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Crib Sheet: Nobody Saw This Coming

Okay this close to the season and we still have major, er mid-major, moves regarding conference expansion.  So BYU started to teeter and now the WAC blew up.  Further out west there are questions of Pac 10 allegiance.  Please, will the powers that be put all of this on lockdown so we can focus on actually playing football instead of this crap.  The season is about 2 weeks away!  We’re not sure they’re listening so in the meantime, everyone else clue them into this week’s Crib Sheet:

Crib Sheet: Post April Fools Yucks

April Fools came and went and we here at the KCCGD headquarters want to share a few of our favorite tricks.  The first one: cover the laser part of a laser mouse with a piece of tape or Post It note.  Watch as the unsuspecting fool tries to use the mouse and bangs it on the table! Har Har!  Next up: keeping with the tape motiff, tape down the latch to your office mates’ phone. Watch as they try to call, or better yet someone tries to call them, and phone won’t unhook from the latch!  Comedy gold!  Okay, enough yucks.  Here’s this week’s Crib Sheet:

  • Wow that was fast.  Nick Saban wins a BCS National Championship for Alabama and then gets a bronze statue erected in his honor.  So if he wins it again, what will happen?  A whole new stadium in his honor?  How about a permanent seat in Alabama’s government?  They do eat, sleep, and breath football down there.
  • A highly touted recruit for the Notre Dame Fighting Irish fell to his death last Friday.  Matt James was in Florida on spring break when he fell from a hotel balcony.  Apparently he was drunk when it happened.
  • Georgia linebacker Montez Robinson was kicked off the team after an arrest related to battery charges and domestic violence.  S0metimes kids are still kids and they don’t realize that they can’t get away with stuff like that.  If you were wondering, this was the second time he was arrested.
  • Texas Tech quarterback Talyor Potts will have surgery on his injured hand.  He will be out about 8 weeks.  Not a good start for Tommy Tubberville.  But hey, maybe he can install a real running game while Potts is out.
  • Kansas Associate Athletic Director Ben Kirtland resigned Monday with no reason given.  Hrm.  Either something bad happened or this was the fallout from the Jayhawks not getting far in the basketball tournament.
  • While he’s not busy hanging in Key West being a pirate or suing the pants of another school, Mike Leach is consulting.  More specifically, consulting on the installation of his offense at Oklahoma State.  Any type of offensive knowledge that he can implant at that school could only help.  Just make sure he doesn’t send a cowpoke to the outhouse.

Crib Sheet: The Calm After the Storm

Another week of the Crib Sheet and we are finally starting to see things calm down around the college football landscape.  There’s still some action here and there but we envision the news will be trickling out here in there for the offseason.  There’s still some loose ends that need to be tied up and we will stay there to make sure the granny knot is tight.    So keep in step with this week’s Crib Sheet:

Crib Sheet: Road Turkey

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It’s a short week here at the KCCGD.  We gotta pack up tonight and get ready to hit the highway big time for Turkey Day.  We still have some time to get pumped for college football.  Usually when you think of football and Thanksgiving, it’s the NFL games with Detroit and Dallas.  But, there is even a bigger tradition for Thanksgiving and college football.  Rivalries are all over the place and it’s spread out nicely across the whole weekend.  So while the travel may be plentiful for us and maybe you, we are guaranteed some live college football at some point.  Happy Thanksgiving and here’s the Crib Sheet:

  • Mascot Monday participant UGA VII of Georgia died last night due to a heart failure.  Our condolences goes out to the university and all live animal mascots out there.
  • ESPN Page 2 columnist Matthew Iles talks about some of the more goofy rivalry trophies in college football.  We like the Old Brass Spittoon the best.  I wonder if, at the end of the game, whether or no the winner spits in it and if it makes a ba-doing noise.
  • Florida State barely got bowl eligibility last weekend by edging out Maryland 29 – 26.  Bobby Bowden may end up being forced out anyway at the end of the year.  The guy has been getting from all sides down there.
  • Some Big 12 coaches are jumping to the defense of Kansas coach Mark Mangino.  Mike Leech and Bob Stoops are covering for him, even though they are alot like him.  The surprising one was Bill Snyder 2.0.  Coaches need to look out for each other and we’re seeing a pretty good case of this right here.
  • Jimmy Clausen could have used some defense when he was cold cocked by a fan in front of a South Bend restaurant.  Not very Catholic-like indeed.  Jimmy’s out at the end of the year and heading to the NFL.  This incident merely sealed the deal.
  • That’s just the tip of the iceberg for Notre Dame.  Charlie Weis pretty much said it himself when we stated that there is no surprise if the Irish can him at the end of the year.   Urban Meyer keeps telling the press he’s out, signaling the start of a new coaching search for the Domers.  No more vaunted, Charlie Weis led, Notre Dame Fighthing Irish.
  • Taylor Potts last week wore ‘Nick’ on the back of his jersey, now we know why.   Mike Leech talks about his man love former Kansas linebacker Nick Reid.  He never met him but for some reason he’s always thought Reid was the ultimate football player.  We’re still trying to figure this out.  It did help inspire them to a win though.

Barspotting: Staying Late at Nick and Jake’s

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It’s the opening weekend of Conference play and we will be heading to good ‘ole Overland Park to take in some games at Nick and Jake’s.  Their dealio is they have one owner who like restaurants and one who likes sports bars.  Obviously we will be spending most of the time in the bar spot (pun intended).  Will this split decision location play to their benefit?  We’ll find out this weekend.  There are some BIG games going on Saturday night so plan on us getting there a little later in the afternoon.  Hope to see y’all there.

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Crib Sheet: Dancin’ in the Cleats

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What’s wrong with a little celebration?  We here at the KCCGD like to shimmy and shake here after an especially tasty nacho dip or greasebuger.   So why is it so hard to let the college football players jump up and down?   Granted we don’t zebra striped dudes follow us to the Golden Tee table and inspect our reaction to making a great save putt.  But that’s where the problem is.  The referees are subjectively deciding whether or not the celebration might be offensive to him or the other team.  That seems just a bit too wacky.  There’s already enough pressure on the refs for actual blown calls.   Don’t let them blow it on stupid rules.

  • Looks like there’s a chance that LeGarrette Blount may be reinstated sometime this year.  He cold cocked a Boise State player during one of the first games of the year and was subsequently suspended for the rest of the season.  Similar infractions in different conferences only yielded a game or two suspension.   It looks like he’s taking the right steps to get back on the field.
  • Kansas University police will open up an investigation to the fight that took place between the football and basketball players.  The media hype around this is now big enough for some posturing by the law enforcement there.  So a hand will be slapped and money will be given under the table to keep this guys on the field.
  • Texas Tech’s Taylor Potts suffered a concussion last week and he may be out this Saturday for their game against the Kansas State Wildcats.  The stars may be aligned for the Wildcats as they are coming off their last second win against Iowa State and Farmageddon.  Good thing suspended offensive lineman Brandon Carter is back.  Hmm maybe that’s why Potts got banged up?
  • It looks like they nabbed the guy accused of filming ESPN’s Erin Andrews nude.  They dude’s an insurance salesmen and pretty well off.  Go figure.  The most surprise part of the article is that there are eight videos.  We thought there was just one.
  • ESPN’s Chris Low has an interesting piece about how Gene Chizik left football desolation at Iowa State for big powerhouse Auburn.   Guess what?  Chizik’s got the Tigers undefeated and #17 in the country, proving yet once again that bringing in talent helps more than just coaching up your kids.
  • Oklahoma Sooners’ Ryan Broyles is out four to six weeks with a broken shoulder.  Broyles is their leading wide receiver.  Oklahoma’s BCS chances are pretty much shot and least injuries will be a sufficient excuse.
  • The SEC admitted they blew the excessive celebration call against Georgia when they took the lead over LSU with about 1:05 to go in the game.  LSU came back and won.  Now Georgia should’ve stopped LSU, but their chances were seriously hurt with the penalty.  What’s up with refs deciding outcomes for more important teams?  Indiana’s screwjob at Michigan and now this?  It’s like the refs want the bigger names to win for the conference.  If Georgia won the game, would we see this much hype for LSU and Florida this weekend?  You know stuff like this makes me think twice about how clean these conferences really are.
  • Speaking of this week’s Florida vs LSU matchup, it seems the Gator players are getting threatening texts from LSU fans.  Ho boy, let the hype machine crank up to full power.  JK LOL!

Big 12 Preview 2009

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Most folks outside of the midwest believe that the Big 12 Conference is 2nd nationally amongst conferences in terms of football strength.  Much of the talk points toward the Big 12 South.  As we roll into the 2009 season, we find some teams reloaded, some teams are out of ammo, and the rest either misfired or are shooting blanks.  We’re gonna see where they all stack up and how they will finish in 2009, according the Purple Yeti’s crystal ball.  There are some shifts in power, but the top stack will stay the same and most of the close calls will still be close.  Hopefully the crystal ball pulls through.

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