Thursday morning buffet

Perhaps you’ll find something nourishing here.

• SOD taught personal hygiene; Butch has his “Fourth-and-1″.  At Tennessee, they’re always learnin’.
• Vanderbilt is experimenting with GPS in players’ shoulder pads.  (No, it’s not to find them if they get lost on the playing field.)
• Mark Weiszer has a list of the new faces on Georgia’s support staff.
• Todd Gurley’s 2014 season:  In 2014, 61.9 percent of his rushing yards came after contact. He fumbled just three times in 510 carries.
• Don Leebern, friend to the beer drinker.
• “The Gators haven’t had a receiver sniff first- or second-team All-SEC honors from the coaches since Percy Harvin in 2008.”  When people tell you Florida’s offensive personnel don’t live up to the program’s recruiting reputation, this is the kind of stuff they’re talking about.
• Great line from Thomas Brown:  “He still looks good, so he still got it,” Holyfield said. “He says he’s got two more quarters in him.”
• Here’s a look at offensive efficiency trends in the SEC.
• The conclusion to the Silas Nacita affair:  “The bottom line is that I broke the rules.”

Caution! Emerging meme!

Expect a lot more of this stuff as the offseason goes by.

Tuesday morning buffet

Jump right in, folks.

• South Carolina is now seventh in the country in staff compensation.
• Meet Mark Hocke.
• Wes Rucker says he trusts the hire of Mike DeBord, who hasn’t coached football in three seasons, as UT’s new offensive coordinator, because John Jancek proves Butch Jones knows what he’s doing with his hires.  Really.
• Mark Schlabach’s early Top 25 has Georgia sitting at number eight.
• Do you ever try to figure out what all those advanced stats mean?  Bill Connelly’s glossary is here to help.
• Bob Stoops is getting back to Mike Leach ball on offense.
• ESPN’s SEC signing day roundtable has nary a mention of Georgia.
• Is Vernon Adams this year’s version of Jacob Coker?  We’ll see how much media love he gets this offseason.
• It sounds like pace of play won’t be a big issue for the rules committee this season.
• Oklahoma State wants to ask Charlie Strong who orders the Code Red.

Friday morning buffet

Indulge yourself a little.

• Jake Ganus, on his last few months:  “It was a roller coaster, that’s for sure.”
• Here’s a pretty cool interactive map for the SEC’s signing day.
• Les Miles, being Les Miles.  (And how many Dawg fans think all it would take for Mark Richt to lock down the state would be to say the same kind of thing?)
• Here’s an early look at next season’s national title contenders.
• The method and madness of life in Jeremy Pruitt’s secondary.
• Tennessee’s next offensive coordinator hasn’t been an on-the-field coach in a while, perhaps with good reason. (h/t Elkon)
• So what does Penn State do with the Paterno statue?

He never said he was good at math.

Arian Foster previously admitted publicly that he received money from boosters while at Tennessee.  Asked to put a dollar amount on what he pocketed during his stint in Knoxville, Foster estimated it ran somewhere in the neighborhood of ’40, 50 grand’.  Needless to say, much hilarity resulted from the admission as players who knew Foster then jumped all over that figure.

So eventually came the backtrack.  Such as it was.

Vol fans, it was a joke. I didn't get no where near 50k.

— Feeno (@ArianFoster) January 30, 2015

LMAO.  He’s just a little bit pregnant, Vols.

When you say “Jim Bob Cooter”, you’ve said it all.

With Mike Bajakian’s departure, Tennessee is looking for a replacement at offensive coordinator.

… Various levels of homecoming fantasy – Peyton Manning, Tee Martin, Jim Bob Cooter – may dominate early fan conversation, but if the Vols do go outside the existing family, it seems more likely than not it will be to a name you weren’t really familiar with before hot boards started showing up today.

That may not be the most Vol thing ever, but UT fans yearning for the return of Jim Bob Cooter has to be up in the top three, at least.

Friday morning buffet

It’s a chilly, rainy morning… you got something better to do?

• Patrick Garbin looks at Georgia’s offensive line recruiting efforts.  As you can guess, he doesn’t paint a pretty picture.
• There’s so much rivalry in this lawsuit story, it’s hilarious.
• Bulldog Illustrated reports that mat drills are no more.
• The next lawsuit frontier is breached:  O’Bannon attorney sues NCAA and North Carolina over the academic scandal.
• “We’ll get all the information from him and decide what to do…” Looks like Nick Saban’s got a bookend for Jonathan Taylor.
• And Hugh Freeze has more forgivin’ to do, too.
• ESPN asks a bunch of recruits at the Under Armour All-American Game how much facilities matter in their choice of school, and gets a consensus that it’s not much, because all the big schools have good ones.  Sounds like a good argument for keeping up, and not running ahead of the pack.
• Butch Jones has issues with roster management.
• On the bright side for Tennessee, with offensive coordinator Tim Bajakian leaving for Tampa Bay, the Vols will actually get paid something for a coach’s departure from Knoxville.