Monthly Archives: April 2011
Why they pay Nick Saban the big bucks
Tons of interesting info in this post, but Holy Mother of Crap, Alabama’s athletic department’s operating revenues (over $130 million last year) have doubled in the past four years and its profitability ($31+ million last year) tripled in that same … Continue reading
Filed under It's Just Bidness, Nick Saban Rules
Bowl revenue sanctimony
Shockingly, Bill Hancock makes a decent point about something. … Connecticut, which earned its first-ever BCS berth with last January’s Fiesta Bowl appearance, reported losing more than $1.6 million from the trip, despite a $2.5 million expense allowance from the … Continue reading
Filed under BCS/Playoffs, College Football, It's Just Bidness
“Dope on the table”, indeed.
If any column I’ve read recently deserves the Billy Madison treatment, it’s this one.
Filed under Media Punditry/Foibles
The Gator fan’s dilemma
Mike McCall gets points for consistency with his follow-up on Janoris Jenkins, but that’s not the part that interests me. Rather, it’s the choice he believes the program faced with the Jenkins decision: … So, what is gained? If only … Continue reading
Filed under Crime and Punishment, Gators, Gators...
“Being great is what?”
Auburn, the next thing on your shopping list should be an editor for Gene Chizik.
Filed under Gene Chizik Is The Chiznit
Why they turn pro early.
I don’t think A.J. owned enough jerseys to make this happen: That choice of ride, though… ugh. The ugliest car Porsche has ever built.
Filed under It's Just Bidness
A perfect compliance storm
Add Title IX to an era of increasing female enrollment, shrinking budgets and enlarged football rosters and what do you get? Why, creative bookkeeping, of course. ************************************************************************ UPDATE: Brian Cook gets medieval all over the NYT’s ass.
Filed under It's Just Bidness
The table is set. Can the big Dawg eat?
I don’t think it’s any big secret that I find preseason polls to be a complete waste. That goes doubly for pre-preseason polls, like this one from ESPN’s “College Football Live”. Still, if that either reflects or shapes public opinion … Continue reading
Filed under Georgia Football
Musical palate cleanser: Guitar Hero
I haven’t done one of these in a while, but yesterday’s Zombies reference seems to have struck a chord (see what I did there?) with some of you, so here goes. Jeff Beck is sort of the forgotten guitar god … Continue reading
Filed under Uncategorized
When you’ve lost Tony Barnhart, you’ve lost America.
Mr. Conventional Wisdom has a message for the Big Ten: shut the hell up. As of this moment all of my friends from the Big Ten are on notice. And you know who you are. You are the ones who … Continue reading
Filed under Big Ten Football, Media Punditry/Foibles
