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No, I understand that the recruiting priorities had to be turned upside down and the returning roster shaken out. Seven years just seems a bit excessive and the queasy part of me at this hire wonders whether having been given seven years to flip it means he will take seven years to flip it. I...

I think our coaching friends over Clemson way would take issue with most of this regarding 1st-4th teams. Dabo has almost always been good one-deep. It was not until he could recruit 3-deep that Clemson became a powerhouse. He pounded ND last year despite comparable talent across the starting...

Sounds like he is building a Mars probe instead of a football team. (Past experience is that at about the 5-year level we will hear that "things are close, we are almost there" ... but the ball coach now needs an extension for recruiting purposes.) Some things never change, and coaches and...

I know diddly about raising money but it reading the entries hereabout is interesting, the big vs. little donations debate particularly. It might be instructive, however, to keep in mind that while drooling over Clemson's splashy digs and financial support backed by the booster group IPTAY...

And we know this how? I am not picking a fight. But it seems a stretch until somebody does something on the field of play. Until then they can have a star in Hollywood and not do diddly at GT.

Well, there is that game with the folks down in Athens. Actually, two games: that booming FG and then the acrobatic swan dive for a score. Not to mention the first of the Johnson era meetings when we were down 28-12 I think at halftime but had an epic third quarter. But who's counting wins when...

You do know I was kidding, right?

I am not sure that another human being could have or would have made that analogy. My god, it is actually astonishing. George Carlin is laughing.

It was long ago I was in elementary school, and while you might prefer I diminished the racial attacks on Obama, they began with the "birther" fraud -- a corrupt and criminal enterprise that would never have been used on a white man -- see Ted Cruz, see Canada, a more likely though still...

If you mean "wow" in the sense that the superintendent expects anybody to believe, or the writer to believe it himself, that Briles is there to teach, I am with you. He is there to win football games. And it is Texas.

He first tried describing himself as an unpaid intern. Now it is graduate assistant? Like Dabo is going to waste one of those limited positions, without exception saved for coaching prospects -- like Dabo at Alabama -- on the likes of a 63-year-old, three or four times fired coach whose best...

Exactly so. And many of those slurs and slanders became draped as supposed "political comments".

Other than it kills you.

I ask this in the spirit of genuine puzzlement, and because I just don't see it. And that is the return of GT to its glory days as a national power. I thought 2014 was just about dead solid perfect and we were so close to the hated Seminoles in the championship game, and then beat up on MSU in...

I didn't see a Clemson or Alabama-ready QB, but one of the three can be serviceable until and if one can be recruited. Across the ACC spectrum it is a matter of degree, and I think it is easier to run an offense from 6-7 yards back than the quick-hitting under center option. I would not be...

He has a seven year contract, so is about three years and maybe five away from being on any hot seat. (If he can coach as well as he can negotiate, I see a NC in three years.) On the other hand let's not pretend his new "scheme" -- which looks and reads like that of dozens of college teams --...

Hey, big spenders. Bet that Waffle House knocked their eyeballs back. But more to the point, when my son was pondering these things, they fed him on the "official" visits with a fairly rigidly scheduled tour and talk kind of thing, and he met most of the coaches. I took him on "unofficial"...

I get it, believe me. But if we want the playoffs, odds are we have to play the reigning NC on the way anyhow. Actually my goals are more realistic than that, but there is a great rush of satisfaction -- and accomplishment -- in knocking off an undefeated power. The maligned triple option did...

So did you get it? The attention?

From the get-go the Collins hire has left me with all the warm feelings of left-over and refrigerated spaghetti. Not much he has done since warmed it up any. But: polls ranking coaches are just off-season evergreens, something to do until kickoff. He may be 69 and he may be 19 or he may be 9...