Frank Solich may have indeed been hit with GHB prior to his arrest for drunk driving last November-either that or the prospect of a D-1 coach getting slipped a mickey at a bar is just proving too good a story for facts and evidence to kill. (Multiple HTs here: Kyle, Tim in Tampa, Devil Grad.)

Someone break out their Bill Nye hat for us and please explain this, though: what does this have to do with your BAC? GHB may have made Solich a much sloppier drunk in terms of behavior, but it certainly wouldn’t have anything to do with the total amount of alcohol in the bloodstream. If Solich does intend to use this to exonerate, or at the least mitigate his being shitfaced punk in drublic, it still doesn’t amount to anything like a coherent defense. What he’s saying is this: Yes, I consumed numerous shots of liquor and drank margaritas at the bar, but it was the GHB that interfered with my normally unstoppable ability to operate a motor vehicle while grievously drunk.

Someone who didn’t spend all of high school chemistry staring at ass and diagramming the 3-3-5 please clarify this if we’re wrong.

Solich: it wasn’t the margaritas and the shots, it was the GHB, officer.

First, let’s thank Stranko for keeping the wire warm this week while we were gallivanting around New York City with gay lawyers and noted metrosexuals. Spelling aside, he did a fine job in our absence. Bravo, sir: a round of Frescas all around for you and your crue.

Second, let’s apologize for being completely out of the loop this week. Work distracted us from 9-5 and New York did the rest from 6 ’till whenever it was we dragged our tipsy ass back to the hotel (though not before putting our precious lives in the hands of several laconic Pakistani cab drivers bump-drafting each other through Midtown.) Despite suffering from blog withdrawal, it was a lovely experience that has rendered us semi-retarded for the next week of recovery. (Which, in some of your estimates, would mark an improvement over our normal standards. Point taken.)

Third, we will be hitting the road tomorrow for the trek down to Gainesville and an afternoon of practice prior to the Florida spring game on Saturday, a.k.a. The Orange and Blue Game. Some of you may be going, so please, step right up to the man in the EDSBS shirt standing outside the stadium, since we will be interviewing football fans in a bit of amateur anthropology, asking about your worst moment as a fan, the biggest lies you’ve told to clear your schedule for sports, and other pressing questions about life, the meaning thereof, and the really interesting thing, football. You will be compensated with unending fame and possibly a doughnut for your contribution to our neverending focus group on fan obsession.

Borrowing an ancient Pict battle tactic, Gator fans have been known to wear only blue body paint to games—thus the cropping.

I guess the folks in Madison were none to pleased about their high ranking in the Playboy party school list. The athletic department is considering a new policy, modeled on the Packers’ policy, that would crack down on “unruly behavior” by making season ticket holders responsible for the actions of the individuals in their seats, whether scalped or not. If a fan is, say, incapacitated do to excessive drunkeness, the season ticket holder owning the seat could be forced to forfeit the rest of the season or lose the right to purchase the following year.

Is this hat indicative of being a great fan, or being excessively drunk and subject to losing your tickets?

The parent company of the Braves and Cubs have owned television networks for years, making them the only “local” team for millions of Americans who didn’t live near enough to baseball markets to watch. The Yankees/Nets, Red Sox and now Mets have kicked it up a notch by creating their own team oriented networks. It was only a matter of time before this trend made its way into the college game. We are just surprised the money-grubbing SEC didn’t think of this first, but the Mountain West Conference beat them to the punch.

We say the more television stations carrying football, the better!

Hmm. I wonder if Adrian Peterson will be declaring for the draft after this season?(notice the question mark) It seems that the Oklahoma running back has been doing some car shopping at a place called Big Red Sports and Imports. Unfortunately for Peterson, he only got to drive it for a few weeks before giving it back as it seems that at Oklahoma he would have had to pay for the vehicle. Jim Tressel told him this would happen.

Although the article didn’t say, we’re betting it was a red Escalade.