Bryan Pata, the "University" of Miami football player who was murdered outside of his apartment this past season, had a couple of brothers. And those brothers are still alive. Those brothers also want to "honor" the memory of Bryan by participating in the University of Miami Pro-Day (a day when draft-eligible Miami football players show off their skillz to pro scouts). How exactly this will honor anything about Bryan is unclear. What is clear is that Bryan's brothers aren't very good ...
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It Can’t Be Said Enough: Dennis Dodd Makes Chris Leak Look Like Einstein.
If you haven't already, head over to BGS and check out their disection of Dennis Dodd's "rankings" of coaching hires made in the 2004 off season. If Chris Leak had someone read this to him, he'd be all like, "Damn, Dodd, even I coulda did more better." ...
Friday Roundup: The Cabin Fever Edition
It's cold, all the morning shows were in LA for the grammys or emmys or something, where it is not cold, and up here in Chicago it's 7 months until summer. And to top it all off, it's 57 days until the spring game. The Roundup: Charlie Weis talks, and talks, and talks, about the state of the program. You might want to take a 2 hour lunch to get thru it, but then you're probably a slow reader. BGS has an actual interview with an actual, official piece of the Notre Dame machine. This ...
When Buckeyes Attack
EDSBS brings us proof that while Ohio State doesn't know anything about defending the spread attack, they're still #1 at fucking shit up. [youtube]kqrkSskzQOk[/youtube] ...
Friday Roundup: The Awesome Edition
It's Friday, ND BBall won last night, despite the cold in Chicago the sun is shining, and I've got Prince playing on the nano. The Roundup: Today must be awesome, because first I learned that Chet Coppock was assaulted and then I see that FLP hates Dan McNeil just as much as I do (at least I hope. Satire is hard... to understand.) Karma, I don't ask for much, but if you could cause Dan McNeil to choke on his next Allen Brother's steak and fall upon Coppock, thus breaking Coppock's legs, ...
NCAA To Replace Stupid Clock Rules With… More Stupid Clock Rules
Um... Yay? Thanks to the efforts of bloggers everywhere (seriously, where else have you really seen mass-complaining about this?), the stupid clock rule known as Rule 3-2-5e is being scrapped. Normally this would be a reason to celebrate, but it turns out that rather than just scrapping the stupid new rule and going back to the good ole' days, the NCAA is insisting on being "progressive." And so, they're going to introduce some new, slightly less stupid clock rules: The clock will start ...
We’ll Hold Our Breaths
Thanks to the guys at BGS for pointing this one out. In their look back on the history of the Ron Zook drama, they came across a piece by Mark Tupper of the Decatur Herald & Review. We're not going to link it as per our policy that people with the IQ of a dog biscuit do not get links. However, BGS has a link, and we'll link to them because they're pretty smart fellas, so if you want to read the whole piece, start there. (BGS' own write-up is very well worth the read, by the way.) Anyway, ...
Friday Roundup: The Alleged Edition
If you live in Chicago like I do, then you'll notice that the local television stations have all abandoned their group seppuku sessions over the Bears in order to come to the aid of America's Sweetheart, Ron Zook. All Ron wants is for someone to just get that damned beating sound under the floorboards to shut up! His integrity "has never been questioned before," dammit!*** The Roundup: Stewie of SI.com "fame," as in, "Hey, see that guy over there? I think I hate him," "fame," guesses that ...
A Closer Look, Now That It’s All Settled
In-depth analysis of recruiting rankings has already been done, but we wanted to take a look at the efforts and results of a few programs from around the country. Florida - After winning the Mythical National Title, Urban Meyer and the crew decided it would be fun to garner the Mythical Recruiting Title too, so he and the boys started to call around to top recruits whether or not those recruits were already committed to other schools. Aiming for the #1 ranking, it was clear that Urb had ...
The New Clock Rules Shorten Games and Lengthen Ads? Duh.
It was pretty obvious that the new clock rules were robbing us of college football. It was also pretty obvious that the cable and broadcast companies that were showing the games were not filling out all that extra time with in-depth analysis by their experts. (Considering these companies consider guys like Lee Corso "experts," we find that last bit to be a mercy-act.) So if the broadcast companies didn't fill that air-time with football or analysis, what did they fill it with? Hmmm, what ...