Editor’s note: Finally posting a column that’s been sitting around, with hopes to take minds off everything by not mentioning everything. Sure, some are dated items, but they don’t mention certain words, so it’s a chance to get away from all that for a few minutes, since this week is fixin’ to be a bad one.

People keep talking in circles, then apologize for constantly talking in circles.

Grumbles about politicizing science come from … never mind.

Facts matter when they fit. All these groups that are so incompetent have come together to … never mind.

Assorted factions overreact and underreact, and the air is as thick with hypocrisy as humidity.

Our first little sitdown here in awhile will not address current events. That will come soon enough.

Instead, let’s just chat about other stuff for now. Granted, it’s impossible to talk about things without some touching of current events, but we’ll keep it to a soft touch.

Ode to Bill Bibb

I had just thought of Bill Bibb a few months ago, and pondered giving him a call.

Then last week, the news of his death at age 86 came. Apparently Bibb had suffered from dementia the past few years, and that’s so hard to imagine.

Bibb was a joy to deal with, especially after he retired as commissioner of the Atlantic Sun. He had a gravelly voice, not hoarse, and his filter didn’t work too well very often.

Can only imagine what kind of earfuls he gave officials back in the day. Still, he sure liked to laugh, and if you sat him down to chat – officially or just breeze passing – you got your money’s worth.

His impact at Mercer and with college sports in the south – among the not-so-big-boys – is underrated. The A-Sun, formerly the Trans America Athletic Conference, was home to a broad variety of programs, from enrollments of more than 50,000 to less than 3,000.

Administrators whined about the conference a lot, but it wasn’t like those administrators led programs to great heights after they happily left the conference.

And despite the departures and snippiness and arrogance of some school’s leaders, the A-Sun keeps adjusting and surviving.

Bibb retired in 2007, and six schools - Stetson, Jacksonville, Lipscomb, North Florida, Kennesaw State, and Florida Gulf Coast - are still in the league.

That’s almost a surprise, considering the college sports world and decision-makers, but is a tribute to Bibb and the staff he compiled, headed by his successor, Ted Gumbart.

Loughdmouthings

If Daniel Snyder has to sell his stake in Washington, Jerry Jones really won’t have much competition as the creepiest owner in the NFL, and among those in sports.

Snyder kept his creepiness out of the spotlight better, but everybody knew.

Random Unrelated Thought: Would that the FCC could do something about the frequency and crappiness of all the damn insurance commercials.

Dear Allstate, nobody will ever get on the “safe drivers save 40 percent” bandwagon as a motto or jingle, so stop that commercial. …

It’ll be an adjustment to start the women’s college basketball season without Muffett McGraw on the Notre Dame sideline. And it’s hard to imagine that she was there for 33 seasons.

Geno Auriemma better find somebody to tussle with so he hangs around for awhile. …

We’re more than a month away from the first weekend of high school football, and with it, some horrifically atrocious radio and streaming descriptions of high school football games.

Holy cow, some of it is just so bad, between trying to impress the other person with a headset, trying to be a really, depressingly poor man’s Larry Munson (and sounding more like Larry of The Stooges), screaming, and just not know what the hell is going on, it’s a headache to listen to.

And more pressure will be on these folks this year, so here is begging for some maturity, professionalism, preparation (good grief, get a roster, get it updated, have stats (especially if there are three people with a mic), know the regions, etc.), a hint of objectivity (don’t say “we” or “us” and all that), a remote understanding of rules before whining about rules you don’t know about and plays you can’t see, and some volume control. …

Jones County is undergoing more earth moving, this time with a new Field Turf Vertex Prime turf and a new set of visitors’ bleachers for football, plus enhanced visitors locker room.

The new stands were needed long before Buford fans were forced to leave the area code for a playoff game last season and groused for a week or so.

The school also has a new track, tennis courts, baseball and softball lights, new “facilities” for baseball and softball.

The system is dropping about $3 mil in all the improvements. We all love spending money. Getting to spend money and get new stuff under these circumstances is a freakin’ dream. …

Random Unrelated Thought: A dream that college communication departments will stop allowing the broadcast division to teach “lazy write and ferociously bad puns” as part of the curriculum.

Because it clearly is part of the curriculum. Some of the puns people feel comfortable writing and, even worse, saying out loud? Holy crap. …

Goodness gracious, the explosion of Twitterness for some area high school teams after contracting with some graphics company.

Granted, there’s no information put forth by teams, but the tweets sure are shiny. But if it’s such a big deal for kids, you have to wonder how trustworthy they’ll be on a Friday night. …

Kinda hoped that with the extra time that high schools and school boards might look at their websites and see how wretched and outdated and overly funkified they are, and fix them.

Make them relevant.

Oh well. …

Dear coaches, it’s never too early to check and re-check your rosters, whether they’ve been posted to Maxpreps, Gamechanger, or not. Kids deserve to have their names spelled right by their coaches. …

A Twins-Pirates game had a visitor that led to a short delay: a drone.

Offered Janice Hough of LeftCoastSportsBabe.com: “Anyone checked to see if Houston Astros are scheduled to play the Minnesota Twins soon?”