Sweet baby Jesus, is that Duke football being featured on ESPN.com?!?! YES WE CAN! YES WE CAN! YES WE CAN! So apparently David Cutcliffe wasn’t satisfied with 4 wins last season even though that was a 400% increase on the amount of wins Duke had the year before. In fact, in the four years prior [...]
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The Return of the Iron Dukes
Posted in Football on February 4, 2009 | 3 Comments »
AFC and NFC Championship Picks
Posted in Football on January 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Last week I said that I had no confidence in my picks and ended up going 2-2. That’s not bad considering everyone, including myself, was utterly confused by what transpired last week. Best of all, the Sports Guy (Bill Simmons) went 0-4 last week. Overall, Simmons is 2-6 in the playoffs while I am 5-3. [...]
NFL Round 2 Playoff Picks
Posted in Football on January 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Last week I hit on 3 out of 4 of my picks, which was better than Bill Simmons who went 2-2 because he inexplicably went against his own playoff manifesto and took the Vikings and Tavaris Jackson. The only game I missed was the Colts and to Jeff’s credit he did warn me about the [...]
NFL Round 1 Playoff Picks
Posted in Football on January 2, 2009 | 6 Comments »
The NFL this year has made less sense than Emmitt Smith’s analysis of the NFL. I’ve picked games for most of the year and was 4 or 5 games over .500. Fortunately, I got out of doing that for the last couple of weeks of the regular season when all hell broke loose and no [...]
What’s the Best Playoff System?
Posted in Commentary & Analysis, Football on December 12, 2008 | 4 Comments »
As the post below says, a Congressman from Texas has proposed a bill that would essentially make it illegal to call something a National Championship if it is not the result of a playoff (I am generally not in favor of government intervention in private matters, but really this is the only way that the [...]
It’s the Economy Stupid
Posted in Commentary & Analysis, Football on December 1, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Neither Tennessee nor Clemson are in the market for new coaches anymore. The Vols are going to replace Phil Fulmer, a guy who played at UT and then coached his alma mater to a 152-52 record and one National Championship, with 33 year old Lane Kiffin who has never been a college head coach and [...]
No Other Option
Posted in Football on October 30, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I have an idea for a book that would be entitled, No Other Option. Basically, the book would look at a high school team, Wofford, and Georgia Tech and talk about how and why all these schools run the option. The core of the book’s message would be that the wishbone option offense is the [...]
Clemson Rumor Mill
Posted in Football on October 11, 2008 | 3 Comments »
One of the benefits of working for a newspaper is you run into other writers for newspapers and they pass along rumors from their newsroom and you do the same. As a result you get first dibs on rumblings concerning local sports teams. So tonight, 24 hours removed from Clemson’s lose to Wake Forest, the [...]
College Football Preseason Picks
Posted in Football on August 23, 2008 | 16 Comments »
So apparently College Football starts this coming Thursday and unlike my MLB and English Premier League preseason predictions I’d like to get this one out before the season starts. So I’m going to throw out the two teams that I think will be playing in the BSC “we make too much money to have a [...]
Reviewing Our Predictions
Posted in Commentary & Analysis, Football on January 20, 2009 | 2 Comments »
One of the things that drive me crazy about the sports media is that there is no accountability. If someone makes a prediction that turns out to be woefully misguided, that person doesn’t get fired or even chastised. Instead, they show up the next year making predictions once again and being presented as a viable [...]
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