Barking Carnival

So Chip Brown of the Dallas Morning News said on his radio show yesterday something to the effect of ‘John Mackovic’s best players would be Mack Brown’s best players.’
Now I didn’t listen to the show because I think people who listen to sports radio are even more despicable than people who read blogs. Except the […]

Michael Avery is a 15 year old from Thousand Oaks, California. He’s also a pretty good basketball player. So good that Kentucky coach Billy Gillispie has offered him a scholarship.

‘Eighth graders, Dude.’
Now Gillispie can’t talk about Avery because of NCAA rules (and possibly the Mann Act), but Avery’s father, Michael Lohan Howard, told the LA […]

While Les Miles blames Mack Brown for the new recruiting restrictions, Nick Saban has figured a way around them.

The NCAA adopted a SEC-proposed rule that took head coaches off the road for the April/May evaluation period. This off-season, for the first time, head coaches will be staying on campus and away from the potential […]

…or perhaps not.
A new NCAA rule bars head football coaches from visiting high schools in May, a wrongheaded decision LSU Coach Les Miles said was prompted by widespread cheating and the probable wishes of Texas Coach Mack Brown.
“I can tell you this, there were head coaches who were violating the rules, tremendously so,” he said. […]

It looks that way. As a college basketball fan I’m all for it. I’d rather have two semi-image conscious entities make shady backroom deals.

So Buzz Williams is the next in line to try his hand at rekindling Al McGuire’s magic. Well, what does that and Texas High School basketball have to do with the price of beer in Milwaukee. Evidently a bunch. Williams was an assistant to Billy Clyde at TAMU before his stints as […]

You asked and he answered, well at least as candidly as he could for fear of reprisal. Here’s the email he replied to me with. I’m in the process of clarifying a couple of answers below, and I’ll submit follow up questions for the next part so if there is anything else you […]

A friend of mine, who’s coached some big time collegiate prospects and players on the AAU circuit the last few years, has agreed to answer some questions about the secret society of AAU basketball and how it relates to the college and NBA scene. All questions are welcome but undoubtedly some questions can’t or […]

Rivals has him ranked as the number two offensive lineman in the country.

Tate Forcier is a high school quarterback in California who is being recruited from coast to coast. His family has a website, and on it he put the actual letters he has received from colleges offering scholarships.
We’ll suspend disbelief at this point and pretend that college coaches actually write their own letters. It will […]