“They want to do all their stuff in the dark.”

According to Mike Leach, there isn’t a coach in the Pac-12 who is in favor of shutting down satellite camps.  And yet, the Pac-12 representative, UCLA athletic Dan Guerrero, voted to do just that.  Why?  Let the Pirate explain:

“The committee. Well who did it? Them. Well, who’s them? We can’t tell you who them is. They want it shrouded by secrecy. I think we need as much exposure to this as possible…”

The truth is out there.  Yar!

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Best ring, or best ring ever?

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.

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.

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.

Jim Mora was screaming at the head ref coming off the field. Then went over to Dan Guerrero and yelled that he wanted the ref fired. #UCLA

— Bruin Report Online (@BruinReport) November 15, 2015

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.

Sometimes, it pays to stay up late.

If you didn’t stay awake for the Stanford-UCLA game, you missed this:

That. Just. Happened.

Behold, perhaps the best play of the year: http://t.co/jUe0r7ujjX

— ESPN (@espn) October 16, 2015

And check out David Shaw’s reaction.

SAME @CoachDavidShaw #Pac12FB #Pac12AfterDark pic.twitter.com/GZ8JyXALVF

— Pac-12 Networks (@Pac12Networks) October 16, 2015

Classic.