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Well, let me clear this up: Nesbitt could not hit the ocean from a rowboat. And calling Washington a passer tells me you are a very charitable individual I need to hit up on our next fund drive. His "passes" wobbled, ducked, bobbed and weaved with hang time better than 40-yard punts. I remember...

Aren't you guys, regarding Thomas and 4-star rating/position, arguing about the size of midget? Makes no never-mind. Marshall is at QB because he's the best Johnson has, deficiencies and all. Johnson has dumbed down his offense to fit but yes, when it comes time to throw, then hello Tevin...

Good point but in fairness, the Alabama football team has always owned every stitch of Tuscaloosa, from police chief to publisher. Nobody breathes in that town without going through the football t4am. Maybe the whole state. I heard a story last year that Saban, before the first Alabama-Clemson...

Well, ah, yes.

There's no reason conflicting interests can't have a reasonable and civil relationship. Don't know Johnson but a lot of coaches think reporters, particularly from local papers, should be on their "team". Nah. They have a job to do. He has a job to do. There are professional interests in play. If...

Anything else on your mind today?

For some reason I never thought he kicked that many at Tech. I am guessing that his accuracy and length -- some of his kickoffs are still flying -- are the results of virtually unlimited attention and practice time in the pros, as well as the personal attention of kicking specialists who have...

I see that Harrison Butker's FG string is now 19 straight, and I confidentally say without research he has kicked more professional FGs in less than half a season than in four years of college. A couple have been in that 53-54 yard boomer range. As well his kickoffs -- that I've seen -- are all...

Simmons will be loved until Simmons screws up.

I forget what term debaters use for your this, but you veer from the discussion, and now instead of coaches favoring favorites you want the topic to be about someone saying coaches are perfect and never mistaken. That is a much easier position to attack, your problem being that nobody ever...

I am speaking not of a specific player but to the board claim that Roof plays, not his best defenders, but his personal favored children. (Leave aside the idea that probably his favorites are favored because they can play. Coaches are like that, you know. I don't know who is best. All I know is...

Nor am I talking specifics. I'm saying players who can't play claim sinister forces conspired. Generally it is the coach likes somebody else more. I never had or met a coach who didn't want to win, and that means lining up your best.

If I may resort to my favorite business consultant, Krusty the Clown, that is not a good business model. Whispers, rumors, innuendoes, somebody-who-knows-somebody-said-somebody ... Here's my rumor: a helicopter daddy whose son was mediocre but lettered in HS star hit a wall his first day at...

any coach who would play a favorite over talent is too stupid to be employed long.

I prefer our players not be demeaned with the insinuation, intended or not, that they lose because they don't try. If the other guy is smarter, that's genes and you can't fix it. If he's better, more athletic, then you can't fix that. But to lose because you don't try? Never. They are trying. A...

About Dodd? Not sure of your intended point, but if it is that a guy can do all this -- I know and care nothing about Butch Jones or Tennessee -- and still be a terrible coach, well, that is no news flash. If it is that Butch and his boys play volleyball and still lose, well, okay. Should have...

That's just nuts. If you want to be taken seriously, be serious.

The culture surrounding a team and the program and all its participants, tens of dozens of them from stat guys to social media to players and head ball coach have everything to do with winning games. And if Bobby Dodd is in the conversation I have read of some of his bowl game preparations...

You do know that is pretty insulting, right?

Dabo acknowledges a huge debt to Stallings because he got his first job from him, as WR coach, with no experience, but his coaching and organizational philosophy evolved 180 degrees the other way. It is fair to say he loves the man. He has him at every event for Dabo. But he doesn't coach like...