Stanford’s ring commemorating its seal-clubbing of Iowa in the Rose Bowl is the shiznit.
If I ever start another blog, I don’t know if I’ll be able to resist using Intellectual Brutality as the name for it.
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Category Archives: Pac-12 Football
Thursday morning buffet
Enjoy part of the culture at GTP with this morning’s servings.
- Gus visits Art Briles. Maybe he’s just a big fan of Baylor basketball.
- The NCAA’s gonna NCAA.
- A few tips from a team’s new coordinator on installing a new offense.
- Georgia Tech’s recruiting is even more Chantastic than you thought.
- With each passing day, the genius of Pac-12 commissioner Larry Scott becomes ever more genius-ier.
- Kirby really wants to hear from you about G-Day QBR, folks: “Y’all email my secretary. She’ll send them to me. I’m sure there’s a lot in here smarter than me with quarterback play.” Based on message boards and comment threads, I can vouch for that.
- Those of you who think you’ve shared enough life experience to know how every twenty-year old college athlete should behave ought to see this. (You really don’t, in other words.) Not to mention it makes for a pretty jarring juxtaposition with this.
You don’t have to be lonely at the Rose Bowl.
How can you not love Stanford’s band?
If I were an Iowa fan, I would have appreciated the halftime distraction. Any halftime distraction.
Filed under Big Ten Football, Pac-12 Football
Tuesday morning buffet
Been a while since I’ve stocked up the breakfast bar.
- Does anyone believe Larry Scott when he says, “Very, very low on the totem pole is what’s best to get a team in the playoff.”?
- Herbie runs his mouth again, apologizes..
- James Carville says it’s time for a fan bill of rights. Not gonna happen.
- Continuing problems with the Neyland Stadium turf? I’m shocked, shocked to hear that.
- SEC Network’s Dari Nowkhah on the media’s preseason love for Auburn: “But we believed the hype about Jeremy Johnson. We believed the hype about Will Muschamp.” Well, whose fault is that?
- Miami goes with a search committee and a search firm in its hunt for a new coach. Nice belt and suspenders approach there. At least the AD will have plenty of people to blame if the hire flops.
- Further evidence that the people running college sports have no clue how to manage a dollar: University of South Carolina president Harris Pastides said the school’s decision to pay Steve Spurrier for the remainder of his current contract year even though Spurrier resigned mid-season was made at least partially out of concern that it would end up having to pay him an even greater amount of money.
- Gosh, you’d think winning a national title and playing for another one this decade would make Auburn fans less grumpy than this.
The acorn doesn’t fall far from the tree.
One of my favorite bits from Dan Wolken’s “Dysfunctional Georgia” piece from a couple of weeks ago was this stellar list of worthies that “Georgia could and should pursue, according to multiple people in the industry”: Jimbo Fisher, Dabo Swinney, Mark Dantonio, David Shaw, Jim Mora, Gary Patterson and James Franklin.
This is how one of those coaching studs reacted last night during a loss to Washington State.
I would pay good money to see/hear Greg McGarity’s reaction to a coach trying that on him.
Maybe Wolken needs to find some new insiders.
Filed under Georgia Football, Pac-12 Football
Sometimes, it pays to stay up late.
If you didn’t stay awake for the Stanford-UCLA game, you missed this:
And check out David Shaw’s reaction.
Classic.
Filed under Pac-12 Football
“We support all our coaches 100 percent until they’re not our coaches.”
I’m no fan of Junior, but even I thought this was a little cold at the time:
Haden fired Kiffin hours after the game, when the team arrived back in Los Angeles at 3 a.m. Kiffin was called off the team bus that was preparing to head to campus from Los Angeles International Airport and taken to a small room inside the terminal where Haden told Kiffin he was being dismissed.
Yeah, that’ll humble a guy.
But Haden managed to top that with his abrupt firing of Steve Sarkisian.
Yecch.
The amazing thing is that Pat Haden, who hired Sarkisian who hired and fired both of them, not only still has a job, but the confidence of his boss.
That should come as a real comfort to the next guy Haden hires.
Filed under Pac-12 Football
