Monthly Archives: June 2010
If you send them, they will come. At least you hope they will.
This comment ran with a post that’s dropped off the front page at GTP, so you may not have read it, but take a look at this particular observation: … The numbers would suggest that Richt’s biggest weakness is recruiting … Continue reading
Filed under Georgia Football, Recruiting
Sink or swim.
In this whole “fairness” (translation: who gets the money) debate surrounding the push for an expanded playoff for D-1 football, it’s easy for people like Barton and Hatch to use Utah, Boise State and TCU as the poster children for … Continue reading
Filed under It's Not Easy Being A Mid-Major, It's Just Bidness
Wednesday morning buffet
Get ‘yer hump day nourishment: My math isn’t always the best, but if I used my fingers and toes correctly, Mark Richt is claiming that Georgia’s coaches visited more than 350 high schools around the state during the spring evaluation … Continue reading
Kiffin watch: Trading places
I have no idea if this report is true, but Gawd, I hope it is: … I now wholeheartedly believe that both Jim Cheyney (sic) and Lance Thompson have received inflammatory phone calls and text messages from Lane Kiffin and … Continue reading
A couple of snide questions
Two things that don’t really have any linkage, except for the snotty attitude they generated from me when I read them: I get the point Spurrier is making here in terms of South Carolina’s ability to compete for the elusive … Continue reading
Filed under 'Cock Envy, Georgia Football
Tuesday morning buffet
Dig in, folks. CFN takes an early look at the Georgia-Tennessee game. I like UT’s defense (if it stays healthy) more and the Vols’ offensive line a lot less than does CFN, but it’s a pretty fair assessment overall. Football … Continue reading
“The BCS isn’t about money.”
I could easily devote a thousand words to Andy Staples’ latest bout of silliness, but suffice it to say that in the wake of the tsunamis that have crashed against the business shore of college athletics in the last 12-18 … Continue reading
Filed under BCS/Playoffs, Media Punditry/Foibles, Political Wankery
Addicted to cupcakes
Kansas State’s Bill Snyder is so hooked on weak scheduling that he’s proposing the Big XII go to two five-school divisions with a championship game. Read the details; they’re embarrassing.
Filed under Big 12 Football
The good old days are just around the corner.
Two contrasting quotes from another have/have-not article on college athletics: … Regarding fiscal decisions in athletics, SEC Commissioner Mike Slive said universities would be best served by sticking to their own missions. “I think the point here is that each … Continue reading
Filed under Academics? Academics., College Football, It's Just Bidness
When money becomes an object
ESPN loses another BCS sponsor: The Granddaddy Of Them All is looking for a new sugar daddy. Citi is out as presenting sponsor of the Rose Bowl after a seven-year run supporting college football’s most august bowl game. Citi’s decision … Continue reading
Filed under It's Just Bidness
