NCAA Foootball 2017

[katmai]

So where is Dorsey these days? So many CFB posts I have been expecting from him and nothing.

Tierra Del Fuego?

[derspiess]

The real Dorsey is coaching Cam Newton.

[dps]

It is nice for Texas to be the less embarrassing UT.

It gets better.  Apparently Tennessee is firing their AD, and Phil Fulmer has supposedly been sabotaging the coaching search in hopes of becoming the next AD.

[derspiess]

Awesome.

[CountDeMoney]

Awesome.

So funny.  Tennessee getting all morally indignant, yet still orbiting Planet Fulmer.  That's like the Corleones getting righteous over Sollottzo.

[dps]

Now that he's the AD, I wonder if Fulmer will hire himself back as HC. 

Heck, at this point he might have to--no on else may want the job. 

Too bad we don't have any Tennessee fans here to mock.

[Eddie Teach]

SEC CHAMPIONS BABY!!

Clearly my focusness was key. 

[Valmy]

Bill in Sinton would be so proud Eddie 

[alfred russel]

Ten Years after Pitt ruined West Virginia's chance to play for the championship they do it to Miami. Sorry Dorsey.

I've been out of the country (work and then a vacation that took me totally off the grid) for a few weeks.

Before the season, I just was hoping Miami would beat FSU and win the ACC Coastal. They did both. I don't think Pitt did anything  - that was a throwaway game. Miami should have still made the playoff had it beat Clemson. But Miami won a lot of close games and had a really good turnover margin--both are signs that a team is living on borrowed time (teams with good records that do both tend to revert to a lower mean over time).

As a dual ND / Miami fan, I was hoping that ND would win the game they played, because I don't think the Miami program is to a point that it can consistently beat top tier programs in championship/playoff settings on a regular basis - which it would need to do in order to win a title. A beatdown by Clemson was not unexpected by me--had it not been Clemson, it probably would have been Alabama/UGA/Ohio State/Oklahoma.

10-2 with a win over FSU and an ACC championship game appearance, plus good recruiting class coming in, is a great step forward for the program. FSU and Florida in turmoil is icing on a pretty good cake.

ND losing to Stanford was more disappointing.

I haven't seen football in about a month.

[grumbler]

This is why Mike Leach is a national treasure.

At The Players' Tribune, we do many features that dive deep into the psyche of competing in athletics at the highest level. This is not one of those features.

https://www.theplayerstribune.com/5-thoughts-that-have-nothing-to-do-with-football/

Money quote

If you go to any elementary school classroom in Texas, some kids in there are going to be named either Austin, Dallas or Houston. That's basically the same thing. I wouldn't do that, or at least I'd try to get more creative with it. Name your kid Amarillo or Carrizo Springs. You know what, I'm going to move back to Texas, have another kid and name him Fort Stockton.

[Eddie Teach]

Grumbler nicknamed the kid "el no Paso".

[Valmy]

Of course those three were already names before they were cities coach 

[MadBurgerMaker]

Of course those three were already names before they were cities coach 

It's also not just a Texas thing, which still seems weird to me.  I wonder if it would still be a "money quote" though if it had been: 

You should name your kid Yellow or Beach Grass (Springs). I'm going to name a kid after another person instead of these particular people.

Because that's what he said. 

E: Hey football related:  Like half the Horns starters on defense aren't playing, Val.  They just said Jefferson was for sure out.  So that's not good.

Hey they've got Foreman out there for the coin toss!  Still on crutches though, because Houston also can't have nice things.

[grumbler]

I can't believe the board's Texans actually fell for that gag! 

Five bucks says they look up when someone tells them that "someone wrote the word 'gullible' on the ceiling!"

[MadBurgerMaker]

Yes, there was some very serious discussion about that fairly standard, for him, Mike Leach comment that you totally didn't think was funny.  Pretty great "gag," bud.

E:  Boo, Missouri finally showing signs of life.  Looks like there's some pretty good attendance for a shit-tier bowl game.

Whoa Wheeler runs pretty well with the ball for an LB.  Nice job with the TD off the fumble.  Even threw in a juke or two along with a little stiff-arm.


  Nice win.