RUMOR RUMOR RUMOR RUMOR

As I called it, the Houston Nutt to GT was absolute bull.

Maybe Pitt could hire Pam Ward? I mean she sorta looks like Wannstache without the ’stach…well, at least on a good day she does.

Bertman to all: Stay away from my kittehs!

Jimmy Sexton just told me that [insert school with job opening] has offered 10 yrs and 35 million to [your favorite coach].

Someday, coaching changes will be so commonplace, they will swap out coaches for specific games depending on who is better at coaching the opposing scheme that week, much like they do for NASCAR oval/road course drivers today.

They will live out of suitcases and when times get lean, coach girl’s volleyball matches here and there for motel & hot-pocket money. Other coaches, however, will fly around the nation on the wings of their personal Gulfstream V stocked with virgins and, earning $500,000 for single wins against even the lowliest of non-conference cupcakes.

#5

That sounds a lot like the PGA.

#1:
Nutt (or one of his people) called about the GT job before he went to Ole Miss, and was told that we were not interested.
I’ll repost the rumor list for us from yesterday, since this seems to be a better place than the “Mustache Wednesday” thread…

Tier One
Randy Edsall
Will Muschamp
Rick Neuhisel (?!)

Tier Two
Chris Hatcher
Jon Tenuta

Tier Three
Charlie Strong

Sa6an to LSU, the next head coach at Alabama has been sighted.

This is why this is the “Most Wonderful Time of the Year”……The SEC…..if you like the way the landscape looks, wait a year, and it all changes again, and again……The SEC… Saban Expects Cash……

#7:

No Gary Crowton? Not buying the ESPN take on the opening on N. Avenue?

tOSUBuckeye – there’s a job opening you should apply for.

Wannstedt isn’t going anywhere. The team got killed by injuries and showed offensive life with a freshman QB and freshman RB. Not too mention he has been recruiting well. He’ll get one more year to prove he can coach. He’ll have the talent next year and no excuses.

Question for Georgia Tech fans: does the school have the necessary truckload of cash to pry Edsall from UConn? I’ve read too many rumors and I don’t like it.

What’s a lawya gotsta do for some Timex Social Club, dog?

I prefer Bobby Jimmys “Roaches” alternative version….to the tune of “Rumors”
Roaches think they cute

Girl i’m not impressed

It ticks me off when I find ’em

Wearin’ my momma’s dress

Why no mention of the fact that our favorite pirate, Mike Leach, interviewed at Arkansas yesterday?

O – anyone who thinks the Steve Spurrier who coached Duke and Florida is the same Steve Spurrier who is coaching South Carolina is delusional.

Spurrier has been cutting corners on his recruits, discipline, etc etc etc since Day One in Cola, all to win ASAP.

Spurrier is loyal, but he is only loyal to those where he had success. He had no problem bolting the Skins in the middle of the season and offered no apologies on his way out of town. He is the sort that would bolt Cola and only return when he has to face USC at W-B.

Spurrier is nothing more than a mercenary right now, and I bet he will at least consider the LSU job.

Why would Georgia Tech want a coach who lost to Temple? I mean UCONN did lose, right….? I saw it on TV clear as day.

Sexton? Finebaum thrives on “this kind of chaos.”

That would be deadly Dept:

How about the Orgeron to LSU? Talk about a perfect match. Orgeron would be able to coach real monsters like himself again, and not a bunch of single star recruits.

Mr. PP – You bring back some memories. I remember in early high school, I was at summer camp at Clemson (Coop you’ll appreciate the story) staying in Johnstone dorms (el shithole). At night, trying to find a way to sneak into Ed’s or whatever the on-campus bar allowed back then was called, you literally couldn’t walk around without stepping on 3-inch long palmetto bugs. At the camp dances, they always played the “Roaches” version of Rumors. That was usually the song that would give me enough nerve to talk some girl into dancing with me, but I’d scare her off when I’d start shaking my cracker ass to that song.

Damn, if I only knew then what I know now….

I think Coach O will go to Auburn once Muschamp leaves……to be the Def Coordinator….Him and Tubs are tight

#10:
I think my source is better than ESPN’s, and has been right in the past. I won’t provide a link just to keep that board’s traffic down, but you should be able to figure out where it’s coming from if you feel like poking around the GT blogs. I will say that no one has mentioned Crowton in any of our musings on the boards, so you can feel safe.

#12:
Apparently someone has really stepped up in the cash department (to buy out Gailey at $4m), and the belief around the AA seems to be that the new guy will generate enough new donations and ticket sales to offset the salary of a good HC and a top-flight staff.

#20
Yeh Bobby Jimmy was like the Hip Hop version of Weird Al..Except he never capitalized after that one hit…..I live in S. Alabama and lemme tell ya, there is no defense against keeping them out…
I built my house on 15 ft stilts since we live on the river, with the sole purpose of makin it roach and bug proof…them bastards still find a way to get thru, even with outdoor cats on patrol who attack anything that moves…You could actually replace the word Roaches with Coaches and the song will still be funny and meaningful…..I’m goin all in on my bet that Tubs is gonna hire Coach O…..Del Rio to LSU is a good one…

ooc @ #13

i can’t even read this post until this problem is fixed.

Literally heard this at lunch in the Concourse Atlhletic club from a couple of blue-haired men about GT

Big Money Alum trying are trying to make Tenuta the Head Coach and bring in Georgia Southern head coach as OC.

I had to see 99 old naked balls to get you this information.
Yes 99 is an odd number when considering the testicles of old men. I’m driving myself to the CDC now

screw it, i’ll do it myself.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRte0S2a_dA

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Hatcher has said that he doesn’t want to take an OC job – probably more likely to bring Hatcher as HC and keep Tenuta at DC if he wants to stay.

Here’s my take on CTT. I think he goes to ARKY he is the best fit for that job. Believe it or not the split between CTT and AU will be mutual. I think there is a deal already in place to go after CBP really hard. If that doesn’t happen which, I would give a 90% chance that it does. AU Sticks with CWM and rides it out. Either way you look at it AU can’t lose. 6mil. Buyout, Petrino, or Muschamp. No more neanderthal football.

#25
Ever seen a grown man naked? Ever been in a Turkish prison?
Ted Striker: concentrate… concentrate… I’ve got to concentrate… concentrate… concentrate… Hello?… hello… hello… Echo… echo… echo… Pinch hitting for Pedro Borbon… Manny Mota… Mota… Mota…

Nice try Coop. Spurrier kicked the only proven offensive weapon off his first team before the season started, suspended Boyd for a season, and suspended for spring practice and forced a RS on a top QB recruit expected to compete for immediate PT this year.

As to “cutting corners,” I’ll take USC’s qualifying rate under Spurrier (including the two who met NCAA standards but were denied by the Admissions Dept) against most BCS programs.

Spurrier’s obviously facing a bigger challenge than at Florida or his time in the ACC, but I wouldn’t count on him still being 0’fer in major bowls and division titles after nine years. Your boy’s likely to hold that distinction on his own.

#22

New donations and ticket sales? This is still GT you are talking about right? The only thing that would generate significant buzz there would be Steve Jobs as HC and Sergey Brin and Larry Page as OC and DC, respectively.

Free pizza and sodas with tickets would be a plus, oh wait…

While Leach is a strong candidate for Arkansas if negotiations for Tuberville don’t lead to a deal, I haven’t seen anything saying that he has met with Jeff Long yet. However, Leach was in Arkansas recruiting this week.

And from the reaction I’ve seen, hardly anyone wants Mike Leach to come to town.

Funny how everyone and their sister on the internet has a “source” now. Message boards where other fans post things they hope happen aren’t rumors and aren’t a source.

I personally would love to see the OBC go back to Duke and retire where he started.
I don’t know why. I am not a Duke fan, not a Spurrier fan, and not a SCarolina fan, but if he were to go to Duke that would take balls that I would have to admire.

am i the only motherfucker in the college blogosphere/message board world that cannot fucking stand using initials for coaches??? cns=coach nick saban, ctt=coach tommy tuberville…just fucking type it out!!!

1. For better or worse, “our boy” has more 9-win seasons in 9 years that South Carolina has in 100+ years of football. Even the OBC can’t fight that kind of tradition.

1. - Tommy is also 7-2 versus South Carolina.

Corso is right in that you will NEVER win the SEC East.

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And it should be pointed out that Spurdog did not leave the ‘Skins in the middle of a season. He walked away from three remaining years of $5 million a year AFTER his second season because he’d had enough of Daniel Snyder. He did so without a job lined up and sat out an entire season rather than continue to cash Snyder’s checks. Not exactly what you’d call a mercenary. Also, Spurrier passed on ’Bama’s overtures last year to remain where he is, even though he knew he could win quicker at ’Bama, and for more money.

#34: Well put, CGD.

I am intrigued by Coach Yoyoyoyoyoyowareagle.

Tommy will never be better than me.

Hey Gerry Dorsey,
I may know you…so you were there when Alabama was first mediocre? Do you know Joel Holliday and Daniel Pope? Alex Greenbaum? I was there from 97-99 , those were my running buddies…

I’m confused about something here. Just how many conference divisional championships (much less outright conference titles) has Clemson pulled down under Tommy Bowden? … and he’s been at the helm for 3 times as long as Spurrier has been at SC. Of course Bowden has a tougher road in the all-powerful mighty football conference, ACC.

37 – Are you serious? The man literally quit in the middle of the season in DC, as his agent was negotiating the buyout in November of that season.

Spurrier did not go to Alabama because their ridiculous expectations and the fact that he knew it was going to take as long to fix the Tide as it would to fix South Carolina, or so he thought.

If LSU comes calling, which is a big IF at this moment, and Spurrier takes a hard look at that roster, and how easy it would be for him to recruit in the Bayou, no effort put forth or about as much as he had to when he was at Florida, he will legitimately consider the job.

And, Spurrier was up in Durham giving their AD advice regarding whom to hire. He was also probably pubbing Spurrier, Jr. for the position.

41 – 7-2 are the only numbers you need to know when it comes to Tommy Bowden.

In other words, yes I remain disappointed with our lack of championship trophies at Jervey, but he remains better than you…

And, if any of you talk about injuries to your defense as some sort of excuse, I will remind you that Clemson was missing 3 defensive starters in the 2006 game.

#42
I agree with Coop, Spurrier and Saban have the same agent, and with him at Duke, I am sure he is wantng his son to get his feet wet at a lower tier school where you actually have to have a Student-athelete, where academics are first….vs Athlete-Student at other schools….People forget that Spurrier aint no spring chicken…no pun intended…and if he makes another stop it will be his last…Tubs on the other hand is 1 YEAR away from being vested in the Alabama retirement system so I think he stays one more year with a loaded talented team before he jumps somewhere else, the same reason Brother Bill Oliver left Alabama and went to Auburn, to sew up the retirement….which in my book, if your a multimillionare, who cares about retirement money from the state of Alabama??

Unless there is some new investment bank that features large gay men (not totally up on the lingo) and people named Stern, then I think you were referring to Bear Stearns.

mr pelican pants,

yep…i was there from 97-01. actually yeah i know joel holliday…i worked with him. i didn’t know pope, but i met him a couple times…don’t think i know alex either. would you have met me??

#41—LOL. Tommy is 7-2 against you guys and the only response is yet another favorite Gamecock tradition—pointing to future titles and glory. “Just wait, [insert coach’s name] is going to win. You just wait and see.” Heard it with Holtz and now hearing it with Spurrier. What a joke.

Mr Pelican Pants – Gerry hangs out in gay bars and listens to the Fray. Maybe you met him there……

Yeh Joel is back in Tuscaloosa now. He had that club he sold , the Venue, and moved to South Carolina., now he’s back…Pope will probaly play for the “Alabama” league next year in the spring…
we all used to work out at that gym on 15th Street Fitness Advantage…long time ago

Last Dragon…lol….
nah the last time I saw Joel was when I got clocked in the head at Studio 2 by some redneck with a full beer bottle…..on the head…..concussion and 10 stitches later…..2 hrs later still couldnt spell my name…..damn there was some trashy women in there, should have know better

cutiger – where did I say, "Just wait? " Maybe you have me confused with Bowden’s agent during the contract extension negotiations.

Coop – thanks for clearing up my confusion about how SC not winning the SECE means they suck, but that Clemson not winning their division in the shitty ACC is just a minor blemish for the Tigers.

1. - Mr Pelican Pants – Damn those were the good ole days huh?

i actually worked at the venue with joel before he bought it. i was actually wondering earlier this season what had happened to pope b/c i knew he bounced around for a couple years. trouble just has a way of finding big joel sometimes doesn’t it??

11,

For some reason I think the Michigan coach works a little more than just 40 hours a week.

My point was USC fans should never say anything about conference titles, or lack thereof.

Actually, USC fans cannot take shots at, basically, any public BCS conference playing school in the nation.

Yes, Tommy does not have a single ACC championship to point to at his time at Clemson, and a Maryland fan or FSU fan or even a Wake fan can reference that fact, which I don’t have a problem with.

But, if we are so inept, and we can’t win the little, unimportant, mediocre ACC what does it say about South Carolina that Tommy Bowden owns you?

I have never understood how any USC fan has the gall to take shots at Clemson. All you have to do is look at the scoreboard to understand why…

Yeh good times , concussion excluded…..last time I actually saw Joel, he was going duck hunting on a Sat. morn, me and Pope hooked up with some chicks from the Houndstooth…Joel and his 3 other camo’d out dudes were passed out, or so I thought, in the living room, we bring the chicks back at about 2am, Pope goes to his room, I’m left to fend for myself in the living room w/this chick while Joel and his buds are pretending to snore with one eye open while I score with this chick…behind the couch..funny thing is they all kept snoring while they all watched..didnt know they all were awake, Joel said they pretended to be asleep not to scare the hot chick—wanted to see her nekkid…then 2 hrs later they all get up and go duck hunting..classic Joel move…he, later the next day, gave me 20 bucks for the entertainment

I later told him he was short $180.00 since between 20 shots and dinner and dancing and then having to perform before a live audience, I well into Overtime Wages……plus having to convince her that they were all asleep the WHOLE time when they hauled ass out the door at 4am, laughing no less at her wanting to be “spanked”..and her lower back tattoo of a frog…ask him when you see him about the “Lone Wolf” he’ll know who your talking about if you are still in T-town…

Coop – stop with the facts. All I’m saying is that you laugh at Spurrier’s resume at SC because he hasn’t won the east in the 3 years he’s been there, and I merely pointed out that he’s only had a third of the time to win a division title than Tommy has, who also hasn’t. Yes, Clemson owns the Cocks in the rivalry, Tommy owns Spurrier in the rivalry, but I don’t recall the matchup being discussed here prior to you bringing it up.

you are killing me over here pelican pants. i don’t live in t’town anymore, but i get over there 4 or 5 times a year. if i see i’ll have to ask him about the lone wolf.

And I am not picking on Spurrier’s resume at USC thus far so much as I am pointing out why he would consider bolting USC for LSU.

And for those who say Spurrier is not about winning right now and, more importantly, grabbing as much cash as he can get his hands own in the present, why does he have his own clothing line, wine, doing tons of commercials, etc etc etc?

The man is whoring himself, or his name, out like crazy in Cola because you people would buy the craps he takes if he put it in a box and sold it to you at Adams Bookstore.

Point being, again, this is not the same Steve Spurrier who was at Florida. At Florida, he would not have signed a Garcia, who did not get as many offers as he should have given his talent, not brought in an Emanuel Cook or would remain interested in that kid who thrown off the football team at Georgia Military for stealing.

No, this is not the Spurrier who could make jokes about FSU being Free Shoes University. He knows if he points fingers now, there will be 5 pointing directly back at him.

Agreed, but I have optimism.

Now your “wait til next year” comment is valid, cutiger.

Garcia was such a bum he choose USC over second tier offers like Oklahoma, Florida, and Auburn. He did act like a spoiled athlete duriing summer school and was punished appropriately.

Cook was overlooked in Florida because the big in-state schools whiffed on the evaluation. He had plenty of high D-I offers, a strong family background, and strong efforts in the community. He was guilty of poor judgement in an isolated (minor) incident, as can be said of many college students, including some Clemson football players. It isn’t like Cook killed somebody.

Congratulations on your season. Tommy Bowden has built a nice program there. You are nip and tuck with GT and may well move ahead of them with their coaching turnover and your stability.

Good luck in Atlanta. At the dawn of Spurrier’s 10th season, we’ll probably expect more than the Chick-fil-A Bowl, but to each his own. If you are correct and our hopes proves unreasonable, we’ll look to Clemson for a lesson in lowering expectations.

what the fuck do you guys think this is, MySpace or some shit?
quit talking about catching the clap from some coke whore in Tuscalooser while your hunt’n buddies tickled your cornhole with a houndstooth dildo- talk football or shut up. Shit- talk about your 12 quasi national championships or something, just not gay love.

Tommy Tuberville to Arkansas, as a suggestion of the imminient and gasoline induced hatred brewing in the SEC west, I would suggest adding more trophies to games much like the Big 10 does…………….Nah nevermind thats gay.

I’m surprised to learn that Pelican Pants acutally attended UAT.

When he uses phrases like “Him and Tuberville are tight,” I have to think that professors at UAT are committing larceny by cashing their pay checks.

Sure this has been discussed, but just got this from a buddy of mine who is very wired into the LSU AD…

Les MIles is going to Michigan, so LSU is gonna offer Nick Saban a 10 year contract with a 10 million dollar buyout. Apparently Saban and the Missus hate Alabama and want out, AND he has an escape clause. Contract will be competitive with what he makes at ’Bama

I pray it happens, only because I want to watch the Chernobyl type meltdown in Tuscaloosa

Saban back to LS-Who and YET ANOTHER VACANCY at the Tide? oh hells yeh. I think that would be immediately followed up with raining toads and clouds of locusts and the death of every first born child and [insert Biblical plague here]…

I think Finebaum would commit seppoku on the air. and THAT my friends is what the ol Heart of Dixie has needed since the days of Maxx Headroom… http://fishfearme.blogs.com/photos/uncategorized/max_headroom.jpg

If Saban goes to LSU, I will be in the hospital having a splenectomy.

It will rupture from uncontrollable laughter. I’m getting my encapsulated organism vaccinations today, just in case.

Adam and Eve were kicked out of the Garden of Eden for eating of the Forbidden Fruit and experiencing too much pleasure.
I fear what He will smite us with if that actually happens, because that will just be a total pleasure overload like the world has never experienced. I’m talking H-bombs that spread not radiation but pure orgasm to everyone within a 50-mile radius of Auburn…

6 in a row….wow an
Yay, congratulations, you have one more SEC championship than Alabama in 9 yrs.
Hope you like being mediocre and maybe get 1 SEC championship in the next 9 yrs. Hope Tubs stays…Saban aint goin nowhere. Believe all you want.
Your days of being even remotely competitive in recruiting are limited in the state of Alabama. You will get waxed again by another Big East team at the start of next year and your MNC dreams will be crushed….again. All Barners talk about is dreaming about even getting a MNC, much less getting another SEC championship. If Tub leaves, he believes he can accomplish that feat faster at another school, not at Auburn…Chew on that ….hell your admin didnt want him anyway, I’d leave too…8-4, and should have been 10-2 or 10-1, you werent gonna get passed Georgia this year or the next or the next, so why should he stay? We dont need 9 yrs to get one SEC with the same head coach, I promise ya that……Enjoy the next week or 2, we will all be undefeated til yall get waxed by WVU next year, then its over before it begins….

I’m starting to think that Pelican Pants is an Auburn guy, and this is all a parody of the typical, semi-literate “Saban’s gonna run Tuberville out of the state” Bama fan.

If I’m correct, it’s especially impressive, since almost no Alabama fan/sidewalk alum don’t know the difference between “you’re” and “your.”

Pelican Pants, you’re the Andy Kaufman of EDSBS.

Damn, your onto my act…Saban isnt running Tubs away….its the fact that he cant win a MNC at Auburn…he would have done so by now….he must believe he can do it faster @ another SEC school…
It wouldn’t matter who takes the reigns at Auburn, the swing in recruiting in state isnt gonna change for the better for Auburn since—-and this is from your own fans—the type of players Auburn wants aren’t the 4/5 stars in Alabama….WTF kind of thinking is that?

Now only if we could go on David Letterman and I could start throwing water out of a coffee pot, we’d be onto something…

I’m like Finebaum, I play both sides towards the middle when its convenient….piss off the Bammers one week then the Barners the next, then have off the air conversations with Superagent to divert attention elsewhere during Coaching searches since Superagent has them all in his back pocket…he is the real puppet master…..Damn him to hell……

Scoreboard, daywalker.

seriously- it seems Tide fans talk more shit after a loss than after a win- but i don’t remeber that many wins in the past decade, and never in Tuscaloosa, so i may be wrong about that.

How they can be so arrogant is beyond me. They’re winless in November. They lost four straight to end the season, and at .500 overall, they’re praying for a trip to Shreveport.

Yet they talk shit. recruiting, blah, blah, blah….Tradishun, blah….We paid four million a year for an overrated coach. Blah.

Deep inside, they’re seething, because for 95% of them, their existence is Alabama football.

It must suck to suck at life like that.

If Saban isn’t going anywhere, why doesn’t he have a buyout?

Oh, yeah, because Alabama sold their soul to get him for 1 year.

they can’t swallow their pride as quickly as they can swallow cocaine-laden clumps of snot while drinking away their losses at their minimum wage manual labor jobs…
dumfucks

but holy shit- imagine the turmoil in the state if Saban goes back to LSU and Tubbs goes to Arkansas? just fuck me with an upside-down open umbrella…

that was the rage talking…

Hell Auburn is batting .500 in Sept, dats purdy good….I’ll say this, when yall lose in Nov….its a doozy…

And when y’all win in November, it’s a media event.

Scoreboard, sidewalk.

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Who’s laughing now?

http://www.arkansasbusiness.com/sports_article.asp?aID=101252.73780.113371

Ha ha ha !! Well looks like your non-MNC winning coach will try to do it at Ar-Kansas, and not on the plains of Auburn!!! You Auburn folks are ducks on the proverbial pond now!!! Ha ha !!! And you believed he was hunting in Ar-Kansas? Really? Ha HA!! Hunting for a better school!! With more cash!!! I guess Tubs had the last laugh after all!!! His agent is a genius!!! Wait, he has the same agent as Saban!! Whats the odds?? Hope you like Petrino and his big ass contract!! You should have built Tubs indoor practice facility like he wanted 4 yrs ago!!

I guess the Bammers and Barners couldn’t stand a threadjack by another southern rivalry and had to get it going. Hats off to you guys. It looks like you’re getting purt damn near personal. There might be a knifin’ before it’s all said and done. Carry on.

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You need to check your facts. Spurrier finished his second season with the ‘Skins, went to his beach condo in Florida and phoned in his resignation, walking away from the final three years of a $5 mill a year contract. There were no negotiations because there was nothing to negotiate – he had been paid for the two seasons he completed and he was walking away from the final three. He received zero additional compensation and didn’t expect any. He spent the next season playing golf, got bored and started looking for another coaching job.

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Here ya go:

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2003/football/nfl/12/30/bc.fbn.redskins.spurrier.ap/index.html