Posted by Rod in Your Bod on December 28, 2009 at 8:57 am under Bowls, CFB.
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With the eyes of the college football world on locations other than Gainsville for the first time in several years, Urban Meyer channeled his inner-Brett Favre and announced a shocking retirement. Of course, the focus of the college football world returned to Gainsville immediately. And, after a day to think about it, Meyer might not be retiring after all. Or maybe he is retiring. Or maybe he’s taking a leave of absence for a year. Or maybe just for the summer.
When the eyes of college football fans should be looking on the multiple bowls and the pending national championship game between Alabama and Texas, Meyer has managed to put all the focus on himself and Florida. And I’m sure that wasn’t done on purpose. Or maybe it was. The timing is a bit suspect. Is Meyer using this faux-retirement to inspire his otherwise disappointed Gator squad?
If Meyer’s health is truly at stake, then he should take some time off. But the announcement of this whole thing is weird. If he’s going to coach in the Sugar Bowl, there’s no reason this couldn’t wait until after the BCS National Championship game. If he’s coaching in 2010, there’s no reason this couldn’t wait since the Gators’ won’t be doing a coaching search. There’s something bizarre about this whole incident and I’m sure there’s more to follow.
Posted by Long Duk Dong on December 28, 2009 at 8:39 am under Bowls, CFB.
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Obviously all the authors have hit the wall and are completely uninspired to update the site. But with a bowl game coming up in the form of Gator against Florida State, perhaps we’ll start updating again. Plenty of good stories have come and gone without a single paragraph on the site. WVU has a good basketball team. Tiger Woods has quit golf indefinitely. Brian Kelly went to Notre Dame. Butch Jones went to Cincinnati. And Dave Wannstedt remains at Pittsburgh.
I promise updates soon. As soon as I can get inspiration to update.
Posted by Rod in Your Bod on December 22, 2009 at 3:16 pm under Admin.
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Raise your hand if you haven’t been named as a potential replacement for Charlie Weis at Notre Dame. Okay, Bill, you can put your hand down.
Urban Meyer, Bob Stoops, Brian Kelly, Randy Edsell, Tony Dungy, Tim Brewster…among millions of others have been named as possible replacements for the great Jabba. And now a man who said he wasn’t interested in the job, Jim Harbaugh, might actually be interested in the job. According to the Chicago Sun-Times:
Multiple sources told the Sun-Times that Stanford coach Jim Harbaugh met Monday in Chicago with reps from the Atlanta-based Parker group to discuss the ND job.
Harbaugh had previously denied any meeting with Swarbrick and, technically, that’s true. But he’s another guy who now seems willing to leave his upstart program for the glitz and glammer of Notre Dame. I still think Kelly will get the job at the end of the day but, as this search prolongs, more coaches are getting dragged into the mix. Always entertaining. At least our coach isn’t flirting with Notre Dame…yeah.
Posted by Rod in Your Bod on December 10, 2009 at 1:35 pm under CFB, Notre Dame.
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Taking the old “if you can’t beat them, steal their coach” approach, Notre Dame seems to have centered its coaching search on two candidate, UConn’s Randy Edsell and Cincinnati’s Brian Kelly, both members of the Big East Football Conference. The same Big East Conference that Notre Dame is 0-4 against in the last 2 years. But the same conference that the prestigious Notre Dame is too good to join for football. For such a horrible conference, every team wants our coaches (See: Rich Rodriguez, Bobby Petrino, Greg Schiano, Brian Kelly, Bill Stewart, Randy Edsell).
It looks pretty likely that Kelly is going to jump ship and join the Irish. It is being reported that there is a sitdown schedule tomorrow between Notre Dame officials and Kelly. I personally hope that Kelly decides to reject the offer from Notre Dame and reject it publicly after it has been made. And then Edsell to follow the same line. It’s unlikely but it would definitely be awesome.
Posted by Long Duk Dong on December 7, 2009 at 3:42 pm under Big East, CFB, Notre Dame.
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The Fiesta Bowl stepped up and saved the NCAA’s ass today by putting the two Non-AQ teams against one another. Both teams had to be hoping to get a shot at BCS conference opponents. If TCU would have crushed the shoddy Iowa Hawkeyes in the Fiesta and Boise beat Florida in the Sugar, all hell would have broke loose. But, instead, the Fiesta takes both and saves the NCAA from any humiliation.
It’s a shame really. I’m sure TCU was hoping for a game against a BCS school so if they won, and won decidingly, they could lobby for a little split title support. By only beating Boise, they don’t further their agenda for a little national love. I’m sure the Fiesta thought having the two undefeated Non-AQ teams against each other would be compelling, and it might be, but it really did the NCAA a huge favor. And it really screws TCU, Boise and every other non-AQ school and puts another hole in the playoff balloon.
TCU is trying to acquire Blount from Oregon before the bowl
Posted by Long Duk Dong on December 6, 2009 at 8:11 pm under Bowls.
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For all the bandwagon TCU fans that have emerged, let me see your tears. Let me see you cry for TCU and Boise State. Screw Cincinnati, right? What about Auburn a few years back? No, none of those teams were good enough to play for the national title in those years but everyone’s gonna cry for the Horned Frogs and Broncos? Give me a break.
Sure, TCU played a tough schedule. And they’re gonna get an opportunity to show that they deserve to be considered a “big boy,” just like Utah and Boise have done. But they deserve no more consideration for a national title than Cincinnati. Boise is undefeated. But they deserve no more consideration than Cincinnati.
Quit crying for TCU. If you don’t like the bowl system, then write to the NCAA Commissioner or your congressmen. Quit bitching and take action. If you think TCU or Boise or Cincinnati is getting screwed, too bad. They won’t be the first and, according to the NCAA, they won’t be the last.
Posted by Rod in Your Bod on December 6, 2009 at 7:33 pm under Bowls.
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It seems like an eternity ago, but just a few shows weeks ago people were talking about the University of Pittsburgh winning the Big East and going to a BCS bowl. Pitt was so highly regarded that a few moronic folks were talking about the possibility of Pittsburgh receiving an at-large bid for the BCS. Well, guess what? Pitt isn’t going to a BCS bowl. And Pitt isn’t going to a New Year’s Day bowl. Nope. Pitt is going to the Meineke Car Care Bowl in Charlotte, NC.
As funny as Pitt’s fall is (losing to WVU in Morgantown and then the *cough, cough* hearbreaker to Cincy), the funnier part is that Pitt had to beg the folks in Charlotte to take them. The Car Care Bowl wanted Rutgers because, well, Rutgers actually has fans. Pitt, not so much. So Pitt had to basically tell the Car Bowl folks that pairing them with UNC would sell tickets because UNC was close-by and would sell tickets. They didn’t promise that Pittsburgh would sell tickets but that UNC would. How sad is that?
So, the Wannstache and Pittsburgh are heading to Charlotte to play at home game for UNC. Pitt will bring their 600 fans down to watch the Wannstache choke again. Should be an entertaining to game…for people who dislike Pittsburgh.
Posted by Rod in Your Bod on December 6, 2009 at 6:30 pm under Big East, Bowls.
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There may be a lack of updates until Sunday as I had to the land where cats piss away, better known as Piscataway (the name comes from an old Indian word meaning “Smells Like Cat Piss”). And that’s in New Jersey. They might have Internet there but I’ll be damned if I’m asking any of the locals where to find it. Just the smell might be enough to kill me so, I may or may not be back Sunday.
Regardless, I’m going to see if WVU can put the hex on Greg Schiano and Rutgers yet again. It should be interesting to see how Bill Stewart keeps this team focused and motivated since it appears that, win or lose, the team is going to the Gator Bowl.
If I get a chance to post an update on how things are at Rutgers, I will do so. If not, I leave you all in the incapable hands of the other writers and contributors. May God have mercy on your souls.
Posted by Long Duk Dong on December 3, 2009 at 11:03 am under Admin, Other.
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Earlier today, Tiger Woods apologized to the golfing world, his family and his friends for using his putter on greens that were not his own. “I have let my family down and I regret those transgressions with all of my heart,” Woods said.
Woods, the world’s #1 golfer and perhaps the world’s richest athlete with a fortune estimated at $1 billion, suffered facial cuts and bruises when he ran his Cadillac SUV into a fire hydrant and a tree while pulling out of the driveway of his home in Windermere, Florida at around 2 a.m. last Friday. Several rumors about what truly happened have been circulating since the incident. One rumor is that his wife, Elin, chased his with a golf club and smashed up the SUV he was driving, causing him to lose control and hit a fire hydrant and a tree.
Woods stated that domestic violence was not the cause of his accident and the Florida Highway Patrol has closed their investigation into the matter. The FHP fined Woods $164, which he has already paid.
While not addressing the number of greens Woods has used his putter on, it is believed he has putted on at least two greens outside of his house. It is also unclear from his statement who was trimming the grass but more information will surely be in the tabloids soon.
Keep that grass trimmed close
Posted by Rod in Your Bod on December 2, 2009 at 12:44 pm under Other.
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