“The University of Iowa has put its search for a football radio analyst on hold after Ed Podolak confirmed he will seek treatment. The reason for the treatment is not indicated, but it is apparently alcohol-related.” (The Des Moines Register)

Tajh Boyd is a Tiger. After bouncing from WVU to Tennessee and flirting with Oregon and Ohio State Hampton, Virginia ***** QB recruit Tajh Boyd committed to Clemson. Block-C has captured all of the emotion.

And Tigernet goes wild…

The ladies in Clemson got boinked last night.

Worst Cheap Shot of ‘08? The Wiz has embraced the democratic process, nominated ten videos and leaves it up to anonymous visitors to pick the winner.  After watching them all my vote went to Auburn knee diver.

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“It’s ridiculous that this rumor has even gained the traction it has over the past few days. I hesitate to respond to it at all because by dignifying this ‘report,’ I set myself up to be forced to set the record straight on future rumors. But it’s obvious that some people out there are trying to sabotage our recruiting efforts and it’s unfortunate that their agenda has been published and reproduced in recent days,” Brian Hardin, Notre Dame’s Director of Football Media Relations, told BGI.

The Gruden Rumor: Perception Is Reality [Blueandgold.com]

Daily News Jets beat writer Rich Cimini revealed a rumor he heard about Notre Dame hiring Jon Gruden amid his reasoning of why Gruden wouldn’t be a good fit as Jets head coach.

By the way, one of my Bucs peeps tells me that the word around the Bucs is that Gruden could be going to Notre Dame to replace Charlie Weis. Sounds a little far fetched, but as the theory goes: The school will buy out Weis as soon as he signs his recruiting class, in two or three weeks, and hire Gruden. Heard from someone close to the Notre Dame program that there’s a weird vibe around the football offices. Hmmm.

That would be one fucked up way to fire a coach… Assure him he is safe for a year, then pink slip him after he hauls in another top 20 recruiting class. And what about the recruits? It’s even more dicked up for them, because they can’t just pick up and leave.

Let’s suppose one way or another this actually goes down. Would it be a good move for Notre Dame? I personally think Gruden is a better coach than Weis. He is a work-a-holic who actually won a Super Bowl as head coach. Notre Dame has the talent, they’ve just severely under performed. Gruden would light that necessary fire under the player’s asses.

I strike fear in the heart's of my enemies

Dr. Saturday thinks it’s more likely the NCAA retroactively penalizes USC for the “Bush Push” than Notre Dame hiring Gruden. John Walters says no effin’ way.

Racarie Software has developed an awesome web app that shows how your team can become National Champion via the transitive property of college football. Well that is unless you are Southern Methodist, Washington, Washington State, North Texas or Western Kentucky. In case you didn’t know the transitive property of college football is: if Team A > Team B and Team B > Team C then Team A > Team C^*.

Here is Virginia Tech’s path

With soft caressing gentle hands like those we know Pat White treated center Mike Dent just right.

What a messy bathroom...

We really don’t like Pat White the player, even though he never beat the Hokies. However, we do respect him. He helped put West Virginia back on the national radar with conference championships and huge bowl wins. We think the combination of White graduating and Bill Stewart being hellbent on showing the world West Virginia can lubricate it and not on coaching will remove WVU as Big East top dog.

Click the links below to see Pat White doing his best Urkel impression among amusing pictures.

H/T Image Daily Duckets via TBL

Bradford is Back Bitches. You know you dig the alliteration. And Gerald McCoy, Jermaine Gresham and Trent Williams are returning with him. Texas can rip up the free pass to the National Championship Game they thought they had. Stoops said the return of his underclassmen was bigger than signing day, which really has to make those recruits feel sunshine and lollipops inside.

Ed Podolak retires after 27 years of being Iowa football radio analyst after photos of drunken debauchery hit the blogosphere.

Podolak was given the ultimatum to seek alcohol treatment and come back or step down. He chose the latter. The Wiz ran the photos last Friday after they surfaced on an Iowa State message board. They were re-posted at hundreds of other blogs when at some time, obviously, an Iowa official saw them.

Elder Tribesman of Blogfrica Brian Cook blasted Jay Christensen, owner of The Wiz, for posting the photos.

I’d like to personally congratulate Jay Christensen of The Wizard of Odds, by the way, for posting these photos in a bid for cheap hits and costing a guy even Iowa State fans think is pretty awesome at his job. Good work there. You’ve contributed greatly to the national discourse of college football with this. Love the utter lack of remorse in the follow up.

Duh-Amn!

Can you really blame Christensen though? If you find the photos newsworthy you don’t, but if you feel like Brian does you do. As a reader of the The Wiz the guy doesn’t take a lot of, if any, potshots. But, a guy drinking in a bar having some fun isn’t what I consider need-to-know information for the general public. It just sucks a long tenured guy, with such a subtle smooth downblouse technique, had to lose his job over harmless bar shenanigans.

USC-yo-ass later. Sanchez seems NFL bound, but Pete Carroll has one last opportunity to convince him to stay.

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