THE EDSBS TOP 25, CONT'D: KELLS HELPS OUT WITH 4-6

so are teams 4-6 actually identical triplets?

$1,000,000 to the first person that bashes Orson for putting South Carolina 6th!!!!

(I hope you take personal checks)

It shouldn’t take long!

Quick, hide Haley from Robert K! SOMEONE, ANYONE… FUCKING HIDE HALEY FROM R. KELLY!!!

Except that I am a Gamecock fan and love them being 6th!!!!!!!

Turds Dept:

Everyone’s No. 2, LSU is appropriately downgraded. A coach as dumb as Les Miles is going to cost the team at least two games this season. I would not be surprised if one of the SEC minnows surprises the arrogant Lester “the Molester” Miles.

Orson, the more I read about LSU, the more I knew you were either: 1. tremendously ignorant of the goings on at LSU or 2. not taking this seriously.

Then I saw who you had ranked at 6 and I easily narrowed the previous 2 to one solid conclusion. I could get all up in it about your numerous inaccuracies regarding the Tigers, but your most serious break with reality is USC.

Terrible pick at #6, I’d rather see (insert ACC team here) or Wisconsin.

Are you smoking crack? Because that may be all that explains: 1) how you came up with the R. Kelly gimmick, and 2) South Carolina at #6.

Of course, if you’re right, people will marvel at your skills of prognostication . . . and probably ask you to cure leprosy and cancer, as well. Selfish bastards.

Or Trendy Mid-Major du Jour.

I’m more confident in the Gamecock D going from good to great then I am in the Gamecock O doing the same thing…and the reason is O-Line play. But it’s good to see the “back like cooked crack” tag being put into play.

Orson — No doubt TOBCU will be solid, but top-10 solid without Sidney Rice? As an LSU fan, I hate you for making me deal with reality — just when I was drinking the cool-aid, you hit me with the new qb / crowton argument.

On the flip side, Jimbo’s not around to run the ball up the middle / bubble screen people to death.

Are these rankings supposed to be how the teams will ranked heading into the bowls, or after all the bowls are completed?

are these rankings supposed to be how things will look in Week 7 or Week 13?

Michigan Gator, they’re an estimate of current value with a dash of projected finish thrown in there.

LSU Joshua: what’s inaccurate? We didn’t even mention the loss of LaRon Landry or the wideouts.

As for the USC pick…well, the back like cooked crack tag exists for a reason. But if you’re going to be a bear, be a Grizzly’s worth of crazy.

have you seen Carolina’s schedule?

shame…spurrier is a fucking traitor!

Orson, I don’t mean to stickle, but “5. LSU. Everyone else’s automatic number two winds up at six here” is a bit, uh, baffling.

Orson, minor edit request:

“5. LSU. Everyone else’s automatic number two winds up at six here, mostly because we think this team just has two losses written all over it this year.”

5. LSU. Everyone else’s automatic number two winds up at six here…

Notice anything wrong with that? Yes, you claim to have them ranked at 6 while you actually have them ranked at 5. Does this mean you were going back and forth on ranking South Carolina at 5 and LSU at 6?

Swindle, I disagree with South Carolina at #6. Obviously, Minnesota belongs there. And I deserve a nice little white coat without sleeves for saying that.

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Anyone have some advice for dealing with Houston? There has to be some Tejas EDSBSers out there this morning. I’m headed down there for the weekend, and I don’t know if I’ll survive.

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Edited, with the error left for shame.

I’m expecting an all USC MNC game. When the lines open for the game, will you play it safe by having the Trojans covering the Cocks? Or will you pick the Cocks to bust the Trojans? Either way, America is a winner.

That’s my Robert. Always peeing on people.

As much as I love Orson Swindle, I will go ahead and tell you that through my crystal ball – nobody will commend him on his “accurate USCe #6 preseason ranking” because it won’t end up that way.

I do like the imagination of the pick, though.

5. LSU. Everyone else’s automatic number two winds up at six here… I think you meant 5?

Oh, and when the BlogPoll comes around, we should be able to list Texas/Oklahoma Winner as 1 entry. I’d have them at #3.

Les gets a bum rap for being a bad coach – and it’s his own fault sure enough. The man can’t string together a complete sentence. This is his year to prove whether he’s coaching’s Forest Gump or not.
And LSU has had a problem with unforced errors in years past.
But, Orson, you ignore the giant purple elephant in the room that is Bo Pelini’s defense. True, Laron Landry is gone, but he’s replaced by another sure-fire NFL pick and tested vet in Craig Stelz. Hell, the two-deep at every position on the D drips with NFL talent. And Pelini gets them more fired up for blood than Mike Vick’s pit bull.
Jamarcus could make an occasional poor decision or bad play and put the team behind the 8-ball. But Matt Flynn is a Matt Mauck type – just don’t screw up, baby. Meanwhile, a young stable of RBs should get unleashed by Crowton. It may be heresy, but Jimbo Fisher never did more than an adequate job getting the most of his runners.
All that said, Oct. 6, when the Gators come to Tiger Stadium, should be the biggest game of the year.

Two further notes:

1. These remain subject to drastic revision. For instance, there’s no way we’ll keep Michigan at number 2. South Carolina at 6, though, might stay—Phil Steele’s with us on that crazy wagon, though he thinks UGA is actually better.

2. If you haven’t seen the video for “Same Girl” by R. Kelly and Usher, you are missing the funniest video ever made. Funnier than “In the Closet pts 1-38,” and way shorter.

Lyrics. “Acting.” The surprise twist. A prison will, for a short time at least, be the most talented place on earth next year when the R becomes their talent show coordinator.

South Carolina allllll the way up at #6? You’re really hoping that defense is going to be that dominant or that the Blake Mitchell Dance-a-thon will score tons of points for 49-42 victories or some such. Do I have a better suggestion at #6? Uh…no. So I guess my criticism is worth little then, my apologies.

Personally, I would have to think Louisville would be hovering around the top 10. I know, I know, new coach = drop off, but that is one hell of a team they still have…

Also, I’m curious to see where THE Ohio State ends up on this list.

South Carolina? Ha! #6? BWAHAHAHA!

On th DL, Orson, can I get two quarter bags of what your puffing?

I want Kells’ belt buckle.

Submitted without comment

Because you know you’ve watched it before.

Two mistakes: One, thinking that the defense is going to be South Carolina’s main Achilles heel this season. They may be so-so, but the real problems are on the offensive line — I just sacked Blake Mitchell not five minutes ago, and I didn’t even have to leave my desk at work to do it.

Second mistake: Wrong nickname for Frank Okam. He should be “The Razor.” Get it?!?!

With Nick Saban the coach at Bama, they are guaranteed to win 68 games and 9 national championships this season alone. What kind of poll doesn’t have them in the top 6?

Doug et. al.—

We’re going mainly off the quick hit offense Spurrier tweaked the Cocks into last year toward the end of the season. In the Florida game we didn’t touch him, and he stayed fairly clean toward the end of the season. That’s what you’ll see tons of this season.

I’d like to see Mack Brown wear that spiffy purple number that R is sporting.

Yo quick trivia: name the backup singers/group that R Kelly used in the beginning of his career. (No, it’s not the ‘Golden Tinkles’)

Otis Day and the Nights??

Orson, the safeties are being replaced by two experienced vets, and Craig Steltz will be an upgrade at the strong safety slot (led the team with 4 picks as a backup/part-time starter last year).

As for this notion that Miles’ teams are undisciplined compared to Meyers’ you’re kind of ignoring the fact that Florida was the most penalized team in the SEC last year. Didn’t seem to hurt them too much. He’s also turned in back-to-back top-10 recruiting classes.

At the end of the day, the guy’s 22-4, and masterfly handled a hurricane situation that would have driven his predecessor insane. A lot of people have had a pre-conceived notion of his incompetence that can’t be backed up by any real evidence, and I defy anybody to point to one of those 4 losses and tell me definitively that LSU would have won that game with another coach.

Got to say, you and Steele have brought a tear to my eye with the craziness. We’re this year’s Arkansas! Only . . .without all the crazy.

fourteen years old and slim and I want to meet her twin!

Well said Kells, well said.

R. Kelly has not been parodied that well since Chappelle sang about peeing on you. The mental image of him peeing on a picture of Matt Flynn makes me belly laugh. 100 cocktails to you sir. “this is the remix edition of the song about pissin’”

Where can I get a drop top Durango?

-Hey, remember the site that we though put one over on us the other day?
-Every day should be Saturday? Yeah, that was a pretty sketchy site.
-Well now I don’t know about it. They have this article up there and it looks like R. Kelly is writing rhymes for them now.
-Really? Wow!
-Yeah. Man, that guy’s got talent. I’m rethinking my stance on this site.
-Yeah. Are you sure that Hayley Lafontaine story wasn’t true?
-I’m not so sure anymore.

I actually have to agree with Billy and LSUJosh. Les Miles has recruited very well, has put up back to back 10 win seasons, and doesn’t deserve the animosity that other fans (and even many LSU fans) have towards him.

Note: I’ve said it before, and I’m sticking with it—Ryan Perriloux will be at either McNeese or Grambling in August. We’ll see if I’m right next month.

Final note: the Same Girl video is unintentional comedy at it’s best. The acting is amazing, the twist, all of it. However, I don’t understand one thing…(Spoiler Alert, if such a thing exists for an R Kelly/Usher video)…in all of their hoopin’, phone calls, dinners, plan makin’, etc., HOW did they not ever mention a name and realize that the “same girl” were actually two hot, but obviously retarded, twins?

I thought Usher was smarter than that.

Plus Orson Steltz looks kind of like the Ultimate Warrior without his facepaint:

http://www.lsusports.net/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=27812&SPID=2164&DB_OEM_ID=5200&ATCLID=174877&Q_SEASON=2007
 
A quality I know you value from a white strong safety.

rabble! rabble! rabble! Arbitrary ranking not to my liking! D00d U R sooo st00pid go Tigerz!

Pete—

And this if for ranking them fifth in the country.

Meanwhile, if SC actually does finish sixth, we’re buying ourselves that mouth/tongue belt buckle Kells has in the pic above.

22. +2

Brewster Crew-

Welcome to Houston. Hope you like heat and humidity. What else do you need to know?

The first point in the LSU analysis has me thinking about what another offensive coordinator with a history with the PAC-10 did in his first year at Auburn in 2004.

If SC finishes fifth, I’m burning Atlanta and Columbia down…again.

1. not sure why LSU vs. UF is going to be the biggest game of the year, unless you somehow believe that the NC is going to be decided between those two… Which is awfuly nice of you to pander to Orson’s vanities. I myself don’t see that as being the game of the year, though you may want to petition ESPN now, they are great at jumping on those kind of statements before games are played…

Brewster Crew -

Stay out of Gunspoint (Greenspoint) that is all I’m saying…

1. Public Announcement… I’ve got the tape on lock. If your girlfriend/wife doesn’t like “Dedicated”, she’s a bitch.

O – if South Carolina does end up at 6th, I’ll buy you the damn belt myself. With the #2 toughest schedule, I just don’t know how we can put together that kind of 1 loss season. Give me any B10 schedule and I would be calling Kells’ tailor right now.
Thanks for your kind thoughts- I change my answer to #4 this week to you, my new mancrush!

USCe at #6. I believe someone remembers just why SOS is a great coach. Defense? We don’t need no stinkin’ defense.

wow…..some serious OBC teet suckling. from a pure comedy standpoint i hope you’re right about the ’cocks. nothing pleases me more than an OBC in a position to talk shit.

Orson – I don’t think the rabble is frothing due to being your 5th choice or whatever…more the methodology. As an LSU fan I think we should be between 3-10, probably, depending on how Flynn performs. The one thing you touch on that I 100% agree with is the WR positions. Doucet is great, but Les needs guys to step in and contribute ASAP (and our Juco Hero isn’t qualified yet)…I see VT loading up the box and doubling Early in week 2. Scares me.
Keep on chooglin…

Put VT way up at #5 and knock LSU down to #6, predicting a 2-0, soccer-style ass-whooping of Beamer-ball over Pelini-ball in September.

I’m down with OBC, but if you knew me you’d know that #6 is Krazy, which is capital crazy processed from steamed pollock.

LSU will indeed disappoint the Korn dog lovers when they bite into their season, only to find imitation champions.

The Kells lyrics are pure comic gold. And I will second the Cocks at #6.

What remix is this?

Feelin’ on yo’ booty.

1. - It’s not necessarily pandering. I think it’s important to remember that UF won the national championship last year, is loaded at every position, has a great coach and has a pretty darn good weapon coming in full time at QB next year. They’ll be the class of the East.
   LSU will be the class of the West. Oct.6, right now, looks like a preview to the SEC Championship game. It’s not an entirely dumb idea to say the winner of that game has a darn good chance of being in the MNC.
   So, yeah. Game of the year – projected.

I love the #6!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Go Cocks!!!!!

I wanna go half on a baby with this article.

I think the folks at BON have already got Lokey and Okam labeled as “Law and Order.” I sitll think we can find something better, but if not, its pretty solid.

How about “Walker” and “Texas Ranger”?

27-

I want 5 minutes of my life back.

When the Museum of Unintenionally Funny Music Videos is built, R. Kelly will have his own wing between “Trapped in the Closet.” “Same Girl,” “Ignition,” “You Remind Me,” and “Keep it on the Down Low.”

And God bless him for that.

Fisher’s offenses at LSU rang up huge numbers against the gnomes of the conference and PAC10 softies but sank when confronted with actual defenses. The totals against Auburn and Florida: 3 and 10.

Crowton is an upgrade.

I can accept SC at #6, but nothing, [i]nothing[/i], is funnier than “Trapped in the Closet”.

Except, maybe, my attempt at coding.

The SEC East is a freakin’ meat grinder this year. I don’t think an SEC team will make it to the MNC game this season because there’s no way anyone is making it out of the conference unbeaten. And there’s bound to be 2 undefeated teams among the usual suspects of USC, Texas, tOSU, Michigan, and Oklahoma preventing a 1-loss team from getting there.

Click-clack! This is Ball Coach. I really hope and pray that Under Armour unleashes a new commercial prior to the UGA game on ESPN. What a great time to be in Athens. I can hardly wait.
 
We will get to see if Orson and Phil Steel know what they are talking about pretty early in the season.

USC @ UGA 9/8/07
USC @ LSU 9/22/07

If Carolina can even split these two early games, they could be 7-1 (4-1 in SEC) heading into Knoxville on 10/27/07. That’s at least worthy of a Top 15 ranking.

10 returning starters on defense. Sweet.

Our OL will be fine. We return both starting tackles. The inside guys may take time to adjust, but everyone has had previous playing experience.

Re: R. Kelly in Purple.

Are those the famed “Bacon Pants” I keep hearing about? At least below the belt buckle it looks like it.

Yep, gon’ run the table this time. Play some defense and score a whole bunch-a-points. Gon’ give those folks in Five Points something to yell and high-five ever’body about.

@ Georgia
@ LSU
@ Tennessee
@ Arkansas
Florida
Clemson

And you got your one victory per five years versus Clemson last year. 7-5 at S. Carolina would be a minor miracle. 8-4 would mean that Spurrier has the ability to walk on water.

To no one’s surprise, I am going to hail Orson as a genius for his #4 pick. Although I take issue with his saying Our Lord And Savior COLT MCCOY is only going to be “excellent” this year- but I’ll let that slide for now.

Coach Spurrier #73:
Thanks for your words of encouragement. Just wanted to say the fall has a small treat for us all, and that is your pronunciation of the name Kenny McKinley on the Steve Spurrier Show.

To #74, we will split those 6 games you mentioned, at worst. OBC has some material to work with now.

Watch out SEC. The Visored One is playing with a full deck this season, and might have an ace or two up his sleeve.

If he can get past the OU & Big Ten DL bias in the voting, Glenn Dorsey is your Outland Trophy Winner.

Glenn Dorsey, Darry Beckwith, Ricky Jean-Francois. Learn the names now before you read on some unwitting MSU QB’s chest or back. Or His FBness’ chest.

Keiland Williams, Ricky Dixon, Brandon LaFell (esp. now that Concussion Farmer is gone) on O.

Like TigerNacho said, Pelini. He built some of the most ferocious Ds in college history at Nebraska, he’s continuing that at LSU.

But you are correct, Orson. This teams has 2 losses written all over it. That I agree with. However, I’ve seen enough old Twilight Zone episodes to know you have to be specific as possible when you use words.

So LSU’s 2 losses will be to an SEC Opponent & then in the BCS title game to USC b/c the Turnover Monster rears it’s ugly head again.

Booyah?

Coop – I see us getting 3 of those. The Orange Crush is a bitch every year, so I don’t look to finish the reg season on too big of a win streak.

Colt has already thrown 15 touchdown passes and is now just standing there, waiting for everybody else to start the season. What are ya’ll waiting for?

Tennessee is my crazy top 10 pick this season instead of USC. That UT/USC game in Knoxville will have quite a bit at stake, for a change.

Keep it on the down low
Girl, you’re fifteen years old…

Once again, Orson has chosen to underrate Florida so that he can find himself pleasantly surprised in mid-October.

Texy, your offensive coordinator is still named Greg Davis. Oohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. Burrrrrnnnnnn.

I agree 100%, #80. Vols-Cocks should be a great one!

#74

Clemson no longer exists to OBC. He shits on Clemson. Tommy Bowden’s lip quivers in anticipation of the beatdown he will receive from the OBC and the walking papers Terry Don Philips will serve to him directly after the game. Click-Clack.

In all seriousness, I feel we do win at least 8 and more than likely 9.

ULL – Win
@ UGA – Toss up
SCState – Win
@ LSU – probable loss
MSU – win
UK – win
@ UNC – win
Vandy – win
@UT – probable loss
@ ARK – toss up
UF – toss up
Clemson – win

That’s 7 wins, 2 losses and 3 toss ups. Obviously, you feel all 3 toss ups are losses. Keep doubting.

Whoa, I think “Same Girl” was written by Ron Mexico.

Starting to see more and more Cock fans on here, and that can mean only one thing…Clemson fans are soon to follow. At some point, the Cock/Tiger threadjacks will begin and make the Bama/Auburn jacks look like discussions of quantum physics. Let’s just hope it doesn’t get to that point.

#78

You just broke at least one rule by mentioning a postseason individual award (Outland trophy). I may need a ruling from Orson on whether or not you also broke the rule about participating in conference wars with your OU & Big 10 DL bias remark.

I’m just glad there’s no rule about being a first class kissass.

Those rules apply to us and us alone. We’re already points deep in the scorebook there.

The rhetoric sounds eerily familiar to preseason 2002.

Coincidentally, you traveled to Baton Rouge in 2002, as well.

7-5 in Cola.

I’ve got $1,000 that says you’re full of shit, Coop.

Threadjack! Threadjack!

Nah, I wouldn’t even pick us at #6. I am dead serious though, OBC thinks we are going to be good, and he is telling people that around Colatown. He told a guy I know we could run the table if we get some bounces. I think our defense will be sick as hell, with 10 returning starters, but the interior OL is the weak spot. Although it is not as bad as most spring reports, cause in the game we split the first team up to where neither line on either team can be that good. we’ll see though…

If we split those 6 at 9-3 and TCB in the others, I’ll be pretty pleased. Especially with a bowl win putting us at 10-3. Hell, thats practically an MNC for us.

While I certainly like the fact that you have USC (the original West coast version) as your #1 pick, I feel a little cheated that R. Kelly didn’t sing about molesting our young girls.

What’s a brother got to do to get some real love?

I think everyone really wants to see USC v LSU. It’s been a long time coming for that one. Cue “Calling in the Air tonight.” By Phil Collins, not by those no-talent hacks.

Yes, anonymous Internet blog poster, I would happily accept something along the lines of, I say you go 7-5 or worse, you say 9-3 or better, with 8-4 being a push.

Of course you are the genius who said that every academic ranking system that currently exists, those pesky rankings which all unequivocally state that Clemson is the better overall academic institution AND has a superior undergraduate business department, is a bunch of bs, so perhaps I should take into account your level of delusion, but I digress.

Were you to produce an actual straw man to hold said funds until after Thanksgiving, I would happily sign on.

Does anyone else notice who brings the antagonism to the EDSBS replies? Oh, those Gamecocks are dying, literally, to have some semblance of a successful program, given the last 100 years and change.

Yes, you beat us for the first time in 5 years last year. “Obviously,” you will now own us and all of your SEC brethren.

Ha! You and your precious rankings! Now I know beyond any doubt that you aren’t to be taken seriously. Why do you think leaders at many “top-ranked” universities are publicly rejecting those very rankings? If you don’t know, perhaps you should do some research, instead of obliviously standing behind a deeply flawed, arbitrary regime.

I don’t know what the final record for the Gamecocks will end up being. This is the most talented South Carolina team in 20 years, coached by a man widely thought to be the best in the college game. As such, I think a 9-3, perhaps even a 10-2 season is within reach. The SEC is a gauntlet of fire, so nothing is assured.

However, I think Tommy Bowden will be enlisting the services of a realtor shortly following the pummelling his team will receive at WBS this November.

If you want to bet, we’ll bet on that one.

Sorry for the threadjack. Coop is an idiot that deserves to be put in his place whenever possible.

We’re going to be good. We’re going to be ranked. Higher than most people would think. We’re going to compete for the SEC East. But #6? I hope you’re right. But that ain’t where I’m putting South Carolina.

And all this buzz is bringing visions of 2002 dancing in my head, when some delusional person at CFB News picked us No. 1 and we promptly underperformed against La-La and lost to Virginia. Damned expectations.

Your SC pick at #6 would mean the game in Columbia will decide the SECEast. With how Spurrier’s last 2 against the Gators have gone, that should be a great one.

Does winning a national title make a mediocre coach great? Didn’t Mack Brown bench his QB who hadn’t lost to OU for a guy who never beat OU? Have his team collapse against Colorado in the B12 championship game? It took Fulmer 7 years to bottom out after his title. People judging Miles are judging him against what other coaches? VS OU, Miles 2-2 at OSU, Brown 4-5 at UT…

#85: Please correct me if I’m mistaken, but I believe Nixon occupied the White House the last time the Gamecocks won two in a row against Clemson. The real struggle for the OBC is not the schedule, but beating back 100 years of losing karma. Really, the only tradition at Carolina is finding a way to lose.

Here’s how it will play out: Tommy will roll into Columbia on a 2-3 game losing streak with his job on the line and the Tigers will grind out the victory when Blake Mitchell fumbles the snap with 5 seconds left and we run it back for a game-winning TD. Thus ensuring Clemson another year of mediocrity and ruining Carolina’s season. Gamecock fans, you know this will happen. Accept it.

cutiger89, as much as it pains me, your words carry some wisdom. I hope something like that doesn’t happen, but it wouldn’t suprise me if it did. On the other hand, is there any doubt TB will be fired if he does lose 2 in a row to the cocks?

1. had this South Carolina fan laughing aloud.

You can tell when it shifts from regular Carolina visitors to those attracted by the rivalry. The early posts reveal our almost Sally Fields-like response to any prediction like Orson’s- “You like us, you really like us!”

Then in the last 20 posts or so, it turns into ‘I bet everyone else in the country wants to read an ongoing exchange with someone that will never agree with me no matter what I say.’

Spurrier pwns Tommy!!! Clemson is teh suxorz!

Sorry. It’s my nature, Mister Frog.

Mike—Two in a row to Carolina by itself won’t be enough. If Tommy drops a couple to the Maryland or Wakes of the ACC (don’t care about their recent success. We should never lose to Wake), then he may be in trouble. Every year Tommy loses one or two he has no business losing, combine that with two in a row to Carolina that may be a fatal combination.

Clemson 2007: Bowden’s Swan Song

Probable Losses:

Va Tech
at USC

Toss-ups, at best:

FSU
at NCSU
at GT
at Maryland
BC
Wake Forest

Probable wins:

La-Monroe
Furman
CMU
at Duke

That seems to set up nicely for a record somewhere between 6-6 and 8-4, including a second consecutive loss to the Cocks. Treading water in year 9 isn’t going to impress anyone.

I hope CTB has Dan Joyner’s number in his Rolodex.

What’s the buyout on Tommy at the end of the season? The buyout saved his butt last season, but the IPTAY disgust to buyout$ ratio may be high enough this year to force the issue that so many orange overall clad folks wanted last year.

Coop – where did you go to law school?

1. - I laughed at the Dan Joyner reference.

Little Carolina at #6? I’ll believe it when I see it. That’s one brutal schedule.

So, the token Heels fan shows up at the prodding from his fellow goat lovers on their rivals board. Hi there, little fella. Now run along. This here is football talk, and Butch Davis or not, you just don’t belong. See you in a few weeks though.

Who said I attended law school? Just because I used a “straw man” reference proves nothing.

Yeah, yeah, I know.

Duke – and, yes, Chemerinsky is full of himself.

FYI, Tommy’s buyout has basically been reduced in half since last season, as his contract stipulates.

8 wins, including USC, and a bowl victory, and Tommy will probably stay IF TDP, who by many accounts is off to Arkansas, were staying.

If the new AD comes from in-house, 8 USC included wins will probably keep Tommy for one more year.

8 wins, without USC, or less, regardless of USC, and Tommy is gone.

9 wins, with a USC loss, is iffy, at best.

Very little Texas talk. I guess everyone likes the pick..?

I’m hoping that Colt’s merely “excellent” season will be offset by Charles’ rebound season.

Hopefully the dubious OL will allow this to happen…