DOUBLE DUTY FOR EDSBS.COM
Check out Boi From Troy for the next week or so-we’re playing the role of substitute teacher for his 2000 or so daily readers, which means we can show up drunk and grumpy just as our public school subs did.
May 26, 2005
LIFTING THE VEIL OF SECRECY: COACHES POLL TO REVEAL VOTES
In a continuing effort to give some kind of credibility to the BCS Championship without providing the fans a playoff, the Coaches Poll is going to make at least the final vote public. That means the SIDs can still handle all the preliminary voting, but the coaches will have to at least make some effort in the final vote. Of course no one would care about this popularity contest if teams were allowed to prove it on the field. I think Auburn fans would have liked that chance.
Tuberville’s reaction to Oklahomo rolling over against USC.
PH.D STUDY FINDS HEISMAN CAMPAIGNS INEFFECTIVE. IN OTHER NEWS: YOU CAN WRITE A THESIS ON ANYTHING.
Heisman promos have begun in earnest, with Memphis sending out souvenir Nascar cars for DeAngelo Williams and Minnesota pimping for Laurence Maroney and others. This flies in the face of recent findings by Clark Haptonstall, a doctoral candidate at Florida State University who studied the voting patterns and motivations of Heisman voters and found the impact of promotional campaigns amounted to the empirical equivalent of approximately jack shit. (Apologies: we checked FSU’s published dissertations, and Haptonstall’s study must be in the review process, as it’s not listed in the collection.) Memo to Heismanpundit: if you’d ever had a craving for a cushy job where you work nine months a year and command exorbitant consulting fees, your time is now, since this is proof you can evidently write a thesis on anything. Has anyone explored the underappreciated but textually-rich multiverse of video game studies? We think we’d be an ideal candidate for such badly need inquiry…
A simple child’s game? Or Sisyphus for the postmodern man? See, we could make that shit up all day.
GENIUS WATCH?, BUSINESS EDITION: BARNETT WANTS TO DISCUSS EXTENSION
There’s being shameless-see Mack Brown and his pandering for bowl slots last year-and then there’s Gary Barnett. Barnett, the subject of several probes (ha, probes) into undeclared income from football camps, the coach of a program whose recruits allegedly received services from escorts during visits, the architect of a self-admitted “slush-fund” system in the football program, and owner of a 42-33 record going into his seventh season…wants to talk contract extension. We credit new AD Mike Bohn for not doing a spit take and covering his desk with fresh Starbucks’ dark roast when he got the message. Money quote:
“I would hate [for anyone] to construe that as we’re just blowing it off,” Bohn said. “It’s just not on the front burner.”
Translation: “Give me one more good recruiting season and Barnett’s going to be on the front burner with gas blazing.” Or something like that, if he’s got any sense.
I’m crazy scheisty coach guy! Gimme some candy!
DOC PEDRO DREAMS OF BEING OUT TO STUD
Checking in from God know’s where, Doc Pedro joins us again with a sporting story that made him just a bit jealous.
How do I get this Gig: Out to Stud
by Doc Pedro
Nestled among the bluegrass hills outside Lexington, Ky you will find a true master of his domain, Prized stallion Storm Cat. A descendant of celebrated Triple Crown winner Secretariat, Storm Cat is the most sought-after thoroughbred sire in horse racing. And it’s easy to see why. Storm Cat’s offspring have earned more than $90 million at the track, prompting eager breeders to line their mares up outside his stable. Demanding a stud fee of $500,000 per session, Storm Cat figures to earn more than $20 million this year alone for his owners. Storm Cat also has a special mare ?fluff horse? if you will to prep him for each encounter. HBO Real Sports airing of this story got us here at EDBS.com thinking about the potential of the billion-dollar business of breeding athletic superstars. I mean honestly how many us wouldn?t love to be living the high life in the rolling hills getting paid to sire future stud athletes with mates that are talented enough to produce the best. So what we want to know is who you think would command the most fees and why? Don?t be shy we are ready to hear anything from Georgia Alum Herschel walker to tennis star Lindsey Davenport.
What kind of stud fees might these superstars command?
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