OUR RECRUITING GLOSSARY…
…is up over at the Sporting News.
February 5, 2025
INTERNET CORRELATIVE: ELECTION DAY EDITION
Trust me! I’m a public figure.
Politicians as coaches, were we to swap a few out as body or soul doubles with the current slate of candidates.
Houston Nutt=Mike Huckabee. Yes, both are from Arkansas, and both have lost a considerable amount of weight in the past couple of years. Huckabee lost three thousand pounds from his original weight of 3,190 pounds, something that assisted him in debates when his orbital gravity combined with the earth and the sun’s would tear opponents limb from limb in a kind of invisible draw-and-quartering kind of move. Houston Nutt lost the weight of the Razorback Nation riding his back, a force considerably heavier than 3,000 pounds.
The similarities spread (groan, love handle pun): both are paleotypes of their profession: (more…)
FLORIDA STATE APPOINTS NEW YES-MAN
Florida State: massive athletic program! Huge state school! Facilities, yes please! A rolling behemoth, a corporation in itself. Certainly the president, T.K. Wetherell, will back away and appoint a professional with the tools and experience to handle the myriad problems Florida State faces, including the declining performance of their football, baseball, and basketball teams, the academic improprieties affecting the football team and beyond. That’s precisely what a leader would do, just delegate responsibly and…
Utah State athletic director Randy Spetman, a retired Air Force colonel with nearly a dozen years’ experience running college athletic departments, was named Monday to take over Florida State’s troubled program.
Oh, terribly sorry. Strike everything we said. Hiring the Utah State AD to run the program means you just want a yes man, and may in fact make him wear this t-shirt to the job daily.
Yes!
Remember, just say yes. It will get you places in life you couldn’t possibly imagine.
COLLEGE FOOTBALL BLOG AWARDS: ANNOUNCEMENT!!!
Pay attention. This is very serious.
My friends and fellow Americans,
We come here today to transcend the awards of old and move to that shining city on the hill we all want to live in: the College Football Blog Awards 2008, where no good blog goes unrecognized, where we all feel the prosperity of hundreds-yes, hundreds!-of dollars of Google AdSense income.
The CFBA would like to thank you for submitting nominations for this years awards. No one person reads them all, and it takes a village to bring this effort along. We would also like to thank Joel, our fearless leader, who brought the whole endeavor together as only he could. He deserves your applause for his fine work, coding, list-keeping, and his amazing ability to help those who have difficulty keeping their pants on straight put on an award process despite the issues with the pants, and the straightness thereof. Kudos and applause.
The Cabal met via chat and, after the hard deliberation and decisions that deciders have to make, a final list of nominees emerged. Cabal members used reader nominations and pared down from there as objectively as they could. Human weakness did emerge: the topic of Stewart Mandel incited some passions, as did Orson’s opinion of one blogger he would, on meeting in person, punch in the uterus. (No, it’s not who you think it is, and no, it’s not a woman, but a feminizing joke.)
Any time nomination posts mentioned or the gizmo spat out one of our own names, we either abstained or argued against ourselves and in favor of someone else. Committee members also attempted to balance bringing the true, echt best of the 2007 to the forefront while also highlighting new but lesser-known blogs.
So in short: while all nominations were considered, not all nominations were included in the end, because there’s no way to include every nominee.
Oh, and while not eliminating anyone, open campaigning for votes by bloggers was considered “in poor taste” by the Cabal, and “aggressively whorish” by Orson. Please refrain from it in gentlemanly fashion, twiddle your handlebar mustache with style, and join us at the bar for a Pimm’s Cup and some strawberries with creme fraiche while we wait for center court to open up for a match, will you? Right-o.
The schedule:
Nominations announced today, beginning at EDSBS at 10:00, then at MGoBlog at 11:00, Dawg Sports at 12:00, Burnt Orange Nation at 1:00, and Rocky Top Talk at 2:00. All times EST. After that, come back to EDSBS for voting instructions.
Reminder! Last year’s winner in any particular category is ineligible to win that category this year, with the exception of awards for individual posts (as opposed to entire blogs), so hold your criticism on that. Send all other complaints to myscrotumismadeoffruitrollupsbiteitandsee@yahoo.com.
Okay, so send in the clowns.
Orson:
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Last Year’s Winner (ineligible)
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Best ACC blog |
Digital Headbutt Statefans Nation The Good Ol’ Blog Tomahawk Nation |
Blogger vote |
Eagle in Atlanta |
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Best Big East/Notre Dame blog |
Pitt Blather Rakes of Mallow Troy Nunes is an Absolute Magician West By God Virginia |
Blogger vote |
Blue-Gray Sky |
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Best Big Ten blog |
Black Shoe Diaries Eleven Warriors Lake the Posts The M Zone |
Blogger vote |
MGoBlog |
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Best Big 12 blog |
Blogger vote |
Burnt Orange Nation | |
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Best Pac-10 blog |
Blogger vote |
Bruins Nation | |
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Best SEC blog |
Georgia Sports Blog Orange and Blue Hue Rocky Top Talk Roll Bama Roll |
Blogger vote |
EDSBS |
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Best Non-BCS blog |
Hawaii Football Blog Temple Football Forever The Bird Dog The Mountain West Conference Connection |
Blogger vote |
Block U |
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MNC |
MGoBlog Rocky Top Talk Sunday Morning Quarterback The Wizard of Odds |
Blogger vote |
EDSBS |
Head over to MGoBlog at 11:00-ish EST for the official nominees for Best National Blog, People’s Champ Award, Funniest Blog, and Best YouTube.
CURIOUS INDEX, 2/5/2025
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Super Tuesday Express Edition! Vote vote vote vote vote vote vote vote vote vote! Tuh-DAAAAAAAY! Rudy Carpenter elects to wear a pink shirt, and then completes the angry athlete trifecta: oversensitivity, inquiring what sport the verbal assailant played, and then attempting to fight the person who laughed at his pink shirt by calling him gay. Chairman Kaga pronounces you the winner, Rudy-san. Dirty campaigning doesn’t begin to describe this. Rich Brooks’ ping-pong skills earned the vote of one recruit, causing him to flip-flop to Kentucky from Tennessee. Universal health care coverage won’t likely stop former MSU qb Michael Henig’s hip from making strange noises or hurting, a fact surprising no one who watched him take an unholy, Nixon v. McGovern-style beating every single time he took the Pimp C? He died of a combination of sleep apnea and—NOOOOOOOOOOOO!-purple drank. All this OD’in gonna give Promethezine a bad name, lawya. (Sip!)
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