STOP WHAT YOU ARE DOING: NCAA 2006 VIDEOS ON IGN.COM
They’re up. Watch and drool.
June 20, 2005
JOE GLENN: THE OLD NEW THING
Continuing with working our way through TSN: a great piece on Wyoming’s Joe Glenn, the old new thing in college coaching.
One happy cowboy. Even if he’s going to get destroyed at Florida.
IT’S OFFICIAL! DORRELL ON HOT SAYS, SAYS TSN.
The Sporting News has decreed that Karl Dorrell is officially on the hot seat-therefore he is! New posters Bruins Nation couldn’t agree more; after all, they’re the ones behind FireKarlDorrell.com. (We at EDSBS.com are proud to claim Gator affiliation, if only to bask in the glow of the success of the MoveOn.org of college haterdom, the now dormant FireRonZook.com.) BoiFromTroy notes Dorrell’s newly official endangered status as well, but without picture of quality Bruin man-beef.
VROOM! DEANGELO WILLIAMS HEISMAN SITE UP AND RUNNING!
DeAngelo Williams has a badass website for his Heisman campaign, complete with video set to “Death in Vegas” style riffs. (Look! Every time you give him the ball, he scores!) Heismanpundit wonders if there isn’t a logical marketing partner waiting for a call.
STOOPS TAKES VERBAL JABS AT LSU COACH MILES
Stoops often professes to the influence of coach Spurrier on him and it is apparent. Well, a little bit of the Ole Ball coach might have come out in Stoops with his brief verbal jab at Les Miles you can read about here.
DICTATORS LOVE DORITOS
Not college football, but we’re powerless to resist the charms of this article. Especially when it comes to this quote:
For a time his favorite food was Cheetos, and when those ran out, Saddam would “get grumpy,” the story says. One day the guards substituted Doritos corn chips, and Saddam forgot about Cheetos. “He’d eat a family size bag of Doritos in 10 minutes,” Dawson says.
Which means Saddam would fit right into the fan sections of a good number of SEC teams, it seems…
The mention of finishing a family size bag of Doritos in 10 minutes= obligatory pic of Phil Fulmer.
HORSE-TRADING: THE REVISED EDSBS.COM PRESEASON TOP TEN
Dear Stranko,
We showed you ours, and you’ve shown us yours. Stranko, we’re now in the horse-trading stage of constructing our poll. We drop two teams, Ohio State and Utah, while adding Oklahoma and, at the risk of being labeled homers, Florida. Averaging most of the common threads led to the order, unless otherwise stated. Here’s my revised proposal:
1. USC. No disagreement here.
2. Virginia Tech. The team on both our top 10s with the highest ranking in each. Why not? They’re as good as anyone on the list with few obvious weaknesses. When people ask us why, we’ll just type the name “Vick” over and over again until they start slobbering and stop questioning our wisdom.
3. Texas Again, we concur on their overall strength. On defense, they’re going to dismantle people under Chizik’s new schemes. we can concur they’re a better overall team than Tennessee-look at the last four games of the regular season for Tennessee, btw, their pass defense got porous quick-so they can sit nicely here.
4. Tennessee. Sliding in right behind Texas due to bad pass D. We had them at 2, you’ve got them at 7…it’s a nice compromise. Other than that, an typically hulking crew with a load of potential, like all of Fulmer’s teams.
5. Michigan. You’ve got them at nine, which seems too weak for a crew as consistent as this current Wolverines team. The big question mark is defense, but with Iowa’s struggles in the run game, we can’t seriously put them in the top ten, no matter how good a coach Ferentz may be.
6. Oklahoma. Too much rebuilding to put them ahead of any of the previous teams, but too good to put any further down. We missed on them completely in our top ten but somehow included Utah sans Alex smith and Urban Meyer. Drop them and put Oklahoma here, somewhat under the radar where they seem to be more comfortable.
7. Louisville. Too good on offense and moving into the Big East. Improved on defense. Let’s get bullish on their chances of giving the BCS a great big UFIA in the fall.
8. Florida. That’s as high as we can rationally allow Florida to be ranked coming in, given the adjustments to the offense and the ongoing process of shaking the Zookery out of this crew. Look at the seven teams ranked higher. Who would they replace in terms of preseason potential? If this weren’t the first season, we’d buy heavy. As it stands, we can’t jump head-first into the Meyer pool just yet.
9. Boise State. Win at Athens. Win at Athens. Win at Athens. That’s everything to this team right now, and should be. People are visual learners. They need to see this team dismantle a team on their home field in front of a national audience to believe.
10. Miami. If Kyle Wright plays within his own limits, the Canes will be surprisingly good, even in the new Kumite-style ACC.
Sincerely,
Orson
HEELSBLOG LEARNS THE HARD WAY: MCGILL TEARS PEC, OUT FOR 4-5 MONTHS.
HeelsBlog learns the hard way not to complain about a lack of news: the ‘Heels talented back Ronnie McGill tears one of his huge pectoral muscles, and will be out for 4-5 months. In response, Ren Hoek winced in sympathy and blamed Stimpy.
UCLA: FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS.
This LA Times article on Drew Olson’s recovery reminded us that the UCLA Bruins were not only in the Pac-10, but in fact existed at all. In the town they claim in name, the Bruins are overshadowed by the flashy USC Trojans, who not only are riding a two-year wave as national champions but also take delight in trouncing them in recruiting and in the regular season matchups, going 5-0 over the past five years. (Yes, last year was close, but a win is a win. Take your solace elsewhere in your dreamworld, Bruins fans. There’s always softball.)
Bruins fans take it where they can get it.
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MAISEL’S MAILBAG: DEBERRY AND BEING A SMARTASS
Ivan Maisel, one of the more level-headed writers around, pleads guilty to being a smartass in yesterday’s Mailbag.
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