Saturday morning buffet

A tidbit here, a nugget there… and pretty soon it adds up to a post.

• Auburn’s Emory Blake will have his fourth different opening-day quarterback throwing to him when the Tigers begin this season.
• It’s good to see that faculty were as detached from reality in 1951 as they are today.
• The Orlando Sentinel picks the Georgia-South Carolina game as one of ten that could change the BCS.  (It looks like I’m going to have to mothball my favorite GTP post permanently.)
• The California State Assembly is on the verge of passing a college athlete’s bill of rights.
• I know he occupies more than one position there, but, still, Vanderbilt’s AD makes a surprising amount of money.
• Bruce Feldman notes that Ole Miss’ new coaching staff is almost entirely made up of coaches from Orgeron’s Rebels staff.  Wonder what the Red Bull consumption is like.
• LSU is handing out raises to coaches like candy.  One example:  “Recruiting coordinator/running backs coach Frank Wilson is up for a $225,000 raise to $550,000 a year. That will go up to $600,000 a year in 2013 and $650,000 a year in 2014, according to the proposal.”  Whoa, Nellie.

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Nick Saban is now dispensing economic wisdom.

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Too bad he doesn’t follow his own advice when it comes to recruiting.

“We want to help him become a head coach. That’s our job.”

Todd Grantham has dreams, man.

“First of all, I like the job I have; I enjoy being the defensive coordinator at Georgia,” Grantham told me in an interview earlier this week. “I enjoy coordinating and I enjoy football in general. But I think any time you’re in a profession, you’re always looking to take on the next challenge. What’s the next challenge? Being a head coach is obviously a challenge. It’s something I would like to do in time. But I’m not looking to do it right now. Those things kind of come. I think it’s important you do a good job with the job that you have and, if you do that, that creates opportunities.”

If he gets his shot, I hope he’s better at it than VanGorder was.

I don’t want to live in a world where Zooker wasn’t Croom’d.

The next time someone points to this blog as proof that I have too much time on my hands, I’m showing him this.