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08/20/09
Thanks to AJ and crew for hosting me. Hope you enjoy the book.
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08/20/09
I don't think Florida will put up a big number because of the Monte Kiffin defense. And because Tennessee is pretty good on defense.
So I see it more like, 31-10.
I don't think Tennessee will score many points against the Gator defense. That's the thing nobody talks about, how good the Florida D will be.
08/20/09
08/20/09
I would speculate but Tim Brando has spent today decrying me as the worst thing to ever exist in American sports.
I disagree, his combover has to be number one on the list.
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08/20/09
Ask JR Rider, he's the expert on staying eligible via inventive course work.
08/20/09
08/20/09
Outstanding question.
I'm going with JerQuari. Because I just don't know what could possibly be combined here. That doesn't sound like a name on either side. Plus, and this is key, the Q being capitalized is important.
Because Jerquari would be a completely different name.
Nu'Keese is outstanding too. Best part? His grandfather is named Ol'Keese.
08/20/09
MarKeith is plainly a combination of Marvin and Keith. And who hasn't considered combining their son's name by using two other men's names?
Let he who hasn't cast the first stone.
08/20/09
08/20/09
Fucking presidents. They won't support a playoff but they will support a 12th meaningless game that they have to pay a shitty team a million dollars to come play.
Honestly, if you want the BCS to die, and most of us do, read Dan Wetzel at Yahoo's critiques of the nonprofit exemption for bowl games. Great, great stuff.
08/20/09
Wait, they're going to Central Michigan?
WTF?
Fire your AD.
Right Damn Now.
08/20/09
[www.mlive.com]
08/20/09
Seriously, fire him.
08/20/09
Did I get it right?
08/20/09
What are Coles Notes? Like cliff notes for Canadians?
By the way, your Windsor strippers took my dollars and gave me shitty lap dances and change in Canadian loon. Or whatever the hell you guys use.
I want a refund.
08/20/09
Forget Windsor. Go to the Canadian side of Niagara Falls. You'll thank me later.
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08/20/09
You should have seen his Fireside Chats.
08/20/09
08/20/09
Yes, I added that sentence to the excerpt for context. And then, to prove that I'm an idiot, I counted the games on the 2009 schedule as opposed to the 2008 schedule.
Carolina is the 8th game this season, they were the ninth last year.
08/20/09
08/20/09
You know, we had a 450 pages manuscript at one point (and it ended up being around 340) so we cut a decent amount.
But I don't think we cut anything that was earth-shattering or shocking. When the lawyers looked over the manuscript they picked out like two things that they were worried about and we left them in because they weren't that big of worries.
I can honestly say no one asked me not to write something.
08/20/09
08/20/09
You know, the football teams are so big that walk-ons are important but they kind of get lost in the shuffle.
I mean with 85 scholarship players and over 100 guys dressing for games, the majority of scholarship players aren't even going to be in the game.
On the sideline or in the locker room you really get a sense for how huge these teams are.
What does the NFL dress, like 48? Something like that. Twice that many stand on college sidelines.
08/20/09
08/20/09
In this day and age, reading anything is a positive.
As for Layla, I've got a theory that the better of a recruiter a coach is, the hotter his wife is. Basically, it's all about selling yourself or your program.
That means Lane is a hell of a recruiter.
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08/20/09
Now that is really an awesome question. Part of the subtext of the book is the SEC gone mercenary. Guys like Petrino, Meyer, Kiffin, Saban, that would strangle you for a bright and shiny first down.
Honestly, I think I'd go Mark Richt at Georgia or Bobby Johnson at Vandy.
And encourage Vandy because the scholarship is worth a lot more and my kid is not going to have good speed.
08/20/09
08/20/09
But you gotta have ESSSS EEEEE SEEEE SPEEEEYEEED!!
08/20/09
Carroll.
Hell, I got into a bar debate the other night about if I was 18 and a top recruit in the country where I would go.
I went USC and Texas. How could you do better?
08/20/09
And, yes, I am 30 and sitting around bars debating with my friends where we would go to college if we were awesome high school football players.
And so are you guys...losers.
08/20/09
This no joke, I had a dream the other night that I was incredibly fast.
Weirdest thing, it was a wet dream.
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08/20/09
His southern accent was better than Mox's.
08/20/09
Bobby Drake had that same problem.