UF, not Miami, is the only Florida school with enough street-cred to rock the army fatigues.

The arrest record in that span [since Randy Shannon was hired] is about the same as the score on the field between these teams: Florida 15, Miami 1. And the one for Miami was freshman Robert Marve breaking a car mirror.

In the interim, Florida players have punched women, stolen property and been involved with guns and drugs. Yet nobody on ESPN is so much as reporting this. Nobody at Sports Illustrated is saying the Florida team picture should be taken from the front and the side.

And we won’t see either ESPN or SI rake the Gators over the coals until after Tim Tebow graduates.

Get well, get well soon we wish you to get well.

All the best to you Lee while recovering from your stroke.

JoePa is continuing his Big Ten expansion campaign, but doesn’t want the conference to consider Notre Dame for the twelfth spot.

“If I had my choice, someone that can give us the biggest TV exposure in the East,” Paterno said, offering as possibilities “Syracuse, Pitt, Rutgers. Not in that order.”

Notre Dame rejected an invitation to join the Big Ten a decade ago.

“There’s some pressure, I would suppose, to maybe go back to Notre Dame and ask again, which I would not be happy with,” Paterno said. “I think they’ve had their chance.”

Neatly folded and tucked in the back left lobe of his brain lies JoePa’s “list”. Don’t cross him, because once you go on you don’t come off. Seriously he holds grudges for-ev-are. How can ANY east coast team’s spotty regional coverage compare to Notre Dame’s season long national broadcast?

Michigan is going to be fat after eating up cupcakes in 2010. If they aren’t at least 9-3 (@ND, @OSU, @PSU) in the way too far off future I don’t see Rich Rod working out. Could mgoblog’s latest slogan, the ability to destroy a planet is insignificant next to the power of the Forcier be any sweeter? We think not.

Odds on futures for this year’s National Championship are up at Bodgo. We’re considering tossing a Jackson on: Texas 7/1, VT 16/1 and Notre Dame 25/1. H/T F4F who left us one hell of a text last night.

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The final regular-season ballots in the USA TODAY Coaches’ Poll will no longer be made public beginning with the 2010 football season, according to a person with knowledge of the information who didn’t want to be identified because he wasn’t authorized to comment before an announcement today from the American Football Coaches Association. (USATODAY.com | Kelly Whiteside)

A congressman said he plans to investigate testimony from Alamo Bowl executive director Derrick Fox at this month’s Bowl Championship Series subcommittee hearing after learning that Fox might have exaggerated by millions of dollars the amount bowl games donate to local charities. Fox, while representing all 34 bowl games during his appearance on Capitol Hill on May 1, claimed in his argument against a playoff that “almost all the postseason bowl games are put on by charitable groups” and “local charities receive tens of millions of dollars every year.” In fact, 10 bowl games are privately owned and one is run by a branch of a local government. The remaining 23 games enjoy tax-exempt status from the Internal Revenue Service, but combined to give just $3.2 million to local charities on $186.3 million in revenue according to their most recent federal tax records and interviews with individual bowl executives. (rivals.com | Dan Wetzel and Josh Petmer)

Pool Jumping, the New Way to Measure Athleticism

That’s 4-star prospect Dakota Royer jumping out of four feet of water. What other freakish feats of nasty will we see from future Saturday superstars? Our picks are over-the-head watermelon hurling, battery crushing and wind dodging.

Spurrier lets Kiffin know he didn’t accuse him of cheating, he merely implied it.

“I didn’t accuse you of cheating,” said an animated Spurrier, motioning toward Kiffin, who stood there with his face reddening by the second.

“What I said was, ‘Was it permissible to call recruits before you were announced head coach and had taken the [recruiting] test?’ Now, you took the test online, and I didn’t even know you could do that. I thought you had to take the test on campus … and then start calling [recruits].”

The Real Coaches of the SEC better get all their verbal jabs in before Commissioner Slive’s talk on Wednesday. Continue Reading “Around the Interwebs” »

After being absent for a couple of days this is going to be ATI on steroids.  Grab your ass cheeks and prepare to be rocked.

Robert Marve is going to be slinging the rock at Purdue in 2010. His transfer saga was as long and drawn out as his NFL brother by homophone last name Brett’s unretirement. In the end he decided to take a scholarship at Purdue instead of walking on at Tennessee.

Notre Dame is contemplating a return to the Bronx to play Army at the new Yankee Stadium. Army, the best they can do is Army? We understand the nostalgic value, but the only place Notre Dame versus Army echoes are reverberating is deep space. At the core ESPN would be promoting this game as: a must see national blowout. Would starting a new tradition by playing Rutgers there be so bad?

Does anyone else think Jim Delany would take a bullet to save the Rose Bowl.

The president initially voiced his wish for a football playoff last fall while campaigning and has remained an advocate. “He probably has an interest as a fan,” Delany said. “He’s a scholar and a lawyer and a great politician, but I don’t think he really understands the complexity of the issue.”

If the president doesn’t understand the BCS then neither do I.

The latest episode of the Solid Verbal Podcast has dropped. Get it while the bits are hot.

Let’s be honest the power towel was worth every penny.

Prince, now an assistant coach at the University of Virginia, is scheduled to receive $3.2 million more in payments from 2015 to 2020 — in addition to the buyout amount from his August 2008 contract extension. It’s all because of what K-State officials say is a “secret agreement” signed last August by Prince and Bob Krause, K-State’s former athletic director.

Hokies prepare youself for what you are about to read.

First up are the rushing stats. Remember that these numbers are bereft of sacks, which I view as passing plays and the NCAA erroneously views as running plays. Although maybe I should have left them in because when you include sacks, our rushing efficiency actually goes up to 1.000. How?Because in ACC play last year, the average sack resulted in a 6.5-yard loss. Our sacks resulted in an average loss of 5.8 yards. So multiply that 0.7-yard difference over 26 sacks and the Hokies actually GAIN 18.2 yards against expectations. So we have that going for us. Which is nice.

Great work by F4H cranking out metrics on last year’s Hokies.

And just because it’s awesome.

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Every Monday Randomly during the off-season Heather Dinich hosts an ACC chat and answers questions at ESPN.com.  This is her most perceptive and astute response.

Sylvain (Calgary): High Def,….Oops Heather, Got a quick Miami question. Will Miami be Miami when Randy Shannon is done?

Heather Dinich: H-Bomb works too … All I can tell you is that their AD seems to have the patience to find out.

So it is written and so it shall be, H-Bomb.

http://proxy.espn.go.com/chat/chatESPN?event_id=26580#dinich

Some of the most intense arguments and / or pissing contests throughout the college football season revolve around conference rankings. Why? It’s another way for fans to make themselves feel better or puff out their chest. “Yeah… we were only 6-6, but we play in the best conference.” “Dude there’s no way your 8-4 team is better than mine, we play in the…” Out of conference schedules are brought to the forefront of any discussion of what team or conference is better than another. Instead of just tossing out bullshit arguments I used some logic and math to nail down something concrete. This is what I came up with.

The out of conference strength for any team is calculated by:

S_t = (((0.9 * H) + (1.1 * A) + (0.7 * h) + (0.8 * a) -(0.9 * C)) / (H + A + h + a + C))

H = Home games against BCS teams (and Notre Dame)
A = Neutral or Away games against BCS teams (and Notre Dame)
h = Home games against non-BCS teams
a = Away games against non-BCS teams
C = Cupcakes, games against any team that doesn’t fall into one of the above categories ie 1aa teams.

Mathmatically speaking the formula is simple enough. My logic was to penalize teams for playing cupcakes and reward them for playing BCS conference teams. Away games are weighed more just because on average it is harder to win on the road (duh). Originally I subtracted one for each cupcake played, but this

made me change my mind.

The out of conference strength for any conference is calculated by:

S_c = SUM(S_t) / COUNT(S_t)

Again pretty simple math, just take average.

The results (higher indicates stronger out of conference schedule).

Pac 10 S_c = 0.653
Big 12 S_c = 0.564583
Big Ten S_c = 0.4863
Big East S_c = 0.44
SEC S_c = 0.425
ACC S_c = 0.377083

Thoughts…

• I never would have thought the ACC would be last. I’m beginning to think I’m a homer. I never would have thought the Big 12 would be second.
• The Pac 10 plays very few cupcakes, not to mention a round-robin schedule
• The teams that finish towards the top of their division / conference standings play a tougher out of conference schedule.
• Massive quantities of numbers can be prescribed instead of Ambien

What do you guys think?

You can see the crunched numbers for each team in decadent tables complete with repeating decimals after the jump.

Warning! These numbers were calculated late at night. It is quite possible something is wrong. If you find an error just let me know.
Continue Reading “2009 Out of Conference Schedule Strength by Conference and Team” »

Top 10 Pot -Stirring Coaches. It’s a fine attempt at a list of agitators, but we have some points of contention. Kiffin hasn’t coached a game yet and he’s already the new number one.  In his heyday Spurrier would have never apologized for calling Meyer out. Also Mark Richt at number three…? Please, the guy has been a saint in comparison to other SEC coaches. Also Mike Leach is in the top 3, maybe above Spurrier because his jabs hit NFL coaches. Finally Jim Harbaugh would crack our top 10 because he immediately threw down against Pete Carroll after attacking the Stanford job.

Delaware State is going t0 start 2009 0-1. The Hornets will forfeit their 10/17 game against North Carolina A&T in favor of a trip to the Big House. I think I know who everyone outside of Michigan will be rooting for.

Which of these four stadiums will be the new home to the Army Navy game? Maybe all of them.

The two greatest ACC road trips of the 2009 season. I definitely beat F4H.

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