Yes, kids it’s a journey in the Wayback Machine for what has to be the theme music for this year’s cutthroat college football season.
Bono stomping back and forth across the proscenium in the early days of both U2 and MTV, when it was actually, like, really, music television.
Sunday Bloody Sunday indeed.
Week after week after week after week.
One Hugh Freeze, late of Auburn University, is just the latest to join the Sabbath (Christian) crowd of the unemployed . . . and rich.
James Franklin, Billy Napier, Brian Kelly and Hugh Freeze walk into a bar and, oh my, do they have something in common to commiserate about.
I mean, there are so many openings, one of these institutions of Higher Learning might take a flyer on my man Anthony White, coach of the rampaging JM Atherton HS Rebels/ Ravens. Which 5A juggernaut finally gave up some points after one shutout after another, but still smoked North Hardin, 42-13.
You know what skill set is in demand these days?
Guillotine sharpening.
Just another side effect of NIL era in this toothless NCAA era of decline.
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Jeff Brohm’s name continues to keep popping up on these coaching candidate lists.
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I’ve wondered for weeks now about the latest trend, which has more players every Saturday wearing short, bicycle type pants. No knee pads. No hip pads.
Technically illegal.
But the only guy complaining is Kirk Herbstreit. Calls ’em, “Daisy Dukes.”OK, Coach Prime also would like something more trad.
BYU ‘s punter wore some so short and tight it was like he was inviting/ luring some coed to join him in violating the school’s extremely restrictive rules against premarital you know.
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Reports of Arch Manning’s overratedness seem to have been premature.
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Dabo certainly isn’t going to join the Sunday Bloody Sunday crowd, but he and his school did get fined by the league on Sunday for his post game whining about the zebras. At 3-5 (2-4) Swinney is getting a might testy..
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Not So Super Mario Cristobal and high priced TP transfer QB Carson Beck are a match.
They can both fashion game losing plays with similar panache.
Yesterday, in Miami’s first journey outside Florida, they blew it in Dallas against SMU.
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I noted a new adjective to describe Curt Cignetti after the latest beatdown over Maryland.
The Hoosiers have crafted 5 Ws this season when they’ve barbecued up a fiftyburger.
Indiana.
One more story about IU.
The cashier who checked me out at Costco the other day was wearing a crimson and cream quarter zip. His name tag read, “Bobby Knight.”
“Dude,” says I, “you’re a football school now. You gotta get a new one that reads Curt Cignetti.”
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The ACC race to make it to the title game, and nab the league’s sole CFP slot shall be fascinating.
UVa is 5-0. Georgia Tech, Pitt, SMU, Duke and U of L have only a lone L each.
Wish I knew the tiebreaker scenarios.
Actually no I don’t.
It’s going to take one of those new quantum computers to figure it out.
I don’t think reports of Arch’s overratedness were premature, because he definitely is not going to win the Heisman as he was favored to do preseason. It was timely. The fact that he is developing into a better (elite?) QB is what it is. He was indeed overrated in the preseason. He just wasn’t ready yet. Nothing lasts forever, they say, though he still has to prove he can preform at an elite level in a season wire to wire. Next year?
I think the ACC will get….and deserve….two spots in the CFP…
I do not know the tie-breaker scenario – but if Duke beats UVa at home – could happen – and we win out – then Duke has the TB over Virginia, and Virginia has it over us. Is there a way we can have the TB over Duke? Seems like our best chance is to have Virginia win out, we get into the ACC title game as the 2 seed, and win that.