ROLL CALL!

The Wash. Post has a big sports front article today about how JoePa kicked Terrapin ass up and down PG County and beyond. I have no idea who Fridge actually signed, but he’s got a PR disaster on his homefront right now.

My Miami appears set to take in the usual haul of sleepers, ‘tweeners, and kids looking to start early in their careers. I don’t follow recruiting all that much, but whatever the Walker/Hoeppner/Montgomery regimes have done for the past ten years seems to have worked fairly well. Hopefully, our best early advertisement for the class that enters in ‘07 will play well on Sunday; the RedHawks could use a QB in next year’s class.

Ors and Strank,

You guys don’t get enough credit for them, but your adds on the side of your page are subtle gems. If its not “Don’t be a Pink Gorilla” from the weeks leading up to Halloween, it’s the most recent masterpiece “Screw Work.”

Damn, its half the fun of coming to this site.

Joe Pa just worked the Fridge this year and Richt and Meyer are even harder for high school kids to resist than the sirens in for Odysseus. That’s my quick signing day summary!

All hail the abbr tag!

Ryno,

My all time fav is the weird anti-hair plug ad.

Regarding Spiller choosing Clemson over Florida: I don’t get the “small pond” comment. The ACC is no longer a seven-team, Carolinas-centric basketball entity. And Clemson, while it hasn’t truly great success in quite a few seasons, ain’t exactly small potatoes. Spiller will be running in a newly renovated 80,000-plus stadium against some of college football’s better teams (FSU, VT, Miami). And it’s not like he’s going to have all the spotlight to himself. He’ll be teamed him in the backfield with James Davis, who had a huge freshman season. (Spiller has cited Davis as the reason he wanted to come to Clemson.) That 1-2 punch has the potential to produce a truly awesome running game for the Tigers.

Just to liven up an otherwise dull signing day, MORE LESBIAN CHEERLEADERS!

How could Florida (state of) possibly lose recruits when they have that going for them?

And to follow up on this point:

Oh, and according to all our commenters, Joe Pa’s dipping his scrotum in Maryland’s potatoes all day.

Pardon me while I go look for a spork with which to poke out my mind’s eye.

Peter, it isn’t a knock on the ACC, just the size of the town and surrounding area of Clemson.

Copy that, Stranko.

Small pond in two facets, media-wise and competition-wise at wideout. UF’s loaded at RB and C.J. would have to share carries with a slew of talented receivers in a system that (theoretically) spreads it around.

We know Clemson is religion, so take no offense.

hey now! don’t go knocking on the upstate’s football mania! we consistently pulled in hundreds of people for the furman football games, even though the student’s had to walk all the way from their on campus apartments to the football field. plus, having to show your student ID to get in free to the games is asking quite a bit.

Far from knocking the upstate, but neither region is exactly Vegas media-wise (much as we love The State.)

It never ceases to amaze me how Bama people won’t let a dead Bear die. You’d think hound’s tooth was the official pattern and color of the university. For all I know, it may be.

If I was Shula, I’d start wearing one of those on game days. I bet he’d get an extension in his contract.

I defer to your knowledge of what Florida has coming in. However, I think it’s interesting that Spiller signed with a team that is loaded at running back, too. Clemson has two 700-plus-yard rushers coming back (ACC rookie of the year James Davis, who nearly had 1,000 yards in 2005, and Reggie Merriweather, who had around 700).

And the Upstate is not as dinky as you might imagine. Nearly 1 million people live in the five-county area that makes up the Greenville-Spartanburg MSA. The expanded ACC’s new TV clout also means that Clemson games will be getting beamed into many more homes regionally than they used to.

Spiller actually cited playing time as a factor in his decision in a post press conference interview… although he was more referring to FSU’s runningback situation I think. I did find it curious given the presence of Davis at Clemson.

Yeah, it’s kinda weird. I was reading something to the effect that meeting with James Davis on his official visit is what convinced Spiller to come to Clemson. Maybe they just hit it off; maybe it’s all the returning starers we’ve got on the offensive line; maybe it was CU’s “facilities”; maybe JD’s got the hook-up on ho’s and good weed.

Anyway, we’re just glad we’ve got him.

Sorry, that should read “starters” on the offensive line. Though I’m sure we’ve got a few, starers, too.

If Ole Miss had any history at all you would be holding on to it as tight as you could but the Manning’s will only get you so far. Ask fat Phil he will tell you all about it.Be careful though, once he starts talking he won’t shut up except to eat.

Let me use you guys like the proverbial TBS “Is it funny, can I laugh?” commercials:

Is it me, or is it funny that tOSU is selling Nike shirts that read “Appearance is Everything”?

(as scene here: http://www.hangonsloopy.com/teamshop/ProductDisplay.aspx?CategoryId=18&ProductId=6)

Slightly funny? Can I chuckle?

And I’m not even asking about the fact that items from the team’s second biggest bowl win in the last 5 years and their 2005 Big Ten Champions items (which, in a nod to those who are gluttons to pain, includes a schedule with Wins and Losses included- just imagine if they won the Big Ten outright but lost to Michigan, and included THAT schedule on the shirt) are all 30% off.

Coming from a guy whose school still calls itself the Rebels and waves the Confederate battle flag (albeit slightly more discreetly in recent years)? Seriously?

“Appearance Is Everything” – teh ohio state u.

Can someone work up a photoshop version of the mugshot bitterhorn linked to with that tOSU shirt on it? I work for one of Nike’s competitors and that’d be hilarious around the office.

RedTide, surely there must be someone around the office whose job consists entirely of making funny photoshops of Nike ads/products.

You make a good point… I’ll see what I can get done and if anything interesting comes of it, I’ll post it for the delight of all Nike haters/UM fans.

As a current Columbia metropolitan resident, though not a fan of the local squads, my favorite The State moment came a few months ago when Ron Pearson (sic?) claimed that Cutcliffe was fired despite having just taken Ole Miss to the SEC title game. Not that they won or even shared the West, but that they actually made an appearance in Atlanta.

Not sure if anyone will see this here, but if you read Joe Paterno’s press conference transcript (at here) Paterno’s description of his recruiting tactics are ridiculously close to yours.

Yours: Paterno (God): Eh, uh, it’s late kid. Wanna play some football for me? It’s fun, you know.

Paterno: I sit down and tell them and say hey, ‘this is what the situation is. I’d like to have your son. We think we have a good situation for him. Do you have any questions?’ and then we go from there.

Scary.

OMG Yayyy Horns! I guess Mouton wants to know what losing 4 times a year feels like, poor guy.