Monthly Archives: February 2009
Saturday morning buffet
It’s raining and it’s the last day of February, so it’s not like you’ve got a lot to do at the moment. Man, what’s gotten into Dennis Dodd? A well-researched article on the current Congressional follies regarding the BCS? Color … Continue reading
Filed under BCS/Playoffs, General Idiocy, Georgia Football, Media Punditry/Foibles, Recruiting
New staff salaries: “We did step it up somewhat because of their pursuit.”
The AB-H has the story on the new football staff salaries here. If you’re looking for the breakdown, it’s like this: UGA Football coach Salaries ► Head coach Mark Richt: $2.8 million ► Defensive coordinator Willie Martinez: $325,815 ► Offensive … Continue reading
Filed under Georgia Football, It's Just Bidness
Friday morning buffet
It’s no chicken biscuit, but here’s some football news to get you going: Not that this should surprise anyone, but the NCAA has gotten around to investigating Bryce Brown’s Svengali, Brian Butler. David Hale linked to this post-combine interview with … Continue reading
Filed under Georgia Football, It's Just Bidness, Recruiting, The Evil Genius, The NCAA
Twisted logic, example two
Shorter Michael Wilbon: pay no attention to those college football losers. The college basketball regular season is especially meaningful because nobody can figure out if any of the teams are good.
Filed under BCS/Playoffs, Media Punditry/Foibles
Twisted logic, example one
Nothing like a little misplaced righteous anger to get the day started: “On an ethical level, it is preposterous, if not heinous, to have the football and basketball coach paid several times as much as the university president,” says Andrew … Continue reading
Filed under It's Just Bidness
Mark Bradley goes fishing.
Traffic must be sagging lately at the AJ-C sports page. I evidently don’t share Mark Bradley’s value system, but all I can say is that anyone who can generate a list ordering the SEC coaches by level of obnoxiousness and … Continue reading
Filed under Media Punditry/Foibles, SEC Football
Thursday morning buffet
If the pickings have seemed a little slim this week, today looks to have bucked that trend: I know the author of this post meant well, but it comes off kinda sadly. The question is, at this point in time … Continue reading
The art of oversigning, or too much is never enough
Andy Staples has a piece up about oversigning that will have you shaking your head about one Houston Nutt. Everybody knows the Nuttster signed 37 kids to letters of intent with Ole Miss a couple of weeks ago, and while … Continue reading
Filed under Recruiting
On the Plains, history is bunk.
There was a time when Auburn had a head coach who hired an offensive coordinator who ran an offensive scheme that was far removed from the Dye-esque, manly, three-yards-and-a-cloud-of-dust approach that Tiger fans were accustomed to. But the head coach … Continue reading
Filed under Gene Chizik Is The Chiznit
Wednesday morning buffet
Morning, campers. In case nobody told you, spring practice is already underway at three schools. I’m surprised that this hadn’t been done already, but Jerry does an entertaining job with it. Auburn’s staff takes the early lead in the duel, … Continue reading
