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EDSBS LIVE! THE MYTHICAL NATIONAL CHAMPIONS EDITION

What: EDSBS Live! online radio. It really should be called the Stewart Mandel edition, since we've crafted our questions around our guest, who happens to be Stewart Mandel. Like H-Town said: Ladies, get your towels, it's time for the intermission, 'cause Stew's here. They did not say that, but they should have.

But ostensibly, it's the generalist's show, with a national focus and a hint of BCS talk.

Click here to join the show!

Where: At NowLive, where you can chat with each other and the show hosts throughout the broadcast in the online forum (the best part of the show, frankly). To phone in to the show, just call (310) 984-7600.

Who: Tonight's special guest is Stewart Mandel from CNNSI.com. We've promised to be gentle with him, even though he once drank 117 bottles of beer in a single car trip from Detroit to Cincinnati, according to Dusty Rhodes.

Four Questions: As always, our four questions for the night.

1. Who are the worst three coaches right now?

Mandel's big on the "worst coaches" ranking, and we're never short on positive feelings, so we'll bite. [NAME REDACTED]'s one, an overgrown recruiting coordinator who did his best work as a special teams coach. We wouldn't trade a good scabby patch on our head for Al Groh, the least exciting college football coach in the known universe. And most painfully, Sylvester Croom, hobbled as he may be in Starkville, is starting to cruise out of "rebuilding" and into flat-out badness.

2. Which offensive or defensive scheme do you most detest?

Oh, how we hate the soft zone in the third quarter with a lead.

3. Name your playoff/system preference---BRIEFLY

Briefly? Honestly, we're completely open to suggestions. We don't mean that in a dickhead MBA manager slipping you the finger from behind his palm pilot--we're seriously open, and have no idea anymore what an ideal scenario would look like.

4. Who's your new crush for the season?

Stewart named his, so we're on to ours, crude and esoteric though they might be. Audacia Ray in the brainy smut department, Serena Williams holding steady in the female athlete department, and in the wild card category, we'll introduce Sunday Morning Quarteback, a writer whose prose and pinpoint accuracy makes us nearly gay for him.

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1. Zook, Orgeron, Gailey, in that order.

2. Whatever Georgia was playing in the last five minutes against Vanderbilt in 2006.

3. Get a committee together like the guys who pick the field of 65 for the NCAA Tournament. Undefeated teams are automatically in; the committee’s only job is to pick however many additional teams it takes to make four, and then it’s single-elimination from there. Unedited transcripts of the committee’s full proceedings will be posted on the NCAA Web site.

4. It’s still Melissa, but Jill Wagner from the Mercury car ads is right up there . . . and call me stupid, I think the pink-haired cartoon chick from the Esurance ads is totally hot. Sue me.

by Doug on Jul 10, 2007 3:53 PM EDT reply actions  

Um, Chan Gailey isn’t in your top 3 Orson?

by Nick on Jul 10, 2007 3:55 PM EDT reply actions  

Nick—he’s #4.

by Orson Swindle on Jul 10, 2007 3:59 PM EDT reply actions  

Phil Fucking Steele next week, right? RIGHT?!?

by Jerkwheat on Jul 10, 2007 3:59 PM EDT reply actions  

Correct.

by Orson Swindle on Jul 10, 2007 4:00 PM EDT reply actions  

Followed by Kige Ramsey sometime in August I hope.

by Jerkwheat on Jul 10, 2007 4:01 PM EDT reply actions  

1) Gailey, Groh, Roof (can you guess why I think my conference sucks?).

2) Whatever the hell Leach and June Jones are running, with the WCO a close second (me no likey forward pass, merely tolerate).

3) 8 teams, 6 BCS conference champions, 2 wildcards with 1 provision for non BCS teams, and seeding in the playoff is based on SOS, record, and region. Before you start naming off teams that wouldn’t make, yes, I don’t care.

4) Not having cable makes it hard to pick up new crushes. So I’ll stick with Mercury girl Jill Wagner, because it affords me the opportunity to point out she went to NC State.

Also, if SundaymorningQB is your crush, why do you still link to his old blogspot web address? Bad form.

by Herb on Jul 10, 2007 4:08 PM EDT reply actions  

Oh thank you so much guys for deciding to have Mandel on during the All-Star Game. Now I’m going to have to multi-task. In the meantime, I am off to the research vaults.

But Phil Steele next week, hot damn.

by Craig Barker (Yostal) on Jul 10, 2007 4:12 PM EDT reply actions  

Thank you for putting Groh on the list. His results speak for themselves but it wasn’t too long ago that he was going to have the Cavaliers atop the ACC and he’d be on his way to the NFL.

Die you yelllow dog and take your NFL schemes with you!

by OhioDawg on Jul 10, 2007 4:14 PM EDT reply actions  

Stewey can fuck his face with his own face’s ass for all I’m concerned. The guy should be featured in Directional Michigan’s media guide, not CNNSI.

by billy on Jul 10, 2007 4:18 PM EDT reply actions  

1. Ty Willingham, Ron Zook, Lloyd Carr

2. Three yards and a cloud of dirt. Sooooo boring

3. 12 teams, BCS 1&2 get a bye week, cut the season down to 11 games, done by New Year’s. Rotate the bowls for the Playoff venues after round two.

4. Megan Fox in the Movie dept, Jenn Sterger/Amanda Beard in the Sports Dept.

by Wooderson on Jul 10, 2007 4:19 PM EDT reply actions  

1. Tommy Bowden for one (Coop and Chili Mac won’t agree with me only because it’s a violation of Clemson student/alumni policy to agree with a Gamecock)- that man has had the talent to do wonders- all he can really claim is beat his Dad and a winning record against us. I wish that guy at the Citadel would do a better job. While he’s no Charlie Taff, maybe one day he’ll come around. What, D-i-AA not on the table for discussion? I thought since Michigan picking one up in their schedule made I-AA fashionable again.
2. Taking a knee – of course it’s grand if it’s your team taking the knee, but it’s usually been the other team, $%#@
3. Open or add last 2-3 slots of the regular season for BCS conf teams to have OOC teams TBD based on conf standings- make sure SEC #1 plays P10/B10#1, B12 vs BE, #2 vs #2, etc.
4. My wife – I don’t know what it is, her new haircut, new shades, lost a couple pounds, new tolerance for me- whatever it is- I’ve really taken a notice of her again lately

by Out of Conference on Jul 10, 2007 4:21 PM EDT reply actions  

1) Mike Stoops, who equaled his career win total last year and still didn’t make a bowl game. Chan Gailey and Al Groh for aforementioned reasons, not to mention being past their relative primes.

2) Always and forever, the prevent defense. Honorable mention to the 4-2-5.

3) Take the top (sweet?) sixteen teams and seed them regionally, using existing bowl games as the sites but rotating them each year. Weaker bowl games for the first round, more traditional games for the second, and the final four should rotate among the BCS-tier bowls. Any unused bowl games follow the current bowl system and play exhibition games on weeknights or New Year’s day to quench our end-of-season bloodlust.

4) Giada De Laurentis from the Food Network, as my hate for that smarmy little bitch has mutated. I’m also with Doug on the Esurance cartoon girl.

by Big Jon on Jul 10, 2007 4:24 PM EDT reply actions  

Humble citizens!!! I would like to point out a humorous if not startling statistic that I already mentioned before but was likely overlooked by the masses. Due to the hatred of one Chan Gailey by many so far, in his defense I must tell you that if he should finish with an 8-5 record this year he will have a 71 win % and be tied with GT legend Bobby Dodd for overall %. Just sayin. That said, its fucking weak we couldn’t beat Wake Forest and UGA. His affection for Reggie Ball was shameful and poor. What a waste of what mighta been on 2006.

1. Orgeron, Croom, The guy at FIU.

2. Don’t like no huddle offenses.

3. No playoff, no national championship. Just bowl winners.

4. New crush – Hayden Panettiere

by Brian on Jul 10, 2007 4:29 PM EDT reply actions  

And don’t forget his total fucking waste of Calvin Johnson.

by Nick on Jul 10, 2007 4:35 PM EDT reply actions  

1. Zook, Gailey, Orgeron for obvious reasons
2. Pretty much anything in Lou Holtz’s offensive playbook.
3. Whatever Appalachian State had to pull off to become national champions.
4. Don’t know her name, but the smokin hottie from the new Right Guard commercials…damn! I would remove my eyeball with a shrimp fork for a night with her.

by Tommy Boy on Jul 10, 2007 4:44 PM EDT reply actions  

1. [NAME REDACTED]. He can recruit, but no lead is remotely safe with him on your sideline. Tommy Bowden squanders major league talent every year en route to 7-5 land. Bill Callahan, he abandoned the Bone for the sissy, panty wearing west coast offense, doing a great disservice to the game.
2. I hate the name “cock n fire” but love the actual scheme. An even more homerotic name for an offense was Jeff Bowdens “rainbow offense.” This was offensive ineptitude at its worst: run for no gain, incomplete screen pass, then jump ball for an int.
3. Abandon the BCS, the top 8 according to the AP poll square off utilizing the current bowls. Takes 3 weeks and determines the NC on the field.
4. Has anyone seen Jeri Kehn Thompson, Fred Thompsons wife? What a freaking Coug! BTW #1, I have dirty anime porn fantasies about the esurance girl. You are not alone.

by JoesDeliGatorTail on Jul 10, 2007 4:55 PM EDT reply actions  

1. Gailey, Zook, Groh
2. Any scheme that involves rushing 3 and droping 8
3. Steel cage death match
4. E V A G R E E N

by PeterPumpkinhead on Jul 10, 2007 4:58 PM EDT reply actions  

1. Whillingham, Mason (now gone) and John L. Smith (now gone).

2. The Chuck and Duck (thank you “Bum” Phillips) for offense. Defense? The one used by the Gophers against Texas Tech, the “roll over and die” or “arm tackle” defense.

3. All conference winners (ACC, Pac10, BE, B12, B11, SEC, CUSA, WAC, MWC, MAC, SB) are in, with 9 at large candidates to get to 20 teams to minimize bitching over exclusions. 5 weeks total. First week pairs up the weakest of the 8, a semi-wild card weekend for playing into the top 16, followed by single elimination for the next 4 weeks. Home field advantage is set by seeding, a la the NFL, but plenty of tickets are offered to the traveling team. The final played at a neutral field (bowls, perhaps?) . Pressure the conferences to finish weekend before Thanksgiving so final is on New Year’s Day. Bowls continue for also-rans. Push for a national set of football referees for the NCAA while we’re wishing.

4. I’d like to make a Sean sandwich with Scarlett Johansen and Kate Winslet

by Sean on Jul 10, 2007 4:58 PM EDT reply actions  

Correction: technically Bill Callahan abandoned the option, but hes still a pussy for running the left coast offense in NEBRASKA.

by JoesDeliGatorTail on Jul 10, 2007 4:59 PM EDT reply actions  

1) Gary Pinkle, Mac Brown, Greg Robinson

2) 3-5-3 “Robber Coverage” my ass. Removing human traffic jams (DT’s) open HUGE lanes for Owen Schmidt types to obliterate

3) Simple Plus 1/Final Four

4) Adriana Lima & Fernanda Mello – Morecheeeeeeseecakeplease……..

by Rashaan Salaam on Jul 10, 2007 5:02 PM EDT reply actions  

I’m pumped for Phil Steele. I hope he talks in the abbreviations he uses in the magazine.

This unit is full of VHT’s, but won’t match 2006’s great season.

by The New Math: 86=1 on Jul 10, 2007 5:03 PM EDT reply actions  

1) Al Groh (he must have pics of Craig Littlepaige with a goat); Chan Gailey; and the downwardly mobile Walt Harris.

2) The prevent. ’Nuff said.

3) Since this is a pure pie-in-the-sky question, I’ll vote for a 16-team playoff with an autobid for all 11 conference champs and five at-large teams.

4) I’m drawing a blank, which is a sad commentary on my work-life-cheesecake balance these days.

by DevilGrad on Jul 10, 2007 5:04 PM EDT reply actions  

1. I can’t believe no one has said Gary Pinkel yet. Talk about an underachiever every year. It’s always, “this it the year,” but they always forget to add to that “Choke again.” Actually, I think he takes spots 1 through 5, so that would include the 2nd and 3rd.
2. I agree with the take a knee. Go ahead and run the score up. If you can’t run with the big dogs, stay on the porch. I hated it when my Sooners stopped trying to score against A&M when it was merely 77-0. I mean what if they score 9 straight times and then get the 2 point conversion, add in a safety and a FG and it’s a game again.
3. Go back to the old bowl system, if you don’t like, start following some other sport.
4. It’s always Giada.

by Heath on Jul 10, 2007 5:11 PM EDT reply actions  

1) Sly Croom, Ed Orgeron, Sly Croom again. Watching Sly run a program is like watching an Iraqi platoon led by Private Pyle.

2)Joe Lee Dunn’s defense when run using no talent ass clowns. -See MSU 2001-2002 and Memphis there after..

F)16 team playoff. Notre Dame can only be included if they are undefeated…and then only if approved by the Anti Defamation league.

4) Lusting after Rashida Jones (Karen from the Office). Man crush on Bear Grylls.

by lanceharbor on Jul 10, 2007 5:20 PM EDT reply actions  

1. Weiss, Greg Robinson, Frank Beamer
2. Up the middle – the Don Nehlen classic.
3. Top 8 teams decided per an average of all the major polls. Commence playing 3 weeks after the final game of the season (finals/rest/practice). Championship game will be around the second weekend in January. And it will extend the season by a few days. score
4. Adam Levine

by CouchBurnin'Girl on Jul 10, 2007 5:27 PM EDT reply actions  

#10

Correct me if I’m wrong, but did you just call Mandel a Fucking AssFace?

by Bollocks on Jul 10, 2007 5:27 PM EDT reply actions  

1. Orgeron – For trying to recruit Tulane players after the storm. Oh, and we know you only got Oher b/c you were Ole Miss’ coach and that the LSU boys took him to strip clubs.

Saban – Say what you want about his defenses, his offenses are atrocious. Yes, let’s yell at QB’s and kickers, that’s just what they need.

Fulmer – what if Chuck Amato wore orange shoes?

2. Offense – The Wing T. Probably b/c my high school team used this and I hated the coaches back then. Oh, and we sucked.

Defense – The 2-5. Yes, 2 down linemen and 5 LBs. Complete waste of time.

3. No playoff system for me, I like relevant seasons. The only tweak I want is for BCS berths to be changed according to last years conference record.

4. Ditto for Right Guard girl, who advises all to just be themselves. I know a girl who’s her clone. In sports, I really dig Danica Patrick, esp her secret commercials. A page out of my fantasies would include me, her, and some Mario Cart.

by MCab on Jul 10, 2007 5:28 PM EDT reply actions  

OH… worst coaches… I need to copy the questions down…

Greg Robinson, Al Groh, and Walt Harris (is he still coaching)

by CouchBurnin'Girl on Jul 10, 2007 5:30 PM EDT reply actions  

I was thinking of coaches I hate… my bad.

by CouchBurnin'Girl on Jul 10, 2007 5:31 PM EDT reply actions  

1. Worst three coaches: [NAME REDATCED], Ted (5-34, how is he not fired?) Roof, and Chan Gailey. OK, to be fair, maybe Roof is short on talent at Duke, but I wouldn’t want them coaching my team in the near future.

2. The Prevent defense can go suck a fat one. It prevents NOTHING.

3. 8 team playoff; best 8 ranked teams use 4 “big” bowls in the first round, Sugar and Orange bowls for the semis, Rose Bowl for the final and championship.

4. OK, I got a bit of a crush on Doris Mar. Yes, the same one you put up all the way back in May, Orson. I have never seen one, but I will most definitely not eat sea turtle eggs ever.

by John F on Jul 10, 2007 5:31 PM EDT reply actions  

1) Barnett, [NAME REDACTED], Willingham. Special bonus: Dennis Green.

2) Offense: Sweeps, when you can’t make them work. Defense: Soft middle coverage, when it’s the team I’m pulling for. Disaster usually strikes too late for a comeback.

3) There’s a lot to be said for the 16+5 framework; it’s as (un)fair as anything else, and a sight better than what we have now.

4) I’ve had a crush on Erin for a while now, and the Pride of Louisville thinks she’d make a better TV show than those silly cavemen. But this is about new crushes, so… Jill Bartlett, from American Body Shop. I might just walk into traffic for that smile.

by PJ from NU in SF on Jul 10, 2007 5:35 PM EDT reply actions  

I don’t understand the hard-on people have for Croom. You hear the media talking about how good of a coach he is and how is stuck in a no win situation. My question is what evidence is there that he’s a good head coach?

You nailed it, Orson. Croom could be Knute Rockne, but eventually he’s going to have to start winning some freaking ball games.

by hailstate on Jul 10, 2007 5:40 PM EDT reply actions  

SKLM Answers Dept:

1. Who are the worst three coaches right now?

1. Weis (zip bowl wins, zip quality wins against top 10, 1 win against top 25 teams, all hat and no cattle)

2. Paterno (time to hang ‘em up, put on the white shoes and terrorize del Boca Vista)

3. Carr (when will he beat tOSU?)

2. Which offensive or defensive scheme do you most detest?

Offense (run, run, pass, punt – Covers most of Big 10)

Defense (prevent defense, which prevents you from winning)

3. Name your playoff/system preference—BRIEFLY

Top 8 taken from coaches and writers polls, screw the computers. And put them in rotating big bowls (Rose, Orange, blah, blah, blah)

4. Who’s your new crush for the season?

Transformers’ Megan Fox (Sorry Stacy Keibler). Reminds me of the hottest girl in high school. So close but yet so far!

by Stacy Keibler Luvs Me on Jul 10, 2007 5:44 PM EDT reply actions  

1. Hal Mumme(yeah, great passing attack and nothing else), George O’Leary(fake resume, inconsistency, who knows what’s going to happen this season), [NAME REDACTED](just because).

2. The “prevent” defense. The only thing it prevents is your team from winning the game.

3. Here’s Whit Watson’s blog from last year regarding a playoff in college football. Not a bad set up. http://whitwatson.sunsportstv.com/2006/11/division-i-football-playoff-realized.html

4. Every so often I get stuck on Kari Byron. Not exactly a new crush, but that’s where I’m at right now.

by BDoc on Jul 10, 2007 5:49 PM EDT reply actions  

1. AlGroh, no doubt. He’s lucky UVA fans are more concerned with hauling their port-a-pergolas to the tailgate than getting anything above the Music City Bowl. Walt Harris, who’s so bad, he’s being retroactively fired. Hal Mumme, because I have a feeling he’s Switzer-level corrupt. Yeah, wife-swapping bad. Look out, Mrs. Gary Gibbs.

2. Running on second-and-10. Guaranteed to set you up with a third-and-long.

3. Simple plus-one, four teams.

4. Megan Fox. I bet her BO smells like roses.

Honorable Mention – any chick on any design show on DIY, Discovery Home or that ilk.

by NoleinTexas on Jul 10, 2007 5:52 PM EDT reply actions  

Doug- are you the guy who runs the CGIWN site?

by crazy tom on Jul 10, 2007 5:58 PM EDT reply actions  

1. Who are the worst three coaches right now?
Zook, Orgeron, and Croom

2. Which offensive or defensive scheme do you most detest?

 4-2-5

3. Name your playoff/system preference—BRIEFLY

First Norte Dame has to join a conference. Then a 32 team playoff. Conf champs and then at large bids are determined by the winners of a drinking game consisting of Head Coaches taking Tequila Shots drunken from a cup made of Knute Rockne’s skull. (I know Dennis Erickson gets an advantage here but no system is foolproof).

4. Who’s your new crush for the season?

My wife. She buys me beer.

by Bruce Dickinson on Jul 10, 2007 6:01 PM EDT reply actions  

A) Worst Coaches:
1) Ted Roof, Duke: NOT 1 WIN AGAINST A I-A team in 2 years. You suck.
2) Wannstache, self explainitory.
3) Guy Moriss, Baylor: Nobody fears WACO anymore.

B) Most Despised Systems:
Offense: Jimbo Fishers playbook is like techmobowl, fucking run it up the middle, bubble screen, 10 yard pass attempt, punt. Repeat.

Defense: anything with less than 4 down lineman.

C) Playoff system: All 11 Conference winners. bottom two teams play in a wildcard game to get into the playoff.

Wha? No playoff berth for Notre Dame? That’s right suckas, join a conference. Hell, if they joined the Big East it would actually make that conference legitimate. No at-large teams. If you don’t win your conference, no NC title.

Remaining 49 teams that normally went to a bowl still get to play in bowl games. But wouldn’t that make the weedeater bowl meaningless? It already is jackasses.

D) Crush for this season: Texas Gal.

by PurpleHeart on Jul 10, 2007 6:07 PM EDT reply actions  

1) [Name redacted], Sylvester Croom and the Orgeron.
2) The 4-3 defense because it’s so NFL.
3) The top four teams in the BCS rankings play the Saturday after the conference championship games. #4 plays at #1, #3 plays at #2. The winners play each other in the first week of January.
4) Alaska governor Sara Palin

by John on Jul 10, 2007 6:22 PM EDT reply actions  

Sarah Palin looks like a hot Peggy Hill. I’d Boggle with her.

Oh it’s worst, not hated coaches. Ok, scratch Saban. Put Zook in.

The season can’t start soon enough:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vy-jhPIpNrQ

If you don’t love LSU, minimize it and just listen.

by MCab on Jul 10, 2007 6:42 PM EDT reply actions  

Randy Sanders, Sly, Dave Wannstedt

The DeBerry Option

8 Team Bowl Playoff. I pick the teams.

Eric Berry, DB

by TheGoldfishCowboy on Jul 10, 2007 6:43 PM EDT reply actions  

Purple Heart just moved himself straight to the top of my Favorites list.

by Texas Gal on Jul 10, 2007 6:46 PM EDT reply actions  

Hey jerkwheat:
if only some poster here lived in the same town and worked at his college….
I’m off to Wal-Mart to check for a camera setup in automotive.

by jakldawg on Jul 10, 2007 7:05 PM EDT reply actions  

1.Zook, Erikson, Pinkel – One bad, one overrated, and one just plain terrible, in that order. All are skilled in somehow remaining employed despite repeated failures and excesses that should lead to wins.
2.The west coast offense – marvelous principle given adequate time to learn
but a monstrous problem if talent or time is lacking.
3.The best idea would be a NASCAR-like chase – top ten teams in, winner take all. It would create more tension and push teams harder.
4.Francesca Fowler – Anyone else here watch Rome on HBO? She was Egeria, Ocatvian’s first.

by That 5.0 Guy on Jul 10, 2007 7:24 PM EDT reply actions  

…nearly 50 comments in, and no Nutt mentions. I’m sure they’ll come in droves now, though.

1. Karl Dorell- Now, on face value, he’s won more at UCLA than anyone else in very recent memory— but with all that local talent, and USC making the quantum leap to national recruiting for whatever it wants, there should be more talent on the table for UCLA to scrape together locally. They’re getting their ass beat by CAL. Cal; let that sink in for a few minutes; they’ve been usurped as the #2 program in California by a place that’s more famous for its dirty hippies than its QBs.

Charlie Weis- Amazingly overrated. Guy puts together solid offenses (when not having to play against above service academy talent, they remain competent, if not spectacular)— but his defenses couldn’t be much worse if he actively tried. Maybe when Romeo Cornell gets fired after another horrible Browns season, he can go help.

Chan Gailey— do I really have to explain?

2. The spread option. Mainly because I hate trendy. Give me an old fashioned option, or a wide open chuck and duck system like Hawaii— but don’t give me a cowardly running offense masked in a bit of glitz.

3. 6 BCS champs (B12, SEC, B10, and ACC get byes) 3 at large BCS conference teams, and 3 non-BCS conference teams. Pac 10 and Big Least and the non-champions have a play-in round, then face the Big 4.

4. My twins. Got the first pictures of them via ultrasound today. There’s nothing better in the whole wide world, not even my wife’s bunda.

by Will on Jul 10, 2007 8:34 PM EDT reply actions  

Damnit all to hell! I can’t believe I missed Stewie tonight. I still crush that fucker’s head with a boulder!! Can’t wait to listen to the re-broad.

by Aerobab on Jul 10, 2007 9:13 PM EDT reply actions  

Yeah, yeah, I’m a Domer, but for all you picking Weis as one of the top 3 WORST coaches, come on? Overrated, sure—I won’t argue, though I’ll disagree. But top 3 WORST? Jeez, don’t let your hate of ND cloud your thinking or anything.

1. Willingham (didn’t see that coming, did you?), Zook, Groh. A nice manager who couldn’t do anything himself, a great recruiter who can’t do anything with the talent, and I don’t know what Groh’s deal is, but he’s sure wasted UVA.

2. Offense: I hate the spread/read option. Not because it sucks, because it doesn’t—especially if you have Vince Young or Pat White. Just because it’s not the way football should be in my mind. Be a pro-style team, or an option (1995 Nebraska) team. Combining them in some unnatural bond is unholy.
Defense: Any of the 3-3-5 or weird variants teams like BYU run. You shouldn’t have more safeties than linebackers, ever. They’re the schemes you run when you can’t recruit big linemen and backers.

3. ND wins, every year—just kidding.
I’m for the +1/4 team playoff utilizing the bowls. The BCS has it in place—just play the NC game a week after the bowl games. Oh, and put it all back on Jan 1, dammit, except the NC.

4. Respect to Will for saying his twins—that’s nice. And I’ve seen your wife’s bunda, and it’s nice, so it’s definitely saying something (jk).

My answer’s Mrs. Lafontaine, Hayley’s mom. Sure, she’s trailer trash, but anyone who produced a kid that messed up has to be some fun.

by Nate on Jul 10, 2007 9:35 PM EDT reply actions  

#26

If you are going to name Weis as one of your worst coaches at least spell his name right and you won’t come off looking like a dumbass.

by domerva on Jul 10, 2007 9:36 PM EDT reply actions  

I’m too lazy to do all four, but my newest crush is Gabrielle Anwar from “Burn Notice.” She’s a little on the bony side for my tastes, but she plays a woman who views violence as foreplay and I love a woman who can break my arms as easily as my heart. For female athletes, I’m going with a classic choice: Gabrielle Reece. Maybe I just have a thing for women named “Gabrielle?”

by Harris on Jul 10, 2007 11:04 PM EDT reply actions  

1. Weiss – Most Overrated Coach of —ALL TIME
     Kirk F. at Iowa because every year I drink the Kool-Aid and they fall flat
     Have to give the Zooker the third spot, maybe he can get enough good players to overcome it.

2. Run and Shoot – any offense that has to be abandoned inside the 5 yard line sucks

3. 11 game season …14 teams (conf champs + 5 at large) 2 from a conf max, … #1&2 get a bye, quarter finals played on New Years Day ….. (Please make Jan 1 relevant again like it was when I was a kid)
side note … I’d rather just go back to old bowl system and play 1 more game…..

4. Props to the Eva Green mention, Am I allowed to say Vidal Hazelton and not be gay

by Giantandre on Jul 10, 2007 11:07 PM EDT reply actions  

1. Ty Willingham, Cy Willinghame (his 1800’s prospector alter-ego), & My Willingham (his night shift alter ego that raises and slaughters pigs)

2. Offense I loathe: anything Arkansas ran last year. Houston Nutt and his clownshoes formations only work under two distinct circumstances: a) you’re playing pop-warner b) you have Darren McFadden

Defense I despise: The Rick Minter “let’s blitz someone from the secondary who’s 20 yds away from the ball when its snapped” defense. Yes, we realize you want to “disguise” your blitz….much like hiding Waldo. Only thing he didn’t realize is that finding Waldo is a red herring…it’s the fucking wizard you need to worry about.

3. PLAYOFFS?!?!?! PLAYOFFS? (Really I could care less about the playoff structure, as it will obviously never be perfect…so why not channel Jim Mora?)

4. Lawerence Maroney. Not for any sexual reasons whatsoever, however who wouldn’t want to be a part of his crew? I’d volunteer to be his “bling man” so I can carry around his Kool-Aid ice…“construda man” would be a close second (considering it’s illegal to possess the construda, of course).

by FreeMoneyDave on Jul 10, 2007 11:15 PM EDT reply actions  

For whatever reason, people don’t mind Groh around here.

Although whenever a coach wants an extension now, there’s a collective OMGONOZ, because there’s always a chance Craig Littlepage will give them one of his patented bet-the-(considerable)-farm K extensions, of which Groh’s is the most obvious and head-scratch inducing.

I hate to say it, but the real problems are playcalling and converting talented offensive players into so-so DBs (Vic Hall comes to mind, and Mike Hart nearly ended up a Wahoo Safety). Oh, and teh 5CHRUT3B46. That Western Washington dropout is teh suck.

by now_a_hoo on Jul 10, 2007 11:21 PM EDT reply actions  

1. Ted Roof, Sylvester Croom, Guy Morriss (Honestly, although I revel in their failures, the Baylor Bears don’t have to be that bad.)

2. I don’t know if you’d call it a scheme, but I’m getting pretty tired of the short-side option.

3. Champions of all 11 (aren’t there 11 now?) conferences get in (yes, even the Sun Belt champion) with five at-large bids based on BCS rankings (just to continue to give everybody something to bitch about.). A 16-team tournament, seeded based on BCS rankings (again, more bitching), single elimination. Games are played on Saturdays during the month of December, and the whole thing finishes with a single championship game on New Year’s Day AT THE COTTON BOWL IN DALLAS (no matter the weather—that’s my personal stipulation). And here’s the kicker—if bowls want to continue to invite teams from outside the top 16, let them. We’ll see how long they last—my guess would be a very long time, actually.

4. My fiancee, who will soon be endur…uh, enjoying her second season of TCU football (from afar) with me.

by Boston Frog on Jul 11, 2007 12:05 AM EDT reply actions  

1. L. Tyrone Willingham, Ted Roof, Gary Pinkel.
Also: those who dare to criticize the Genius Robot should learn to spell his name.

2. The Rick Minter “defensive backs run along 5 yards behind the receiver and then whiff on arm tackles after said receiver has caught the ball” system.

3. Three words: The Orgeron Decides

4. Corwin Brown, Overlord of Recruiting…and hopefully defensive playcalling.

by Kevin on Jul 11, 2007 4:15 AM EDT reply actions  

Crazy Tom @ #37 — no, the CGIWN site isn’t me. As long as I’m putting myself out there, though, Kim Possible is also hot.

by Doug on Jul 11, 2007 9:29 AM EDT reply actions  

Can’t believe noone said Tommy Bowden. Who does less with more than him? Only time he ever over achieved was when Rodriguez was his offensive coordinator.

by Matt on Jul 11, 2007 9:33 AM EDT reply actions  

Matt – you’re at least the third post that’s menitoned Tommy Bowden. The mroe the merrier though.

by Out of Conference on Jul 11, 2007 10:29 AM EDT reply actions  

So, it’s Weissssssssssss, right? Like his sister Janet?

by The most beautiful thing I ever saw on Jul 11, 2007 10:44 AM EDT reply actions  

Will #46,

I agree. When Oregon schools are outrecruiting UCLA for 3-4 star talent in SoCal then Dorrell is failing. It says a lot that kids would rather move 1000+ miles away to live and play in the rain than move to Brentwood/Bel air.

by tzubear on Jul 11, 2007 12:25 PM EDT reply actions  

Phil Steele’s fun to have as a radio guest, unless you’ve already got the magazine (since he’s just gonna parrot the same stats that he’s already printed)

but I’m sure Auburn’s going 6-6 this year and getting passed over for a bowl game by Vandy, like he says they will

- Peck

by DP on Jul 11, 2007 1:22 PM EDT reply actions  

Jesus H. Christ, which one of jabonies is mainlining Redbull before the show? I can barely hear Stewart Mandel from the furious tapping going on. Listening, I pictured Chris Matthews without the ADD meds.

by hailstate on Jul 11, 2007 2:51 PM EDT reply actions  

#56. Doug you are a degenerate. Kim Possible is underage.

by oc phil on Jul 11, 2007 9:58 PM EDT reply actions  

Dear Fans of Clemson, GaTech, etc.,

You have nothing to complain about. It could always be worse. MUCH worse.

Sincerely,

Lowly MState fan

by bewareofmsudawg on Jul 11, 2007 10:19 PM EDT reply actions  

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