Thursday morning buffet

Take a plate and keep moving.

• Groo makes some good points that in retrospect, Georgia’s schedule wasn’t as weak as many insist it was.
• John Pennington reminds us what a Vegas line really is.
• USA Today makes a projection about how much SEC revenues are about to jump.  (Hint:  a lot.)
• Did a brawl break out in Southern Cal’s locker room after the embarrassing loss to Georgia Tech?  I hope so.
• It sounds like Tajh Boyd and Aaron Murray are ready to get it on.
• Latest Harris Poll sampling sports fans favorites shows a slight downtick in support for college football.
• Believe it or not, somebody said this yesterday:  “To get a quality coach like John L. Smith, we’re very fortunate.”

The last Te’o joke I’ll tell.

Sorry, but this is too good to pass up.

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Transparency? The NCAA don’t need no stinkin’ transparency.

Meet the NCAA’s new general counsel.

Mark Emmert was approached by a reporter during his annual address at the 2011 Final Four in Houston with a question about a new hire. With all its resources, couldn’t the NCAA have perhaps considered bringing in someone else as its next general counsel?

The new guy, 44-year-old Donald Remy, had been vice president of litigation at Fannie Mae from 2000-2006. In 2006, the national mortgage giant revealed it had made billions of dollars worth of accounting errors. Some blamed Fannie Mae for the financial collapse.

None of that bounced back on Remy, an LSU grad. But when nominated by President Obama in 2009 to be Army general counsel, Remy was criticized by some members of the Senate Armed Services Committee about a lack of candor on his résumé about his time spent with Fannie Mae.

Remy reportedly summarized that portion of his professional life spent with a “major U.S. company.”

Jim Tressel is wondering why in the hell he didn’t think of hiring this guy to represent him first.