WEIS: ATTENTION TO DETAIL
Is Charlie Weis serious? Fucking hell he is: Blue-Gray Sky gives you the goods on how serious and detailed he really is.
June 22, 2005
SEPARATED AT BIRTH?
Houston Nutt…
…and Mayberry madman Ernest T. Bass?
BIG ‘D’: THE NEGLECTED ART OF DEFENSE
We’ve spent a lot of time here breaking down offense, mostly because the big splash of the offseason has been the hire of spread-optionmeister Urban Meyer at Florida. The questions surrounding his sytem have taken up long threads-generally fueled by the usual suspects-wondering the same things over and over again: how well will it work, will it work at all, and will Chris Leak be a Heisman contender or a shuddering, concussed, pants-soiling wreck of his former self at the end of the season.
Concussions will make people do strange things, like marrying women twice your age“marrying a crazy, giant-taloned goblin twice your age.”(courtesy of Brian at MGoBlog.)
In all this, though, we’ve forgotten to tip our hats to the maulers on the other side of the ball, the defense and the coordinators who make the game the bloody, crippling smackfest we all love and crave a little too desperately in the offsesason. Think fast of the most exhilarating moments in your college football memory bank, and you’ll likely rattle off a list dominated by defense. A quick rundown of our own three we recalled without hesitation:
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TECH CORNERBACK ARRESTED IN CONNECTION WITH DRUG RING
Starting Tech cornerback Reuben Houston was arrested Tuesday as part of an investigation of a marijuana ring operating out of Fresno, California. Houston received 100 pounds of marijuana at the Tech campus in Atlanta from a courier sent by ringleader Oscar Rosales, who is also under arrest along with Houston and 16 co-conspirators. A few observations:
1. 100 pounds of marijuana? On the Tech campus? At once? That’s got to be a new record for the North Avenue Trade School, or at least a high point since Stephan Marbury left.
2. Chan Gailey loses eight to ten players a year to academic ineligibility out of sheer carelessness. Now his starting cornerback is caught with a seventh-grader’s worth of weed. Not great news for a guy stuck at 7-5 whose teams sometimes disappear in the middle of the second quarter.
3. Thanks to the article, we now know that there is a U.S. District Court judge named Oliver W. Wanger. That is all.
TOP RECRUIT TO FORGO NBA FOR AGGIE FOOTBALL GLORY
Texas A&M football signee Martellus Bennett was one of the top recruits in the state of Texas, but was also a major NBA prospect. The 6 foot 7 tight end, ranked #1 at his position by Rivals.com, threw his hat in the ring of the NBA draft hoping for the riches of a first round pick. Now that he has no such assurances of that goal, he’s on to plan B which involves playing football and basketball for the Aggies this year.
TWO MORE TENNESSEE VOLS FACE DISCIPLINE.
Absolutely determined not to lose anything to South Carolina now that the Vols nemesis Spurrier is at the helm, they have again taken the lead in the off season discipline war that has been waged between USC and UT. Tennessee now has 13 players either arrested or cited this offseason as two more players now face discipline. Linebacker Daniel Brooks and defensive back Corey Campbell have been suspended for one game and have had their scholarships for the second session of summer school revoked following a traffic citation.
Fulmer and his players are trying to get over their failure to communicate about acceptable behavior standards
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