Saturday morning buffet

Mornin’, campers.

• Carver High and Georgia football, BFFs.
• In the SEC East, nobody came out of spring practice without big questions.
• One more time:  pro basketball and football entry rules are designed to benefit one party and one party only.
• According to Tony Barnhart, the Johnson will rise again.
• Which do you suppose comes first, Mark Shurtleff’s antitrust suit or the BCS ruling on the Fiesta Bowl?
• The man who predicted Ron Paulus would win two Heisman Trophies now says Urban Meyer will be coaching Ohio State in 2012.
• “I found that since Jan. 1, 1991, there have been 47 schools guilty of what the NCAA called major violations.  Eight programs were listed more than once, with Alabama leading the way with three.”

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“We don’t teach dirty. We teach people to finish, and Nick knows how to finish. I think that’s obvious.”

Ted Roof, just shut the hell up.

Nothing to see here, move on.

Richt admitted to the crowd that he felt the Bulldogs lost some close games last year because the other team played harder.

“That’s embarrassing,” Richt told the audience. “It’s our shame and it’s my fault. We’re not going to let that happen again.”

— Florida Times-Union, 4/22/11

I’m amused the above quote’s gotten the attention it has.  It’s not like that’s a big surprise to any Georgia fan who sat through the Liberty Bowl fiasco.

The novelty, I suppose, is the head coach accepting full responsibility for poor effort.  So it’s kind of a “man bites dog” story.  That says more about what we expect to hear out of Richt’s peers than anything else.