Why Playoff Committee Member Pat Haden Should Resign Thank you, Pat Haden Thank you Pat Haden. Thank you for proving that intelligence does not equal law-abiding, that integrity does not equal self-control and that a rich, famous, Rhodes Scholar who is well thought of in the media can experience a lapse of discipline. Thank you for demonstrating for a national television audience and millions of college football fans that no matter how many talking heads remind us of your intelligence and integrity you too are capable of a thoughtless outburst putting a black eye on the newly formed College Football
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SEC Scores Week 2 … Cupcakes of Many Flavors. Who Got the Smelly Cupcake?
SEC Scores Week 2 What Flavor is Your Cupcake? Games in college football where one opponent is expected to outsize, outman, outpower, outscore and totally dominate the other are referred to as “cupcakes.” Cupcakes are beautiful tasty treats often wrapped in colorful paper or foil and come in many flavors. We pick them out of the bakery window, where they are carefully placed in a beautiful designer box or protective plastic clamshell hoping that we get it to the house in perfect condition for our consumption. But sometimes, these special treats get tossed in the bag at the checkout and
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College Football Playoff PODCASAT Big Winners
College Football Playoff PODCASAT Scarbinsky Parody You will want to listen to this podcast. Click here and enjoy! Big Winners Parody PODCAST “Year of the Repeat will end with Alabama, Auburn and Armageddon in Arlingon” by Kevin Scarbinsky What would happen in the state of Alabama should BAMA and Auburn both make it to the College Football Playoff and play each other twice in one football season? Listen in to Big Winners read Kevin Scarbinsky’s article to his wife Shirley Winners. To read the original article by Kevin Scarbinksky, entitled “Year of the Repeat will end with Alabama, Auburn and
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Lane Kiffin Alabama, Stress for New Coach
Lane Kiffin Alabama New Offensive Coordinator at the Helm Where is the ship SS Saban going? Alabama won their season opener against West Virginia, 33 – 23, but you would have never known it to look at new Alabama offensive coordinator Lane Kiffin at the end of the game. When the clock ran out Saturday night Kiffin, looked as if he had just traversed the Rocky Mountains, landed a helicopter in Iraq, or completed a 13-game football season, when he actually just beat an unranked team from the Big 12 conference in the season opener in the controlled conditions of
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Alabama Quarterback 2014 Blake or Jake
Alabama Quarterback 2014 Jake or Blake, that is the question For the first time in three years, Coach Nick Saban is faced with a question of who will be the starting Alabama Quarterback 2014. At the top of the competition are 4-year Tide veteran, Blake Sims versus the few-weeks-on-campus Florida State graduate transfer, Jake Coker. The depth chart released this week lists both men as co-starters at QB for the West Virginia game. Add to the mix a new offensive coordinator, former USC head football coach, Lane Kiffin, and you have quite the puzzle for the West Virginia coach, Dana
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Coach Saban Makes No Excuses
Coach Saban Makes No Excuses The Sugar Bowl, a Consolation Game for The Tide If your team won back-to-back National Championships the two previous football seasons, was playing to make history by winning a third, going into the last game of the regular season undefeated and playing a rivalry game, tied up with one second left on the clock only to miss a field goal and lose the game in a fluke play, then I guess you are in a position to judge whether or not the Sugar Bowl was a consolation game for Coach Saban and The Crimson Tide
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Coach Nick Saban Differences from Coach Paul Bryant
How is Coach Nick Saban Different Than Coach Bryant? Alabama Football Coach Nick Saban portrays more similarities to the legendary Coach Paul Bryant than he does differences. Both driven men with unmatched work ethics, track records of winning and amazingly motivating to their players and fans. Both earned their place in the Alabama’s Walk of Champions, so beyond their preferred headwear, how else are they different? No Alabama player won a Heisman on Coach Bryant’s Team. Running-back, Mark Ingram won the 2009 Heisman Trophy playing for Nick Saban. Bryant took ordinary men and got them to do extraordinary things. Saban starts with
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Auburn Quarterback Nick Marshall Tipping Point for Tigers
Will Auburn Quarterback Nick Marshall Start the Season A New Tipping Point for the Tigers Auburn’s Head Coach Gus Malzahn faces his biggest decision, which may well turn out to be a tipping point in Auburn football history. The tipping point is that magic moment when small changes have a significant impact on outcomes. There are tipping points in society such as when a sick person starts an epidemic, or a single act of kindness profoundly changes a child’s path and those that they impact in their lifetime. In his widely acclaimed bestseller, The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference, Malcolm Gladwell explores the
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South Carolina Football Coach Steve Spurrier
Retirement from South Carolina Football How long South Carolina football Coach Steve Spurrier continues leading the Gamecocks is uncertain, but one sure bet, The Ol’ Ball Coach will do it on his terms. If Gamecocks fans are listening, he is revealing his plans one jab at a time. Through his continuous sparring, Spurrier gave opinions on everything from the Aggies not playing Texas to how many hours Coach Saban puts into his Alabama team. He is sure to crow about the many “firsts” the South Carolina football teams accomplished on his watch and mentions his defeat of No.1 Alabama in
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College Football Playoff is in Danger of Personal Bias
College Football Playoff is in Danger of Personal Bias Why Recusal is Impossible One of the biggest questions for the College Football Playoff Selection Committee to answer is how they intend to work around personal bias. For the first time the national championship in college football is 100% dependent on the human element of the thirteen – member panel called the College Football Playoff Selection Committee. The committee chairman, Jeff Long who is also the standing Athletic Director at Arkansas, admits that the recusal process is one of the more difficult tasks at hand. So what exactly do we mean
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