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BULLET BULLET BULLET This may be the second-worst piece of news we’ve heard this week:

Larry Munson, an integral piece to the lore of Sanford Stadium on fall Saturdays, discussed the possibility of retiring with Georgia athletics director Damon Evans in an extended meeting Tuesday morning.

All of your announcers suck dirty tailpipe in comparison to Larry Munson, the voice of Georgia football and gravelly dean of college announcers. That includes Florida’s own Mick Hubert, who lives several thousand zip codes away from the awesomeness of Munson territory. For all that is holy and kickass, we can only pray Munson hangs on another year, even though he’s 84 and admits he wasn’t in game shape until the Auburn game last season.

Sample the gravelly greatness below.

Will Collier sez keep an eye on Hoover High, Birmingham-area football factory and backdrop for the MTV series Two-A-Days. Take any and all rumors of academic eligibility in the Yellowhammer State with ample salt, especially when it could involve Alabama recruits targeted by Auburn, or Auburn recruits targeted by Alabama.

Bear Meat answers last night’s four questions from EDSBS Live, and finds a picture that sums up all you need to know about Baylor football ever. Nobels have to be kept in stock for fans like Red, who pull for teams knowing full well fate is going to slap them in the face with the cold, clammy, and unforgiving Red Snapper of truth.

Kirk Herbstreit couldn’t beat Clucky the Chicken in college football prognostication last year, a categorical defeat possibly prompting his admission that he was “an idiot” last year in the run-up to the national title game. In his own words, via an “exclusive chat” Herbstreit had with Gatorcountry.com’s Buddy Martin.

Big BuckFucker83: hai i have nine inches wanna see?

GatorMartin123: O boi can eye?

No, wait, that’s the wrong “private chat” transcript. Oh, here it is.

but, as i said to you earlier, to their credit they (the Gators) put it together when it mattered most-like all great championship-caliber teams do … if they want me to say I was wrong and I was a moron … no problem … i was dead wrong. i was an idiot … which I’ve already done several times since Jan 8th.

Ryan’s not too completely happy with the mea culpa, but idiot’s accurate and honest. Good on ya, Kirk, and on Buddy Martin for having SEXY HOTT ONE ON ONE PRIVATE ROOM CHAT JA! with Kirk.

Rivals.com has a fluff piece with a sharp shard of doubt embedded in it re: the Orgeron’s (shhhhh!!! He’ll hear!!!–ed.) hiring of John Thompson, journeyman defensive coordinator whose most recent job was pushing paper at the athletic dept. at Central Arkansas.

The shard in question:

Ole Miss ranked 115th out of 119 Division I-A teams in scoring offense in 2005 and only improved to 108th in that category last year.

So how will the hiring of a new defensive coordinator boost the Rebels on the other side of the ball?

Eh…good question, sirs, one that goes on to get the tepid answer of “Orgeron focusing on offense now even though he’s a defensive coach + Thompson on defense= yay mo’ bettah points.” We said Orgeron’s hiring of Thompson threw up a huge red flag, since Thompson’s career track has been on the steady decline since his heyday at Arkansas in the mid-90s.

Sports Crack has a simply beautiful Matt Stafford t-shirt for sale.

And that’s why the law school is in Athens, not Atlanta… Georgia Tech wrecks the Rambling Wreck and finds that it’s uninsured. A thousand UGA lawyers just billed clients while emailing this story back and forth to each other in between checking the DawgVent and checking tee time availability.

Speaking of UGA lawyers…

T. Kyle King has nominated us for President. We grudgingly accept, but only if we can ride around like President Camacho and demand beers from you, ’scro.

All this political buzz hasn’t helped our chances in the Hot Bloggers Bracket, where we’re being soundly thrashed by someone with stronger genes who wears gel in his hair. We can’t blame the public for this defeat–they’re only following powerful, genetically preset preferences. Parents, yes; public, no.

Finally, after an SEC heavy run-through, we’ll feature the Pac-10 news of Oregon qb Dennis Dixon skipping summer workouts with the coaching staff’s permission to make $150,000 playing baseball. Dixon will most likely return to finish out his eligibility at Oregon in the fall, but will come in cold to fall practice after his summer on the diamond, and in addition to this will surrender all rights to his scholarship.

As scurrilous as this might sound to SEC fans (who tend to take a KNEEL BEFORE ZOD approach to sport loyalty and football,) Dixon’s decision was an easy one. He’s not obviously talented enough to be an NFL Draft lock, and he’s being offered 150K to stand around a lot and occasionally exert himself playing a British game for girls.

Kevin from Fanblogs asks:

Other college football players have gone down this road - hello, Ricky Williams - but I don’t ever recall a BCS conference starting QB trying to pull double duty - even if it is just for one summer.

A-ha: Doug Johnson, Florida, who spent the summer one-hopping balls to first base and then immediately transitioned to one-hopping throws to Jacquez Green on the gridiron. He wasn’t great, but he wasn’t exactly disastrous, either.

In conclusion, also recall that Dixon is thinking like a college student, so when presented with the math of the matter, he probably translated it thusly:

Dixon: So the scholarship is how much?

Bellotti: Around 40K a year in total benefits.

Dixon: (thinking to self)Hmm…that’s a lot of XBox360s and beer. And the baseball deal?

Bellotti: About $150K, Dix.

Dixon: (thinking to self) Hmm…that’s probably a lot a lot of XBox 360s and beer. I’m playing baseball this summer coach.

How similar this dialogue is to the actual thoughts of our own daily evaluation of situations is…is something we’d rather not talk about at the moment, actually.