Deepsouthsports.net has an interesting story about Nick Saban’s last pitch to recruit 5-star godzilla sized tackle Bobby Massie.

He was asked to give a good Nick Saban recruiting story, and he had a pretty good one to say the least. Bobby said he called Coach Saban the night before signing day to let him know that he was going to sign with Ole Miss. Bobby did not even inform the Ole Miss staff that he was going to be a Rebel until the night before signing day, per Bobby, but he did say, “I had a pretty good idea where I was going in December.”

Anyway, Bobby calls Nick and Coach Saban stops him before he tells where he is going and said this, “Bobby, do not even tell me where you are going, because if you are not going to Alabama I am turning you into the NCAA. You know you have a chance to start at Alabama at right tackle as a sophomore, and nobody would turn that down unless they did something illegal.”

Bobby was stunned. He said he just listened to Coach Saban rant and never said another word about it. He was offended to say the least. That is why he made such a scene at the press conference when he threw the Alabama hat on the ground and put on an Ole Miss hat.

Fuck smoke machines, the promise of early playing time and championships. Just tell the recruits if they don’t sign with your team that you’re going to turn them into the NCAA! Could Nick Saban be anymore full of himself?

The deal includes $110 million in guarantees, the largest multimedia rights package in college sports history, the school said in a news release. It also includes approximately $18 million in IMG’s assumption of production, payroll, tickets and other expenses. The agreement will fund 36 sports, helping to ensure the long-term financial stability of the athletic program, Ohio State Athletic Director Eugene Smith said. (Bloomberg.com)

Furrer4Heisman at Gobbler Country is hosting a roundtable to discuss the Hokies this spring. I respect the hard work that he has put into getting this together so much  that I decided to drink before, during and after answering the questions.

Question number one comes from reader Riggs: “Are we really going to be that good next year? I just don’t see us being a top 10 team given last season’s offensive output. Tell me that we’re overhauling the offense, or we’re adding new packages. Give me some hope.”

Riggs, Riggs, Riggs either you’re a glutton for pain (read BSDM), naive or haven’t been a follower of Hokie football for too long. Are we really going to be that good next year? On paper we are a top 5 team. We are returning all of our skill positions, bringing new offensive weapons like Ryan Williams, have an even more experienced offensive line than last year’s and a Bud Foster coached defense. With that being said we aren’t going undefeated and more than likely will shit the bed against Alabama and 1-2 ACC teams. Why because unfortunately we aren’t overhauling our offense and even more importantly Bryan Stinespring is still calling the plays. In my inebriated state I actually starting to think our offensive scheme works, we just call really dumb plays at the worst times. Like QB sneaking out of the shotgun on 3rd and goal from the one. We always seem to shoot ourselves in the foot. Continue Reading “Virginia Tech Hokies Spring Football Roundtable” »

Jerry Rice Jr. will walk on at UCLA

Jerry Rice Jr. of the Menlo School in the Bay Area, has deciding to walk-on at UCLA. The 5-foot-10, 180 pound Rice put up decent number during his high school career, and had a lone offer to play for the Air Force, but decided to come to Westwood as a preferred walk-on.

No namesake of Jerry Rice walks anywhere. He runs purposefully, at full speed, taking corners at 45 and 60 degree angles.

JoePa is on track to be stalking the sidelines in Happy Valley this fall.

“I feel great. I’m not sure about from the neck up, but from the neck down, I’m OK,” he joked before practice in his first meeting with reporters since the Rose Bowl. “I’m fine, really. That’s a dead issue.”

Does anyone else think that JoePa goes through the same “vitalization” process as Mr. Burns?

The Greatest Charity Race Ever

Right behind Jim Valvano this is the second greatest to be associated with NC State.

Around the Interwebs is a whenever-the-eff-I-feel-like-it-a-week summary of the day’s news in college football. If you’d like your link to appear email it to cgb [at] collegegameaballs [dot] com.

Q. What appeals to you about Georgia football? A. Their style of offense. Matthew Stafford played at Georgia, and he has got a great chance to be one of the first players taken in the NFL draft. If Georgia is turning out first-round draft picks like that at quarterback, then I think anyone would take a close look at Georgia. They just put a lot of guys in the league. I also like that Georgia wins. They were ranked No. 1 at one point last year. (AJC.com)

Eventually the Tigers’ training staff asked what had been prescribed to their kicker, who had surgery last week to repair his left collarbone, which he had fractured while snowboarding in Colorado over spring break. ”They had me on this really strong stuff, Valium,” Benton said. “They (Clemson trainers) were like ‘Dang, they gave you Valium? ‘I was like ‘Yeah.’ They were like ‘That’s why you couldn’t concentrate.’ ” (The Post and Courier)

February through May (minus spring practice) are the doldrums of the college football year. CGB Off-Topic will try to fill part of the gap with anecdotes, rants and ramblings.

Last weekend I went on a trip to do some major partying and while many ludicrous drunken antics took place, none, in terms of shear stupidity and hilarity can hold a candle to parts of the conversation I overheard on my flight home. The two kids that sat behind me must have met in the terminal, because they seemed pretty well acquainted. The one on my left was 14 and heading back to boarding school at Deerfield Academy, the other to my right was 19 heading back to college at WNEC. They came from two totally different walks of life. Boarding school kid which I will refer to as Silly Bitch is naive, rich, motivated and intelligent. College kid which I will refer to as Anal Arthur is lower middle class, stupid and a stoner. Continue Reading “CGB Off-Topic: The Most Ridiculous Conversation I’ve Ever Overheard” »

Come on two-zero more neck movement. Back and forth, back and forth! NICE!

H/T EDSBS

Ray Melick takes a look at the shenanigans of hiring former coaches as graduate assistants.

In Tuscaloosa, Alabama is expected to bring on former Virginia offensive coordinator Mike Groh as a graduate assistant. In Knoxville, Tennessee is reportedly set to make former Minnesota and Syracuse offensive coordinator Mitch Browning a graduate assistant. In Auburn, Gene Chizik brought in his tight ends coach and recruiting coordinator from Iowa State, Scott Fountain, as Football Operations Coordinator.

Obviously the NCAA is going to outlaw this shiznit and they should. Graduate positions were created as a way for students entering the coaching profession to get their feet wet. My suggestion for a rule would be you cannot be a graduate assistant once you are paid to coach at the college or professional level. Also, why would anyone not named Al let Mike Groh any where near their team?

Scrimmaging during Spring? Furrer4heisman wants to know why teams cannot hold a scrimmage during the spring.

I think it would be in the sports best interest to let teams scrimmage. If not in August, then at least during spring drills. Virginia Tech would get a much better bearing on its players and be better prepared for Alabama if it was allowed to scrimmage Liberty or another team that’s close by prior to the season.

I tried thinking of logical reasons as to why this cannot happen and I’ve got nothing. Its kind of like a playoff, it makes too much sense.

Ginormous Sandwiches Rule with a Greasy Fist

The sandwich above is from Primanti Brothers. I had the pleasure of eating a pastrami sandwich from there and I came so hard while eating it I impregnated a woman two booths down. Check out the rest at The Angry T.

Around the Interwebs is a whenever-the-eff-I-feel-like-it-a-week summary of the day’s news in college football. If you’d like your link to appear email it to cgb [at] collegegameaballs [dot] com.