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Quack Fix: Ohio State - Oregon Round 2, Utah and Recruiting, Rich Brooks, Russians Winning the World Cup
It's clearly a budget. It's got a lot of numbers in it. We have the Ohio State perspective on what Oregon could do in the 2010 football season. Overall, a pretty good take until the end where the author claims that Oregon either overachieves to play the Buckeyes in Glendale or Ohio State...
Quack Fix: Saul Patu, A Big Commit, and Rich Brooks
The last few months have been about concerning ourselves with sports that are only really big every 4 years. FINALLY, we can concern ourselves with football season because let's face it. Baseball doesn't matter until September and what do we have in September? Football! Onto the quack. If you...
Post-Spring Previews: South Carolina Gamecocks at Kentucky Wildcats
In Week 7, the Gamecocks take on the Kentucky Wildcats. This will be the 22nd meeting between the two schools. Carolina enjoys a 14-6-1 overall record against the 'Cats, including a current 10-game winning streak. That streak combined with Steve Spurrier's overall perfect record against Kentucky...
Kentucky Coaches and Alcohol: A Sour Mixture
Back in the mid-'80's, when I could be found running around Lexington terrorizing the locals, and just generally being a nuisance, many were the nights when, as I pulled in front of my house, I asked myself, "How did I get here?" For after work, which ended around 8-9:00 pm, I headed straight for...
SEC 2010 // Kentucky Begins the Joker Phillips Era
When Kentucky hired Rich Brooks, not a whole lot of people expected much out of him. He had been out of coaching for two years and hadn't coached in college in over ten years. Kentucky was heading into the teeth of problems caused by the probation that Hal Mumme had earned for the program. UK has...
The SEC in Rounds 2 and 3 of the 2010 NFL Draft
More players have been selected from SEC teams than from any other conference, so this could be a bit lengthy. It's a good problem to have. SECOND ROUND 36. Dexter McCluster to Kansas City The recent success of shorter skill players (Wes Welker, Darren Sproles, etc.) in the NFL probably paved the...
Gettin' Greedy: Taking Big Ten Expansion to a Whole New Level
Alright. We've talked about all the logical Big Ten Expansion candidates. Missouri. Pittsburgh. 'Cuse. We've even talked about the not so logical ones. Rutgers. Iowa State. (Just kidding. No one's talked about them. The Big XII is actually trying to give them away.) At this point in the debate...
New Recruiting Rule Regarding Coaches in Waiting
The NCAA never sleeps, or at least it legislates with predictable regularity. Sure, it reacts about three years late to things, but at least it wraps everything in a shiny new layer of red tape each year, right? So anyway, the Dallas Morning News is reporting that there's a new NCAA rule regarding...
A Look Back at Preseason Picks
Before the football season, I took a crack at predicting the outcome of every SEC game. I figure now's as good time as any to take a look back and see how I did. Tossing out predictions without any recourse is for chumps. I didn't do any predictions on bowl games (for obvious reasons), so they're...
Why It Is More Important for the Florida Gators to Get Worse Than for the Georgia Bulldogs to Get Better
Last Wednesday, Braves & Birds made some interesting observations about the Mark Richt era, one of which was this: Richt benefited from a weak SEC. . . . Richt's heyday corresponds with the conference's weakest period. Steve Spurrier had been replaced by Ron Zook, Phil Fulmer and Lou Holtz were...
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