Some potentially good news for butt dialers

The SEC is proposing that the NCAA consider some major changes to recruiting rules, one of which in particular should make Mark Richt a happier man:

… The SEC endorses the return of text messaging. Currently, coaches cannot text with recruits (at all) but they can email them or send them a Facebook message. The current rules have already caused several coaches to self-report violations after accidentally texting a prospective student-athlete and some coaches privately gripe this is one of the rules they’d like to seen thrown out sooner rather than later. In talking with several administrators from other conferences, there should be plenty of support if the SEC puts forth a proposal to allow texting. The letter does note that while the conference’s position is to allow texts, there should be limits in order to not overwhelm prospective recruits.

Notice also the proposal to do away with the bump rule, or, more accurately, to do away with the media’s attempt to sensationalize violations of the bump rule.  I kid you not:

… The bump rule, the letter states, “is a source for media reports questioning the integrity of involved coaches, create the expectation that high school coaches arrange incidental contact during an evaluation period, and place college coaches intent on following the rules at a distinct disadvantage.”

When Slive retires, the SEC presidents ought to do away with the middleman and make Nick Saban the next conference commissioner.  It would cut down considerably on the e-mails and phone calls.

These are a few of our favorite plays.

This post of Michael Felder’s over at Blatant Homerism got me to thinking:  what play that’s a Georgia staple qualifies as my favorite?  Actually, it didn’t take very long to come up with the answer.

I wish I could find a clip of the first time Richt ran this play, against Auburn the season before.  Greene sold the fake beautifully and the entire Tigers defense bought it.  The best part was seeing that Tuberville recognized the play fake and ran down the sidelines screaming at his secondary, to no avail.  Greene really was a master at selling this.  Other Georgia QBs have run the play with success, but none as well.

Give me the play calls on offense or defense which you’ve seen run over the years that you like especially.

Nudge, nudge, wink, wink

Hypothetically speaking, don’t you wish A.J. had received hypothetical cash for his jersey which he would have hypothetically deposited into his hypothetical bank account?

After all, his trip to Miami was hypothetical.

Tom O’Brien’s loss of control

Here’s a little nugget from Andy Staples’ nice piece about Russell Wilson’s transfer to Wisconsin that undercuts the whole poor-ole’-Tom O’Brien spin that many put on the coach’s decision to cut Wilson loose in the first place:

… Wilson’s free agency was a direct result of the rule in more than one way. This past spring, N.C. State coach Tom O’Brien had to decide whether Wilson or redshirt junior Mike Glennon would start for the Wolfpack. Why? Because Glennon earned a business degree in three years. Had O’Brien picked Wilson, Glennon could have declared himself a free agent and played somewhere else this season.

So this wasn’t about a head coach acting out of frustration because his starting QB’s flirtation with baseball conflicted with his football preparation.  It was simply a self-interested call over the lesser of two evils.

If you polled head coaches about the graduate transfer rule, do you think even 10% of them would be in favor of it?

%(*+#^*$!(@ social media.

While some coaches wrestle with whether to allow the kids in their programs to post on Twitter and Facebook, Dennis Erickson wishes he could do something about his players posting on Twitter after they’ve moved on.