Running off-season CFB thread

[Michael_ Gee]

Probably belongs on the journalism board, but just heard Doug Gottlieb interview a college football writer who covers the Big 12 (forget his name).

Gottlieb asked him how big a surprise it was, and the guy says, "Well, timing aside, I knew this was coming ..."

Big-time pet peeve when a story breaks like this, to have writers pull the "sure I knew it," even though the knowledge of this story never led him to actually, you know, report on it.

Agree completely. Only acceptable way to say this is, "well, there were rumors, but I never got a story I could confirm."

 

[Inky_Wretch]

Speaking of rumors ... one is Switzer saw Stoops boxing up his office last week, which caused the timeline to move up.

 

[DanOregon]

Who'd a thunk no Briles, Strong or Stoops - and it's a surprise that Snyder is coming back for another year. Those are your big four teams in the conference. The Iowa State guy is in his second year, the Kansas guy in his third.

 

[dixiehack]

The Egg Bowl is America's most underrated rivalry when it comes to hilarious blind hatred.

Oxford store sues Mississippi State players in latest Ole Miss-NCAA drama

 

[Big Circus]

At least something is going right for my Wahoos!

Wahoo! Virginia football player wins Virginia Lottery

 

[Jake_Taylor]

Now we know why North Carolina started up the lotto.

 

[Songbird]

At least something is going right for my Wahoos!

Wahoo! Virginia football player wins Virginia Lottery

Surprised it wasn't a pick-6.

 

[Jake_Taylor]

Surprised it wasn't a pick-6.

Schaub has been gone for years.

 

[dixiehack]

Clip and save for this afternoon.

 

[dixiehack]

I am in favor of punitive electric shocks for hickslaps from sports radio stations that ask a third question of a coach in a single session.

 

[dixiehack]

Wonder if he paid extra for her to show a Coach O face?

Police: Man arrested after sneaking into Tiger Stadium with prostitute

 

[albert777]

Surprised nothing has been posted here about Houston Nutt's defamation lawsuit against Hugh Freeze, claiming that Freeze has conducted a deliberate campaign to deflect charges of recruiting malfeasance onto Nutt's tenure as coach. What I've seen of it shows that Nutt's legal team did a remarkably thorough job of digging up every instance where Freeze allegedly manipulated the media to besmirch Nutt.

Certainly there is a lot of sour grapes and bitterness at play here from Nutt, but it looks to me like he's got Freeze and Ole Miss by the balls and he's squeezing them hard for everything he can get. Just reinforces my opinion of Freeze as a lowlife hypocrite who covers his cheating with a veneer of false piety. Dan Mullen and State may be just as dirty, but I don't see Mullen out there beating his chest about what a wonderful Christian he is.