Archive for December, 2007

Gone to Florida…

Well, I’m off to Florida — no blogging for a few days.

Hope everyone has a wonderful New Year. More ranting and raving to come in January…

Go Vols, Beat the Badgers!!!

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The Mitchell Report and the Middle Finger

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New MLB LogoWith the exception of dropping a few links, I have remained quiet on the revelations and controversies surrounding baseball and the, now infamous, Mitchell Report. There are reasons for this. I am not a “true” baseball fan in the traditional sense — I don’t follow stats, rarely keep track of the rosters of the various teams, and I quickly grow weary of watching baseball on television. I have always been a much bigger fan of college and minor league baseball. While I do, generally, pull for the Braves, Indians, and Red Sox, I am hardly a follower of the game. Thus, I am less than informed as to the comings and goings in Major League Baseball. In addition to this, there is the Report itself — it is over 400 pages long, and I’ll be damned if I’m going to take the time to read the whole thing (although I did listen to part of it being read on XM Radio — sounded like stereo instructions).

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Ode to Wisconsin…

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Gotta love those Badgers. Can’t wait to see how they look against the Vols in the Outback Bowl.

Enjoy…

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Happy Holidays!!!

Taking a day or so off for the Holidays. Best wishes to everyone out there in the Blogsphere!

See you in a few days, and have the Happiest of Holiday Seasons!

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Rants From the Cheap Seats: Coach K on XM

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I suppose this is a little off-topic, but as an XM Radio subscriber (Thanks Tennessee for switching from Sirius to XM, I really needed two satellite radios on different networks) the other night I was listening to Coach K’s show. Now don’t get me wrong, Coach K is one of the best college basketball coaches ever. Living over here in ACC territory, I can’t help but be aware of what a solid coach he is, and how he manages to keep Dook atop the ACC almost perpetually. All that said, whomever is in charge of selecting sports personalities for XM ought to be shot for putting him on the air.

Listening to Coach K talk is like having your intestines removed with a spoon, through your nose. His radio voice is awful, and his comments are so deadpan that it makes it almost impossible to get anything out of his show.

I’m probably in the minority on this — considering he’s making millions with a satellite radio audience and I’m here slumming it on my goofy little blog — but he could really use a little “coaching” himself when it comes to delivering radio content.

Not that any of you cared about my opinion…

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Headlines, Links & Lies…

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A few links worth looking at:

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Terry Bowden to West Virginia?

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Folks out there are reporting that Terry-boy is bound for West Virginia and will be taking the vacancy left by Rich Rodriguez. While I can — perhaps — see why the Mountaineers might want Bowden, due to the “Bowden Mystique,” he has never truly proven than he can win consistently with his own players (In 1993, he had just inherited all of the players that Pat Dye bought bribed recruited for Auburn). Assistant coaches seem to hate the man, he can’t recruit for shit, and his most notable accomplishment at Auburn was sleeping with the daughter of one of the major benefactors. Add to that the reality that there is nothing more annoying than listening to him talk, and it becomes much less apparent to me why the ’Eers would want him.
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Rumor Mill: Trooper Taylor Departing…

The word is out that Trooper Taylor is leaving Tennessee to take the Offensive Coordinator position at Oklahoma State. TAYLOR,-TROOPER150[1]

Still no word on who is likely to replace David Cutcliffe. Looks like there will be some serious shakeups on the Vols staff during the off-season.

More on the rats jumping ship later …

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No Pass Out Checks: So Saban is Talking to West Virginia…

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So Nick Saban is talking to West Virginia about the head coaching job…

If you ask me, that is a load of crap. Now, that is not to say that I don’t believe that he is talking to WVU through his agent — quite the contrary. I am sure that Saban is talking to the Mountaineers, and probably talking meaningfully. The reason for this twofold.

First, with the exception of the Tennessee game — in which the Vols made the tide look like world-beaters (No I didn’t say wife-beaters. See, I have some discretion) Alabama pretty much sucked this season. Now slick Nicky is making enough money to drink nothing but 25 Year Old Macallan Scotch, snort 300 lines of cocaine a day, and have a harem of high-class prostitutes at his beck and call. The problem is that he isn’t exactly showing that he’s worth it. In fact, based upon what USA Today figured out, Nick made a whopping $583,867 per win this year — making him the second most overpaid coach in college football this year. Thus, I figure Nicky is trying to position himself such that West Virginia’s interest in his coaching skills, demonstrates his virtues as the Bammer head coach and his abilities as one of the greatest football minds of our time (Kinda sounds likes Lex Luthor to me…). If Nicky talks to West Virginia, then he — by reverse innuendo — feels he can convince the powers that be in Tuscaloosa that he deserves to keep his job. I guess this is just another way to try and keep Bama from figuring out what a lemon they have been sold. Considering that Nick convinced them in the first instance that he was worth a king’s ransom, it stands to reason that either he is pretty damn persuasive, or the Alabama athletics department is peopled with idiots — I’ll let you decide. (Of course it only took Joe Willie Namath 42 years to earn his degree from that venerable institution… but I digress.)

Second, but perhaps first in Nicky’s mind is probably the fact that he can not only secure a contract extension through talking to West Virginia, but he might also be able to garner — imagine this — more money! I am sure Nick will be quick to point out to the Bammer’s that despite the fact that Alabama the goat of college football for the amount of money they paid him to come to “return the Tide to dominance,” he deserves a raise. I can hear him explaining how, sure Bama is the has been the laughing-stock of college football this year, but everyone is laughing — that’s publicity, and that’s good! Sure, the Tide lost to Mississippi State and Joe’s School of Cosmetology and Small Engine Repair, but everyone saw them lose those games. Saban has propelled the Crimson Tide program forward and returned it to the media spotlight. Thus, he deserves a $ 425 million dollar raise, and a free night with the university president’s youngest daughter.

I am sure that Nick has no intention of going to West Virginia, not that I really care. I just hate it that even after he scored the money from Bama, he’s still pushing for more.

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Of course, now that I think of it, Saban does kind of look like a used car salesman…

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Headlines, Links, & Lies… The West Virginia Edition

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Country Roads … Take me Home….Nick Saban

Man oh man, don’t you know that the folks in West Virginia hate Rich Rodriguez and Michigan…

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And a few not about West Virginia:

Yeah, yeah, I know… I haven’t posted much of anything about the SEC the past few days. I’m getting around to it!

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