Already wishing Karl Dorrell would come back ...

How to cap a miserable season when you're loaded with seniors on both sides of the ball and go 6-6? Hire this guy.





What's the over-under on Ricky's tenure before he shuffles out of town under murky clouds (in sunny L.A.!) ...

A match made in...idiocy?

I find this to be one of the most compelling stories of the week. Someone needs to look into this. This NEEDS to happen. Just when you thought the Gary Barnett E! True Hollywood Story couldn't get any better, enter... SMU?

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=3094247

The best part of all this is that SMU is not shopping for Barnett. He had to seek them out. Any thoughts on how this rationalization goes?

Barnett: "Well lets see, I've got a great story from Northwestern that ends with a team shrouded in questions about steroids and academic issues. Then I jump ship to go and kill a Colorado program with a sex scandal and some chick who was just a terrible kicker. Where can I go now? Hey, how about SMU? The NCAA already killed the program once, I can't possibly be that bad."

I am overwhelmed with the possibilities here. Is SMU willing to test the theory on whether lightning can strike twice? Everyone always says that the NCAA will never award the death penalty again. But is SMU really going to bet the farm that the odds of them assessing the punishment to the same school twice is even lower?

And how low can Barnett go? If one of his players shoots an opponent during competition, does the nation turn a blind eye because it is SMU?

Again, I say this MUST happen.

Notre Dame vs. Nebraska.

Isn't it time we schedule this game so they can determine on the field who is the less crappy team. Charlie Weis's Xs and Os advantage completely neutralized by the ex-NFL coaching mind of Coach Callahan. It would be like watching a game on Sunday.

Giving up 76 to Kansas? Congressman Osborne to sponsor a bill through subcommittee to ban Coach Cal from the entire state.

silly dawgs at it again

This is what bye weeks are like at UGA.

(bottom)Yes, that's starting RB Keshtan(I'm this years version of Herchel Walkers 2nd coming) Moreno preparing for the ferocious gator D.

(Middle)Mathew(why does everyone talk about Tim Tebow and not me) stafford.

(Top) Moreno-

Cairenes Finally Believe in Jayhawks (and other matters)

CAIRO, Egypt (T.O.) - [this part's from the A.P.] The Kansas Jayhawks believe they're for real.
Now, they're hoping the rest of the country will start to as well. ''We stepped up again and showed the world what we can do,'' cornerback Aqib Talib said.

Mr. Talib is right. Why, just this morning, I overheard 2 merchants talking over their Turkish coffee and sheesha about how they doubted Kansas, due primarily to the soft schedule and lack of success historically, but now that they managed to get a win over a rebuilding Colorado, they will start to give KU's ranking some credence. Then, I picked up the Nation, one of the big dailies here, and the sports page had an article about how Kansas must be taken seriously in the BCS discussion. If that wasn't enough, Al-Jazeera's NCAA football correspondent, Melaam Khyber, ended his segment with a commentary on how much Kansas showed him...

Somebody please tell college athletes to forget the maxim 'Think globally, act locally.' What's wrong with "we showed [our fans/the Big 12/the pollsters/college football] what we can do."?!

Other matters: Bet on it - the BCS title game will be between LSU and Boston College. On my flight from Amman to Cairo, I sat next to a Jordanian businessman who got his degree at LSU in the late '70's. Then, at my hotel, the former British Officer's Club now known as the Windsor, the only out of place item in the otherwise extremely cool bar is a framed Boston College pennant. I asked the owner about this, and it is due to the fact that his nephew is a student there. The nephew has the whole hotel conned into thinking that B.C. is "very famous university" in the States. I didn't have the heart to tell him it's probably tied with B.U. as "third most famous university between Boston harbour and Route 128."

That's all for now, friends. Not liking CU's recent struggles, but very much enjoying the chaos at Nebraska and Notre Dame. By the way, when are the "blowouts" that doomed Ty going to affect Charlie? Guess he has white privilege. One more thing: where are Raul, the Enabler, and the rest?!?! Surely a Gator fan has much to discuss, as does a Michigan man (seems Lloyd Lloyd is NOT all null-and-void after all).

Next stop, Luxor.

Which program has fallen further: USC or Notre Dame?

38-0, apparently, is the answer. Good enough for me.

Mangino

Yes sir. 100% class.





C'mon Hawk. You can't let a someone who looks like an extra from The Saprano's take you in Boulder. Slap one on the Big Puss's cousin Marco.

All you all headed back to Plano are sorry dogs!

Good God almighty, if Richard Burton O'Shea can post an entry from Qatar from a free Wi-Fi teahouse, then the rest of you sorry dogs listening to your radios on your way back to Plano can get off your cans and say SOMETHING about one of the wildest, most puzzling, deflating, and elating college football seasons in memory. What are you waiting for, Charlie Weiss to lose 80 lbs.? Urban Meyer's head to explode? Louisville to forfeit the rest of its games, because, let's face it, it may not be worth the effort and expense? John Tyler High to ruin the greatest comeback ever in the history of the world? "Oh no! No! C'mon no! ... God bless those kids, I think I'm going to be sick ... " (Truer words were never uttered.)

Everything is completely effed up in CFB, no? I'm mean, does anyone think LSU is going to go undefeated? OSU? Cal? And superpowers like 'SC, OU and Michigan humbled by stunning losses. Yet the first two are just as likely as anyone, it seems to me, to end up in the BSC Championship game, particularly if LSU, Cal or OSU loses late. WTF?

Parity in the NFL (among a host of other flaws) has made that league more boring than ever. (Break down that cover two read for us, will you Jaws.) Parity in CFB, however, is getting on my wife's nerves.

Why, she asks, would I be tuning into Versus at 10 p.m. on a Saturday night to watch Stanford/'SC? Two teams I have no vested interest in--particularly after absorbing a whole day of CFB?

"For the miracles, my child," I say. "For the miracles."

Callahan, You're On Vacation (blowout re-mix)

Check out the typical Husker hooey from the Colonel. Booing is wrong. Nebraska fans don't boo. They clap for the team that beats them. But when Nebraska fans boo (which they don't do), it's out of frustration. And it's a warning to the program. Not like other programs' fans booing, which is out of a lack of class. But again, Nebraska fans don't boo their team. (Unless they're frustrated, and wish to send a warning.)

What did I say a few weeks back about Mr. Bill's extension?

"Oh no, here comes sluggo in the form of USC and Mizzou and they're going to drill us! Oh noooooooo!"

Round 6: Which program has fallen farther, Notre Dame or USC?

Michigan fans everywhere thank USC for not showing up on Saturday. I'm not sure it's a more dubious loss than Appy State, but we'll take whatever table scraps we can get.

"After tonight, we don't care who we play," Stanford linebacker Clinton Snyder said. "We now know the only people who can beat us is us. This was a huge step for us to show our program is back." Hmmm ... okay kid. Sure.

Actually, I'm not sure that was the worst loss in Los Angeles Saturday. Dame only manages a 140 net yards and somehow gets a W? I hate to think of the total if Charlie Einstein wasn't calling the plays.

Saban steals page out of Delany poor sport book; rumored to sing "Fire & Rain" in shower.

What's the world come to when a kid can't get into 'Bama?

The Nebraska 'Difference'

Husker fans are always telling us how they're different than other fans. More polite. More decent. Less critical. Just better. Well, big-time college football is big-time college football. And when you can't keep it close in your big statement game, it doesn't matter if you're from Rutgers, Penn State, Alabama, or Nebraska. Welcome to the club, O Clappers for Opponents...

The Humble Gator

Greetings from Scotland. Today, while visiting Edinburgh castle, I was approached by a family from Florida and asked to take their photograph. After doing so, I asked, "y'all Gator fans?" They said they were. I then told them it sure was a good time to be one, to which the father replied: "Well, don't forget that all my life they never even won the SEC, so it hasn't always been this way."
I confess that this kind of realism, coming from a Gator fan, took me a bit by surprise. With all the success lately, I had grown accustomed to unadulterated Gator triumphalism. I had wondered if ANY Gator fan was hearing the whisper of 'remember, thou art mortal' in their ears, or if they were just going to continue simultaneously trumpeting UF's achievements, denigrating other conferences, and complaining about how membership in the toughest of all conferences makes their lives unbearably arduous. (It's an SEC thing; you wouldn't understand it...) Anyway, I invite my good friends who graduated from UF (one of whom owns a very smart navy blue sportcoat with a tasteful orange F on the breast) to comment on UF's exploits and what they mean for UF's place in the pantheon of great football programs.
As for Edinburgh, it is a stunningly beautiful city, and is geared up for the big Rugby World Cup match against the all-powerful All-Blacks of New Zealand on Sunday. I tried to inform some of the locals at a pub that Scotland, coming from the British Isles conference, cannot hope to deal with the speed of New Zealand, whose ANZAC schedule (S. Africa, Australia, etc) is much tougher than Scotland's. They responded that the last Rugby World Cup was won by England. I was unmoved.
The only bad brew I've had is Caledonia, though it might have been just a bad tap.

Gospel Truth: Bobby Dodd is the Ryan Field of the ACC

What do you get when you pool about 60,000 engineering students (current and former) and pile them into an uninspiring urban football stadium in the middle of SEC country to play B.C., a school that has one great fan in Doug Flutie and a bunch of other fans who'll check yahoo, maybe, to get a score later but only after Jonathan Papplebaum has closed out the ninth at Fenway? A pretty boring evening of college football, that's what.

I could have been watching the destruction of Sam Keller and 'Skers on ABC, but instead was treated to 18 frickin' penalties and a bunch of Ramblin' Wreck fans who thought that after giving up 400 something yards in the air (Matt Ryan can indeed spin it, it seems) that the referees had conspired to job the home team.

BC fans, the three or four that I saw anyway, were talking about how the Commish had come down too hard on Beloved Bill and the Pats. Give it up people. What else ... oh yeah, parked 2 miles away. No tailgating. A crappy fight song. (Assume BC's is crappy too. Can't say that I recall it). Horrible "free" dog with my $20 end zone nose bleed ticket. All in all, the most forgetable college football game I've ever been to, and I've seen all of the dregs of the Big Ten roll into Evanston. Indiana twice.

Upon Further Inspection: Which program has fallen farther? ND or Auburn

All right, Blue's off the schnide. And somewhere near Puget Sound, Ty Willingham must be feeling pretty satisfied (and not just because he's svelte).






Looking at the rest of Auburn's schedule, the best I can math out for Coach Tubs is about 6-6. Do they still play the Copper Bowl in El Paso? War Eagle may want to look at booking flights for December. Thank god K-State gifted 140 yards of penalties, otherwise the Tigers might be looking at 0-3.

New Jersey + New Money = Rutgers Fans

I mean, really, is anyone surprised? A little success for the State University of New Jersey, and this is what you get: wanna-be Tony Soprano's and Adriana La Cerva's berating a bunch of Midshipmen.

Which Program Has Fallen Farther, and Other Items

Well, as to the relative nadirs of the Domers and the 'Victors,' they'll settle that on Saturday. I'm guessing Notre Dame is closer to rock bottom than Michigan. ND is currently 107 out of 119 in total offense. They can't score and they can't stop anybody. At least UM demonstrated the ability to move the ball and score on the Div 1AA national champs.
-We finally get to see Florida play somebody.
-We need 'SC to run out to a big lead early.
-A Buffs win over the 'Noles would demonstrate that the turnaround is indeed in progress.
-Here's to South Florida silencing the annual Tuberville whining about how tough he's got it.

Open Commentary on "which storied program has fallen farther?"

I feel compelled to comment on this because...well, I just do. Michigan's loss is far more embarrassing. ND's program is in far more trouble.

If, in the not to distant future, Weis' record is sitting equal to or below what Ty had, there are going to be a lot of questions. And just remember, while ND bemoans the fact that Weis is stuck with Ty's players, Ty got to where he was with leftovers from Bob Davie. You tell me who did a better job with what was left in the cupboard.

Michigan will survive this mess, though it all but assured that Lloyd will retire at the end of the season. It has been accepted for the past several years that either the 2007 or 2008 season was going to be his last. The question of which season it will be has been essentially answered. The interesting fallout in all of this is whether Ron English has actually coached his way out of being promoted. For a while now, English was on the inside track to succession. However, with the mobile quarterback still being kryptonite to Michigan's D, English may no longer be the favorite candidate.

Some have gone so far as to mention Les Miles as a possible option, but I am finding it hard to believe he's be willing to pull a Nick Saban so soon. Don't be shocked though if AD Bill Martin goes outside the "Michigan Family" to find a replacement to Carr. He'll certainly be looking for a "Michigan Man," but as Martin himself cannot call the school his alma mater, he is not beholden to finding those qualities in a person who necessarily went to school there. One way or another, Michigan will make a splash when a new coach is hired.

All that said, now is the time for Michigan State to use the struggles of both their primary recruiting rivals to secure a good foothold for their new head coach Dantonio...

Welcome to Georgia...Y'all come back soon

How do you overcompensate for the insecurity Florida and Auburn's football programs have created in Athens , Ga. Here is a lesson on how to alienate your recruits. Georgia is slowly pushing Ohio State for edgeiest/ most insecure fan base.

"Callahan, you're on vacation!!"

While Harry heard those words often, Bill apparently won't. You gotta love Nebraska. They fire Solich before he has a truly bad season, and they extend Callahan 2 weeks before their "watershed" game against USC. I guess those punks do feel 'Lucky.' Would love to see Wake Forest ("let's go to the sideline, where Jack Arute is with Tim Duncan") catch NU looking ahead, then the Trusty Trojans put another kind of 44 on them.
(See SEC fans? It's not so hard to root against your conference rival. You should try it sometime. Go ahead. It'll make your day.)

What storied program has fallen farther? Dame or Michigan?

Clearly UofM now owns the distinction of suffering the worst loss in NCAA football history. Happy-footed Appalachian State did what every other spread attack with an semi-athletic quarterback has been doing to Michigan since Donovan McNabb made them look beyond silly a decade ago.

Notre Dame? Eeessh. A bad loss to Ga Tech but not even the same league as UofM's disaster. Niether team has demonstrated they can win a big game in recent years. Dame's problems go back several more years than Big Blue's. And Dame has had a propensity to get blown out quite frequently, but does this embarrassment in Ann Arbor make Michigan the more laughable program?

I'm saying yes.

No wonder 5-Stars don't get lured to App State

I've seen this promo linked everywhere. Why not here? If I didn't know better, I'd say Christopher Guest was behind the making of this gem. The low bugdet Power Point-esque wipes are precious. And the original score ... wow.

Chicago...College Football's New Mecca?

Here is an intersting article , from the WSJ, on how Chicago bars, by re-creating a watered-down college town gameday atmosphere, create a gettaway for the for Big Ten alumns. (Delaney wet his pants when read this). Bar owners in Dallas and Atlanta could learn a thing or two from the Chicago bars.

How Chicago Cornered The Market on Big Ten Bars
To lure football fans, pubs pledge themselves to schools -- but allegiance is only pigskin deep; 'I just pretend to love Iowa'

By BRYAN GRULEY November 18, 2006

CHICAGO -- When the University of Michigan scored its third touchdown against Indiana University last Saturday, 200 Michigan fans at Duffy's Tavern & Grille here leapt up and loosed a deafening cheer. Lights flashed, the Michigan fight song blared, and a man in a Wolverine costume pranced about, furry tail bouncing.
"The ultimate Michigan experience," says Duffy's co-owner Thomas Piazza. He plasters the place with maize-and-blue banners and promotes it as "Chicago's Big House," borrowing the nickname of Michigan Stadium in Ann Arbor, Mich. "When we adopt a school," he says, "we put our whole heart into it."
But Mr. Piazza owns another bar, McGee's Tavern & Grille, just a mile away. When the second-ranked Wolverines battle No. 1 Ohio State on Saturday, McGee's will be selling "Buck Michigan" T-shirts and the Buckeye fight song will play while bartenders work in scarlet-and-gray.
"I have no allegiance to any football team, except the [Chicago] Bears," says Mr. Piazza, 43 years old, who graduated from Loyola University in Chicago and, with older brother Phil, owns three other local bars that cater to Purdue, Wisconsin and Notre Dame supporters.
Chicago, with no college gridiron power of its own, has bred one of the nation's strongest college football cultures. Tapping a market of more than 450,000 people aged 20 to 29, saloon keepers who align their establishments with one or more teams from the Big Ten Conference can pull in more than $40,000 on a good football Saturday.
The bars, many of which are clustered in the city's North Side neighborhoods, promote cut-rate cocktails and rah-rah atmosphere. They also benefit from their relationships with local alumni clubs, which sometimes get a piece of a bar's revenue for anointing the bar an alumni hangout. McGee's and Duffy's have raised a total of nearly $16,000 this year for Ohio State and Michigan alumni clubs through sales of plastic mugs and T-shirts, Mr. Piazza says. In return, the bars get plugs on the clubs' Web sites.
THE ROSTER

Chicago has a bar for every Big Ten fan. Here is a sampling of them.
• Illinois: Schoolyard Tavern & Grill3258 N. Southport
• Indiana: Hi-Tops3551 N. Sheffield
• Iowa: Merkle's Bar & Grill3516 N. Clark
• Michigan: Duffy's Tavern & Grille4201/2 W. Diversey
• Michigan State: Higgins' Tavern3259 N. Racine
• Minnesota: The Ivy on Clark3462 N. Clark
• Northwestern: Mullen's on Clark3527 N. Clark
• Ohio State: Mickeys Bar & Patio2450 N. Clark
• Penn State: Dark Horse Tap & Grill3443 N. Sheffield
• Purdue: Durkin's Tavern810 W. Diversey
• Wisconsin: Will's Northwoods Inn3030 N. Racine
With multiple bars declaring allegiances to schools, the rivalry is less Purdue vs. Michigan State, say, than Michigan State vs. Michigan State. MSU fans can choose between the Gin Mill, with its boisterous fraternity ambiance, and Higgins' Tavern, a quieter corner bar displaying black-and-white photos of classic Spartan games.
Some bars do little more than hang a school flag. Others strive to recreate the feel of being at the game -- and sometimes miss by a little. A DJ at Duffy's played "The Victors" whenever Michigan scored, then blasted hip-hop music rarely heard at the real Big House. The $7, 32-ounce beer specials came in plastic mugs of white-and-blue instead of Michigan maize-and-blue. Josh Mellender, 21, a Duffy's doorman wearing the Wolverine outfit, was asked whether he likes the Michigan team. "Not particularly," he said.
Few bars are truer to their roots than Will's Northwoods Inn, a smoky Wisconsin dive where the knotty-pine walls are covered with stuffed moose heads, muskies, a snapping turtle and, of course, a badger. Owner Jonathan Bunge modeled it on the taverns near his family cottage in Hayward, Wis., where, he says, "If you go in any bar, it's a dump."
On game days, patrons gobble free bratwurst and the white-haired Mr. Bunge, 70, grabs a microphone and raffles off hard hats, thongs, bib overalls and other red-and-white Badger paraphernalia. "I always see old classmates," says Jeremy Tiedt, 28, a Chicago attorney and Wisconsin grad sporting a red "F- 'Em Bucky" T-shirt named for the badger mascot.
After opening in 2004, Merkle's Bar & Grill hung some black-and-gold Iowa flags "and people just started pouring in," says co-owner Jason Levin, 34. He and his four partners, only one of whom is from Iowa, coveted Chicago's large Hawkeye audience. They also raised a University of Illinois flag to lure fans of the school's ranked basketball team.
MSU fans at Higgins'
Today, Merkle's is adorned with Iowa cups, helmets, basketballs, pennants, license plates and T-shirts. One recent Saturday, bartender Kristen King, 31, wore pigtails tied with gold ribbons. "I just pretend to love Iowa," she said, grinning. "That's my job."
The owners have learned a few lessons. For instance, some Iowa fans prefer not to hear their beloved team polka, "In Heaven There Is No Beer," until an Iowa victory is assured. "I started to play it once in the middle of a game and people were throwing things at me and screaming to turn it off," Mr. Levin says. With an official capacity of just 72, Merkle's can gross $15,000 in revenue on a good day, he says.
Alumni clubs can help. Many encourage members to attend "gamewatches" at select bars listed on club Web sites. When Michael Jerit and two partners opened Mickeys Bar & Patio two years ago, they hired OSU graduates and dressed the barmaids in tight-fitting Buckeye jerseys. This year, they sought the alumni club's blessing.
"They sent a guy over and he asked a lot of questions," says Mr. Jerit, a trim, spiky-haired 30-year-old who didn't attend Ohio State but has been a Buckeye fan since boyhood. He offered the club 15% of revenue the bar collects while Ohio State games are on. Mickeys joined McGee's as the only two city bars on the club Web site. Club President Karen Webber, a 1999 OSU grad, says the $15,000 raised by the bars so far this season will help underwrite scholarships for Chicago-area students.

Last Saturday, Ohio State fan Matt Morgan drove from Ohio for a Mickeys tailgater before the Buckeye game at nearby Northwestern University. He and his father-in-law, Jim Probasco, had planned to go to the McGee's tailgater -- until they learned the owner, Mr. Piazza, also has a Michigan bar. "Business is business," Mr. Probasco says, "but it just doesn't feel right."
Mr. Piazza, a burly man with a wide smile, chuckled at the criticism while sitting amid the varnished wood stools and dozens of TVs at McGee's earlier this week. "We're not here to fight, we're here to have fun," he said. In another room, his staff prepared for today's Michigan-Ohio State clash. The game plan included a side-by-side newspaper ad for "Kegs and Eggs" at McGee's and "Big House Breakfast" at Duffy's.

"Buckeye Guy" at Mickeys
Mr. Piazza and his brother, who attended Chicago's DePaul University, bought McGee's in 1987 and slowly built a University of Nebraska following. As they added bars to their company, Bar1Events, the Piazzas dedicated each to a single college, thinking they'd attract a more devoted clientele.
"It developed into something that's kind of loyalty and kind of business," Mr. Piazza says. After losing the lease on Jack Sullivan's, their popular Ohio State tavern, the Piazzas this year rechristened McGee's as a Buckeye bar, ditching Nebraska. Mr. Piazza says his bigger bars -- such as Duffy's, with an official capacity of 199 -- can bring in $30,000 to $45,000 on a strong day.
Saturday could easily be one of those. Duffy's and McGee's are scheduled to open more than five hours before the 3:30 p.m. EST kickoff. And who will win the biggest college game of the year? Mr. Piazza declines to make a prediction, saying, "I don't want to make anybody mad."
Write to Bryan Gruley at bryan.gruley@wsj.com

College Football BabyDaddy Scoreboard

With the recent revelation of NFL'er and former Vol Travis Henry setting the gold standard for non-marital children (time to get busy, Rainman!), the Salon offers an NCAA football tally for this category of "scoring," which appears to be as important to athletes as touchdowns, interceptions, and tackles. I would have started with Leinart, but I think his BabyMomma had the kid after he graduated. Anyway, first on our list is one of the most touted recruits in recent years, tailback (and I do mean tail!), Noel Devine. A true freshman with 2 kids already, the young man is setting a torrid pace. Could he be the youngest BabyDaddy champion ever? All the pieces are in place. You put a guy like that in West Virginia for 4 years, and BabyDaddy records are going to fall. One thing is for sure: Travis Henry is looking over his shoulder at this upstart. Please fill out the leaderboard in your comments, and I will add them to the post.

1. Noel Devine - Freshman - West Virginia - 2 kids

Blast From the Past

1991 Cotton Bowl Miami#4 vs. Texas #3

Do youreslves a favor and fast-forward to the 2:05 mark.

Also, note the color commentator's comments on Randall Hill "here's a guy who dreams of running with cheetahs and getting pulled over by the police for speeding"

Yet another reason why Southern football players are faster than the rest. They dream about outrunning wild animals and getting pulled over by the police for speeding but not because they drive fast because they run fast.

Military Academy Super Bowl: Fork Union vs. Hargrave ... perhaps not a lot of future PhDs on the field, but there will be a lot of speed

It's finally here. I suppose I've spoiled the surprise, but it's a landslide victory for the OSU Beavs, 2007 Non-Qualifier Champs. A spectacular effort with 16 signees for the class who are not with the team this fall (though 14 of them are classified as "delaying" enrollment, whatever that means ... possibly didn't get their paperwork in time to the Registrar's office?)

Best conference effort, you ask? This wasn't close either. The SEC puts up an impressive 45 non-qualies. We want to give a shout out to a particularly solid effort by Tommy Tubberville and his 10 kids who didn't pass muster , many of whom will be suiting up for Hargrave Millitary Academy this year (where, ironically and appropriately, passing muster is an institutionalized and daily requirement). Then there's Fork Union, where 4 Spurrier signees are headed.

Perhaps this is the best route for bulked-up 18/19-year olds to get serious about their books. "God damn right you better salute me, you newbie puke! Or someone's goin' Full Metal Jacket on your ass with a pillow case and 50 bars of Irish Spring."

Post Graduate Schedule portends a big showdown on November 2, pitting would-be Tigers versus would-be 'Cocks. Let's just hope Hargrave can make the '61 Hoops team proud, which as this story indicates, was responsible for HMA's finest hour. I suppose the preferred term is "baller" nowadays, but what happened to the days when you could call yourself a courtman with no little measure of pride upon beating a "determined Wyoming Seminary Prep" squad?

Its a Canes thing

Its a Canes thing...you guys wouldn't understand:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQsiRWawD1s

BlogArt: TeeTee

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A) "Dude, my mom says that Stafford's on the cover of this thing back home. That cat threw like 10 picks in 5 games last year. What's up with that? ... What do you mean you can't see me on Athlon's beyond a 100 radius of G-ville? That's dumb."

B) Halloween 2005: Winner "Freakiest Costume" for hand-growing-out-of-side-of-head effort.

c) "How does your neck like the forearm, Jesse? Ughhh! That's right, eat it!"

d) "Diver Down so kicks 5150's ass ... Senorita I'm in trouble again and I can't get free ... Sen-or-ita ..."

BlogArt: A little collage piece I like to call "Booty" ... Leroy Neiman, check it. Your act is tired, bitch.

Party all the time

Here is Raul's take on the Princeton Review's recent party school rakings:

1.WVU-Take away all the students from suburban Pittsburg and you have one large white-trash bash

2.Mississippi-“At Ole Miss, we may not win the game, but we never loose a party” They certainly live up to the former.

3. UT Austin-Having the president’s daughters cited for multiple alcohol violations will do wonders for your party ranking.

4. UF- We're only #4 b/c everyone at UGA would slit their wrist if they had to read another article about UF being #1 at something.

5.UGA-“No… seriously, We’re just as good as Florida”

6.PSU-They’ve perfected the “zombie nation” student section cheer.

7.University of New Hampshire-Those bright minds at the New England public universities, situated in the middle-of –nowhere, have come up with some of our favorite drinking games like “Edward 40-hands” and "Beirut." So, be thankful.

8. Indiana-Homogenuity must have been heavily weighed in coming up with this one.

9.Ohio University- Don't own enough J Crew to go to Miami(oh), not pretentious enough for Denison, but too smart for Ohio State. I guess OU is the place for me!!!

10. UCSB-Frosted tips rule!!!

They're at it again.

Once again, an "old money" major conference is having issues with the noveau riche aspects of college football. This time its not the Big Ten but its the Big Ten's more attractive cousin, the PAC Ten. A recent conversation between Jim Delaney and Tom Hansen(Pac-10 commish) went something like this:

Hansen: First those thugs from Miami now those God damn internet Millionares (Texas, Louisville and Florida) are destroying the flawless system we had in place.

Delaney: Tell me about it. All they do is bitch about how tough their conferences are. Then, they kick our ass in championship games.

Delaney: They keep exposing us. Especially those mother F*#ckers in Gainesville. I don't know who they think they are. They forget who the blue bloods are.

Hansen: Oh yeah, the first thing I think of, when I see 90,000 blue collar Ohioans masturbating to a guy in a Beret dotting an I, is blue-blood.

Delaney: Are you being sarcastic.

Hansen: No really, West Lafayette, the Metro-dome, and grown men wearing corn fed shirts and overalls screams blue blood.

Delaney: Screw you, you west coast fag. Why don't you go sip on a Latte and start another hippie revolution. Those hippies in Berkley really accomplished a great deal .

Hansen: At least my region isn't referred to as the "Rust belt."

Delaney: At least one of our most storied campuses isn't in South Central LA.

Hansen: I thought we were friends. I thought we were in on this together. Why don't you just go and keep securing bowl tie-ins with of those illiterate redneck schools from the SEC.

Delaney: Is that what this is all about.....Bowl Tie-ins.

Hansen: I feel like your Big Ten schools don't come over and play anymore. I just want things to be like they used to be when College football was only about USC, Notre Dame, Michigan and Ohio State.

Delaney:The Sec is where the money is at. They bring their whole F*#cking redneck states to their bowl games. Not to mention those coaching contracts. I'm sorry Tom but UCLA, Cal and Stanford are so 1983 that I'm embarrassed to play them.

Hansen: You can go to hell. The Rose bowl is ours and will always be ours. We only invited you guys because you had cool helmets and cheesy trophies.

Who did they have do the background check, Jim Harrick?

Generosity, UCLA is thy name. Second chance? You got it. Third offense? We forgive you. Fourth? No man is beyond redemption. Fifth? Why don't you come on back and coach our wide receivers. According to the LA Daily News, Eric Scott

"had been arrested four times previous, and twice was either convicted or pled guilty to a misdemeanor."

Can anyone explain this? A wide receivers coach? It's not like this guy is Jimbo Fisher or Norm Chow or David Cutcliffe. Now those are the kind of assistants for whom you could let a criminal record slide, if you're a win-at-all-cost kind of program. Or apparently, if you're UCLA, a program that wants to preserve that 7-5 mark.

Husker Football is a Wild World

More from the NU football crime blotter: apparently it's not Tea for this Tiller-man. Husker football - No power option, no small-town walk-on program, a West Coast offense and heaps o' JuCo transfers. Don't ya dare miss it! About the only Osborn tradition they're carrying on these days is being soft on domestic violence.

Red State Values

The following is from our Seattle correspondent:

Surprise! Maurice Purify has been reinstated to the NU football team! Even by Nebraska's standards, this astonishing episode has left me combing the thesaurus in search of more synonyms for the word "slimy." The ironically-named Purify has a rap sheet longer than the drink menu at TGI Friday's. In May, he was cited for two counts of assault from a violent altercation at a nightclub. (One of his assault victims was a woman, by the way. Sound familiar, Nebraska fans?). Oh, and for good measure, he was also charged with resisting arrest, trespassing, and failure to comply. Then, less than five weeks later, our wayward friend was busted again--this time for drunk driving (which by itself has led to the dismissal of several high-profile college players recently.) In late July (surprisingly just two weeks before the start of fall camp), prosecutors combined all six charges in a bundling maneuver that would make Comcast envious. After sifting through all that confusing legal mumbo-jumbo . . . Ala Kazam! . . . prosecutors dropped one of the assault charges and the resisting arrest charge, and reduced the trespassing charge to disturbing the peace. Purify gets a one-game suspension (he'll miss the much-anticipated Nevada tilt--ouch!) and probation. Just in the nick of time, Purify is back in good graces, and all is right in Huskerland. Whew! In an unrelated story, Maurice Purify has been deemed Nebraska's most talented player by nearly every college football publication in print. But, lest you feel that Purify's life still might be careening in a dangerous direction, you can take comfort in the words of Head Coach and Chief Mentor Bill Callahan, who for some reason has turned very touchy-feely in this whole episode: "I met with Maurice Purify this afternoon and I believe that he has made a sincere effort to redeem himself and move forward in a positive direction," Callahan said. "During his suspension from our program these past six weeks he has complied with all the requirements imposed upon him by the legal system, the general expectations of a student-athlete in our program, and the specific additional conditions demanded of him as a result of his actions." Well, that's a relief. He's obviously rehabilitated. He didn’t screw up for six whole weeks. That's certainly good enough for me. And it's apparently good enough for Husker fans everywhere. I haven't heard one word of apprehension or disapproval from any of the faithful in Husker Nation. Why not seal the deal and make him team captain? I haven't given Callahan credit for much over these past few years (besides making Texas Tech look like the '92 Cowboys), but I have to give him credit for something. He's actually succeeded in making Lawrence Phillips look like Roger Staubach.

Veruca Salt reincarnated as SEC fan

They want their national respect, Daddy, and they want it now!

The following was forwarded by a colleague. He's a UGA graduate and an all around decent fellow. I gather he's just to get my nostrils flaring. It worked.

Don't know who penned this, but it seems typical enough of the claptrap I hear among the greater Atlanta airwaves and read in newsprint.

Colin Cowherd is a big fan of college football.

The primary promoter of this nonsense is ESPN Radio's Colin Cowherd who picked up the idea from John Kincade, an afternoon sports talk host on 680 AM in Atlanta. How do I know this? I was there when John gave this BS ideology to Colin who latched onto it like a flood orphaned child to a new teddy bear. John's a good guy, but he loves to agitate, and in the absence of sense, he'll pimp a flimsy point to stir up his audience.

So the SEC is a lesser conference because its teams don't play enough "out of region" games, huh?

Let me ask you something, why do teams play "out of region" games?

1. To get attention.

2. To find good games.

3. To enter new recruiting territory.

Does any SEC team have any of those problems?

Say you're Oregon, you love the idea of playing Michigan because it puts you on national TV and you can't usually find that large a platform for your program. Maybe you'll even get "GameDay" to visit.

Suppose you're USC, you know that you need to play Notre Dame regularly and supplant that with games at Nebraska or Auburn because you have a league that is historically weak and to get poll and BCS "cred," you need to beef up your schedule.

If you're Colorado, why schedule series with Georgia and Florida State? You do it because your state produces all of about 10 D-1 prospects a year and you need to sell yourself to recruits in other parts of the country and what better way to do that than by playing there?

Here's the reality, and here's the reason so few SEC teams travel out of the South for games – they don't need to.

Top flight SEC teams are on network TV or ESPN in primetime six or seven times a year already.

Marquee non-conference games can be found down the road as evidenced by Georgia playing Georgia Tech, South Carolina playing Clemson, Florida playing Florida State and Kentucky playing Louisville every year. What's the sense of flying cross country for something you can drive to the corner for?

Finally, SEC teams recruit the bulk of their talent in the Deep South, thereby negating the necessity of globetrotting for players. The one SEC team that does a good deal of its recruiting out of that area, Tennessee, is also the SEC team that plays the most big-name "out of region" opponents. It's not a coincidence.

When you do something, there should be a good reason for it and there's no good reason for SEC teams to travel extensively for games. Georgia plays Auburn, Florida, Tennessee, Georgia Tech and South Carolina every year, five tough games all within a 200 mile radius of its campus. What sense would it make for them to travel all the way to Boston College or Wisconsin for a game?

Don't forget, traveling an 85 member football team, 15 coaches, an administrative staff, cheerleaders and a band is no small expense. Why blow big money flying cross country for games when your athletic department already is operating on a razor thin profit margin to begin with?

Let me put this "out of region" jive in terms we can all understand. I live in Atlanta, Georgia, home to one of the largest populations of hot chicks in the world. If I want to chase skirt, I drive 10 minutes downtown and there's more baby-dolls than I could look over in a lifetime. I moved to Atlanta from Bristol, CT where I worked at ESPN. Nightlife in Bristol was a pool hall and some pizza shops. If I wanted to cruise for women, I had to go "out of region" to do it by necessity.

You get what I'm saying here?

Criticizing SEC teams for not going "out of region" for games is like telling someone from Manhattan they don't know what good musicals are because they never leave Broadway.

Why would you travel for what you have the best in the world of next door?

People from San Diego don't travel to find good weather, people from Hawaii don't travel to find good surfing, and teams in the SEC don't travel to find good football games.

I realize it's difficult for many to accept that the SEC is the best conference in college football and has been for 20 years and likely always will be. Folks in the Midwest and Texas have pride and most of the national media doesn't want what they believe to be a batch hayseeds and bumpkins to dominate an entire sport, so you'll continue hear all manner of fanciful ideas about how the SEC is overrated or no better than any other conference. This "out of region" gibberish is just the most recent attempt to poke a hole in what is a doubtless college football fact: the SEC is the best conference hands down.

Well, with absolutes like that, dressed with powerful modifiers like "hands down," I'm convinced.

LSU lands Aunese son, McCartney Grandson ... Promise Keepers HQ to relocate to Baton Rouge?

Could it be 18 years ago that Sal Aunese passed away?

Some great CoachSpeak in this article. Check out this gem:

"T.C. is definitely a stroker, a guy who will throw the ball," said Fairview coach Tom McCartney, Bill's son and T.C.'s uncle.

Imagine that, a quarterback who will throw the ball ...

Also, from this photo, it appears that conservative Christians have taken a page out of the Tressel fashion playbook. (Wow, the cheese factor on that metaphor might have to be measured by NASA. Apologies.)

Like fish in a barrel...

Ok, I'll take the first shot here at the annual geometrically configured (think circumference) sexual act known as the NCAA college football preseason poll.

First item, thanks to everyone who voted Karma into the number 5 slot. Looking forward to the now virtually guaranteed September loss. Glad we locked that up early.

Also, I know being ranked at #6 is hardly a snub, but are people really going to be caught sleeping on WVU? Their returning talent combined with their borderline D2 schedule has to give them the early advantage to locking up a BCS bid and possibly making a run into the title game. The only real road game they play is at Rutgers and no one can really be sure that lightning will strike twice.

The only solace here is that someone could make the argument that their schedule is actually what is keeping them from being ranked higher. And then we can let the crying begin about how the Big East is disrespected. See, the preseason poll allows us to focus on those aspects of college football that we missed so dearly...

Boise St. vs. OU, high school version

Wonder what this play is called.

Is Urban Meyer the Next Barry Switzer?

Now that the Gators are national champions once again, the media is turning its spotlight on all corners of the program. Including the corner cell at the Alachua County jail. How much more of this before Florida gets a cute pun nickname like the "CrimiNoles"?

Fan for a Day II

I have to agree with Raul. On that list, it's UT-Austin, then UT-Knoxville. Going off the list, I'd say Harvard at The Game (check out Harvard's recruiting class; Plano East and New Trier represented).

Clem Haskins, where have you gone?

Don't suppose Minnesotans imagined themselves longing for the days of Clem Haskins and simple academic fraud. If true, this is ugly. One hopes Mike's brother Geoffrey Nifong isn't prosecuting the case.

This is what slays me: AD Joel Maturi had this to say in a statement. "The conduct alleged in this case does not reflect the expectations and aspirations that the University has for its student-athletes or any of its students."

This is the best the guy can come up with for prepared remarks? Not one in two trillion people would assume the university expects or aspires its students to such behavior.

Fan for a day ...

Okay, saw this on a PSU blog, but if you had to suck it up and be fan for a day for one of the following teams (sit amongst the faithful, wear the jersey, sing the fight songs, i.e., you won't be allowed to mail it in), which of these teams would you choose?

• Ohio State
• Notre Dame
• Texas
• Tennessee (or your other least favorite SEC school)

Still, ain't no one got nothin' on the sweaters

SEC just flat out does it better

Check out Darren McFadden's phat ride which will have everything to do with him winning the heisman. He didn't have this when Arkansas played Wisco in the capital one but if he did, he would have outran those slow white boys to the end zone .

The Laguna Beach Crowd needs to calm down

I don't buy the "we have nothing in common with our conference" argument. The same argument could be made about Florida not being southern enough for the SEC. Every conference has a school or two that doesn't fit in with the rest of the conference. UC-Boulder seems to think its too good for the conference b/c it attracts so many students from wealthy out-of-state suburbs. Well, so does Michigan, Wisconsin, Kansas, Arizona State or any state school that promises a good time. I don't hear Michigan or Wisonsin claiming they should join the IVY league(actually, I hear this all the time) or Kansas claiming they should join the Big Ten. At the end of the day, 70% of UC-Boulder's student body comes from Colorado. Why not coddle to the masses.

I'm also not buying the we would get more fans in Pasedena and South Central than we would in lincoln or manhattan. The new conference honeymoon would wear off after a few years and fans would stop traveling. Just ask Miami: trips to Atlanta and Chapel Hill are fun and intriguing the first time but the second and third time? The buffs need a win over FSU to put all this conference re-alignment talk to rest.

Realignment

Raul and I were just talking about this: how to realign the conferences. Not that long ago, CU declined to join the Pac-10. This article, and the following comment to it by some poster, address it. The writer for the Boulder Daily Camera is taking a lot of heat from the "flyover state" complex crowd ("we belong with the Huskers and Sooners, not a bunch of pretty boy surfers"), but I'm open to the idea. Nobody ever goes to road games in Ames, Manhattan, Stillwater, Norman, Lincoln, etc.; why not have them in L.A., Seattle, the Bay Area, and so on? Another poster pointed out that CU has the highest percentage of out-of-state students of any state u in the country, most of them from the left coast. Any thoughts on this? Any other realignment proposals?


Posted by buffalo_flyer on July 12, 2007 at 6:39 p.m. (Suggest removal)
The Pac-10 has rivalries down the board. They should invite both CU and CSU to the mix. Twelve schools, split into divisions, add conference game and additional multi mil payoff, great setup.The west has tons of people with ties to this state. Attendance at every away game but especially the Rose Bowl and Colisseum would blow away current numbers.We could still play CSU first weekend at Invesco every year for an early firstplace conference lead. Hows that opening College Football to the nation?

They must have read my post.

CBS ranks the most corrupt college football programs of all time and the state of Alabama takes the cake but who can forget that dynamic duo from "Harvard of the Southwest."

Even High School programs in Alabama are selling their soul to the devil

I never knew Chris Webber had a graduate degree...

Yet another program forced to erase wins and take down banners...oh wait...they only went 8-4 that year? Well nevermind then. Is anyone else here just completely shocked at the leniency granted to Oklahoma regarding the no-show job situation? They lose two scholarships and have to vacate wins from a season any diehard Sooner fan will insist never happened anyway. The penalty to Oklahoma is barely greater than that of what Colorado is suffering for discount school lunches. Yet again, Myles Brand and friends show their true colors, which in this case seems to indicate that Mr. Brand still has a soft spot for a certain deep shade of red...

The Southwest conference called...they want their corruption back.

Seriously, want happened to the good ole day when Texas schools spied on each other. When coaches left death threats for recruits who went else wear at the last minute. The days when boosters would only buy the athlete merely to keep them playing for their rivals or the days when financial aid offices forged documents to bolster pell grants. When coaches payed their running backs child support. These sissy-minor violations were never a part of the collge football i grew to love. Lets go back to the days of Luther Cambell and Danny Ford and lets stop punishing schools for undercharging a walk-on athletes meal.

And the NFL fully expects him to be at training camp...

...while hoping he might stick out an entire season before returning to another college program intent on overpaying him.

Nick Saban is already in peak performance mode at Alabama. It never hurts to get an early jump on recruiting violations. You don't want your opponents to have an edge in news clippings. Saban is obviously feeling the pressure to keep up with Les Miles in the race for most words authored on their respective programs before an actual kickoff. http://www.sportingnews.com/yourturn/viewtopic.php?t=234218

No word if the self-reporting of violations is a strategy by Saban to get Alabama to void his contract so that he can take over as manager of the Cincinnati Reds.

Because of the minor nature of the recruiting violations, I suspect the NCAA will be rather lenient in this instance and only take away one or two scholarships from Colorado...

Les is Not More

In case you weren't sick enough of the "SEC cross to bear" song, as Raul pointed out, this year Les Miles is at it earlier than the presidential primary candidates. Miles' innacurate braying and pandering aside, USC plays the following teams on the road this season: Nebraska, Notre Dame, Oregon, Cal, and Arizona State. LSU's road games are Mississippi State, Tulane (do they even have a stadium anymore, or will this be an "away" game for LSU in the Superdome?), Kentucky, 'Bama, and Ole Miss. Hmmm. The rest of their games, at home, are VaTech, Middle Tennessee, South Carolina, Florida, Auburn, Louisiana Tech (what, no Monroe this year to complete the LA State Title?), and Auburn. Really, the big challenges are Va Tech (not an SEC team), Florida, and Auburn. Other than that, their "path," as Miles put it, doesn't look all that bad. UCLA and Oregon State are easily as good as Ole Miss and South Carolina, and while Washington is down, so is Alabama. Thanks to Miles, we'll never hear the end of useless conference comparisons this season. But, being in the SEC is an enviable position to be in. If LSU loses it's opener at Miss State, Miles can just say how dern tough the SEC is. If USC gets upset by UCLA again, he can marvel at how SC lost to such a weak opponent. He really can't lose.

Berry Oakley and Duane Allman just turned in their graves.

I don't know what's going on in Athens this off-season but I do know this isn't what national championship off-seasons look like.
That's starting Quaterback Matt Stafford on the right having a moment with backup Joe Cox.

John Ameche's 27th B-day party?

*I would like to thank our friends at Deepsouthsports.net for providing the pics.

Further proof that they are just faster in SEC country:

Be sure to check the part about disappearing for about 5 minutes after the ceremony...

http://deepsouthsports.blogspot.com/2007/06/bama-fan-of-week_27.html

I really have nothing more to add here that could top what the author of the original post has already put to print.

The Award goes to

The Award for first SEC coach to spout off about how hard it is to navigate through an SEC schedule goes to Les Miles. This award, usually reserved for Tommy Tuberville, goes to the SEC coach that exemplifies excellence in the field of whining. Usually, the award isn't handed out until mid-october. Look, if the SEC is so damn hard then drop out and join the Sun Belt. Believe me, the USC/ND loving media understand that going to Gainesville, Knoxville and Athens is no walk through Peidmont Park but, please, don't attack other conferences. I challenge anyone in the SEC to venture up to Seattle or Eugene and come out alive. Just ask Miami, Michigan and Oklahoma about those trips.

Top 5 Games of the Century

Every now and then the College football world is blessed with an overhyped classic referred to as the "Game of the Century." Here is my list of top 5 "Games of the Century"

5. Oklahoma 17 Nebraska 7: The Big 12 destroyed what was arguably college football's greatest rivalry. This 1 vs 2 decided who got to go to the Orange Bowl to be Miami's whipping boy. Also, lets not forget that Ohio State was not the first school to loose a football and basketball national championship game in the same academic year. In 87-88, Oklahoma lost to Miami in the Orange Bowl and then lost Kansas in the basketball national championship game. To their credit, the Sooners played two defacto road games: Miami in the OrangeBowl and Kansas in Kansas City.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m813Ccd09GA&mode=related&search=

3. (tied) Michigan 39 Ohio State 42 2006: No Comment.

3. (tied) Florida 21 Florida State 24 1996: A week after this game all hell broke loose(Nebraska-Texas) and the two schools met five weeks later in the sugar bowl. The hype was all for not as the rematch yielded a 52-20 gator victory. Thank you Ohio State, Texas and Michigan for making Florida's first national title a reality. More importantly, thank you Georgia for making Florida look so fast and athletic the last 17 years.

2. Miami 17 Florida State 16 1991: Wide Right I. Bowden ran on the field thinking Gerry Thomas hit the game-winning FG only to realize a minute later it sailed wide right. Maybe he should have noticed Sebastien the IBIS running on the field, taunting his players, before attempting to congratulate his kicker. 91 was the first year of the Big East football conference who somehow took credit for this national championship despite the fact that Miami only played two big east schools. But hey, if Delaney and his posse of academically superior universities want to take credit for Penn State's 82 and 86 championships, then the Big East can do whatever it wants.

1. Florida State 24 Notre Dame 31 1993: This game was so big that ESPN College Gameday left its studio in Bristol for the first time to broadcast from a college campus. The storylines were unbelievable: O.J. Simpson as a sideline reporter, Blue Blood football vs. speedy Nouveau Riche football and midwestern Irish Catholics vs. southern baptist rednecks from Florida. What's the best way to celebrate a "game of the century" victory--a loss to Boston College seven days later.

Nothing says "new south" like steve spurrier

http://deadspin.com/sports/peeing-at-augusta/ah-the-sweet-relief-of-augusta-261636.php

After single-handedly turning Georgia into a second-tier football program, the "evil genius" relieves himself on the state's most sacred ground. What's next, going into in Athens and throwing a bomb with 1:29 left when you're already up by 28. Oh Wait, he already did that back in '95. By the way Reggie, don't tell anyone down there UGA is second tier. They'll be quick to point out 2 SEC Championships in 27 years, REM and Widespread PANIC.

Another SEC Advantage

A friend of mine is studying for the Louisiana Bar, and sent this, directly off the Feb 07 Louisiana bar exam wills and trusts section.

"Boudreaux wrote the following on the back of a cocktail napkin on Jan 4 2007: 'I am THRILLED that LSU beat Notre Dame in the Sugar Bowl last night 41-14. I hereby bequeath 10 thousand dollars to the LSU Football Program.'"

In Louisiana, it is indeed an enforceable holographic codicile. Maybe the non-enforceability of holographic wills in Illinois is the reason the Illini football program doesn't get as much money left to it by boosters.

The 'Hawk is Out: UNC Decides to "Go Play Intramurals, Brother!"

Well, despite going 2-10 in his debut campaign, Coach 'Hawk has instilled some fear into the ACC. An exaggeration, yes, but as 'Sheed likes to say: "The ball don't lie!" Butch Davis has just "opted out" of UNC's home-and-home with the Buffs, which requires the 'Heels to pay CU $100k in liquidated damages (for you others studying for the bar, the contract must have provided for liquidated damages as the 'exclusive' remedy in the event of a breach, precluding CU from seeking specific performance or injunctive relief). There's your fine, Myles Brand. Turns out CU didn't have to pay it after all. Anyway, Colorado has replaced UNC with West Virginia, which will be the Buffs' first meeting with the Mountaineers in CU's 117 year history.