Richard Kimball

Josh Pate says if he could go back in time to see any football game it would be this one. He also mentions that this was the last great game when everyone was fully engaged, and half the people weren't goofing on their smart phones.

Jerry Sandusky

At least someone has their fucking priorities straight.

It's the rules. The player can say anything he wants. The coaching staff can't even confirm that the player exists until they're officially a signee. That's why you see players announcing they're committed to a school, but you don't see the school even mention their names on social media until they have the commitment signed and in hand. Late edit: There was a little kerfuffle at Baylor a few years ago when a high school kid tweeted he'd committed to Baylor and Baylor hadn't offered. They couldn't say anything on social media, so had to suggest to a couple of recruiting analysts to ask the kid straight up if he'd received an offer.

I believe that. Prior to Knight opening up the money cannons, Oregon had never been Bo or Diddly. @Hagbard Celine summed it up well. Some of the old guard PAC schools were in a state of denial. They thought they were too superior to even consider the possibility of affiliating with those flyover country schools. And no, Oregon doesn't have any friends. Knight's dumped a BILLION dollars into Oregon. He raised their profile, but there's not much higher for them to climb. Washington is, forgive me, invisible. Now, the remaining PAC is coming close to having to make a real choice. See which schools the B12 throws a life line to (never thought I'd be typing that) or band together like the irate 8, take the best of what they can find, and start trying to rebuild their reputation. The irate 8 had no love for each other, but recognized they were in the same bunker and nobody else loved them enough to throw them a life line. What they had going for them that the remaining PAC doesn't is that their egos were never allowed to get overinflated, anyway.

Yeah, Carolina. Once you get east of Texas, all those states look the same to me.

Rhule isn't a criminal guy. Briles was, but I covered Rhule his first year, and he kicked a bunch of guys off the team. I also used to check arrest reports monthly, and it wasn't a problem. Briles? Yeah, I broke a couple of stories on his players getting arrested. Rhule recruits measurables. He runs a bread and butter offense and defense. He's one of the best at getting the most out of his talent. Jalen Pitre was a three star, and got picked #1 in the second round of the draft. His players come out of the college game with full preparation for the NFL. Nice guy in front of the camera, tyrant behind it. One of the reasons he had problems at Jacksonville was the pros didn't like his military type attitude. Remains to be seen how he'll fare in the era of NIL and transfer portal, but make no mistake, he encouraged a lot of people to, in his words, "be successful somewhere else." Agree with you that Nebraska will probably suck in year 1. That's Rhule's MO. He establishes his system, and come hell or high water, that's what's going to happen. First year at Temple sucked. First year at Baylor sucked.

I'm the same way on gifts, so I do this for my girls. When it's getting close to gift time, I pick out something in their price range and drop some hints about it. Last year, a little before Father's day, we were out at an antique shop, and they had one of those Flintstones coffee cups McDonald's gave out 20 years ago. I picked it up, and said, "Wow! I used to have one of these. I always liked that cup. No idea what happened to it." Father's day, I had the cup, and my girl was thrilled she'd found something I liked.

Too late to edit above post, but I responded before checking to see if Morgan's picture had already been posted. Another random thought: Morgan's what fast food looks like in the commercials. His real daughter is what fast food looks like at the restaurant.

Yeah, there's a reason Morgan Smith-Goodman was the redhead in the ads.

I'm not interested in getting high, but have arthritis in my hip, which is keeping me from running. According to the doctor, running won't cause further damage, but it's going to hurt. How is this for arthritis, and which product would be best?

Part of it is being delusional, and part of it is selling the product you've got. Coca Cola may be the most popular soft drink, but if you're selling Squirt, Squirt's the best damned soft drink in the world.

He's not losing his shit. He's looking at what are the released design renderings and pointing out that even if they're completed, it will be an underwhelming facility. I'm not crazy about the college football arms race, but it's here, my opinion be damned. Not even getting into fancy crap, there's not enough space to practice, unless part of the team is somewhere else. I've covered 2A high schools that have more practice space, although admittedly, they don't have an inside field.

Space is a problem. By comparison, Baylor has two full length outside fields and are rebuilding their current inside field from 80 yards to 100 yards. Just listing Baylor cause I cover them and am familiar with their facilities. Baylor has money, but not that much money, and should not be able to dunk on Texas from a facilities standpoint. If this is all their practice space, they're going to have to stagger drills. There's 135 players and having wide receiver, running, coverage, and offensive and defensive line drills at the same time is going to have people running one set of drills into another. Kicking practice will have to be staggered, cause placekicking and punting takes up a lot of real estate. The indoor facility looks like a storage shed for farm equipment. It's an upgrade from the bubble, but damn.

SEC was a bad example of how conferences used to be. I was thinking in the SWC and Big 8 mindset. However, it got you on the board and started some convos, so, like with the youtube guys that predict conference realignment, you don't have to be right, you just have to be interesting. What I'm also wondering about is that you're going to have some teams that have a permanent rival of something like Vanderbilt, Kentucky and Mizzery. Then someone else will have Bama, LSU and Georgia. Those examples may not play out exactly, but there's going to be some serious bitching about the schedules, and somebody's going to be convinced they're getting screwed. Those scheduling meetings better be held in offices without breakable furniture.

Thanks for getting that. I checked Bama and several others, and they had each played each other each year. Must have picked all permanent rivals. Anyway, good to see you on the board.

Conferences moving forward will not be conferences as we think of them, but more corporate conglomerates negotiating as a group. For example, up until 1991, when Arkansas and South Carolina joined the SEC, each SEC team played every other SEC team every year. In a four year college career, a player would visit every other school in the conference twice, and would play them at home twice. IIRC, the last two times Alabama played South Carolina was in 2010 and 2019. They may be in the same conference, but that's not even being friends with benefits. I'm too lazy to look it up, but I suspect Alabama has played several teams out of conference more often in the time span from 2010 to 2022. In the old Southwest Conference, most games were a reasonably quick road trip from Texas to TCU, Rice, Baylor, aggy, SMU, Oklahoma (OOC but annual and neutral site.) Even the longer away games were doable by vehicle (Tech, Arkansas.) Everyone had an opinion on all the other schools. Where it was Rice (those poor bastards,) Baylor (I hate those bastards and don't ever want to see them again) aggy (I REALLY hate those bastards and don't care if we ever play them again,) Oklahoma (I REALLY, REALLY hate those bastards and want to play them every year just to kick their asses,) and on. From this perspective, Texas came out great in the move to the SEC. They'll make more money, and keep the rival games (probably) that mean the most to them. But as far as being a traditional conference? Unless we get stuck having to play Mizzery every year, we won't even know they exist. It will be that way with about half of our "conference mates." Another thing that's changed is the fans in the stands. The newest stadiums are built more like television studios than stadiums. The fans are the studio audience. Road trips, except for the Surly elites that fly in on their private jets while drinking latte while Scarlett Johansson gives them a foot rub, will be a lot less common. I'm not saying it will be better or worse, but it will be different.

HA! 47%! On some awards show, Homelander won as the best villain. I said, "Wait a minute! Homelander's a villain?"

Lowest possible score is 300. If that mofo was a victim of identity theft, his rating would go up.

And you were kind enough not to mention the $50 million in overpayments from Comcast that the PAC discovered but failed to disclose. People probably should have gone to jail over that.

Figures it was a Leach quote. Damn, I miss that guy.

Does anyone else find it weird that a conference that prides itself on being the smartest conference around screws up contract negotiations this badly? On Zaninovich leaving the PAC to go to Trail Mix or whatever, you know the old joke about the difference between the bacon and the eggs at breakfast? The chicken is involved. The pig is committed. Zaninovich went from being the pig to being the chicken. He can walk away from PAC12 negotiations any time he wants now, and take on other projects.