NCAA football, 2013-14

[grumbler]

Actually I said, "at least not like they do now." I'd generally be fine with non-scholarship athletic activity of whatever kind and form the school chose.

Actually, "at least not like they do now" is meaningless noise.  Tomorrow they will "do it" differently than they do it today.  If your argument is for having schools able to pay any amount of cash to players but not give them any scholarships, that's at least a clear stance.  It is a silly argument, as gfar as I can see, but at least it is clear.

It would be ironic to see all the eggheads with merit scholarships banned from inter-school chess games, but I guess you think that that is worth it.

[grumbler]

Looks like Pitt has locked up the Fulmer Cup in April - an unprecedented feat.  20 bags of heroin!

http://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2013/04/26/pitt-football-players-detained-in-drug-bust/

In other news that probably no one but Berkut would care about, Michigan has commitments from 6 of the ESPN Top 150 recruits so far (and leads for another 6).  The rest of the Big Ten has a total of four such recruits.  RichRod had a total of one such recruit in his career at Michigan (Devin Gardner, who I will admit is going to be a great one).  So, Berkut, no matter how good or bad the RR years are at 'Zona (and I hope they are good, because I like the guy and think he got fucked big time at Michigan), at least you can look forward to great recruiting after he leaves! 

[dps]

I like the guy and think he got fucked big time at Michigan

Color me surprised.

[MadBurgerMaker]

Looks like Pitt has locked up the Fulmer Cup in April - an unprecedented feat.  20 bags of heroin!

http://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2013/04/26/pitt-football-players-detained-in-drug-bust/

Damn, and I thought Bama had a good start with 16 points already.  I wonder if they'll get the 10 point crime ring bonus to go along with all the felonies.

[Berkut]

Looks like Pitt has locked up the Fulmer Cup in April - an unprecedented feat.  20 bags of heroin!

http://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2013/04/26/pitt-football-players-detained-in-drug-bust/

In other news that probably no one but Berkut would care about, Michigan has commitments from 6 of the ESPN Top 150 recruits so far (and leads for another 6).  The rest of the Big Ten has a total of four such recruits.  RichRod had a total of one such recruit in his career at Michigan (Devin Gardner, who I will admit is going to be a great one).  So, Berkut, no matter how good or bad the RR years are at 'Zona (and I hope they are good, because I like the guy and think he got fucked big time at Michigan), at least you can look forward to great recruiting after he leaves! 

Well, Rich Rod is Rich Rod - he has a "system" and he recruits to that system, and that means he is likely never to really going after a quantity of the ESPN150 guys.

Which should work out well at Arizona, since those guys never give us a second look anyway!


What is fun it to go the Arizona hoops board, read some recruiting threads, where of course if you are not a top100 HS prospect, Arizona isn't even going to consider you, and seeing the fans going on and on about how amazing the next top-10 phenom is going to be, then going over to the football recruiting board ON THE SAME FORUM and listen to people talk about how star rankings and recruit ratings don't matter anyway, so no worries that Arizona is never getting a 5-star recruit to visit...


I do love cognitive dissonance.

[PDH]

Wyoming beat Wyoming in the spring practice game. Undefeated in 2013!

[Ed Anger]

Wyoming beat Wyoming in the spring practice game. Undefeated in 2013!

[PDH]

It's all I have

[grumbler]

Well, Rich Rod is Rich Rod - he has a "system" and he recruits to that system, and that means he is likely never to really going after a quantity of the ESPN150 guys.

I think he has one coming in 2014.  I don't remember the name, but he's an AZ wide receiver Michigan wanted but who has told the M coaching staff that he doesn't plan to go far from home.

What is fun it to go the Arizona hoops board, read some recruiting threads, where of course if you are not a top100 HS prospect, Arizona isn't even going to consider you, and seeing the fans going on and on about how amazing the next top-10 phenom is going to be, then going over to the football recruiting board ON THE SAME FORUM and listen to people talk about how star rankings and recruit ratings don't matter anyway, so no worries that Arizona is never getting a 5-star recruit to visit...

You see the same thing on the Michigan State boards.  But that's the way I like it, in the case of the Spartans, because Izzo is a guy I can respect, and Dantonio is just a douchebag.

[grumbler]

Time to laugh at Notre Dame again.  This time over Charlie Weis (again).

Turns out that as an ex-coach he is still being paid more than the current coach: http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/college/chi-notre-dame-football-weis-kelly-20130523,0,3445823.story

Weis received another buyout payment of $2,054,744 as part of the separation agreement for his firing in 2009, bringing the total amount paid to the ousted Irish coach and current Kansas head coach to nearly $10.8 million, according to federal tax documents the school provided the Tribune on Thursday.

Weis received another buyout payment of $2,054,744 as part of the separation agreement for his firing in 2009, bringing the total amount paid to the ousted Irish coach and current Kansas head coach to nearly $10.8 million, according to federal tax documents the school provided the Tribune on Thursday.

It is the second consecutive payment of $2,054,744 to Weis after the initial payment of $6,638,403 after his firing. The university is scheduled for "additional annual payments" through Dec. 2015, so four more installments of the same $2 million-plus figure would bring the total to $18,966,867.

Brian Kelly, meanwhile, earned a total of $1,088,179 from the school for a reporting period of July 2011 through June 2012, the documents show. That likely does not represent the total earnings for the coach that would lead Notre Dame to the national title game in January.

Weiss made $4 million a year for the 5 years he was there, and another $19 million in the buyout of the last 5 years of his contract.  I wonder who it was that thought it was a good idea to guarantee his salary for those five years even if he wasn't coaching there any more.

[katmai]

So seedy where is your furor over Gee?

[grumbler]

So seedy where is your furor over Gee?

He's still too depressed that Notre Dame's starting QB cheated on his final exam and got tossed out of school.  Turn's out that Gee was right and you really can't trust those Catholics!

[CountDeMoney]

Haters gonna hate.

[OttoVonBismarck]

I find it funny Ohio State's national reputation is apparently so linked to sports that 100% of the news stories I've seen about Gee's gaffe have been in sports sections of the various news aggregators I use. There's nothing intrinsically sports-related about the article really, I mean he does negatively mention the SEC but his ramblings covered a lot of ground. It's like in the mind of many news source any Ohio State story is a sports story.

[grumbler]

Haters gonna hate.

Domers gonna cheat 

I actually admire ND for doing what needed to be done.  That had to hurt.

I am looking forward to UTL 2.  The first one had some fabulous tralers like http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSfOgvsgou0

I was dumfounded when Michigan produced, just a few months after Brady Hoke made the famous "This is Michigan, Fergodsakes" line, the intro to UTL that featured just that saying: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4Gxh0jYdvs