Rock you in the face with brass and strings like it’s mother-fucking Friday.

Bowl tie-ins. The Alamo Bowl is close to replacing a Big Ten team with one from the Pac-10 to play against the Big 12 starting in 2010. The Pac-10 would send their runner-up to San Antonio instead of to the Holiday Bowl (another Big 12-Pac-10 game). The Alamo Bowl is shelling out 3 million ducats a team to make the move up the prestige ladder. According to Stew Mandel’s sources the Big Ten is going to bump the Big 12/Big East from the Gator Bowl and setup an ACC-Big Ten showdown. We expect the ripple effect to continue.

Nate Irving is done for the year. We wish the NC State man-child a speedy recovery to terrorizing ACC offenses next year.

The U, previewed. Amphibious Sports Duo says Miami starting the season 4-0 (Florida State, Georgia Tech, Virginia Tech, Oklahoma) would be like the Lions going on a Super Bowl run. Harsh and self-deprecating just how we like it. It’s a very objective preview and if you’re all about getting into the heads of the enemy we recommend you check it out. Also the ACC & SEC Blog discusses the upcoming season with the The 7th Floor. Continue Reading “Around the Interwebs” »

It’s official Tennessee and NC State are going to kickoff 2012 in the Georgia Dome.

The Wolfpack and Volunteers will play in that year’s Chick-fil-A Kickoff Classic, Chick-fil-A Bowl officials announced Thursday. The game will take place Sept. 1, 2012.

We imagine by then the Lane Kiffin experience will very closely resemble this…

Pardon me, but do you have any reduced jail sentence? Former Buckeye Maurice Clarett is asking Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland for a get of jail free early card.

Clarett, 25, who has been imprisoned since 2006, is not scheduled to be released until Feb. 3, 2014 from the Toledo Correctional Institution after he pleaded guilty to aggravated robbery and carrying a concealed weapon.

On Thursday, Franklin County prosecutor Ron O’Brien’s office released a letter written to Strickland that opposed the pardon because Clarett “is not such an extraordinary case of merit or injustice that the power of Executive clemency should be recommended or exercised.”

We’ve always had a soft-spot for Mo, probably because we were rooting for him to get caught up some illegal benefits scandal that would take down tOSU from the inside out. Seriously though, leading Ohio State to a National Championship earns you free beers and dinners in Ohio, not a pardon from prison. As a man he’s going to continue to pay for the stupid decisions that he made as a kid. Even if it seems like he’s reforming.
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Paulus will attend graduate school at Syracuse, compete for the starting quarterback position and avoid being teabagged.

Is this a good thing?

Honestly, I have no idea.  The main thing Syracuse fans should probably get out of this is that…it can’t hurt.

Exactly. Nine months from now Paulus Watch could turn out to be a big to do over nothing. Or it could be the catalyst for a great, bowl winning, season. Regardless of the outcome Paulus coming in for one year to isn’t going to negatively impact the Orange at all. In fact, he’s already raised their national profile without even taking a snap. Everyone is talking Syracuse football this morning.

Mr. College Football highlights the major questions facing each team in the ACC (Atlantic \ Coastal) and the SEC (East \ West). Enjoy with a glass of bourbon.

If you believe that experience across the offensive line positively correlates to wins then you will find these charts very handy. If you believe in quality, then you won’t give two shits.

The Pac 10 Network… Coming soon to an expensive cable package near you.

Outgoing commissioner Tom Hansen told the Orange County Register that the creation of a Pac-10 network is a top priority. The reason, of course, is money. The Pac-10, which reported gross receipts of $88.78 million for the 2007 fiscal year, is taking a financial backseat to other Bowl Championship Series conferences.

Broadcasting all of the Pac 10’s secondary (read crappy) sports and football and basketball games no one wants to watch on their own network can’t be a bad idea.  If all the conferences create their own networks that pretty much spells the end for ESPN U.

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The whole Greg Paulus saga started when we heard he might end up in the NFL with the Packers (he still could). Then we heard he was a lock to take one of Michigan’s final three scholarships and compete with Tate Forcier for the starting quarterback job. That fizzled out. And now it’s <airquotes>likely</airquotes> Paulus will end up with the Orange. Now that’s a destination that makes sense to us for a couple of reasons.

The homecoming story is all well and good, but that’s not what we’re talking about. For lack of a better option, Syracuse is looking to the future at quarterback. After one day of spring practice redshirt freshman Ryan Nassib was named the starter replacing 2008’s signal caller senior Cameron Dantly. While Paulus is definitely not the future, he could be that other option, the bridge that Dantly is not. Nassib would then be able to learn the system while the equally experienced, but more talented Paulus plays in 2009.

Most importantly playing at Syracuse will actually provide Paulus the opportunity to lead the Orange to a successful season. Success is relative. At Michigan anything other than a New Year’s Day or better bowl and win over Ohio State is a failed season. For ‘Cuse, a team that hasn’t made a bowl game in four seasons, six wins and a trip to somewhere warmer than upstate New York is as good as the BCS.

Apparently this is the first ever afternoon edition. Has daylight savings time fucked with anyone else’s internal clock? I’m staying up until 4:00 AM, eating lunch at 3:00, seeing double and shitting gold bricks. Speaking of shit, it’s Urban Meyer’s choice 4 letter word.

Meyer was the featured speaker at the Nike ”Coach of the Year” clinic coordinated by Liberty High assistant Jim Tkach. The leader of Gator Nation didn’t disappoint with a colorful presentation complete with lots of uses of a four-letter word that begins with an “s” and ends in a “t.” No wonder Meyer didn’t want cameras in the room for his speech.

I happen to be a fuck man myself.

I agree completely with Furrer that Annette just lobbed softballs at Bryan Strinespring during her two part interview with the Hokie offensive coordinator. I am 100% convinced that the ESPN “bloggers” produce nothing more than fluff pieces. They don’t ask any of the tough questions fans want answers to and they aren’t funny. In my opinion they aren’t really journalists or bloggers. 

I continue remain steadfast in my opposition of BS calling our plays in 2009

Syracuse OL Jonathan Meldrum, DT Bud Tribbey and OL Josh White embrace their inner Soulja Boy

Thanks to NunesMagician, who blogs all things Syracuse, for this extraordinarily excellent find.

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We all knew that Greg Robinson’s tenure as Syracuse head coach is going to be coming to an end this season. He has been nothing short of abysmal. In his 3+ years the Orange are 7-31 and haven beaten only one ranked team the overrated 2007 Louisville Cardinals.  News 10 is reporting that Lane Kiffin is one potential replacement.

Add Lane Kiffin to the list of potential future candidates for the potential future coaching vacancy at Syracuse University. The coach of the Oakland Raiders, 33, is reportedly close to being fired by SU alum Al Davis, after Kiffin told the media last week that his defensive coordinator and Davis were working against him.

If Kiffin is canned, the thought is he would be free to take over at Syracuse right away if the Orange decided to make a mid-season move.

Just maybe Al Davis likes this Kifin so much he is driving him out of town to his alma mater. There is no excuse for Robinson going 7-31, but ‘Cuse fans need to realize no big time football recruits want to freeze their asses off in podunk upstate New York. If they can get a coach that gets them to 7-5 and a bowl they should be happy.

DON’T STOP ME. I’M ALREADY DEAD