We love it when Tony Barnhart can stop half-heartedly reporting on SEC hoops and hunker down over his preferred turf of SEC football. Barnhart’s quick summary of the SEC can be seen here, and in it you can read about plenty of things you didn’t know about. For example, Kentucky has an impressive new quarterback, sophomore Andre Woodson, and an offensive lineman by the stellar name of Fatu Turituri. If you’d forgotten that UK had a football team, well, that would be learning something new for you, too.
Matt Hayes runs at his usual caffeineated speed in his latest column here.
Clemson lineman Cory Groover shot in leg at Waffle House.(Is nothing sacred?) The gunman reportedly fired ten shots at Groover; suspect therefore may have been inebriated, which should go without saying, since I’m betting even money everyone at a Waffle House in Clemson City, SC at 2 in the morning on a Monday is drunk off their ass, employees included. The indomitable FanBlogs has the lowdown.
If the Cheese Steak Plate at the Clemson City Waffle House doesn’t kill you, the guy in the parking lot will.
The EDSBS.com Genius Watch? gives you a Double Stuf issue of the report today, with resident Geniuses Barnett and Neuheisel both showing up as blips on the radar today. First, despite a long silence and a wash of good press during spring practice, bad legal news concerning the Buffs pops up again. Even if the allegations come to naught, we ask: whatever happened to the proposed re-opening of the state’s investigation of the football program? And what about the undeclared profits from Barnett’s football camps? And who’s paying all the lawyers here? And when will the Buffs bite the bullet and cash out Barnett’s contract and just start over? When he goes 6-5 and loses to Nebraska, or when something even more noxious comes out about Colorado’s program?
Barnett: the headset is a direct line to his lawyer.
And in part two of the genius watch, current Baltimore Ravens qb coach Rick Neuheisel says he’s learned his lesson when it comes to office pool gambling. From now on he’ll stick strictly to the online shit, since that’s out of Barbados, and besides, they can’t bust you for betting “V-chips” on your own team, can they? Because they’re not dollars-they’re “V-chips…”
At any rate, Neuheisel is clearly beginning to petition for a way back into the world of coaching, though whether it’s at the pro or collegiate level remains to be seen. He’s hanging around with humble, law-abiding folk as Brian Billick and Ray Lewis in Baltimore, so we’re pretty sure he won’t learn a thing about not acting like a total ass once he gets the reins to a program again.
We’re not the only ones betting against the house odds, here, with the Denver Post flexing some nice college muscle today, first with their Mountain West notes, but then with a piece echoing much of what we’ve said about USC this year. And is if that weren’t enough, John Henderson picks his programs on the rise and gives out plenty of other purely speculative but entertaining nuggets after the column.
Check the Denver Post for a nice little rundown of the Mountain West’s spring news, including a bit on the ever-lovable Horned Frogs.
Superfrog: One more reason we love this game.
Wisconsin, lagging behind in the arrest column, picks up their third of the offseason with the arrest of Booker Stanley at the Mifflin Street Block Party. Stanley was picked up for what we’ll call the classic ‘Cops’ trifecta of battery, disorderly conduct, and the inevitable resisting arrest. If he was shirtless at the time, the circle would be complete…
The team with the giggle-inducing name is still looking for a running back.
Fresh off of watching Utah light the college football world on fire, Oregon has engaged in the sincerest form of flattery and copied their spread option attack (since the old offense wasn’t really working since Tedford’s departure). The new offense, engineered by Gary Crowton who resigned from BYU last season, got its debut for Duck fans in the spring game this weekend as the Green team beat the White team 20-15, with each of the three quarterbacks (including Brady Leaf, brother of NFL great Ryan) getting a touchdown pass.
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