Everyday Should Be Saturday

January 15, 2008

FULMER CUPDATE: MISSOURI PLAYER GETS CHEMICALLY FESTIVE

Today’s rundown of points and neglectful accounting for the Fulmer Cup.
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Missouri earns points the red-blooded American way: drugs. Recreational chemist and Missouri reserve defensive end John Stull has been kicked off the team following last Thursday’s arrest for possession. Police found a diversified portfolio with Stull upon his 1 a.m. arrest.

The police report indicated police found a bag reportedly containing marijuana, assorted pills and cocaine while exercising a search warrant at Stull’s residence. Boone Country Court records indicated Stull was charged later Thursday with a Class C felony.

Stull has had two other brushes with the law prior to this arrest, so this probably surprises few in the Missouri camp. For a class C drug possession felony, we’ll give Missouri three points for the cocaine/pills combo, a drug combo so advanced for a college kid it is only usually found on gay trustafarian club kids who pass out in expensive cars on their way home from the orgy.

Louisville gets feisty. Showing more fight in a single night that Louisville’s defense did all last year, Louisville Cardinal running back Blayne Donnell broke a guy’s jaw at a party December 15th. Now…if this is just surfacing, do we award points despite the fact that it occurred during the bowl lull last season? It’s a complicated question, but fortunately we won’t have to deal with anything like this for a…

Fuckity fuck fuck fuck. Okay, so Penn State has some points in the making on old but newly refiled charges, too. What the hell are we supposed to to with these, too? If you haven’t seen them before and they’re refiled, do they count for this season, too?

We turn it over to the panel to discuss. The Missouri points are incontrovertible, but Louisville and Penn State await your judgment.



Filed under: Big 10 Conference, Big 12 Conference, Big East Conference, Fulmer Cup, Uncategorized  by Orson Swindle

YOUR FREAKISH RECRUIT OF THE DAY: TERRENCE CODY

We normally wouldn’t highlight a 3-star recruit, but in Rivals’ case we think they have it wrong: Terrence Cody is a four-star recruit on size alone, quality be damned. Something that big just needs four stars, agile or not. Cody, a juco defensive lineman out of Perkinston Gulf Coast Community College, may be the first who lists “plate tectonics” and “controlling tides” as hobbies. He stands 6′ 5″ and weighs 395 pounds, meaning he’s a steak dinner shy of 400 pounds at any given moment.

Provided he stays with his verbal commit to Alabama–and we pray he does, since sudden movement could have an impact on water supplies and the gravitational/magnetic fields of the earth, and that means no internet for ten minutes NOOOOO–nicknames will be necessary for Cody. We suggest Antarctica, Galactus, and Saturn, and salivate at the thought of the world’s first 1-5-5 defense.


Wanna know what Cloverfield is about? Spoiler! It’s about Terrence Cody’s eight grade trip to New York City.



Filed under: Alabama man! he can drink he can bowl he can drink some, Recruiting  by Orson Swindle

JOE TILLER: THE HANDOVER

It being the respectable Midwest where things are done a certain way and in a certain manner, Joe Tiller has agreed on a handover plan for his retirement and the introduction of his successor, Eastern Kentucky. The negotiations went something like this.

University Counsel: Good morning, Coach Tiller.

Tiller: Hiya. We here to pick my successor? (more…)



Filed under: Big 10 Conference, Coaches, the BCS, scandals, arrests, and other eccentri, College football, Mustaches, coaching coup  by Orson Swindle

FELDMAN ON SEC RECRUITING

Recruiting is creepy…but it’s all we’ve got, so we’ve decided to at least do our due diligence this year and kind of sort of know what’s happening. This is the most time we’ve spent looking at 18 year old boys in tight shirts since we hung out with Tressel at Blake’s HEY-O! (Tressel’s not gay, and that’s obviously a joke. Jimmy T’s all man–in fact, he’s fathered one out of every seven children in Ohio over the past 18 years, meaning he signs the letter of intent for his own recruits as the guardian. We just blew your mind, and you’re welcome.)

Bruce Feldman of ESPN The Magazine joined us for a discussion of SEC recruiting, and a few points of interest for those wanting the quick and dirty version of the interview:

–Omar Hunter, Notre Dame DT commit from Buford, GA, is anything but a done deal. Considering that’s not coming from homer SEC us and from circumspect, suspicious Bruce, that means he might really be up for grabs in a replay of the Justin Trattou situation from last year.

–LSU is getting whatever they want, as usual.

–Mississippi is having a bumper crop as a state, with Ole Miss and Miss State both assembling quality classes.

–Arkansas faces immense difficulties with a late start for Petrino and Houston Nutt poaching his own former Arkansas recruits down to Ole Miss.

–The loss of Trooper Taylor is already hurting Tennessee, who may try to make up for it by raiding the Tidewater area incoming OC Dave Clawson recruited as a head coach in Michigan.


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Filed under: Coaches, the BCS, scandals, arrests, and other eccentri, College football, Recruiting, Southeastern Conference  by Orson Swindle

CURIOUS INDEX, 1/15/08

Major negotiations equal major drama whoa major puns! Major Applewhite is interviewing today with Mack Brown at Texas for a coaching role of undefined scope and import. We say that because Texas currently has an offensive coordinator, Greg Davis, whose loyalty to Brown (and vice-versa) has endured all of the stress of Brown’s long tenure at Texas. Applewhite was an up-and-down fan favorite qb at Texas, losing his job to shiny young thing Chris Simms before regaining it once it turned out Simms was merely good at his best, and not very good as Applewhite could be in stretches.

Applewhite now has coached two different football teams as offensive coordinator (Rice and Alabama) in two years, and with mixed results in both years. Rice was an unqualified success: the number one offense in school history (350 points), scads of passing yards (4,486), and a bounce to the Alabama job. Alabama produced different results for Applewhite’s offense: middle of the conference rankings all around, and several performances beyond explanation, like…ahem:

Burnt Orange Nation seems equivocal but perhaps happy about this:

If we frame the question in terms of evaluating Major’s performance record, we’re probably barking up the wrong tree. He’s not God’s second child, as some Texas fans would like to believe. But he’s bright enough to be where he is right now, which lends ample support that there’s plenty to like about his potential.

What I keep coming back to, though, is that he’s a young, fresh, eager offensive coach interviewing to step in and assist an offensive staff which - everyone agrees - has long been in need of an injection.

An injection of what is the question. Canny finishing microsentence BABALITY!

We interviewed Don Yaeger yesterday on SN about the Reggie Bush book. A message to young athletes looking to renege on deals with agents in back-channel, pre-grad arrangements: if we’ve learned nothing from three years of blogging, it’s that…

1. Don’t take money from Israeli gangsters, either before or after you graduate. There’s a one for one correlation of this not working very well.

2. Make sure you build hush money into the agreement as Reggie Bush did.

That’s West Virginia paperwork you’re messin’ with! Rich Rodriguez may have destroyed paperwork on players during his departure from the job, according to The Charleston Gazette. The paperwork included:

While the files in Rodriguez’s office held a wide range of information, those that were discovered missing from the weight room office were more specific. Those included every aspect of strength and conditioning progress made by players under former strength and conditioning coordinator Mike Barwis, who along with most of his immediate staff followed Rodriguez to Michigan after the Fiesta Bowl. Those files included the progression made by each player in every specific area, from bench-press totals to 40-yard dash times. The files even included pictures of the players at different points in their careers.

This would have been so much easier if they’d been leaving Michigan for West Virginia, since the conditioning notes would have been condensed into a single picture.


Michigan’s strength and conditioning program notes under Lloyd Carr.

Denials are flying all over the place, so it must be true: Ryan Mallett, Razorback.

Trev Lives! We miss your musk, Trev.



Filed under: Big 10 Conference, Big 12 Conference, Big East Conference, Coaches, the BCS, scandals, arrests, and other eccentri, College football, Pacific 10 Conference, Southeastern Conference  by Orson Swindle

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