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Chuck Neinas does not believe in enlightened self-interest for anybody else.
Big 12 and West Virginia fans, if you’ve got a bone to pick with the uncertainty facing you right now, the Big 12 commissioner knows just who you should blame.
“The one thing that gets lost is we’re in this predicament because the SEC invited Missouri,” Neinas said. “But the SEC was willing to play with 13 [rather than 14] next season. We made an offer...
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18 days ago
Discuss
Thursday morning buffet
Fill up as we approach national signing day.
“It is just the state of Georgia.”
More hope for Auburn: “While college coaches have struggled transitioning to the N.F.L. — take note, Chip Kelly — N.F.L. defensive coordinators have largely experienced a smooth transition to the college game.”
Awesome piece by Chris Brown on the long-term impact of the...
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18 days ago
It’s always springtime at Georgia recruiting.
Whatever else you might say about Mark Richt and Mike Bobo on the recruiting trail, you can’t say they won’t go the extra mile trying.
Dinner, church and jail – all in a day’s work.
Filed under: Georgia Football, Recruiting
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18 days ago
Father knows best.
This is awesome.
Mike Leach's lawyer tells @finebaum that Craig James called Tx Tech coaches from ESPN booth DURING GAMES, telling them to play son Adam.— Mark Nagi (@MarkNagi) January 25, 2012
Phone records, please. I sure hope this sucker gets to court soon.
Filed under: ESPN Is The Devil, Mike Leach. Yar!
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19 days ago
“There’s nothing special about being 6-6.”
Put me firmly in the “I’ll believe it when I see it camp” on this:
There is “growing support” among conference commissioners, athletic directors and bowl officials to increase the difficulty of becoming bowl eligible by requiring teams to have seven victories, or a winning record, when the new BCS cycle begins in 2014, multiple sources have told CBSSports...
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19 days ago
Déjà vu on the Plains?
With one caveat, I think Jerry Hinnen’s on to something with this:
… VanGorder is a legitimate smash hire, one probably on par with Malzahn’s. But that’s for reasons that I don’t think had that much to do with his NFL employment or even NFL success; BVG coached some truly fantastic defenses at Georgia, one of which helped get the Dawgs within one ill-timed loss...
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19 days ago
Non-pay to play
Wow. I’m touched by my own naiveté this morning. I have to admit this never dawned on me before:
A common misconception is that walk-ons are treated in a significantly different way than scholarship student-athletes. By and large rules apply the same to a student-athlete on a full grant-in-aid and a student-athlete paying his or her own freight to go to school. In general...
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19 days ago
SEC roster management, baybee!
Matt Hinton makes a pretty good case that Junior is about to import some lessons he learned on the job in Knoxville into Pac-12 Land.
It’s all part of the plan.
Filed under: Don't Mess With Lane Kiffin, Recruiting
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19 days ago
If you prick Nick Saban, does he not bleed?
Justin Taylor’s coach hears from Saban’s sensitive side:
Did Saban mention anything about the public reaction to the situation?
“Yes. He said he caught a lot of flack for it and took a lot of criticism. He wasn’t mad at Justin for anything. He said stuff like this is just the nature of the beast. That’s really all that was said about it.”
Okay, maybe it wasn&...
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19 days ago
Scot Loeffler orders the Code Red.
I probably sound like I’m piling on, but Scot Loeffler won the introductory presser yesterday by knowing his job (“at the end of the day, it’s our job to score football points.”). I just wish somebody in the press corps had a sense of humor about it:
You said points, I said football points? You said “is there any other kind?”
I love you, coachspeak...
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20 days ago
Panic mode
Our kindly BCS overlords appear to be freaking out over declining ratings and attendance.
Bill Hancock advises everyone to chillax.
“Every idea is on the table for the future of the BCS, including moving away from midweek games after Jan. 1,” Hancock said. “But it’s too early to speculate about what changes, if any, might be made.
“Certainly there is...
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20 days ago
One less big Samoan
Say it ain’t so, Chester. I’m truly bummed, but wish the best for you.
Lots of rumors that he ran afoul of Georgia’s new anti-immigration law and its scholarship restrictions. If that’s true, talk about your unintended consequences – I bet there are more than a few pro-Dawg legislators who didn’t see this one coming.
Filed under: Georgia Football...
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20 days ago
“Some worried that Richt had lost control of his team.”
My, the Red and Black is singing a different tune after Commings’ arrest.
I guess that’s a natural reaction to Zach Dillard failing to get the Pulitzer he so richly deserved.
Filed under: Media Punditry/Foibles
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21 days ago
Catch it while you can.
Bill Connelly has done yeoman’s work (always liked that phrase) in compiling D-1 receiver targets and catches for this past season. kleph has thoughtfully winnowed out the non-SEC data here.
While it’s fair to say that Georgia’s receiving corps turned out to be a pleasant surprise in 2011, Bill’s info reveals there’s plenty of room for improvement...
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21 days ago
Fifty professors walk into a bar…
Seriously, AP, was it really that slow a news day for you?
Filed under: Academics? Academics., College Football
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21 days ago
Let the EDSBS snark commence.
Gene Chizik looks to capture some of that ol’ Tebow magic… by hiring Steve Addazio’s offensive coordinator.
Auburn has announced that it has hired awayTemple offensive coordinator Scot Loeffler. Loeffler spent five seasons as the Michigan quarterback coach and also has stints with the Detroit Lions and Central Michigan, but is best known for having served...
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21 days ago
Emmert knows best.
You know, I keep telling myself cynically that there’s little the NCAA can do these days that irritates me, but they keep finding ways to prove me wrong.
My favorite part of the piece is this, one step past getting leads from TMZ:
And how did the N.C.A.A. find out about Tanesha’s airfare? Get this: The N.C.A.A. heard about it from her ex-boyfriend, a convicted felon who,...
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22 days ago
JoePa passes.
The AP obit is here. It’s sad that his life will always be remembered in a more complicated way than he wished. But honesty compels me to say that such was the choice he made. I hope his family can find some peace with that eventually.
Filed under: College Football
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22 days ago
Phil Steele’s 2012 returning starters
Steele has blessed us with his number crunching on how many starters return at every D-1 school this coming season. And kleph was good enough to make a readable SEC chart, which looks like this:
Phil Steele’s SEC Returning Starters List
SEC Rank
Natl. Rank
School
Offense
Defense
Special Teams
Total
1
2 (tie)
Tennessee
10*
8
2
20
2 (tie)
8 (tie)
Auburn
7*
9...
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22 days ago
Sunday morning buffet
Grab a plate and get started.
As if recruiting at Georgia Tech isn’t hard enough… and what’s with the UCF placement service, anyway?
Fun with numbers, SEC-style.
Mike Leach writes a settlement letter. The addressees take up almost three times the length that his proposal does.
How big time sports ate college life. Or, more academic whining.
Mike Glazer may...
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22 days ago
Change the locks.
Derek Dooley continues a Tennessee tradition:
… The Volunteers landed some secondary help Saturday, when four-star cornerback prospect Deion Bonner committed while on an official visit to the UT campus. The 5-foot-11, 185-pound Bonner, from Columbus Carver High School, is the fifth Georgian to commit for this class.
Bonner had numerous scholarship offers from schools such as...
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22 days ago
One-man flipping crew
One complicated paragraph from Andy Staples’ piece about recruits changing their commitments in mid-stream:
… Meanwhile, Kiffin’s brief tenure on Rocky Top caused quite a bit of chaos in this sample. In addition to causing [Tajh] Boyd’s flip, Kiffin flipped receiver Nu’Keese Richardson from Florida, safety Janzen Jackson from LSU, tailback Bryce Brown...
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23 days ago
Should Richard Samuel IV be Tripped (again)?
From Seth Emerson’s mailbag:
With the recent enrollment of Keith Marshall and the recent commitment of Todd Gurley, Georgia looks stack at the running back position in terms of depth. Richard Samuel has been a team player ever since he stepped on campus. Do you think the coaches might try to switch him to fullback or to a h-back position.? He is a great blocker and can catch...
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23 days ago
First, we’ll hang him… then we’ll give him a fair trial.
I don’t have a dog in the Harvey Updyke saga, so for me, it’s just fun to sit back and watch both sides screw with each other. Of course, given that the crime took place on Auburn’s turf, it’s that side that has most of the leverage, as the terms of this plea offer indicate:
Harvey Updyke, the Alabama fan who is accused of poisoning the famous oak trees...
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23 days ago
There’s only one meaningful tradition in today’s SEC.
It’s the one Roy Kramer inaugurated in 1992: configuring the conference to maximize television revenues. And, my friends, that sacred tradition lives on today. In fact, “lives on” may be selling Mike Slive short. “Thrives” may be a more accurate description. Just ask SEC TV hatchet man consultant Larry Templeton.
Television networks want more...
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24 days ago
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