A Knox County judge refused to reduce the aggrevated assault charges against Tennessee defensive tackle Tony McDaniel, which stem from a pick-up basketball game fight, from a felony to a misdemeanor in a hearing earlier today. For those of you familiar with major college football run-ins with the law, that is the magic level at which a team usually suspends a player or pulls a scholarship altogether. For Fulmer and the Vols this represents another hit in a string of problems as 11 members of the Volunteer Football team have been cited or arrested for crimes (of the misdemeanor and felony variety) since February 2004.
Do I look like I tolerate this kind of behavior?
Just a hint at the fun you can have with Google Image search. Here are the first results for:
-“coaching genius”
-“football coach jerk”
-“bad football program”
-“overweight coach”
-“college football lawsuit”
-“college football criminal”(Okay, so this is actually the second result, but work with us for a sec…)
How the hell did we miss this?
About fifteen minutes of research helped us figure out who this is, but the real mystery is this: when do we get to hear about the cash? The orgies? The scandals? Thus far we’ve got a few complaints about staff not getting their bowl gifts, which would only be interesting if the bowl officials were handing out something like, say, bales of cocaine or Chechen war brides to the school. You know, like Oklahoma did in the early ’80s.
Tony Montana, host of the Capital One Bowl, pictured with party favors. That would be a proper scandal.
Exit Joe Dailey, just in time for the Red-White game this weekend in Lincoln. Big 12 dbs sigh as expected INTs for year drop by one a piece…
Dodd does as good a job as we’ve seen of showing why Kirk Ferentz’s work at Iowa defies logic. There’s a few obligatory trademark Doddisms-”what the Hawk?”-but for the most part it’s a great profile of the herculean effort Ferentz has put in at Iowa City.
Spartans officials now officially permitting alcohol in the tailgating area. Woo-hoo! (Click here for the first result you get when running Google’s image search with “alcohol and football.” Sometimes comedy writes itself.)
Two members of the the Volunteer football team were reportedly arrested for there involvement in the fight at a Fraternity party last month that we previously reported on. The reports are murky but it is still unclear whether or not Ron Zook has threatened the particular fraternity involved.
Okay, its not exactly college football related but it is the off season and we here at EDSBS.com are married and sometimes snatched out of our sports cocoon and forced to do husbandly things… like shop at Home Depot, Bed, Bath and Beyond or watch the Miss USA Pageant. Well, I’ve done all three this week.
At some point during this hug it went from gracious loser to a little awkwardly long… but we didn’t mind.
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We’d love to disagree with SC football’s cogent analysis of the SEC vs. Pac-10 as a sham of SEC dominance belied by the actual numbers. Unfortunately, SC uses both numbers and research showing the Pac-10 is better, something we try to avoid at all costs around here, so we’ll just let them think what they like to think, reality be damned.
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