Charlie Weis continues with his strong early showing in the recruiting wars by picking up the verbal commitment of hightly touted North Carolina cornerback Raeshon McNeil. McNeil becomes the 14th verbal commitment for the golden domers and fills a need position for Notre Dame. Incidently, recruiting analyst Tom Lemming has McNeil rated the 91st best recruit in the country, but now that he has committed to Notre Dame we expect his ranking to be reevaluated by Lemming to put him in his rightful spot in the top… lets see… 14 at this point.
*** Editor’s Addition: Check here for excerpts of McNeil’s interview on ESPN News.
“I Love Notre Dame”
Pat Forde suggests that Jim Plunkett couldn’t hold the jock of most Heisman winners of the modern era. In the vacuum wash of the season leading up to actual events, we’re totally game for this vein of time-warp speculation, especially since the rain refuses to let up in Atlantabad, or whatever alternative Indian/Atlantan universe we’ve been transported to. (Our dog needs Prozac-the monsoon conditions have turned her into a depressed, 130 pound black rug of misery.)
In this quantum leap edition of EDSBS, we attack this question with all the wisdom that someone watching hour upon hour of college classics and reading “Greats of the Old Southwest Conference” can acquire. Who could fit into today’s game? And which modern svengali would make the best mentor for them?
Don Strock, Virginia Tech: Strock couldn’t outrun plate tectonics. The Hokie legend could wing the ball around like a spread ace, though, setting a Va. Tech record in 1972 by throwing for 3243 yards and 16 touchdowns in a season. To give you an idea of what an aberration Strock was-both in his own era and at his own school-Brian Randall finally broke Strock’s all-time school passing record last year.
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ATL Eagle shows how to make a correction and score points simultaneously:
[THIS MAY GET CORRECTED, BUT PLEASE NOTE THAT THE WRITER CALLED PAUL PETERSON -- MR. PERFECT -- SCOTT PETERSON. THEY ARE ABOUT AS DIFFERENT AS CAN BE, BUT HEY, THEY BOTH LIKE FISHING.]
Since the question doesn’t regard all of the various blog poll members’ alma maters, we figured it didn’t rise quite to blog poll question status. Nonetheless, we like to hear your thoughts on our question du jour.
If Southern California is to lose this season, which team will take them down and why? (Even those who don’t believe they will like Boi and HP are encouraged to ponder the unthinkable here and let us know who scares you most)
The AJC has now axed its premium pay site for Sports, which now means the only thing you’ll be wasting while reading Mark Bradley is precious time. We’re betting they didn’t get 500 people to pay for what countless other sites offer for free with the added pleasure of reading finely crafted profanity at the same time. Paying for Furman Bisher? Poppy-fucking-cock, we say, something AJC.com readers evidently agreed with completely.
Attention Bruin’s Nation… since you are the world’s biggest Karl Dorrell fan, I wanted to get your retort to this article, which claims that Dorrell has brought the UCLA team together and rid the program of the off-field problems. Frankly, UCLA hasn’t been high on our radar since USC has been kicking the crap out of them over the last few seasons so it may well be that Dorrell’s spotty success on the field is only half the story. I look forward to your retort.
Karl Dorrell is seen here using one of his many tactics to unite, and not divide, the Bruins squad.
Nebraska publishes its media guide and features its coach on the cover-its old coach, Frank Solich, now set to disappoint the good people of Ohio University with his 9-3 level ineptitude. There’s two reasons this might have happened:
1. A blatant attempt to make people think that they didn’t actually hire Bill Callahan.
2. An honest mistake that they will alleviate in the second printing, simply erasing Solich from the photo like a liquidated Stalin crony in old Soviet photos. We’re hoping they only leave his hat, floating disembodied above the turf for that extra accent of poetic irony.
Ironically, this image now conjurs fond memories for Nebraska fans everywhere.
There’s no point in kicking a dead horse, unless you really kick the shit out of it. Dylan from BGS does just that in a rageariffic post on Bob Davie, bringing a flamethrower to a knife fight in a manner so satisfying we invited him to post here anytime he likes. (There’s a certain dead horse of our own coaching at Illinois who could still use a little boot therapy from time to time.)
