Greg Mark, the University of Miami defensive line coach since 1996, has been shown the door in a rare mid-season firing. Considering Miami’s current top ranked defense and the fact that Mark coached first round picks Warren Sapp, Kenard Lang, Kenny Holmes, Damione Lewis, William Joseph and Vince Wilfork during his tenure, it isn’t likely performance related. Coker had no comment other than to say it was an in-house matter. Let the rumors begin!
Hasta La Vista Markie.
Marcus Vick is already a better quarterback than his brother, Ron Mexico. Discuss.
Take a read here of George Solomon’s column as ESPN’s ombudsman. After I was done reading it I was wondering what exactly is the point of all this? I guess his role is to see things he doesn’t really like stylistically and tell us about them. Can he fix anything or is he just as powerful as us bloggers who are sick of things like ESPN Hollywood and Nick Lachey taking a job better suited for us?
This weekend was an exciting weekend of college football but also one in which blown calls by the referees played a major role in the outcomes of games. Add one more to the list now as the Big East has admitted that the officiating crew dropped the ball on West Virginia’s tricky onside kick in the fourth quarter.
FSU’s De’Cody Fagg will be out for the Duke game with a separated shoulder. Hopefully FSU’s leading receiver will recover quickly, thus giving us another excuse to type the name”FAGG” in huge capital letters again.
We Are The Boys, our brawling, blogging Gator counterpart, made his podcast twice as sexy this week by having us on in the closer’s role. It sounds pretty good for a minute and a half of audioblogging from the AirTran terminal at Hartsfield airport, but also reminds us that we sound just as dorky as we look on the screen. (We’re at the 16:30 mark or so.)
In other Florida woes: the Portisatistas among the Gator Nation got a little more fuel for their fiya with the news that Chris Leak had another cortisone shot in his injured shoulder before last Saturday’s game at LSU.
Also of interest on WATB is this painfully accurate summary of the Gators’ offense thus far this season, courtesy of legendary Gator farker Mr. Two Cents:
Does a surplus of Dapper Dan pomade on his hands explain Leak’s throwing woes?
Satire, people. Save us the emails.–ed.
While NC State may be catching flak for their “Mexi-cam” feature, one similar in-game feature continues to be a runaway crowd favorite at another Southern institution: Ole Miss’ wildly popular and controversial fourth quarter feature, the Yella Wood-sponsored “Negro-scope.”
The feature, begun on a lark in 1983 by some mischievous Delta Chi fraternity members, has been a staple of Ole Miss games for 22 years. A camera located in the press box scans the crowd, locates a couple at random, and then zooms in on them for a tight scoreboard shot broadcast to the whole stadium. Beneath their image, a graphic flashes the words “NEGROES!”, usually to gales of laughter from the crowd.
“It’s an honah to get put on the Negro-scope,” explains Ole Miss junior Britton Locksley. “My daddy was Negro-scoped in 1986, and during last year’s Arkansas game my girlfriend Brianna and I got on in the fourth quarter. I proposed to her on the spot–it was a Negro-scope first, and the whole crowd was screaming ‘Negro-love! Negro-love!’ ”
“We’d like to point out that we’re not even negroes,” says Brianna Lockmondley. “That’s why it’s so funny. ” The young blonde smooths the pleats of her sundress and pauses for an instant. “Not that there’s anything wrong with that.”
The Negro-scope has not been without its moments of controversy. Despite careful selection, African-Americans have been selected to appear on the Negro-scope, leading to some awkward moments in Vaught-Hemingway Stadium.
“So we’re just hanging out, and the Rebels are getting killed in the third quarter, and the clock winds down and all of a sudden everyone starts going crazy and patting my head and shit. I look up on the scoreboard and there’s me on the Negro-scope. Sick thing was, I got happy for a second. I actually went there. Like, excited, like you know, ”Damn, I just got negro-scoped.’ Everyone kinda got real quiet, though, once they realized it was a real live black dude–not just some guy in blackface or a Samoan student like they sometimes get. Everyone just got queasy and no one talked to me for a week. All in all, it sucked to be the first actual negro to go under the Negro-scope.”
Awkward moments in Vaught-Hemingway Stadium.
Despite the controversy over NC State’s Mexi-cam, the Ole Miss Athletic Department has stated that there are no plans to scrap the popular feature, citing other ethnic-themed features at university athletic events including Grambling’s “Cracker-matic,” BYU’s “Melanin-spection Section,” Brandeis’ “Goyim-spotter,” Cal-Berkeley’s “Gwailo-HO!” feature, and West Virginia’s “Auslander Gander.”
Orson Swindle and Stranko Montana are two men pushing thirty who should know better than to run a college football blog, but evidently don't. Both graduated from the University of Florida, and both agree that college football is far too important to be left to the professionals.
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