ndolttown wowed me and other folks at NDNation with his latest post, and I'm saving the content here for posterity. Summary: Lou Holtz OWNED College Football: Thesis: From 1987 to 1993 Lou Holtz won more big games than any coach in history in a similar period of time and more big games than many of the top coaches in history ever did. It is a remarkable and, I would guess, unequalled record of victories over top competition in the history of CFB. In that seven-year period, Holtz beat ...
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Trojan Given Most Appropriate Nickname Ever
The fellas at Trojan Wire pointed out USC's Lawrence Jackson was featured on the regional cover of ESPN: The Magazizzy. What made me chuckle was the choice of nickname: "Lo Jack". As USC quickly takes its place among the upper echelon of easy blogging fodder, we eagerly await more Nick Name Fun. Where The Grillz At? ...
2006 Freshmen Will Not Win American Idol
Can't Help ND Win a MNC The rookie sqaud of the University of Notre Dame's 2006 inevitable champions Football Team apparently can't carry a tune. Charlie says he'll have the group lead the rest of the team in singing the "Fight Song", whatever that is, in the near future. In reading the article, it would seem the eventual goal is to get the rookies comfortable with singing the Victory March. Perhaps this is another one of those clever messages Charlie likes to send the team by referring to ...
Uber Geeks of GT getting Nervous. Redirect Ernesto to Delay Game.
About 30 Uber Geeks at Georgia Tech Preparatory School got really nervous about the impending doom of the approaching Notre Dame match and employed 40 million industrial fans deployed along the Gulf Coast to force Hurricane Ernesto into a hard Northerly turn to the right, towards Atlanta, GA. Being really good at math and physics, but really sucky at reading comprehension, Joe Buck Pelthammer, a senior at Georgia Tech and leader of this "Environmental Redirection Project" said, "We all heard ...
CNNSI.com: ND/USC #1 Game to Watch This Season
What up, bitches!? Boo-yah! As we all know, the pudgy-fingered, throws-like-a-girl staff of CNNSI.com knows their shizzle when it comes to bed-wetting NCAA Football, and they've decreed the 2006 ND/USC game as the #1 Game to watch this season. Wha-POW! Book it! Stone. ...
Poodle Pete Says He’s Looking for a 3-Technique DT. Men Everywhere Nod Knowingly.
Poodle is looking to find himself a decent 3-Technique Defensive Tackle. Probably nothing surprising there. What's sent the world into a tizzy is that if you follow this link and read the little sidebar next to the main article, you'll see that someone outside of an actual football program has gone and explained what the hell "3-Technique" actually means. The author of this little blurb lets the masses behind the curain with: The "3-technique" describes where the defensive tackle lines up ...
Roll Call: T-Minus One Week…
With the season fast approaching, we figured it's a good time to take a look at what other sites are featuring on this Friday, the 25th of August, The Year of Our Lord 2006. The Guys at BGS did a wonderful breakdown of hype and broken dreams from the 2002 Recruiting Class "Top 100". The Sunday Morning QB gets all Myth Busters up on "Death Valley" The folks at EDSBS commit an act of self-flagellation. The House That Rock Built has a really nice podcast up. That's it for now, as I ...
ESPN: We’ll Hype Anything
ESPN has decided to stop focusing on the negative and start spinning on the positive in all aspects of College Football. "We feel this will encourage our audience to log on and tune in to our online content and television programming even more. Who likes having their parade rained upon," asks head of Market Research as ESPN, Rob El Robelrobel. As part of this new marketing effort, ESPN has redefined what was once known as a "Quarterback Controversy," calling it either a "Quarterback Tandem" ...
Nation Stunned as Ty Willingham Achieves “Awareness”.
The scientific community as well as the nation at large was stunned this week to learn that Head Coach of The Univeristy of Washington Football Program, Ty Willingham achieved "Awareness". Scientists specializing in the study of Artificial Intelligence point to this article as evidence that Ty has grown "aware" of his position as a coach. Of football. At the collegiate level. The scientists are also investigating the display of apparent forethought Ty showed in actually preparing his team ...
Pluto Declared “Not Planet,” Chris Stewart Declared “Planet”
Remember the days when we couldn't recruit guys who could single-handedly beat Michigan destroy Tokyo? Those days are finally over, guys. Freshman OL Chris Stewart is listed at 6'5", 367. In honor of Pluto's abrupt entry into the galactic free agent pool, I'm going to be referring to Pluto as "Stewart" until Pluto finds a new home. That's right, folks. The "new"-monic shall now be, "My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nine Sandwiches." ...