Oh, festiva! Celebrate the Feast of Our Lady of Fatima with EDSBS Live tonight as we discuss SCANDAL in college football and at large with our guest, you.
The Four Scandalous Questions for the evening:
Who knew Hester was a Tide fan?
1. What was the worst scandal your school ever had? SMU fans, please feel free to call in.
2. What’s the worst scandal in college football RIGHT NOW? Feel free to slander whomever you like, so long as you are entertaining about it while on the air.
3. What’s the worst scandal you personally have been involved with? We’ll reveal ours on air, so scandalous is it.
4. What’s your favorite scandal?Nick Leeson, Rogue Trader. When you take down a whole bank with a single bet, you’re living to win, man. Leeson now writes books called “Coping With Stress” and plays poker professionally while running an Irish soccer club. Aside from time spent in Singaporean prison and colon cancer…where’s the downside, exactly?
We’ll see you tonight. Listen in with the sidebar or by going here at NowLive.com.
No, we’re not ready to actually make a top 25. Phil Steele (our only hope against Skynet) hasn’t spoken yet, and we’ll reserve judgment until then. It’s the only thing we’ll actually invest the few unmolested neurons we have left in before August. In the meantime, here’s the EDSBS staff’s offseason diversions list. Orson’s got odds; Holly’s got the evens.
Orson 25. Powerlifting. I blame Barwis, but I can’t go to the gym without doing something stupid with a bar and an Olympic rack. It’s way too fun doing moves that leave your whole body shaky like you just ingested a bad crack latte. It’ll be awesome until a disc flies out of my spine and knocks out grunty guy over on the fly machine over there.
Holly
24. Macrobiotic yogurt. The closest thing to cannibalism in your grocer’s refrigerator.
23. Mulberries. There’s a tree outside my door loaded with them. It’s like a squirrel-germ infested snack on the way to the car every time. I haven’t died yet, though I have found myself standing in the middle of the road feeling indecisive without explanation. (more…)
We woke up at 3:00 a.m. this morning to finish a freelance piece. When you hear the quiet tone of an email bing! into your box at that hour, it is your good friend Xi Shuang Bo, who has helpfully sent you an attachment you should open without questioning or scanning from an anonymous server somewhere in Central Asia, or it is Google Alerts tossing five year old articles about Dennis Franchione at you. (”Franchione: ‘With McNeal, We Can’t Lose.’”)
So when, at 6:12 a.m., we heard a ding!, and would have ignored it had our spidey sense not been tingling. We were right; who else is awake at 6 in the morning thinking delusional thoughts of college football and hitting that Tuss early and often?
LSUFreek, of course. That’s who else is awake at that hour and cranking away.
As a semi-relevant bit of reader mail to tag to this, Dave writes in and notes:
I was looking over some stats today, and I noticed that UCLA punted for about 1,000 more yards last season (3,899) than Notre Dame racked up in total offense the whole year (2,907).
That does about sum it up, Dave. As we speak Charlie’s pondering tweaks as he walks among the endless aisles of virtual pie.
The tallies from the first day of the EDSBS/Fanblogs Charity Drive are in, and the SEC and Big Ten lead the way:
Team Donation Standings:
1) Michigan - $1,000
2) Florida - $500
3t) Auburn - $130
3t) Alabama - $130
4t) LSU - $125
4t) Ohio State - $125
4t) Ole Miss - $125
4t) Nebraska - $125
5t) South Carolina - $100
5t) Oklahoma - $100
5t) Mississippi State - $100
Conference Donation Standings:
1) SEC - $1,315
2) Big 10 - $1,175
3) Big 12 - $225
4) ACC - $200
5t) Pac10 - $0
5t) Big East - $0
Today is the final day for donations to count in the positive for your team or conference, so get them in today to one of the three highlighted charities: the American Red Cross, the International Rescue Committee, or CARE. All three are engaged in the very serious business of relief for the tornadoes in Georgia and Oklahoma and typhoon relief in Burma, and all three are quality organizations with excellent ratings in terms of operating efficiency. (Check for yourself at Guidestar.)
Tomorrow: Spite Against Blight, where your charitable contributions (reported to kevin@fanblogs.com) count against the team of your choice. Never has athletics-based animosity been turned to such a good end, dear reader.
Excellent NFL Minor League; terrible BCS squad. The ACC is a muddled middle of parity, but it at least does the NFL draft well:
The NFL draft is what gives the ACC credibility these days. Commissioner John Swofford spoke to the ACC’s coaches Monday and told them that the ACC’s 25 first-round picks the past three years are more than any other conference had over the same period.
“If you’re looking for the validation of football and the quality of the conference, that’s a pretty good statement,” North Carolina coach Butch Davis said. “The draft pretty much tells you where the talent is.”
Mm-hm. The same conference loaded with NFL talent also finished 12-13 in bowls over the past three years; either it’s a daming indictment of moribund ACC coaching, or NFL scouts hate to travel off the eastern seaboard.
“The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air lives across the street.” He had some trouble back in Philly, mind you, so he had to move out to LA to live with his auntie and uncle in Bel-Air with his amusingly articulate cousin Carlton.
SMQ highlights something else people neglect in their calculations re: strength of schedule: the bearish slate Georgia faces in the SEC could, when pitted against a slighter undefeated schedule coming out of the Big Ten or Big 12, likely tip the scales in favor of the Bulldogs if/when bowl slots and national poll jockeying begins. USC does it by stacking their out-of-conference schedule and it pays off; Georgia’s doing it, too. If properly executed, you have to be perfect to trump it in the polls, and even then it’s a tough pick between a three-balled one-loss campaign and a nutless but undefeated run.
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