Unverified Voracity Sees Red Shirts

Mack Brown beat Michigan.

Can't be Cooper.

I don't think these words go together, though I never saw the Baz Luhrmann adaptation of The Portrait of a Lady.

I am pro multi-year scholarship commitments.  I am also in favor of teh student-athletes having to honor those commitments as well, so if they want to go elsewhere, no scholies, with exceptions for extenuating circumstances.

bucket-head vol fan with the peeling off "T" logo done went out and got'r done.

"it still hurts..."

i'd love to see that guy and damefan1 go at it in an epic stupid-off.

Correction: Gardner's redshirt is up to the Big Ten. p139-140 http://www.hornetsports.com/assets/compliance/2009-10%20NCAA%20Manual.pdf

"If I had to make a guess, I’d guess he’s not gonna make it," Paterno said. "But that does not mean that I know what I’m talking about."

Trust us, JoePa, nobody thinks that you know what you are talking about.

hides there over his portly presumable manliness and under his orange vest. Nice touch. I'm just hoping someone else (Auburn?) can clobber Alabama at least once more this year.  

Medical redshirts.

It strikes me that these can be acquired without huge, season-ending injuries...and often are, which can make this kind of a sleazy thing.

Is this one of those gray areas that everyone does and we don't really have to worry about? I'm asking because I genuinely don't know, not because i want to be righteously indignant.

Also, if Gardner gets a redshirt, I will do one of the happiest dances in the history of happy dances.

"If I had to make a guess, I’d guess he’s not gonna make it," Paterno said.

That's funny. After looking at the actuary tables I said the same thing about 'ole Joe.

Also...

"But that does not mean that I know what I’m talking about."

There's no way Paterno actually said that. Even he is self aware enough to know that is both histerical and absurd coming out of an 800 year old mans mouth. Maybe.

"However, it should be noted that the award of athletic scholarships on a one-year, renewable basis is the more typical approach taken within higher education for talent-based and academic scholarships in general."

Bull-puckey. I was offered a few academic scholarships from several universities, and not one of them was characterized as one-year. They were all four-year scholarships. I could lose them by not holding up my end of the bargain (my GPA), but the school couldn't terminate them if they decided I was no longer useful.

I just don't want to be the team responsible for giving an 18 year old true freshman brain damage. For real. He failed a memory test on Sunday. His brain is swollen. Please don't jeopardize his future, Joe

I like the idea of multi-year athletic scholarships, though I wonder how many schools would actually take advantage of it.  The Sabans of the world might lose a couple of commits to other teams offering longer-term stability, but I could also see it used as a recruiting tool by teams saying Team X already have a 2-year commitment at a player's position, while everyone competes for starting time every year on Team Y. 

As for the Tressel-Cooper-Brown comparison, I agree that sustaining that type of success is nearly impossible even with great talent, and I expect to see the Vest have a down year soon enough (maybe when Pryor leaves?).  But I have always taken issue with the Cooper-Tressel comparison because it always seems to sell Cooper short while pumping up Tressel. 

Cooper took over a down program and turned it into a veritable NFL factory that, unfortunately, always seemed to have one misstep a year.  In 96 and 98, they lost only once, in close contests to UM and MSU, respectively.  That was enough to doom them to 2nd place, while in the BCS era they probably would have had another shot at the title.  Cooper's record, if you through out the last two years, was 97-33, and that included the first years of a rebuilding effort.  You could also argue that the B10 was much better top-to-bottom during Cooper's time, as teams like PSU, Purdue, Wiscy, Iowa, UM, and NW all made solid runs at the top-10/Big 10 titles. 

By comparison, Tressel inherited a much more talented team (though it had struggled recently), and sits at 101-22 going into this weekend.  So because Tressel won a debated MNC in his second year, he is characterized as a "winner" (despite the high-profile bowl losses) while Cooper was a loser because he couldnt beat pretty good UM teams and didn't have the benefit for the BCS.  I'm not a fan of Cooper or Tressel, but I have always been bothered by the undue blame heaped on Cooper, praise on Tressel, for basically being the same coach.

I'm stoked about Nebraska, but there are many times I feel like fate made us miss sharing a conference with our burnt orange drawling spiritual bretheren on the flip side of the country.  Keep up the good fight Longhorns, may the Rawk never win.

...of seeing that picture.  I just played that footage last night via outube.  Branch just flat out demolished him.

If we don't turn the damn ball over, I like our chances agains Penn State. We are going to give up the least amount of points in a game since the UConn game, so we just need to protect the ball and get out of there with a victory

Our D is bad, for sure, but after watching Iowa and Wiscy, I came away thinking, shucks we ain't that far off, for real.

Belien is pretty sweet, and his recruiting is getting even sweeter. Smot and Hardaway are going to be two of the best players on the team this season.

Brundidge and Burke are going to come in next year with college ready offensive games, they are gonna be good. Keep an eye on Brundidge this year at Southfield if the kid doesn't average 30 a game I will be surprised. Classic man against boys situation. If Brundidge were 6'4" he would be a 5* recruit.