Posts tagged SEC
Friday Freeze Out and a Heart Felt Thanks from BUI
Jan 8th
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!
BUI: Back in the Saddle Again
Jan 4th
Ha, you only thought you were rid of me.
The flu has been beaten, just a little post-war rebuilding remains before everything gets back to normal.
Everyone, do yourself a favor and take note: “Holiday invitations are revoked if you are sick and contagious.” Do not be afraid to set up a thermal scanner at your door and screen your guests for elevated temperatures. In a battle for your health, profiling is highly recommended.
Despite the flu, the holiday season was wonderful, but I am glad it is over.
It’s only 8 months until Freshman report. We are a month away from “signing day” and spring ball follows soon thereafter. Perhaps my bed rest was a blessing in disguise.
In the mean time, we still have a few more weeks of Chris Low reporting that everyone under the sun is turning Mark Richt down. As a card carrying member of the conspiracy society, I am blaming this (the reporting, not the “turn downs”) on Low’s affection for the color orange. We will have more on this later.
Bowl season, perhaps clouded by my condition, has been less than stellar to date. The BUI Suite is not as well equipped as the Bunker, no picture-in-picture capabilities, so I was not able to see all of the games. What I did see was a great deal of ugly football. Cincy, you broke my heart, thankfully you did it quickly. Oregon took their time.
The non-automatic qualifying conferences are holding their own against the BCS league teams. The SEC is 5-4 with one to play. Kentucky and Tennessee both lost to ACC teams. Of course, Tennessee had no business playing VaTech. The SEC reps from the West have played some of the ugliest football I can recall SEC teams playing.
Am I the only one who thinks Craig James’ son would never have made it as a water boy, let alone a football player, on a Bear Bryant coached team?
Back with more, lots more later.
In the 4th quarter, SEC referees follow orders
Nov 8th
The Southeastern Conference Officials, once again, had a major effect on the outcome of a big-time game. As expected, all questionable calls went the way of the conference’s chosen team, Alabama. The play went to review and end the end, the conference’s goal of having two undefeated teams arrive in Atalnta trumped substantial video evidence. Vince McMahon is very proud of Mike Slive. Don King a fan.
If the Bryant-Denny field could talk ... it may confirm that Patrick Peterson had one foot inbounds during the disputed INT. By Andy Staples/Special to SI.com
LSU’s starting quarterback and running back were both knocked out of the game. Still, the SEC could not risk LSU having the ball with a chance to go ahead in the fourth quarter. Video evidence be damned, the SEC has a product to market and cannot be concerned with athletic fairness.
LSU loss marred by missed-INT call – Andy Staples – SI.com (h/t Senator Blutarsky)
Because when officials went to the video with 5:54 remaining in Alabama’s 24-15 win to determine whether Peterson intercepted McElroy along the right sideline, the replay official didn’t see what most impartial eyes watching at home saw: Peterson got his left foot down with possession. He may have even gotten his right foot down. Officials on the field ruled Patterson caught the ball out of bounds. After a few minutes, replay official Gerald Hodges upheld that call, even though numerous replays shown on the CBS telecast seemed to show Peterson getting that left foot down with possession. Later, LSU players would say Peterson’s left shoe left an obvious gash in the grass. (After interviews, I even took a photo of said gash.)
My guess: Marc Curles proved himself so effective that the league offices decided to have him give seminars to the other officiating crews during his “suspension”. What do you think, are bad calls as random as “bad bounces” or is something else afoot in the SEC?
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