Richard Kimball

Newton's in a tough spot, and resigning with the Patriots is probably one of his only moves. Brady left the Patriots not just over money, but I think he thought the Buccaneers had a better chance of getting to the Super Bowl. The Patriots receiving corps has gone steadily downhill. Belichick will have to retool the offense, cause Newton is a completely different kind of QB from Brady. I honestly don't know on this, but has Newton taken too many hits to be effective? He always played a physical game, and you can only take so many hits.

For a six seed, I was concerned Tech would be a tough out. They're so frikkin streaky. They can look awful or like world beaters.

There are several reasons. Johnson could ID the talent, Jones could make the deal. Jimmy wasn't a deal maker. After the Herschel Walker deal, other teams were afraid to deal with him. Several of those draft choices were conditional. The Vikings sent several players to Dallas, and if the players didn't start, etc, those got converted to draft choices. Johnson sat all of them, and never gave them a chance to start, cause he always intended to turn them into draft choices. Also, Jimmy got pretty lucky with the Cowboys with some of his deals. Michael Irvin was already with the team. Troy Aikman was the consensus #1 pick his first year, and the Cowboys had the #1 pick. Johnson picked up his old Miami QB, Steve Walsh, in the supplemental draft. That turned into the #1 pick the next year, so Jimmy didn't realize what he was getting in Aikman, cause he burned the #1 pick on a journeyman QB. The Cowboys would have taken Blair Thomas over Emmitt Smith in the 1990 draft, but the Jets grabbed him. In fairness, Thomas had a higher draft grade than Smith, so a lot of teams would have done that, but that's what I mean by some of those player acquisitions just turned out well in Dallas. Trivia, four of the first five choices in the 1989 draft were Troy Aikman, Barry Sanders, Derrick Thomas and Deion Sanders. When was the last time there was a draft that loaded?

I used to run around with a girl that went to Reicher. She mentioned Sister Mary Helen a lot, and said everyone called her Sister Hairy Melon, but not to her face. That was back when nuns could raise some serious fear in people.

I grew up off of 19th, close to MCC. Saw the school being built when I was a kid. Got kicked out of Waco High in 1971, graduated from Richfield in 1972.

Jerry is 78 or so, knocking on 80. He doesn't have time for a complete rebuild. Yay! We signed Dak! Now, what about the rest of the team? Well, shit.

Your wife's gonna be pissed when she comes home and finds a kid from Alabama on her $600 sheets.

Agree with most of your post. The only part I'd quibble on is that Notre Dame is the only non-P5 school that will ever sniff the playoffs. Course, Kansas won't either, but IF Kansas went undefeated, yeah, they'd be in the playoffs. Won't happen with a G5. They'd put a two loss P5 in before they'd let a G5 crash the party.

No argument on that, but at the time of selection of the All Big 12, OSU was banned from post season play. OSU definitely has gotten a raw deal on the sanctions, but I've seen a lot of people get thrown overboard because of fear of negative perceptions.

Part of the problem with both Self and Boynton is that both programs are currently under NCAA scrutiny. The Big 12 would have a tough time awarding Coach of the Year to a coach that's currently banned from the tournament or one that got caught up in the Adidas pay to play situation.

Thank you! Jerry desperately wants to win and prove that the early success wasn't all Jimmy Johnson, but he doesn't want to hire a GM and coach that can put together a winning team. He wants to prove he can do it.

Using your analogy, each coach built his own car. The key players on Baylor's team weren't big names coming out of high school. They got developed over several years. Coaching doesn't start at tip off.

Don't know how it could have been anyone except Drew. Baylor got their first B12 conference championship, their first championship of any kind since 1950, and their first season undefeated at home since 1947-48. OSU was picked to finish 7th and finished 5th. So, yeah, improvement, but that's still middle of the pack.

Good story. My dad was an Oilers fan, even during the terrible years. He's been stationed in Houston in the early sixties, and got to know some of the players. When Adams fired Bum, my dad said it was over, and he never watched another Oilers game.

"Fat man in a little coat..." "Who said that? Who's the twinkle-toed cocksucker that just signed his own death warrant?" "Why, Johnny Ringo. You look like somebody just walked over your grave." "Atta boy, Luther!" "Today, I settled all the family business." "Now go home and get your fucking shine box." "Ah, but the strawberries...that's where I had them!" "Nothing's too good for the man that shot Liberty Valance."

They might dump him over the Miles hiring, but Self has been with Kansas since 2003 and Long just got there in 2018. Any basketball shenanigans started way before Long got there. Also, Long might be Self's supervisor in title, but I doubt he can tell him much.

Briles got something like $15 million on his payout. He did some wrong shit, but like with LSU, a lot of it was also on the admin. Baylor tried to use him as a Judas goat, gave him "shut up" money, and hoped the scandals would leave with him.

I've gotten to interview a lot of B12 coaches at the summer media days, and the only two that had me sitting there after the interview going "what the ever loving fuck?" were Les Miles and Tom Herman. Non-sequitur answers and totally off the wall comments that made little sense. Not that anyone cares, but my general impression from interviews with other B12 coaches: Gary Patterson -- perpetually butt hurt, acts like someone tried to take the last long john out of the donut box just to spite him. Charlie Strong -- Damn that dude is short. In over his head. Had a few canned responses, but got in trouble answering specific questions. Lincoln Riley -- Good stage presence, has media figured out. Knows how to give a good quote line that won't come back and bite him in the ass. Matt Campbell -- hard ass. Let's get this media shit over so I can get back to coaching. OK interview, but doesn't want to be there. Bill Snyder -- Was elder statesman, got handled with kid gloves by press, and knew how to take advantage of it. Anyway, no doubt there were other issues with Miles.

Re: Self promotion Chad Johnson legally changed his name to Chad Ocho Cinco, cause the NFL would only sell jerseys with the players real name on them, and players get a cut when one of their jerseys sells. There was some grousing about it, and he laid it out pretty well. The NFL will pick out a few players and sell them as the face of pro football. If you're not one of the chosen ones and you want the press, promotions and the money that goes with it, you'd better figure out a way to sell yourself. There's J. J. Watts the person, J. J. Watts the player, and J. J. Watts, the media creation. Going by J. J. instead of his real name, Justin, makes him more memorable. In the ice bath picture, he's doing the "put your hands under your biceps to make them look bigger" thing. He's done some nice charity work, but you can be damned sure he has publicity people that write up the stories and send them to lazy journalists who simple print the press release cause it saves them from writing a column. This is nothing against Watts, he's just playing the game. He's been a really good player on a mostly lousy team his entire career. His ability to self promote, though, has made him millions.

Thanks! Catching Illinois State and UNI now. Don't know who either team is, but it's football.

Obviously, I have no inside information, but I'd say, not just no, but Hell, no. First, the organization shit a collective brick when Josh McDaniels drafted him in the first round. Second, I was watching a Monday Night Football game, Broncos against the Jets. Tebow engineered a comeback in the final minutes. When the Broncos scored the winning touchdown, they did a camera shot of John Elway in the luxury suite. He wasn't celebrating. He looked like the Kingpin after Daredevil foiled one of his plots. Elway was pissed that Tebow had that six game winning streak, cause he wanted someone else at QB. John Fox had replaced McDaniels, and figured he'd throw Tebow in there over Kyle Orton when the team was sitting at 1-4. Neither Fox or Elway expected the winning streak, especially when most of them were nail biting come from behind wins.

When Vince was at UT, Mack and the coaching staff originally tried to get him to work within the system. Vince kept doing it his way. They finally "let Vince be Vince" and that's when he became one of the best college QBs ever, maybe the best. That's one thing that everyone who hollers "Fuck Mack Brown" needs to remember. Brown saw Young's unique talents, and instead of forcing Young into a system, he was man enough to subdue his ego and let Young perform. There are a lot of college coaches that would have benched Young when he went off script. Then he gets drafted by the Titans and has the walking anus known as Jeff Fisher for a coach. Jeff Fisher was by GOD going to force Young into his system. When Young did it his way, Fisher didn't bench him, he stabbed him in the back, time after time. We're talking about Fisher, the guy who locked his Super Bowl quarterback out of the team facilities, so making up some bullshit story and calling the cops saying he was worried Young was suicidal was just another tactic. Young was like Michael Vick and several other qbs, in that they were not going to be successful as traditional quarterbacks. The system had to be flexible enough to accommodate their unique skill sets. Young did try to work with several other teams, but his ego had been shattered, his conditioning wasn't as good, and he was trying to fit into systems as a backup. If Young had originally had a head coach in the pros that would have worked with him, he would have had a successful pro career. It wouldn't have been a long one, because his playing style makes him take more hits than the average QB, but his ceiling was a lot higher than what he showed. And yeah, that championship game may have been the best game ever played by a QB.

Yeah, without the bucks those two guys couldn't get a girl into a chair, much less a bed.

Yeah, and LSU hasn't cleaned up their act either. When they let go of OC Matt Canada in 2019, both sides signed a non-disclosure agreement. There's more to that than Orgeron and him didn't get along.

Let me open up this one by asking, "When was the last time Kansas made a GOOD decision in hiring a football coach?" Right now, KU is probably one of the least desirable P5 coaching positions. Here's where desperate people do desperate things, and college revenue sports, specifically men's football and basketball, are some of the dirtiest institutions around. If someone can generate wins on the field or the court, schools will do back flips to maintain plausible deniability about misconduct. I'd put the over/under at about 30% of P5 colleges that have run prostitution rings out of the athletic department for recruiting purposes. Prior to Kansas, Miles had coached 16 years, been to 15 bowl games, and had won a national championship. He should have been gold when he left LSU, but he didn't coach for two years, and took less than the contract required on his buyout from LSU. Absolutely agree there were rumors out there about him or somebody would have jumped on him immediately. So LSU attempted to avoid a scandal by separating from Miles in as low profile a method as possible, which meant instead of firing for cause, they pretended a 2-2 start to a season was enough to let him go. Kansas thought they could grab a national championship coach on the cheap, and there probably wouldn't be any blowback, cause the LSU stuff hadn't hit the press, and it had been two years.