Fisking to come, we’re sure…but HP’s back on his grind re: West Coast teams getting the finesse-ey label, this time calling Matt Hayes in an article we’ve read a hundred times before: West Coast=finesse, SEC=fast, Big 10=physical, and Big 12=Oklahoma. Rather than hide our semantic subtexts in our arguments, we thought we’d take a minute to review our instant word associations, listed by keyword.
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As we reported here, Vanderbilt University is surprisingly treacherous. Well, being associated with Vandy seems pretty dangerous too. Head coach Bobby Johnson just had surgery to repair his broken shoulder. There’s some kinda bad karma up in Opryland.

Not if the rent on Invesco Field stays high. This years game will be held in Boulder as the two schools try to hammer out a better deal to have the game in Denver. At the moment the schools are not happy with the $450,000 price tag for the use of the stadium.

MGoBlog says he’s past the addiction stage; we laugh at a fiend in denial.

I’ll put down the controller…just one more series…

We spend plenty of precious time slagging the University of Tennessee and its coach, Phil Fulmer, who in case you didn’t know is very, very fat. But let this be said for them: unlike Georgia, they will schedule out of conference with gusto. In addition to series with Miami and Notre Dame over the past few years, Tennessee will be adding California for ‘06 and ‘07, as well as tossing in Team Jesus for a game, too. No news on the rumor that Georgia will be signing a new thirty-year deal with Georgia Southern or the Citadel anytime soon. (There was more to this post, but you-know-who ate the rest of it.)

The Vols have been picking up good out-of-conference games like Phil picks up Steak Fingers at Golden Corral.

Tony Barnhart, who has our favorite accent on television (”Eeee-ayuss-pee-eyyunn”), asks his own five burning questions about the upcoming season. In addition to showing that even the goodest old boy has to play the numbers games made ubiquitous by PTI and other short-format news forums (umm…), Barnhart uncovers Les Miles sounding suspiciously like Orson Swindle.

“We came here because the expectations are high and because the opportunity is here to play at the highest level,” Miles said.

The royal “we”? Les is obviously a man of class and style…