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UGA has made everyone forget that their AD was fired over a panty-enhanced DUI. The guy at 1:22 reading his book upside-down was probably the high point. Damn I need college football to start.

That makes it sound like they're not going straight geographically for football. I don't like it. He didn't say anything else to indicate that other than the fact they're going to look at 27 different metrics going back to 1993 to figure out the competitive balance portion of the equation. This wasn't one if his main points but rather a response to a question. If they're going to have a strong geographic component for football, it will because they want that for football. It just won't have any effect on what they do in other sports.

For those not watching Big Ten football media day, Delany said that football divisions will not necessarily have any impact on other sports, including basketball. Each sport will figure it out independently. Some will likely have divisions, which may differ from those in football, and others sports will not.

Again. Poops himself in public again. The media found it a bit humorous at first. Then everyone just got sad when he kept talking about it.

Paterno is essentially talking about how he doesn't want to be in a position where he poops himself in public.

Fire taking it to LA early. 3-0 in the 19th minute. Nice way to return to league play.

Ron Swanson does not approve.

He'd need to petition the NCAA for a medical hardship waiver seeing as he already used his redshirt last season. I doubt he'd get it, even if he wanted to, and it doesn't sound like he would He already said that he won't be playing at another school. There are some reports saying that his passion for the game isn't what it once was. Considering his rehab process up until this point hasn't included any basketball activity, I suppose now would be the best time to make that decision if that is the case.

I could care less, though I would prefer just to call it the SWC again. I'm sure the non-Texas schools would love that it's better than the proposed "Texas 10" They should call it the Texas Longhorn TV Network Conference at this rate. They just broke a deal for a home and home with Minnesota because they wouldn't agree to the same TV rights that every other member of the conference has agreed to.

Media guide fun: http://a323.yahoofs.com/ymg/ept_sports_ncaaf_experts__38/ept_sports_ncaaf_experts-339580161-1280346398.jpg?ymf0hhDDyQ46PC7d And

It is. They'd be crazy to change it.

Not the Pac-12 till next season. I didn't hear about that until after I posted those pics. I'm amazed that they'd waste all that money to rebrand just for one season.

General consensus in the Chicago media is that Coble saw his rehab schedule differently than Carmody and the coaching staff. I doubt we'll ever know much more beyond that, though. At least Kevin made his decision now prior to practice beginning in a few weeks for the upcoming trip to Italy. Carmody at least knows what he'll be working with now.

It's not likely, though still possible. They'll need quite a few things to go right and no more injuries: -Drew Crawford (true soph, co-BT frosh of the year) stays healthy and continues to improve -Alex Marcotullio (true soph, coming back from U-20 FIBA competition with Great Britain) improves on what he did this summer and can be a consistent scoring threat in Big Ten play while also improving ball handling skills -JerShon Cobb (incoming frosh) can step in and contribute immediately, possibly even earning the starting job by early in the season -John Shurna (junior) makes a push towards first team Big Ten -Michael Thompson (senior) doesn't fade due to averaging 39 minutes a game Jeff Ryan comes back from missing last season with an injury to provide more depth at guard, but now there's even less depth at center, already the weakest position by far. Kyle Rowley transferred to St. Mary's and there will need to be dramatic improvement by Mirkovic in order to be competitive in every Big Ten contest. And Cobb is the only incoming freshman. Next year's class will hopefully have 5 recruits, so this is a short bench. Individually, I don't think any is all too unrealistic, though Mirkovic becoming a strong center this year is probably a stretch. However, everything really does need to go right. There's not much margin for error. Coble apparently didn't have any setbacks, per se, but it looks like he and his doctors were worried about long-term effects if he were to play on it this year.

what happened? The healing process of the Lisfranc fracture he suffered a couple of days before the start of last season apparently isn't on schedule. He said he needs to worry about rehabbing right now and letting it properly heal. There was a report 2 days ago that he was close to returning to summer scrimmages and was targeting a return by the team's August trip to Italy. Now he'll graduate this winter after having his college career cut short. He led the team in scoring and rebounding his first 3 seasons and had a pretty decent shot at a pro career at least in Europe. It's arguable whether he was this team's best player coming into the season considering the injury, but it's a huge, huge blow regardless.

Kevin Coble's career at Northwestern is over. I hate life.

The new Pac-10 shield logo is okay: http://www.pac-10.org/DesktopModules/DigArticle/ImageHandler.ashx?portalid=7&moduleid=2619&imageid=384&width=305&height=172 The secondary logo, not so much: http://www.pac-10.org/Portals/7/Skins/pac10/images/media_day_sm.png

USC can kiss their 2004 BCS championship goodbye:

The self-circumcising* underwear? *corrected for horrible mistake. Perhaps they figured Bible passages on the front would negate the skidmarks on the back. And speaking of self-circumcising, this Kiffin/USC lawsuit is going to be hilarious considering the lawsuit wasn't filed until after Kiffin had called up Fisher and outlined the exact timeline of when everything went down, essentially admitting his guilt.

Tebow is the new face of Jockey. That pits Michael Jordan (Hanes, the greatest basketball player of all time) against Tim Tebow (Jockey, I've got nothing).

Lane just needs to stay outside the borders of the state of Tennessee at this point. I understand the move by Pola somewhat, but it seems like he could have waited another year, let CJ run wild, and then get an offensive coordinator position at a school that doesn't have sanctions against it.

It's just an opinion column, but at least someone is thinking about it:

It probably wasn't even 30% US supporters in Chicago 3 years ago. Of course, I think the ManU to Union fan ratio in Philly might have been 10:1 for the friendly the other day.

A nice read on how coaches view what's going on in college basketball.

I love this photo: http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/11/2010/07/500x_joakim_1.jpg Joakim Noah Spotted In His Natural Habitat: Shopping For Bongs