We all remember with delight how Jim Leavitt reacted to one of his underlings so much as expressing interest in an open position not affiliated with South Florida. So how do you suppose he’s coping with losing that guy plus two more assistants inside a month?

Promise me you’ll always love me best.

Oh, fine, just fine. Why?

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Way off topic, from the It’s The Offseason And We Are So Bored We Will Post Pretty Much Anything RCR Sends Us Department: Louisiana man finds African wildcat in backyard.

He took it water, then slices of American cheese, then pieces of turkey wing.

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He guessed that the cat’s relatively calm demeanor meant it was someone’s pet: “If it had been aggressive, it would have had my butt.”

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“They told me to go back inside because the cat, you know, might have other options,” he said.

Area residents were, of course, unfazed:

Proving once again that Louisiana lives larger than anywhere else in God’s green America, and that we are all poorer for it.

(Before you ask: We will never tire of this photo. Ever. We pray to Football Jesus (there’s a separate one for football) every night that Zibby goes into coaching so we can post it once a week.)

Moving on: The combine, like childbirth, is a natural process, a rite of passage, and not at all creepy or gross. Nope:

With that, the player is ready to run. He peels away a pair of mesh shorts and the compression pair underneath reveal a set of quad muscles akin to a mountain ridge. [NorthJersey.com]

“In between workouts and class, I usually get a massage, have a chef come over to prepare meals, and different stuff like that,” said Freeman, an OSU senior linebacker. [The Lantern]

But what’s not true, he says, is the unavoidable association between Berkeley and marijuana — “Come on, man, you lived in Berkeley — tell the truth,” a scout reportedly said to Follett in an interview after he had denied ever smoking pot. [The Daily Cal]

“Everyone wants to talk about (Georgia’s) Matthew Stafford , I’ve been at camps and thrown with him,” Hoyer said. “But I feel like my arm is just as strong or just a little bit below his.” [Detroit News]

“[Loadholt] struggles to bend, and he struggles with any kind of elite speed. Orakpo ran by him all day long.” [Tulsa World]

“The doctor looks at my sheet and said, ‘Did you actually play?’ I told him I was a long snapper. Yeah, I just snap and take a leisurely jog down the field.” [Freep]

A moderate ovation for Ball State, making a name for itself as the class of the MAC in the offseason as well as on the field.  Their starting kicker Ian McGarvey got hisself locked up this weekend for DUI.

Can’t imagine what went wrong here, smooth operator:

The officer told McGarvey police received a call about a suspicious vehicle that matched his car. McGarvey - who did not look at the officer while talking - said he did not know why someone would report him because he was driving normally, according to the report.

That’s 2 points for the DUI, with an additional 1 point tacked on for McGarvey’s tender age of 19 and attendant underage consumption charge.

[HT: The fine folks at Over the Pylon.]