Someone call the Disease Cowboys: Strep throat is running rampant at Baylor. Kevin wonders out loud about a “sick-out;” we’re wondering out loud about the coming plague. Wouldn’t it suck if the Black Death 2 was all Baylor contributed to the Big 12? Besides a basketball murder scandal?
We’ve been Feldmanized, and oh, for such a good cause. The Big Daddy ‘Cane of sportswriting (atrocious pun, fingers seizing…must…keep…typing) links us, CFR, and HP in his take on the ongoing debate between the “offensive revolution” types and…well, those of us who don’t believe that the Chupacabra is controlling us all through implanted chips in our heads designed by the Gnomes of Zurich. Gives and gets, that Feldman.
First, the giving:
This is the part I am with: because the level of quarterback play and skill is so high in the Pac-10, it does create a different game. In other leagues, most notably the Big 12, defenses don’t have to defend the whole field because QBs aren’t zinging the deep out.
Then, the getting:
But I’m not buying the notion that the SEC is full of a bunch of cavemen with whistles around their necks, and therefore I’m a little skeptical of the takeover theory.
Ahh…we love the smell of skepticism in the morning. Smells like…Scotland, actually, a peaty, agricultural smell mixed with whiskey and the odor of fried food. David Hume would be proud, Bruce.
If Spin can do it, so can we. After all, we never got all heads over heels about the Strokes, which makes us more astute than they ever have been.
Head: Ralph Friedgen. It’s actually kind of rounded, so that from behind the Fridge looks like an enormous flat foot with a single toe in the middle as seen from above. Inside the oddly-shaped skull lies 500 variations of the option, a hard-wired ability to gameplan and make brilliant halftime adjustments, and the biochemical sequencing behind his trademark girth and ability to make money saying “Not in our house!” in those homoerotic Under Armour ads.
Toe-shaped head with a Byzantine brain.
Arm: Chris Leak… (more…)
An MSU fan kicks three people’s ass for trash-talking the Spartans. No scholarship offers pending from Coach Smith, Miami, or the University of Tennessee yet.
The Fridge likes what he sees in the exquisitely named junior qb Sam Hollenbach.
This just popped up: not surprisingly, the NCAA has lengthened South Carolina’s self imposed two year probation by a year thanks to the hijinks of the Holtz administration. The Cocks will not be left impotent, however, as there are no TV restrictions, bowl restrictions and no further reduction of scholarships. (So things won’t stay hard for long , eh?-ed.)
Big Cock fans, like this one seen above, are relieved that the sanctions weren’t worse.
Westerdawg contrasts the SEC at the turn of the 1990s with the SEC of today in regards to the kind of competition He-who-must-not-be-named will be facing every week. We think Georgia fans shouldn’t worry too much about Football Voldemort this year-especially with his offense sputtering into a busted square dance of walk-ons and 4th stringers-but even if Spurrier doesn’t pull the strings like he used to, he will hang fifty on someone this year. And by someone, we mean UCF in week one and not Georgia.
So you go to Texas Tech and you have the honor of being the bellringer…
and then ESPN shows this clip. That has got to suck.