Is there such a thing as Yellow Jacket porn?

I didn’t think it was possible to improve upon perfection, but apparently it is.

I bet Mark Bradley’s getting all tingly just thinking about it.

Fun and eight games

I’ll be the first to admit that at times it’s easy to mock Tony Barnhart’s reporting.  But that doesn’t mean he’s useless.  I take this news at face value.

In the short term it looks like the eight-game schedule will stay in place. CBSSports.com has been told that the scheduling formats for 2014 and 2015 will be presented in Destin and both seasons call for an eight-game model.

Well, shoot.

You can read the rest of Barnhart’s piece for the pros and cons of moving to a nine-game conference slate, none of which is particularly groundbreaking at this point (okay, there’s a reason we call him Mr. Conventional Wisdom around these parts).  But what that news tells me is Slive hasn’t managed to squeeze as much money out of his broadcast partners in the wake of conference expansion as he hoped.  Scheduling thus stays in a holding pattern until the SEC can figure out the best way to play its hole card, assuming it wants to, that is.

Purely as an aside here – do you think Tony got his scoop from the SEC or from his employer?  ESPN ain’t the only one that gets to play both sides of the street, you know.

Anyway, expect to hear more bitching about the schedule coming out of Destin later this month.  There may be some interesting tea leaf reading to do, depending on who’s complaining and what the complaints are about.  Stay tuned.

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Fashion plate

I have no idea how talented a football player Preston Williams may turn out to be at the college level, but I’ve got to tell you from a blogging perspective, he’s a must-have in Athens.

… Williams wore blindingly bright yellow shoes, mismatched socks (one was a multi-colored, neon leopard print, while the other was decorated with cupcakes), cut-off camouflage sweat pants over black leggings and a Lovejoy t-shirt. The ensemble was topped off with a gray scarf that would look great on a 78-year-old retiree from Boca Raton but seemed out of place wrapped around Williams’ noggin as a headband.

“This is my look,” Williams said. “My jumping look — I am exotic.”

Ooh, baby.  Sign this kid!

BREAKING: ESPN is influential in college football.

After everything we’ve seen in the last decade, it’s the SEC Network that’s suddenly hipped people on to the WWL’s power?

Good Lord.  Go back to sleep, folks.

Now Richt’s just messing with us.

This is borderline cruelty.

A day after touted Florida State linebacker signee Matthew Thomas told the Miami Herald that he wanted out of his scholarship in order to play at Georgia or Southern Cal, Richt said not all of the Bulldogs’ 85 scholarships are taken.

“We could have signed as many as 35 this year,” he said. “We signed 33.”

Richt did not mention Thomas specifically.

Nudge, nudge and all that…

I still think it’s highly unlikely we’ll ever see Thomas in red and black.

You’re not so tough, SEC.

Big Game Bob wants you to know the SEC is overrated because his Sooners would have given Missouri as much of a righteous arse kicking last season as Texas A&M gave Oklaho… hey, wait a minute!