The Mirror Lake Jump: past, present and future.

Mark Mangino, the man Brent Musburger called The Big Teddy Bear, is a fat and a volatile dickhead. Jason Whitlock thinks Mangino being obese is at the heart of his problems and rage. So much for the jolly fat man stereotype. I disagree, but whatever the cause, incidents like this (via edsbs.com) have overshadowed the turnaround and miracle working he’s done on the field at Kansas.

I told him this wasn’t relevant to this ticket and he said “This job gives you power, doesn’t it? You feel real fucking powerful walking around like a big shot…He got back in his car eventually, “You just don’t like talking to me because I’m ethnic, just because I talk with my hands.” He then went on to tell me how important he was to this university and how he doesn’t have time to spend dealing with this crap.

Rock Chalk Talk has a running list of what’s actually gone down and what’s suspected to have gone down. Continue Reading “Around the Interwebs” »

Happy Veterans’ Day to all the actual soldiers out there.

The Entire Nike Pro-Combat uniform collection, sloganized. A must have for every jersey whore. We took a look at the Hokies’ “Good Guys Wear White” inspired duds yesterday and we stated it could’ve been worse. We were right, click the link and check out LSU, FSU and Miami.

Eye-Gouging revisited. Tomahawk Nation busts out the video and still evidence of Clemson’s Andre Branch digging into David Spurlock’s facemask with what looks to be an attempt at the eye-rake. We didn’t agree with the Brandon Spikes’ suspension and we don’t agree with FSUncensored calling for Branch to be shelved. Take it away Willy Mac.

Ok, yes. It’s very obvious that Branch was being a dick and getting a little extra in after the play. That wasn’t eye gouging though. He may have tried, but it didn’t happen. He was definitely ripping at his neck, but that’s very common for a fumble scrum. Football is a mean, nasty game. And guess what? To play it at that level, you have to be a mean and nasty person to get by. Branch is a mean and nasty person. So is Spurlock. They wouldn’t be starting if they both weren’t this caliber of player.

Agree. In the words of Ron Cherry “giving him the business” is as much a part of football as the hand off or forward pass (or in Virginia Tech’s case the screen pass). If it’s called during the game, that’s fair, because it was obvious. Unless an eye popping out goes unnoticed let sleeping dogs lie.

We all have high definition televisions in our living rooms so why don’t the replay officials in the SEC? Perhaps they aren’t early adopters, or they’ve already budgeted all that $2.25 billion from ESPN…

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Get your repenting on non-worthy mortals because Jesus is back.

Feel free to sleep in, or get an extra day of worship in, because there isn’t one game before 3:30 worth getting up for.

Wake Forest 24 @ Georgia Tech 42 – Wake is usually good for one big ACC road win a year, and so for they are oh-for. But there’s no way in hell (pun intended) they’re coming away with a win from Bobby Dodd.

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The Big 12 North, taking it on the chin since 2003. Pictured above is the aftermath of the Texas’ 7-41 bludgeoning of Mizzou not pictured is Oklahoma’s thrashing of Kansas. Those both came a week after Mizzou’s 17-33 loss to Oklahoma State and Texas Tech’s armed robbery of Nebraska’s Blackshirts. Point being, the Big 12 North is pushing the ACC Atlantic for the unwanted recognition of worst division in college football.

Online Tours of the SEC are departing in five minutes. Get the fuck out, you’ve never spent an afternoon meandering drunkenly through The Grove or screaming your balls off in Death Valley on brisk autumn evening? Don’t be too embarrassed we’ve never been to either and Friends of the Program has us covered with their FREE virtual tours.

Pulse of the ACC. Hell, the most excited I’ve been about N.C. State this week was when Adrian Wilson gave a shout out to Philip Rivers during an interview on the Jim Rome show. That’s just depressing. The locals are sacrificing their prize pigs to Saint Dabo who better stuff himself fat on ham and bacon while he can because that unexpected loss is right around the corner. Dane and Winfield score a Pee-wee Herman in an adult theater on the CGB Giddy Scale. Brian and Jeff are adrift in a motionless ocean of what happened and are trying to figure out how to tell their wives they won’t at home in time for Foxtrot lessons. And, finally, Softball Face wants ‘Noles to forget the Ponder/Tebow comparisons.

His sweater vest won’t be dry cleaned, steamed, re-steamed nor will his American flag pin be within .01% error perpendicular to the center of a loosely knotted tie, because Evil Tressel is back. Bitches.

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Tommy Bowden dropped by BusterSports.com’s live blog of UNC-FSU. If you haven’t checked out Buster you should. They couple former college coaches with some of the best writers the blogosphere has to offer. Anyways, after taking a barrage of “Bobby” questions Tommy took on my request.

Me: Tommy lighten up the mood and regale us with your best (funniest) recruiting story.

Tommy Bowden: You know, CGB, I had one when I was at Duke and was recruiting a lineman out of Jacksonville that FSU was recruiting and I called the house and his mother answered the phone and I asked for John and I hear her yelling and he says ask who it is and she says “it’s coach bowden!” And he yells back, “Is it the real one or the other one?” So that was a little humorous I thought. I remember that one well…

People you can appreciate the most, the ones who don’t take themselves too seriously. Well played Tommy and +1.

This is our new Thursday night thread. We hope YOU our readers and friends in the blogosphere pop your heads in and engage in a little conversation.

This is a weekend of under cards, but let’s take a look at the inner beauty.

Florida State 28 @ North Carolina 26 – To date this is the least exciting Thursday night game of the season. FSU is fighting for bowl eligibility and North Carolina needs a big win at home to feed their fan base. The ‘Noles have proven they can put up points while North Carolina has struggled  to find their groove. FSU’s defense has been suspect, but is good enough to hold the Heels in check.

South Florida 13 @ Pittsburgh 20 – Don’t punch me in the balls Wanstache.

Georgia Tech 27 @ Virginia 17 – From here on out, for obvious reasons, I’ll have my eye on Georgia Tech. For those who turn a blind eye to ACC football, Virginia Tech needs our engineering brethren in the Dirty to lose so we control our own destiny in the ACC again. The Jackets haven’t won in Charlottesville since 1990, but unfortunately their offense will be too much for the Cavs to handle. They’ll grind out the clock and UVA will waste half of their precious possessions.

Boston College 27 @ Notre Dame 30 – Brian and Jeff took some time away from knitting new tights for dance class to take a look at the history between the Eagles and Irish. The Eagles are riding a six game winning streak into South Bend, but we’re picking the Irish because Boston College has been outscored 21-73 on the road this year. The winner will receive representation in the Jesus graphic above. Current Jesus Cup standings have been provided for your convenience.

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My thoughts on Saturday that you will probably disagree with.

Nighttime in Death Valley was a letdown. Tebow, for the most part, was kept out of the shit and did just enough. LSU’s offense was lousy and because of that the Tigers were never a threat to win the game.

Blackout Fail. Doak was a sea of Garnet and Gold and three coeds fought a movement backed by thousands of no-show forum warriors.

The commissioner’s office has notified Vanderbilt that Commodores’ fans have lost the right to chant, “ESS EEE CEE (repeat ad nauseam)” after their 13-16 loss to Army.

Hokies, we can have offense too? Who the hell is Jim Drunkenmiller anyways?

So far, Texas has been sleepwalking through their schedule. The alarm goes off for Oklahoma this week.

Rich Rod was looking Einsteinian after he pulled Forcier in the fourth quarter and replaced him with Denard Robinson. He promptly lead Michigan to score. Then on Michigan’s final possession Robinson sealed Iowa’s win after he was picked.

I’m convinced I could lead Texas Tech on a scoring drive. Red Raiders’ backup QB Steven Sheffield threw for 7 TDs.

Alabama is the most complete team. Ole Miss is the most disappointing team.

Houston is 3-0 (Oklahoma State, Texas Tech and Mississippi State) against the BCS and 0-1 against Conference USA.

This is our new Thursday night thread. We hope YOU our readers and friends in the blogosphere pop your heads in and engage in a little conversation.

Jesus in the house. What? What?

Nebraska 23 at Mizzou 21 – Let’s get frisky! Corn Nation and Rock M Nation are betting taglines on the outcome. Orson has this bitch factored and it’s not not looking good for the Huskers or, well, maybe it is… I like Nebraska because I saw man-child Roy Helu Jr. conquer the souls of eleven Virginia Tech defenders almost three weeks ago.

Auburn 38 at Arkansas 31 – It’s goin’ be a shootout in Fayetteville. I give the edge to Auburn because they can put up points, and they’ll play better defense.

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When all is said and done, Bobby Bowden will go down as one of the greatest college football coaches of all time. But this year, in his 33^rd season walking the sidelines for the garnet and gold, the Seminoles are off to a 2-3 start, their worst start since his first season, and things aren’t looking good in Tallahassee. Despite walloping BYU in Utah, and a narrow defeat at the hands of rival Miami, FSU hasn’t looked all that impressive. They lost to Boston College this past weekend, to a teen-aged USF program at Doak the previous weekend, and trailed Jacksonville State at home late in the fourth quarter three weeks ago.

It’s a trend that isn’t all that new to Bowden’s teams. Over the last four-plus seasons, FSU has lost a whopping 24 games; hardly acceptable by FSU standards. FSU has lost four of its last five home games, with the lone win coming against a I-AA team (Jacksonville State). The defense has looked average at times, and the secondary has been suspect, at best.

Bowden has 384 career wins as a coach (for now, as he stands to lose fourteen of them because of an academic dishonesty scandal), but it’s the recent losses that have made the coaching legend seem more mortal than ever. For decades, he has been universally revered and feared by opposing fans, but now, he doesn’t even have a vote of confidence from his own fanbase. While online Sunday night, a friend I was chatting with sent me a link to a Facebook group. The name of said group: BLACK OUT DOAK for CHANGE. The idea of the group is for fans to protest the current coaching regime by wearing all black to all remaining home games this season. At the time I started writing this piece, the group had 2,080 members and counting. They hope to send a message to the administration and board of trustees that mediocrity is not acceptable at FSU, and while the fans are behind the players all the way, something dire needs to be done about the coaching. Continue Reading “Unfortunate End to Bowden’s Tenure in Tallahassee” »