Thursday morning buffet

There’s always something to spoon onto your plate.

• Here’s something you don’t see every day – ESPN is suing Notre Dame.
• Ed Orgeron’s voice mail sounds like Ed Orgeron’s voice mail.
• Which colleges spend the most and least on men’s athletics recruiting?
• “The NCAA has surrendered.”  Yeah, that’s the lesson you want Penn State supporters to learn from the Sandusky/Emmert debacle.
• It’s time to acknowledge that Old Spurrier is now a full-blown meme.
• Gentry Estes lists five Georgia players on the spot for spring practice.
• After football, UAB prepares to plead for its Conference USA life.
• Evidently we should be careful throwing stones at the Patriots for deflating footballs.
• The NCAA spent more on Congressional lobbying in 2014 than it did in the three previous years combined.  Gee, I wonder why.

Another football wish for today

If the Pitt head coaching spot is indeed open, I’d love to see the school hire Junior as its next head coach and have him bring Ed Orgeron along for the ride, if only so we could watch James Franklin’s head explode as he has to deal with the both of them on the recruiting trail.

Friday morning buffet

Mmm, mmm good.

• Any time you see the line “An NCAA spokesman was unavailable for comment.”, it’s probably not good news.
• How badly does Ed Orgeron want to coach?  Badly enough to want the Kansas job.
• Another mascot vote?  Maybe they should just go ahead and retire the award.
• “Conduct detrimental.”  Da’Rick would have had a helluva career at Georgia, if he hadn’t changed his mind at the last minute.  Of course, he would have wound up at Auburn.
• For fiscal year 2012-3, Georgia generated $51.3 million in excess revenue from football.
• And that was without dynamic ticket pricing.
• My favorite tidbit from Cory Brinson’s Vanderbilt preview:  “Vandy ranks just behind Georgia Tech in passing offense. Yes, passing offense.”
• You’d think if any offense would be well suited to running play-option pass plays, it would be Georgia’s.

Thursday morning buffet

Dig in.

• Last Saturday marked the sixth straight conference game in which Florida failed to score more than two touchdowns in regulation play.
• I know this is tongue in cheek, but it reads like some of the comments I see here at the blog now and then.
• Ed Orgeron was reportedly offered the head coaching job at Nicholls State and turned it down.
• Forget who’s the #2 quarterback at Georgia… who’s the #2 tailback?
• Scott Albrecht takes a look at comparing recruiting and performance.
• Senator Claire McCaskill goes after Big Game Bob in a USA Today editorial.
• FSU’s got a weird sense of priorities when it comes to Jameis Winston:  no football suspension for theft or allegations of sexual assault (hell, no investigation, for that matter), but a half game suspension for talking dirty.  Is Jimbo Fisher getting tired of his antics?
• I’ve gotta give Russ Mitchell credit for one thing.  When it comes to Georgia bashing, he’s one consistent fellow.

Footbaw!

This is almost too awesome for words.

a case of RED BULL & "Coach Eddie O" Thursday Night in StarkVegas #TURNUP pic.twitter.com/wfuDszzEgW

— Geoff Collins (@CoachCollins) March 25, 2014

I wonder if Coach O intends to give a few pointers about his decision making in his last Egg Bowl.

Wednesday morning buffet

Kibbles and bits from around college football:

• Kimberly Nash finds some interesting parallels between Todd Grantham’s two stints as a defensive coordinator.
• My, how times have changed:  “For the third straight year, Tennessee comes into the Vandy game needing a win to keep bowl hopes alive.”
• Coach O is trying to make things tough on Pat Haden.  Probably won’t work.
• It shouldn’t be a surprise, but offense was the story for the Auburn-Georgia game.
• You don’t hear NFL players say things like this very often.
• Somebody’s got Todd Grantham’s back.
• Is it worth noting that the top two offenses in the SEC belong to the Big 12 refugees?
• The Jerry Kill/Minnesota story this season is kind of amazing.

Wednesday morning buffet

Come grab a plate.

• “[Georgia]  Tech ran the ball 81% of the time, so that merits the majority of our attention, but they also averaged 9.37 yards per pass. Only Georgia was better.”
• If the rumors are true, it looks like Les Miles should be happier with the bridge schedules coming up in 2014 and 2015.
• In case you’re interested, here’s the list of the top 15 players in EA Sports ‘NCAA Football 2014′.  Aaron Murray made it.
• If ever there was a story made for Bleacher Report, this is it.
• Sanford Stadium makes #2 on Athlon‘s ranking of SEC stadiums.
• Georgia’s offseason prep is focused on the first two games.
• Coach O on academics:  “He M-F’d me all over the place,” says DeMars. “He made me feel like a bad person for going to class.”
• Per Steele, Georgia returns the second highest percentage of offensive yardage in the SEC, behind only Ole Miss.