Archive for December, 2007

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!!!

- Go Figure …

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

Enjoy…

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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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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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A few links worth looking at:

• A whole bunch of Criminoles get themselves in trouble, and out of the Music City Bowl — Loser With Socks: “Criminoles Get Caught,” YMSWWC: “Good God F$U Cheats…,” EDSBS, and ESPN
  
• Apparently this is a common problem, considering tOSU and the Great Sweater Vest just suspended a few of the Buckeyes for the Championship game as well — EDSBS: “Two Buckeyes Suspended” (LSU is lookin’ better everyday…)
• In case you haven’t noticed, the Kentucky Wildcats Basketball team, er … sucks! — Bruce Ball: “BWAHAHAHAHAHA (Part 2)“ and Sea of Blue
• For those of you who follow that sort of thing, over on Rocky Top Talk they’ve updated the Tennessee Recruiting Board
• The Great Punkin’ gets to looking for some assistant coaches … since all of his left — 3rd Saturday: “Good News, Bad News” and a few of the options are beginning to be discussed. — YMSWWC: “Fulmer’s Biggest Choice“
• Damn, sucks to be an Bama fan on the way to the bowl game in Shreveport. — Deep South Sports: “PWNED“
• Meanwhile CrimsonDaddy is handing out the “2007 SEC Football Awards.” (Lovin’ those new categories this year…)
• Rich Rodriguez tells everyone to “Rah-sppeck” his “Aaah-thor-itah” — SI: “Rodriguez Fires Michigan Staff“ and YMSWWC: “Dirty Sanchez Ain’t Paying Shit…“
• It looks like the a couple of the Tarheads bit off a little more woman than they could chew. — Brahsome: “Save the Whales,” Sunday Morning QB: “When the Tape Comes Out,” WRAL, and my own hometown rag The Raleigh Snooze & Disturber
• A little eye-candy over at Busted Coverage
• Apparently this guy from Texas is a little bit upset about the size of Jimmy Dean sausage. Too Funny, especially toward the end! (Some foul language)
• SEC fans just can’t miss The Ultimate Collection of Tim Tebow Jokes over on Football Diet.

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I can already feel my lunch coming up at the thought of having to listen to Terry Bowden on television again.

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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The word is out that Trooper Taylor is leaving Tennessee to take the Offensive Coordinator position at Oklahoma State.

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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Also See: Third Saturday in Blogtober
Technorati Tags: Coaching Changes, College Football, Rumor Mill, SEC Football, SEC Sports, Tennessee Volunteers, David Cutcliffe, Trooper Taylor, Oklahoma State

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.

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

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Country Roads … Take me Home….

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

Here’s a few links worth looking at:

• Is Nick Saban thinking of abandoning the Bammers and heading up to Morgantown? — WBGV: “Nick Saban’s Agent Contacts WVU”
• Rich Rodriguez Sneaking out of Morgantown — Loser With Socks: “Like a Thief in the Night”
• Watch out for those Lawyers, Rich Rodriguez … they can be Nasty — Everyday Should Be Saturday: “Call a Lawyer! A Whole Nest of ’Em!”

• A musical tribute to LSU’s Les Miles which will leave you speechless — Fanhouse: “A Les Miles Love Song” and Third Saturday in Blogtober
• In the Words of Tony Soprano, I think it’s time Mark Mangino started to seriously consider salads — Busted Coverage: “Mark Mangino and Obie”
• A classic tribute to Chris Farley’s Sports skits over on 100% Injury Rate
• Tyler Hansborough Getting Smacked Down — Brahsome: “Tyler Hansborough Getting Hurt is Fun!”
• A look at the, now, infamous Mitchell Report — Epic Carnival: “The Roid Report” – of course I could care less about baseball these days…
• OUCH! Basketball looks rougher these days than it used to — Sports by Brooks.
• Dan Marino decides to launch his own brand of Vodka, and continues eating Hot Dogs — Sports By Brooks: “Marino’s New Vodka”
• Philadelphia TV Anchor Behaving Badly — The Big Lead: Not a Good Idea: Calling a Police Officer a Dyke!”

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

— Go Figure … lawvol