rules, and
• Deny, deny, deny – in the face of rumor, on-line murmur, a growing Everest of evidence, and the inevitable Sports Illustrated Special-Collectable-School-Sanction-Securing-Double-Issue Expose´. 

Let me know what you think… unless you’re a Penn State, Ohio State, Baylor, Indiana U, or Colorado alum.  I already know what you think.  

(Note: Obviously inspired by the Penn State Sandusky-shop-of-horrors, I didn’t include the on-going & growing Syracuse University abuse scandal.  Look for that in my next, nearly complete project – The Periodic Table of NCAA Scandals.)