Throwaway year in Knoxville

Of all the postmortem tributes to Booch, “I hope he can help me and the teammates around me“ might be the saddest.

Pruitt’s definitely got his work cut out for him.

The art of making lemonade out of lemons

Found this of interest:

Was doing an informal study of FBS power 5 teams in the bottom 25 of P5 teams in average recruiting class ranking that have won 55%+ of their games the last 5 years. These stats jumped out as me as ones to pay attention to when looking at how these teams do what they do. pic.twitter.com/R0nCd7XCOW

— SportSourceAnalytics (@SportSourceA) April 12, 2018

Sounds like ball control and efficiency are the keys to making the most out of what you’ve got, if you’re not a recruiting powerhouse.  Certainly, there’s more than one way to skin those particular cats, but if you were going to pick an offensive scheme that was best for running clock and keeping your defense off the field, what would you choose?

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Today, in real world economics

Grant Newsome is a Michigan football player… er, student-athlete, who has a few bones to pick with a certain organization.

Hey @NCAA, wanna take care of these taxes we owe on our rent checks? Seems like that’s fair since you claim we’re students, not employees, and all that other amateurism BS you spew every chance you get. Let me pay taxes on my monetized likeness, not stipends for rent and food.

— Grant Newsome (@grant_newsome) April 12, 2018

Oh wow. Would you look at that @NCAA, seems like the student athletes are the only ones paying taxes around here. That’s how amateurism works right? You make billions and don’t pay taxes. We get rent and food money (out of the kindness of your hearts) and get taxed on it. pic.twitter.com/HBXUr1VYZ9

— Grant Newsome (@grant_newsome) April 12, 2018

And before anyone says it, I have absolutely no problem paying taxes. I have a problem when “amateur” student-athletes pay them for rent money, and a billion dollar corporation doesn’t pay a cent.

— Grant Newsome (@grant_newsome) April 12, 2018

Maybe some of y’all can fansplain to Grant how it’s really not in his best interest to get paid for his likeness.  The poor kid really sounds mixed up there.

“I think it’s nuts.”

If there’s one thing that scares me a little, it’s finding out that once in a while I think just like Paul Johnson.

“(If they adopt this proposal), is it in your best interests to make sure all your guys are under 3.3?” said Johnson, who is only verbalizing what every college football coach is thinking. “If you’re allowing a one-time transfer rule and tying it to a high enough GPA or whatever, what are you telling the schools who don’t want to lose their guys? What are they going to do, keep them from being a 3.3? You know how people are going to do it. They’re going to do what’s in their best interests.”

If the proposal passes, maybe everyone will make their players take calculus.

White punks on dope

The University of Alabama won't comment after four Mississippi State students charged with stealing memorabilia from the Mal Moore Athletics Facility:https://t.co/5G7VJ2zall pic.twitter.com/3BkL6wAkN9

— Stephanie Taylor (@TNews_Steph) April 11, 2018

I’m betting when the gory details are revealed about this SEC West Crime of the Century, we’ll discover that either alcohol or fraternities were involved.  Or, even more likely, both.