Get your fill before signing news takes over.
- Mining the JUCO pool. It’s not just for Mississippi schools anymore!
- Brady Hoke explains – or at least attempts to explain – why the wheels of justice grind slowly at Michigan.
- It’s not that Mark Bradley’s a concern troll. It’s that he’s so bad at it. If you want to criticize Georgia’s recruiting, don’t point at rankings, man. Make something out of the class sizes that led to the rankings.
- Even the losers get lucky sometimes.
- Although when it comes to Tennessee, there may be more than luck involved.
- Have the recruiting sites hit a bubble?
- Here’s a good piece on Missouri’s success recruiting in Georgia and Florida.
- Auburn will be playing Kansas State on Thursday night this season.
- If you missed it, Jared Lorenzen won Twitter last night.
Get The Picture 
“”They’re doing a nice job with scouting and evaluation,” Wommack said. “We’ve seen that, obviously, with how their team performed this year. A lot of those guys weren’t highly ranked by us. It just shows the coaching staff is identifying players that fit the system.”
And yet, folks are still paying 10 bucks a month while Missouri is actually looking at the kids.
Interesting.
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Did you mean to say he “ate” Twitter last night?
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Giggle.
OMG on Hefty Lefty there. Wow. I don’t think I have ever seen anything like it in football.
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I’d still pay money to watch that blob throw the ball around and make tacklers bounce right off him. Hilarious.
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I can’t find it this morning, but I came across a tweet last night from somebody who was at the game, took a picture of JL talking to somebody in the stands during the game, and claims he was asking her to get him an order of nachos.
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I saw this too–it was gold.
http://deadspin.com/jared-lorenzen-is-still-playing-quarterback-1515450948
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Jeez…that pic looks like feeding time at Sea World. He’s the Shamu Slinger!
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Me too. The backward pass with David Pollack hanging onto his leg was one of my favorite plays of all time.
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The Lord of the Ring Dings still has moves. One pastry to rule them all.
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I’ll always think of him as the Clydesdale of Quarterbacks or the Four Horsemen but to Munson, he was always Godzilla
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I remember Munson’s calling him “That Big Giant!” (and I have to include the exclamation point). “He’s just standing back there holding the ball and we can’t tackle him”.
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The Round Mound of Touchdown was my personal fav
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I find it difficult to express how happy it makes me that Lorenzen is still slinging it around. He’s one of my favorite non-Dawg athletes. I loved it when they put him in the lineup with his o-line during the halftime bits on CBS and challenge the viewer to figure out which one was the QB.
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Mark Bradley is grasping at straws. That is some big-time stretching to find a negative header to lead his “story”. He seems to be trolling for the GT base to read his silly column.. His comment that ” while GT is not good at recruiting, they are better at playing football” (my paraphrase..I’m not about to torture myself by going back and reading that bullshit again just so I can quote it as silly as it’s actually written), is perhaps the dumbest conclusion for I have ever seen, even from him. “Playing (wiinnning) ” against who?
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That comparison is such a glaring hole. It is very surprising he even tried to use winning percentage as a way to insinuate GT is getting more bang for their buck. It would have been even more dramatic if he had taken Ga. Southern, Appy, Northern Ill., and North Dakota’s winning percentage in relationship to their recruiting rankings. To his credit, he recognizes the intelligence of AJC readers and likes his chances of blowing it past them.
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The bigger part of the Auburn headline is that they play AT KState.
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It’s a long way from Auburn to Manhattan. Wait until the Midwesterners see the East Alabama Male College try to go All-In at Bill Snyder Family Stadium
http://www.kansascity.com/2014/02/03/4795663/auburn-kansas-state-football-game.html
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Manhattan, Kansas is a tough place to play, particularly at night. Both teams have an open date the week before so that should give each team a fair chance to be ready, though.
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Kansas State went 8-5 last year. Three of those losses were at home
( Manhattan KS) at night. But it is a tough place to play. RIght?
just sayin’
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Particularly speakin’ of course.
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Yeah, and in 2012 they finished 11-1 in the regular season, were the Big 12 Champions and won ALL their home games. GFY, asshole.
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Just sayin.’
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Bradley and Schultz rarely do any critical thinking, and stoke the most obvious flames. When David Hale came along and did so many wonderful quasi-statistical analysis combined with interesting takes on the theme-of-the-day reporting that goes on, it really opened my eyes to how good someone can be. I still like Bradley ok (Schultz would be fine if he never tried to make a joke again) but I rarely read his stuff and think “oh, I hadn’t thought of it that way.”
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The analysis is so superficial, but I love how they always try to pass it off as brilliant journalism. Hacks
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Agreed on David Hale. It was a sad day when he left for Philly. Word is he’s in Tally now.
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His logic is like the Maginot Line, entirely assailable. For instance, comparing recruiting rankings from 2002-2009 against results from 2010-2013 is just weird. He says UGA used to recruit better when it had the No. 2 and No. 3 recruiters on staff in Bobo and Garner… Bobo is still on the staff and I don’t know what CJP is but I hear the kid can recruit, and McClendon is pulling running backs like a fat kid with an x-box controller and a cheat code. The facts he chooses are so arbitrary and unscientific it’s ridiculous. Hale would never do that.
Of course, he throws in the obligatory no BCS title game jab too, and suggests that Tech’s coaching is better because they outperform their recruiting rankings (of course, he digs arbitrarily back to 1998 to do so… I’d suggest that if he used the same years he does for UGA, ie 2002-present Tech wouldn’t get the benefit of the O’Leary golden ages and his point would falter). I have no doubt this will get picked up by someone on PTI or some other shitty shitty talking head show somewhere and next thing we know Richt can’t recruit anymore. I hate the media.
There are fleeting moments that I wonder if I should join myajc and pay. This article did not spark that urge.
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What on AJC.com does spark that urge?
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Sometimes they have supermodels in bikinis.
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Also Jared Lorenzen highlights are hypnotic.
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Another reason you should all be on twitter.
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Looking at the pictures, I find it amazing they could finad a jersey to fit him. He is absolutly squeezed into that one. He is also providing his own version of a flack jacket, as either there is not one to fit, or even if there were, it would not go under the jersey.
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J-Load ran the option with more deceptive speed and skill than George Godsey.
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Man I hate Tennessee. How about all of those Tennessee fans basically taking off their shirts and calling Mike Carvell out in the yard: “We really classy you sum’o’bitch”.
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My one disappointment this off-season has been Georgia’s apparent failure to pursue a legit OT from the JC ranks to play LT in Athens. Several were out there but they all appear to be signing elsewhere, particularly with Bama and Ol’ Piss.
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If you look at the top 100 players…Bama has nearly ALL the big offensive linemen.
Oops, I forgot to set my clock back one second before writing that.
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There is big and there is good–and those are not necessarily the same. 🙂
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BTW, A&M supposedly is signing 2 JUCO OTs ranked in the top 10 OLs in JC. WTF????
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Amazing what you can accomplish when you have a robust distance learning program. Look what it did for JFF.
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I for one am a bit over JC players. We have not seemed to have much luck at all with them.
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