No offense to the people who agreed to blurb my book. There were many and a few of them I’d never met or never even encountered in person or online. I’ll obviously be forever grateful to them all. In fact, I’ve met a handful of people — and I’m sure more exist — who say they picked up the book in a store because they saw so-and-so blurbed it and that blurb encouraged the person to purchase it.

But Holly Anderson wrote what is the best book blurb I’ve ever seen:

Strap on your clown shoes, crank up that calliope and relive the Bill Stewart Epoch all over again. It’s all right to laugh now. Laughter heals.

Believe it or not, she was a little worried it was too flip. Anyhow, Holly’s a Tennessee grad who lives in Georgia, runs the SI.com college football blog and contributes to EDSBS, but her family is rooted in West Virginia. Hence my interest in having her help me out and her willingness to comply. To brilliantly comply.

Well, Holly, who visited Knoxville for the spring game and wrote about the Volunteers, was on a local radio station Wednesday to talk about a variety of subjects. One was the State of Scandal in college football the State of Scandal in college football. The question, to paraphrase, was if we’d all become desensitized.

“I was just reading my colleague Andy Staples’ piece about West Virginia football for next year and I realized that just so much has been hitting so many fans that we’re not even talking anymore about Bill Stewart selling out his own head coach to a rival college newspaper. Like, that story completely went away. There’s just been too much.

“If anything, it provides a shield for coaches wanting to dump bad news. There’s been some rumbling about Tennessee and grade-point averages. Here’s a coach entering year three. SEC program. Maybe the grades aren’t where they need to be. It’s not even making a blip on the national radar.”

Now’s a good time to say I go on vacation May 18-26.