Friday Freeze Out and a Heart Felt Thanks from BUI
Bama is the Mythical National Champion. The $EC has won four straight MNCs. The SEC has never lost a BCS Championship game. Georgia is unranked in the final poll for the first time since 1996.
In other news, despite Brent Musburger throwing Kirby Smart into the Texas Tech head coaching search, the rumblings have never been louder about him coming back to Athens. I do not know. For the first time, I am starting to think they we can’t afford him. The domino affect of bringing Kirby in at well over $600k/yr on a multi-year contract has to give Damon Evans reason for pause. Richt probably feels like he has been pushed into this Kirby hire and may have a tad bit of resentment about it.
I fully expect Richt to make an offer to Kirby, but I have my doubts everything possible will be done to lure him home.
Pat Forde said the $EC must be stopped. That did not happen. Mike Bianchi is calling not for Tebow or Meyer’s feet to be kissed, but the league as a whole. Kevin Scarbinsky and Jeff Schultz have both bought personal seating licenses on the Bama bandwagon.
Despite the success of this year’s title game, Boise State did go undefeated and the populist rage over the BCS continues to grow. Bill Hancock, the new BCS full-time mouthpiece (as opposed to their part time hired guns) is staying on the offensive against playoff proponents. Mr Hancock now falls on my s-list right behind Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid.
BCS chief knocks playoff || OnlineAthens.com
“I know this is not completely popular, but I believe in it,” Hancock told reporters Thursday at the Football Writers Association of America awards breakfast. “I believe it is in the best interest of the universities.
“College football has never been better and I believe the BCS is part of that.”
So, football season is officially over. We are hiring. We are into the home stretch of recruiting season. Conference play for the basketball Dawgs begins tomorrow with a trip to the Nike/NBA developmental league in Lexington. The Gym Dawgs are breaking in a new coach, talk about big shoes to fill…
There is still a lot going on in the BullDawg Nation. I hope you will continue to check in from time to time to get my take on things.
I started this blog on July 1 of last year. I received 24 hits my first day. Thanks, BernieDawg. On November 1, I moved from blogspot to my own server/domain and upgraded the site a bit. DawgsBUI 2.0 garnered over 67,000 hits with more than 250k pageviews in the final two months of 2009. On December 16, more than 6,000 of you visited.
I can’t tell you how much I appreciate the support. I hope a simple “thank you” will suffice.
Go Dawgs!
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