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I will say this, having been on the board several years but seeing up close and personal only about two games a year, the rest on cable: going from the board posts only, I read a lot fewer of the expected in-your-face, frustrated rants about showing those mutts a thing or two this year and a lot...

I want to thank everybody for such diligent research and your replies. I guess it proves again that victory has a hundred fathers. Interesting reading, though.

Since I don't bet -- no moral qualms, just too cheap -- might I offer a bit of restraint before calling for found money? Line might not be coincidental given that the last two seasons -- '15 we were awful, '16 we were good, Clemson thumped us by 19 points both times. I don't think it will be...

That has been addressed several times, I think. Much of the perception seems to trace to Tech's tendency, particularly with Thomas, to string out the option east-west, while Navy, probably for a lack Tech's speed -- counterintuitive here -- gets north-south much quicker. (No point in running...

That was an NFL "play action" fake, wasn't it? Might work to freeze a DT, orLB momentarily but in this case, nah.

I think Johnson has in the past noted one reason he loved coaching Navy: in shorthand, often his players were not the best player on their HS team, nor even JVs; they had to battle every day to get playing time and then to crack a starting lineup, way before Navy came calling. The result was a...

Thanks. No longer need a book to ease me into summer ...

Does anybody know? I have been scrolling through various book reviews trying to figure out what is actually worth reading. And thus buying, since I am old school and think a printed page is what was intended for humans all along. So I see this one that raves about Hal Mumme and Mike Leach...

And then you had to go and bring that up.

This man wins the post of the month. Now it is a matter of deciding the prize.

That's about the safest over/under odds they could post. sign him up!

If "watch your car for a dollar, mister?" meant the same thing with you as it did at Cincinnati's old Crosley Field, it was the unspoken that sold it: "Or else".

Yeah, well. Another way to report this is that in the last calendar year the Atlantic Coast Conference has had one hall of fame basketball coach suspended and the program punished for recruiting violations; another now facing the the draconian but well-earned penalty of forfeiting a NC, a Final...

Would it not be grand if several of the geeks -- sorry -- could put aside their studies on whatever esoteric things geeks -- sorry again -- do, and do the Navy goat thing by hacking that scoreboard so that it would never go off when we win? Maybe even flash like an exit sign? That would be...

Aren't you being a bit generous to the clock watchers in Athens? I had the feeling that scoreboard and the final gun were wired together. My dear Ma would have nailed it: they are so small-minded.

Well, if the goal is to stay healthy then bench the starters and play soft. Not sure how they would account for that on the scoreboard, though. A good way to get hurt is to play not to get hurt. The goal is to win, so go all out at Tennessee and play the next game with the players we have...

I got the other way. The head guy ought to jump in with both feet if he is a prospect, either athlete or student. But then sometimes I think waving a red flag in front of NCAA bullies is a good thing.

That's really a good question. But it would be a hell of a thing of the NCAA said a school president could not meet a potential student, wouldn't it? My guess would be they could spend all the time together the president wanted. But it is the NCAA, where gods go to dwell.

I think he's right about Tech -- and I am violating my rule against excessive optimism, a hard-earned one at that -- and probably about Alabama. Probably. But I know after the spring Clemson is now lifted its sights and thinks it has a legitimate chance to get back to the NC after first...

I try really hard -- honest I do, personally and professionally -- not to be defensive. That said, being ranked 78th is like being voted the worst looking crossdresser at the county fair. That's stupid and the whole Orlando sports department must be on funny stuff. And that's not even being...