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I was gonna like this. But it deserves more, much more. Because that is exactly his reaction.

The words "hell" and "freezes over" mean anything?

I don't think he was hogging it. More like Johnson knew his limitations and thus limited the playbook. Much like the Navy coach did with his A back moved to QB: run midline or such and look to keep and turn up field. Navy's guy is just much faster and better at it.

Howard would have helped himself get playing time by not fumbling. The option pitch requires a QB who a) can make the read and b) make the pitch. O line certainly. Passing? Nothing new that everybody on the board doesn't know: Marshall was a converted A back who can't pass a lick, but he was the...

I don't know enough about scheme and technique to say that Woody is the answer to our defense, though somebody who actually has tackled someone before and so knows it means put him on the ground would be nice. There is a lot of enthusiasm for him. But I'll just wait and see. We have been through...

how did I tip my hand?

We are looking at the possibility of Clemson and Georgia in the final, and a massive, unanimous GT rooting section for ... Clemson? The classic the-enemy-of-my-enemy thing? But as it stands, the only way the SEC can regain some lost glitter is to have an all-SEC championship game, and the...

I'd go further. I think Alabama was 2-3 with Georgia the matchup and Oklahoma at 4 and the as usual Heisman overrated QB getting mashed by Clemson. There were forces at work there, and not a little of it was not letting Georgia or Alabama knock the other out in the first round. (I am not usually...

You do realize that Oklahoma has easily the most arrogant and disrespectful passing fraud ever to play in any bowl, right? I think he gets exposed. Unfortunate, because I wanted Clemson to do it in the final. But Oklahoma every year shows up and spends some time pretending before reality sets in.

DRad has a tiger by the tail -- literally. He has arguably one of the top three coaches in the country, maybe the best football program in the country, a rabid fan base, and a coach very popular with that base. He knows he can't lose him and the culture he has instilled, and so he will gulp and...

If memory serves DRad actually contacted Clemson after a visit there -- maybe a game? -- and told whomever that if they ever made a change he would like to be considered. And then the guy who made the in hindsight brilliant hire of Swinney retired. Bingo.

Upset, are you?

You are right. With four seconds left. I amend my post to "his latest game winner ..."

I believe that is his first game winner against the clock, so to speak.

I don't know how you guys find that stuff, particularly so quickly, but yes. Hire the guy. (I once read a piece about Bobby Knight, a guy I personally abhor for a lot of reasons, honesty being one of them, but he once called all his first half timeouts in the first four or five minutes. Because...

Okay. If I could figure out that idiotic AJC web page -- every newspaper in the country has sworn they are going digital but only the Washington Post and NYT have a clue about how to do it -- I can read Ken's stuff. I can never find it. Just one blog after another blog and 17 crime and puff...

I know it can be learned -- guys make a living as a quarterback guru who never played beyond HS -- but if Marshall is to improve as a passer I don't think Candeto is the guy. It was not his strength before Johnson or playing for him. It is asking too much of him in that regard. Seems to me we...

Has there been any kind of announcement that this guy has been hired, or is the board ahead of itself? Or do we even know? It has gone from rumor, to conviction, to fact. But how do we know? I mean, I pick at guys for already deciding his lineup, but do we really know? And since I am a sucker...

The GT defenses that fans saw over his tenure, and even given Kentucky windage they were just not very good, and the defensive achievements NC State put in its hiring press release to the Raleigh newspaper, and faithfully reported therein -- though they had a reporter at the Duke and Carolina...

How's this dilemma: if given the choice for the 10th coach, would you pick a) defense or b) a passing coach?