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jones Top Ten - Final - 2011 Season
Ah, but to live life unapologetically, that’s the spirit, yes? To root out your cynicism and sow instead joy. To live life in the moment with nary a care for tomorrow. College football’s national championship comes tonight. Are we really going to ruin this grand occasion with our complaints and...
jones Top Ten - Week 8 - 2011
My mom didn’t cotton to bored children. If you ever said I’m bored, she would counter with a list of activities. If you didn’t chose one, then she would tell you that your boredom was your own fault. There is justice in this. But Saturday, she would have been hard-pressed. Well, you could watch...
jones Top Ten - Week Seven - 2011
Among my many neuroses, I have a problem with people who turn left when it is completely unreasonable to turn left. This is one of the many cultural battles that I have lost (right up there with an insistence that all youth sports leagues have picture day). Americans believe that their inalienable...
Zombie Coaches
No, not coaches like Chizik, that will devour your brain, but rather coaches that are like "zombie banks", that are dead (their schools want to fire them), but still moving (because their schools lack the buyout money to do so). I think that this is a new phenomena, because buyouts got so large in...
Why was USC’s loss to Washington considered an upset?
As numerous Barkers pointed out ahead of time including CloseToJumping, this Southern Cal team was overrated to begin the season. They were going to start an unproven quarterback, and they had substantial losses on defense. But people wanted to jump back on their bandwagon after they beat Ohio...
Ron Zook gets extension, is told to sign contract ASAP by Bill Callahan
Illinois is giving head coach Ron Zook a contract extension and a raise. How else do you reward a coach who is 9-21 at Illinois and 32-34 overall? But things are different this year. Zook has huge wins over, uh, Penn State? Wisconsin? And he barely lost to Missouri. "Our football program has made...
New Year's Eve College Football Bowl Game Open Comment Thread
Happy New Year! The title of this posting says it all, but, just in case you need additional details, here's the drill: It's New Year's Eve. There are bowl games. These are they: Meineke Car Care of Texas Bowl: Northwestern Wildcats v. Texas A&M Aggies (noon, ESPN) Sun Bowl: Georgia Tech...
Prop Bets For The Bowl Game Junkie
Looking between the numbers and making sense of the empty space between them is a fools paradise. And the prop bet is the fuel that drives the machine. Based off this week's pick 'em games. Meineke Car Care Bowl of Texas – Texas A&M v. Northwestern: Six and six bowling at it's finest...
Who Will Be Nebraska's Next Defensive Coordinator?
With Carl Pelini's departure for Florida Atlantic, once again there is an opening on Nebraska's coaching staff once again. Who will fill that opening...and when? We'll start with the "when" part...and that looks like it won't be until after the Capital One Bowl. Pelini doesn't seem to be in a big...
BCS Programs Making Coaching Moves While Boston College Stands Still
Brian: It has been a big, big year for the college football coaching carousel. To date, a total of 24 Division I-A programs will be breaking in new coaches in 2012, including 11 from BCS AQ conferences. Within the conference, North Carolina just hired Southern Miss's Larry Fedora to replace the...
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