The amazing thing about this chart isn’t where true freshman Jake Fromm stands…
… it’s the ridiculously few number of times Fromm has faced pressure so far this season.
Chaney has done an effective job protecting Fromm with his playcalling and Pittman obviously deserves a share of the credit, too.
Filed under Georgia Football
It took ’em three and a half years to punt. How stupid does Michael Adams’ overreaction to the Harrick scandal look now? (It looked stupid at the time, but, still.)
At least now they can get back to what’s important, which is keeping the labor base cheap.
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UPDATE: The hypocrisy is strong in this one.
https://twitter.com/andyhre/status/918842997155905536
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UPDATE #2: Good to see Greg Sankey has his priorities straight.
Poor babies.
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UPDATE #3: The cherry on top of today’s NCAA sundae…
Filed under Academics? Academics., The NCAA
This is like some cruel trick Gawd is playing on me: Carla Williams is in the mix to become the University of Virginia’s next athletic director.
Filed under Georgia Football
I read this Mark Emmert interview with the New York Times and my first thought upon finishing was “is he really this clueless”? I mean, here’s the last paragraph of the story:
“There’s always been rumors and innuendo that swirled around about this kind of behavior,” he said. “I think one of the most disturbing elements of this whole circumstance is it seems to have uncovered, at least in these cases, a code of silence — that people who were aware of these things weren’t coming forward.”
This guy runs an organization with an investigation arm that is routinely rebuffed by folks who have no vested interest in cooperating with the NCAA (no, don’t ask me to explain Greg McGarity in that regard) and he’s surprised by a “code of silence”? Jeebus.
Filed under The NCAA
… your team is off to such a slow start, you can’t even keep track of how many games you’ve lost.
As far as Missouri linebacker Terez Hall is concerned, the Tigers are much better than they have played this year…
“You’ve seen that we’re 1-5,” Hall said, accidentally mistaking the Tigers’ record. “That’s our identity. Until we change that, that’s what we’re going to be. So we got to play hard.
“We got to go out and get a win. Because we’re playing Georgia this weekend, that don’t mean nothing. It’s the same goal, go 1-0. We’re trying to win this weekend like how we were trying to win last week.”
Of course, the snark inside me feels like Hall may just be anticipating this weekend’s result.
Filed under SEC Football
Yeah, Larry Scott is a dick. That’s callous even by Jim Delany standards.
Filed under Pac-12 Football, The NCAA
After suffering through all those years of Jon Fabris’ challenges/directional kicking, the Logan Gray era and last season’s general special teams ineptitude, what am I supposed to make of Bill Connelly’s wistful jealousy?
Oh, by the way: Georgia ranks first in Special Teams S&P+, too. Fun, right? They don’t allow punt returns (at least, not good ones), 74 percent of their kickoffs are touchbacks, place-kicker Rodrigo Blankenship is automatic under 40 yards, Mecole Hardman is averaging nearly 11 yards per punt return, and Mecole Hardman is averaging nearly 30 yards per kick return.
Missouri, meanwhile, is undergoing a position battle at long-snapper.
Honestly, it’s kind of freaking me out. I’ll probably get over that, though.
Filed under Georgia Football
The Nuttster’s re-filed his lawsuit against Ole Miss. I don’t know if he’ll prevail in court, but in the short term, the allegations in his complaint show that Ross Bjork, the AD, was definitely working the phones to throw off the scent in the court of public opinion.
Bjork, in fact, had retained the services of an outside public relations consultant — Brian Curtis, who runs the Atlanta-based Paradigm Four firm, has sort of a niche business in college sports — and the lawsuit details numerous communications with him documented in public records around those key times.
Mars’ lawsuit says “two-thirds of AD Bjork’s cell phone calls on January 29-30, 2016 were with sports journalists, Coach Freeze, and the three members of the AD’s PR team. Ten of those conversations were between AD Bjork and (Kyle) Campbell, the head of PR who reported directly to AD Bjork. … University phone logs show that on a typical day, AD Bjork would have had no more than a few calls with (that group of people).”
The lawsuit then details a play-by-play of phone calls between Freeze, Bjork and other officials in the inner-circle correlated with information reported by journalists that day.
There was a 13-minute call between Campbell and ESPN’s Chris Low, who later in the day tweeted “I’m told the Ole Miss Notice of Allegations doesn’t contain any surprises. Most of it predates Hugh Freeze and Ole Miss knew it was coming.” There was a call between Freeze and then-Fox Sports (now Sports Illustrated) reporter Bruce Feldman, who cited anonymous sources in saying “the majority of the allegations stem from women’s basketball and track as well as from incidents occurring with the previous Rebels football staff from the Houston Nutt era.” Ed Aschoff of ESPN, who had spoken with Bjork earlier that afternoon, wrote in a news story, quoting an anonymous source, “This is a fraction involving our current football staff.”
It’s one thing to lie your ass off when you’re doing your damnedest to keep your football program from going off the rails. It’s another to make national media members look like spoon-fed idiots. I’m guessing these reporters may find themselves on the receiving end of a deposition summons, which should do wonders for their feelings about Ole Miss football and Bjork in particular.
More popcorn, please.
Filed under Freeze!, See You In Court, Sometimes You Feel Like A Nutt
This is such a great picture.
Photo by Contributed Photo /Times Free Press
From trashcans to revenge… so many snarky choices. Have at it in the comments.
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