Some enchanted evening, a reader poll

We haven’t had a reader poll in a while, but this Mike Griffith version of reality merits a simple one.

The 43-year-old Smart named 41-year-old Charlton Warren his defensive backs coach on Saturday, shortly after crossing paths with him on the recruiting trail and conversing.

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Here’s a little breakdown of Georgia’s early enrollees.  One thing I notice is that all the defensive backs are listed at 6-1.

Oh, and Rian Davis’ nickname is “Trouble”.  One can only hope it’s the right kind of trouble.

Today, in Dawg porn

For those of you hoping that a change of playcallers will lead to a change of attitude in the offense, here’s former Miami QB Brad​ Kaaya ($$) talking about James Foley Coley, who was his offensive coordinator there.

“(He’s) an aggressive, attacking type of play-caller,” Kaaya said. “We always had good game plans. I thought we always went after the defense’s weakness. I guess just relentless. Each week the game plan — obviously we had our roles that we stick to — but we also have a personalized game plan that was aimed at exploiting a team’s weaknesses.”

I don’t know about you, but I’d be up for exploiting a few goal line defenses.

I couldn’t care less about the NFL…

… but this is pretty cool.

I took this picture in the fall of 2014 on the field of Running Back University in Athens, Ga. Perhaps you’ve heard of it?

You can watch the two guys on the left play in #SBLIII in two weeks, and there’s a decent chance you’ll see the guy on the right win NFL Rookie of the Year. pic.twitter.com/Pm06scK4cm

— Logan Booker (@LoganMBooker) January 21, 2019

Y’all think that might come in handy on the recruiting trail?

“It’s about asset protection.”

Dude, you misspelled “National Letter of Intent” in your header.

He’s only human.

Lincoln Riley says the human element is what lead him to removing the restrictions on Austin Kendall’s transfer.

— SoonerScoop.com (@SoonerScoop) January 20, 2019

Sure, as long as you’re counting shame as a human element.

Musical palate cleanser, ah-woo-oooh edition

Howlin’ Wolf.  “Smokestack Lightning”.  Live.

“We had the opportunity to work together at Tennessee, where we did some great things.”

I’m not really sure it’s necessary to add any commentary to this development.

Duke’s football coaching staff is complete again with the hiring of a new wide receivers coach.

Trooper Taylor will join Blue Devils coach David Cutcliffe’s in that position, the school announced Sunday night.

Okay, okay, at least we’ll find out what it looks like for a grown man to wear a Duke hat backwards.