Thursday morning buffet

More random bits of college football nourishment for your reading pleasure…

• John Pennington looks at SEC schools’ non-conference schedules over the past few seasons and makes a good point:  “There are a lot of people who look at Georgia’s talent and the Bulldogs long run of success who ask, “When’s Mark Richt gonna win a BCS title?”  First, those aren’t easy to come by.  Second, they’re especially not easy to come by when you play eight SEC contests and you schedule 10 games in five years against BCS-level competition.”
• Another day, another law suit against a company selling player images.  When will these amateurs learn their place?
• This doesn’t sound good.  At all.
• Michael Felder takes an interesting look at what happens to all those top QB prospects after they enter college.  Let’s just say it’s not exactly a science.  Makes me appreciate what Richt and Bobo have done with quarterback development all the more.
• Danny Sheridan breaks down the 2013 title odds for you and guess what – it’s all Alabama!
• Skip Bayless talks to Johnny Manziel about Tim Tebow.  The mind reels.
• Nifty graphical post about college football drive outcomes.

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We’ll always have Tebow.

Gator fans, you give love a bad name.

And to think this is a fan base that doesn’t pause twice about mocking us for Herschel worship.

Friday morning buffet

Mangia, mangia.

• Gary Danielson really doesn’t want to see Notre Dame in the national title game.
• On the other hand, the rest of the BCS bowls are positively giddy over Notre Dame’s prospects.
• The offensive genius gets defensive.
• This blows me away – of the 38 coaches who originally recruited Robert Marve, who starts this Saturday for Purdue, only two are still with the same school today.
• Cool piece on a guy who may be the most obscure influential offensive mind in college football right now.
• Once expected to be the offensive line’s sixth man, Watts Dantzler couldn’t even beat out a walk-on to make the travel squad for the Florida game.
• Here you go, worry warts:  “Ole Miss probably couldn’t have picked a better time to face Georgia.”
• Just shoot me.  Also, this.  (h/t Puffdawg)

Sunday morning buffet

This, that and the other:

• One of college football’s life lessons:  ”Squeeze your butt cheeks.”
• One of Phil Steele’s power rankings:  Plus/Minus ratings.  Georgia is third in the SEC and eighth nationally.
• As a ‘Hoo, I appreciate Virginia Tech embracing its inner gobble.
• Good to see there’s as much happy talk coming out of Missouri’s fall practice as there is out of Georgia’s.
• Merritt Hall, who was invited to walk-on at Georgia Southern and Jacksonville State, is Georgia’s #1 fullback right now.  He’s also got a scholarship.
• John Lilly says Georgia doesn’t need a dedicated special teams coach.  (Interestingly, no team in the SEC has one.)
• A bulldog blogger predicts an undefeated Georgia will win the SEC.
• Oh, Lord.

Thursday morning buffet

No fireworks.  Just football.

• Honestly, I’m surprised Nick Saban has time for this shit.
• As Georgia Southern looks to move to D-1, it faces money concerns.
• Brady Hoke says coaches are talking about an early signing date for recruiting.
• Jeff Long on fans hoping that Arkansas might bring back Bobby Petrino:  “It amazes me that that’s still out there.”
• Can somebody explain to me why this was considered to be a good idea?
• The NCAA pulls a last-minute move to put Leonard Floyd’s admission to Georgia on hold.  Is there some reason that couldn’t have been researched months ago?
• Kevin Scarbinsky thinks the new playoff is going to make the regular season more attractive.
• Mark Bradley wants to know “why is it always Georgia?”.  Maybe it’s because you don’t pay attention to stuff like this, Mark.

First down, Perry!

Last night, Rick Perry touched the hem of the GPOOE™’s garment and we’re all the richer for it.

You know at least half the folks sharing the stage with him were mentally kicking themselves for not having gone there first.

I only hope that if Perry somehow finds himself anointed, er… selected as the GOP candidate to run next year for President – proof that we indeed live in an age of miracles, friends – he goes all in at the first debate with Obama, comes out sporting a #15 jersey and eye black with Bible verses and then starts Tebowing every time he manages to get through a debate exchange without stumbling.

With that, Corch will have no choice but to declare Rick Perry the Greatest Politician Of Our Era.

Tuesday morning buffet

It’s not as good as a breakfast at T-Rays, but it’ll have to do.

• If Paul Johnson is the genius Mark Bradley insists he is, then this should be no problem.
• Jarvis Jones is a semifinalist for the Butkus Award.  Good to see that somebody’s paying attention.
• Mark Emmert suggests a $2000 increase in student-athlete scholarship amounts, but Boise State’s Bob Kustra isn’t impressed:  ” … Go back and examine the life of a student athlete in intercollegiate sports in America today, and see how privileged they are to be where they are and the opportunities they have.”  Lazy bums!
• Meanwhile, there’s a bunch of college administrators who don’t think Emmert’s gone far enough with his proposals.
• Spurrier’s ban on Ron Morris-attended pressers?  His-tor-ee.
• This may be the consummate Pat Dooley header.
• Georgia 26, Florida 20.  (I would take that in a heartbeat.)
• “Defense,” coach Turner Gill acknowledged, “is the area we haven’t made the best improvement.”  No shit.
• If you’ve been looking for Mudcat’s car, it seems to have turned up in Eugene, Oregon.

The Greatest Cryer of Our Era

I think you know where this is going:

“In 2009, the news media disparaged University of Florida quarterback Tim Tebow for crying on the sidelines after losing a big game, even labeling him Tim ‘Tearbow,’” said psychologist Y. Joel Wong, PhD, the study’s lead author. “However, the college football players in our study who believed … crying was appropriate had higher self-esteem. In contrast, players who believed … crying was inappropriate yet felt they would likely cry in [that] situation had lower self-esteem.”

And, no, that’s not a link to The Onion.  Sadly.

Thursday morning buffet

Drive safely this morning, and dig in.

• Six of the nine most watched college football games this season on television were SEC contests.  Money well spent, CBS.
• On the other hand, viewership of the Heisman Trophy ceremony dropped to its lowest level since 2006.  You only get one guess as to why.
• You’ve got to love a post which contains the line “when it comes to meaningless Congressional measures, no single vote means more than that of Corrine Brown.”
• Florida is dead to Heisman Pundit now.
• Congratulations, Aron White.  Just don’t borrow Mudcat’s car to drive to the ceremony, okay?
• I thought something similar to this the other day, but I think it carries more weight coming from a Florida guy:  “… that Brantley, a lifelong Gator and a legacy player, is considering a transfer despite the fact that UF hired a Gainesville guy who’s promising a pro-style offense speaks volumes.”
• I’m surprised it took somebody this long to blame Camgate on the BCS.
• Mark Cuban will fix that, though.
• Muschamp won’t put a staff together until after Florida’s bowl game, so is he handling recruiting all by his lonesome right now?

Looks like they picked the wrong week to have coached Tebow.

Is the GPOOE™’s high school coach still gainfully employed?