Barking Carnival

The Worldwide Leader must have had this gem ready for any slow day (i.e. no salicious Roger stories broke). There is nothing new (Leach likes pirates), save maybe some new pictures.

“The object was to get a treasure. If the captain did a bad job, you could just overthrow him.”
That means win a championship.
I did […]

The Big 12 had its worse draft ever. Even Mike Reinfeldt and Jeff Fisher think so. It took 36 selections before the second Big 12 player was drafted. This is from a conference with four of Top 10 in the final AP rankings. Pathetic.

Powerhouse programs like Troy, Vanderbilt, Delaware, and Tennessee […]

For those of you wondering, the NCAA is not in business to split up dollars from TV contracts, March Madness and bowl games. How do I know? Myles Brand tells me so everytime he is interviewed and because they say so right there on their website.
Our purpose is to govern competition […]

Yes, I am filling out a bracket this year and I have the Bruins out in Round 2
Before the seeds are actually announced, I always like to remind myself of the following facts about the success of tournament seeding. Why? So, I avoid the fact that I fall in love with teams that […]

The NCAA is no longer issuing warnings for players and “coaches” on the field — it will be a five yard penalty.
We might need a $180,000 “Get Back!” coach.

A lot of people have mocked Tim Brewster for his 1-11 inaugural season at Minnesota including many Golden Gopher fans who still pine away for Glenn Mason. By the way for all those Minnesota fans, Mason still hasn’t found work. Well, don’t look now, but Tim Brewster had the 17th rated class by […]

Since Orgeron got canned at Ole Miss on November 24th, he has had plenty of time to kill. He signed on to be the New Orleans Saints DL coach in late January.

Yeah, I think it is funny
Everyone knows Big Ed loves to recruit. He even replaced his drinking and tail chasing […]

I was lucky enough to attend his final game in Austin. He clearly had checked out in his mind.
YouTube provides us the following great clips:
Bob Knight likes the word fuck.

I don’t know if you know this but he once threw a chair on the court. He was only given a technical foul and […]

H/T to Blutarsky at Get The Picture on this find from Sunday Morning Quarterback
SMQ took on a daunting task breaking down some very interesting statistics regarding the last six years of recruiting data and plotting it against the winning percentages of all of the BCS conference teams. While many things can be nit picked […]

Alternate title: MuffBurger’s career is over
In last night’s Wisconsin/Illinois game, Erin Andrews was the sideline reporter. Brent Musburger mentions how big a rock star Erin Andrews is as the crowd chanted her name as she gave a report. Lavin adds that she is bigger than Elvis or the Beatles. Muffburger said, […]