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Head-Coach-In-Waiting: A Concept Whose Time Has Come And Gone
Recently there have been discussions and comments on our boards, and more at some of our sister sites, due to the shenanigans of Bill Stewart at West Virginia, about the head-coach-in-waiting concept. The whole head-coach-in-waiting concept can become very disadvantageous and could very well...
What Matters to Kentucky's Winning // SEC 2011
Last week, I produced a list of which stats correlate most with Vanderbilt's winning in the Bobby Johnson/Robbie Caldwell era. I am doing the same with Kentucky in the Rich Brooks/Joker Phillips era today. As with last week, I am using a baseline of 0.264 as a threshold of relevance (for...
Three Things We Know and Don't Know About Kentucky // SEC 2011
THREE THINGS WE KNOW 1. Morgan Newton is the quarterback, for better or worse. Stop me if you've heard this before: "Newton is an impressive physical specimen, especially for a quarterback." Morgan is certainly no Cameron, but at 6'4" and 235 lbs, the Wildcat signal caller has the size to be a top...
Kentucky Begins a New Era In Feeling // SEC 2011
Last year was the first year of the Joker Phillips at Kentucky. Honestly though, it didn't feel like much had changed. And really, wasn't that kind of the point? The main rationale behind naming a head coach in waiting is to ensure continuity within a program. By anointing Phillips as the successor...
Kentucky Football: Slippin' Into the Future
Go here for Glenn's outstanding Compass Bowl preview. It there ever was a team in need of a face-saving victory, it is this 6-6 Kentucky football team. After ending the pigskin season with yet another disappointing loss to Tennessee, UK needs a win over head coach-less Pitt to propel the string...
Quack Fix: 12 Ducks named to Pac-10 all-academic team, BCS 'bridesmaids', & more fake injury news
I thought about faking an injury to get out of writing this post, but I'm better than that. Here's your Wednesday Morning Quack Fix: LaMichael James, David Paulson and Carson York were all named to the Pac-10 all-academic first team, the conference announced yesterday. Three Ducks made the second...
SEC Power Poll (Week Five): Abandon All Hope
I look forward each week to voting in the latest SEC Power Poll, in the same sense that Prometheus looked forward each morning to having the eagle come and eat his liver. Let the soul-crushing exercise in outraged self-loathing begin! 1. Alabama Crimson Tide (5-0): I’ve never sat down and written...
Quack Fix: Colorado will make it the Pac-12 next June, much ado about ASU
Sorry for the delay this morning, folks. Had a little too much fun last night. Anyway, better late than never. Here's your Wednesday Morning Quack Fix: The Pac-12 will begin in 2011 after all. Colorado announced its plans yesterday to settle with the Big 12 and join the expanded conference on June...
SEC East 2010 Expectations, In a Nutshell
Perhaps you haven't kept up as obsessively with the SEC this off season as we have. That's okay. That's what this post is for. It's a quick recap of where the consensus ended up for each team in the SEC East. Whether you need a cheat sheet or you just know someone who does, this is the post you're...
Sprints Thinks North Carolina and South Carolina Might Be the Beginning // 07.19.10
CAROLINAGATE South Carolina gets its offseason controversy: An NCAA investigationLooking at the Media Days schedule for Wednesday, I noticed that South Carolina was on the same day as Vanderbilt, Georgia and SEC West darkhorse Arkansas. When was the last time, I wondered, that Steve Spurrier has...
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