Category Archives: College

Crib Sheet: A Hundred and Ten in the Shady Offseason

While I’m battling record heat here in my first summer in Austin, it seems college football is battling an offseason of corruption.  At least that’s what it seems like.  I think it’s more that the year before we all thought conferences (including the Big 12) were gonna blow up.  Now everything is safe, things are going back to normal.  That includes kids and coaches breaking rules.  Let’s break on over to this week’s Crib Sheet and find out some more:

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Mascot Monday: T-Roy

Phil Steele’s 2011 College Football Preview is hot off the presses and it’s that time of the year to go over mascots in Phil’s Top 40 (or 52 in this case) that have yet to be covered.  The list is fairly thin this year but there are a few surprises left.  This week is no slouch.  I’m going to check out yet another Trojan but this time it’s T-Roy from Troy.  With Troy being in Alabama, their football and their tradition is a big deal and T-Roy exemplifies that.  There’s a strange wrinkle to this story, however.  The tradition of stealing mascots live on as T-Roy is currently missing!

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Crib Sheet: Another White Hot Week

It’s ever so toasty down here in Austin, so I will keep this intro short and then grab some water.  I broke  a sweat already.  Here’s this week’s Crib Sheet:

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Mascot Monday: The Mountaineer

Another week of Mascot Monday and I’m getting into the groove of going over mascots from schools that have been in the news recently.  It’s admittedly hard to come up with wacky mascots when you’ve been eyeballing costumed characters for as long as I have.  So this week’s big news is the buyout of West Viriginia’s Bill Stewart so coach in waiting Dana Holgorsen can take over.  If you remember, Holgorsen was in trouble for some casino incident but it was later found out that Stewart or a Stewart supporter started a smear campaign against him.  This week we’ll let the story of The Mountaineer teach us something about competitive respect.

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Crib Sheet: It’s That Pre-Time Again

Two things this week made me realize college football is right around the corner.  First, Phil Steele’s College Football Preview for 2011 went on sale yesterday.  Second, the Crib Sheet has over 15 news items this week.  It’s coming, so get ready.  But first the Crib Sheet:

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Mascot Monday: Monte

It’s been a bear of a Spring down here, with temperatures being in the steady high 90s.  The heat is melting my imagination so for this week’s Mascot Monday we’ll check out another bear at Montana, Monte.  Okay, I was a little influenced by last week’s news of Nate Montana getting a DUI there, but I’m sweating my butt off right now.  Monte’s been around for a very short time but he has put up some impressive numbers in mascot-dom.   This week, we’ll find out just how full Monte is trophy case wise so let’s get cracking.

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Crib Sheet: Trying to Remember Memorial Day

I’m recovered from Memorial Day, thanks to some fresh water and aloe vera.  I did my part in taking a day of rest to recognize all of the great things our troops have done for America for its young history.  I hope you did the same.  Now I didn’t rest too much as the Crib Sheet must still keep chucking along.  Here’s week’s edition:

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Mascot Monday: Joe and Josephene Bruin

This week’s Mascot Monday sees us going Hollywood!  You know, in all of the years I’ve done this little mascot post, I’ve never hit the big time cities and the college mascots that dwell within them.  Welp, I’m starting something new by focusing on the University of California Los Angeles’ Joe and Josephine Bruin.  Okay so he’s not explicitly Hollywood, but he does have a weirdo kind of relationship with his female counterpart Josephene.  We’ll learn about that among some other tasty historical items for this week’s trip down mascot lane.  Get your cheap sunglasses ready and try to avoid TMZ.  Here we go.

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Crib Sheet: Crack that Whip!

It’s a huge week of news on the Crib Sheet so let’s get cracking:

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Mascot Monday: Marco the Buffalo

Here we go again rolling on through another Mascot Monday.  Oh and we are rolling alright.  Some say we may be thundering.  That’s right, this week we will take a look at Marshall University’s mascot, Marco the Buffalo.  Now I’ve covered live buffalo mascots before (Ralphie anybody?)  but this is the first time we’ll see it represented in costume format.  How does Marco stack up against his live counterpart?  More importantly, does Marco live up to the school’s nickname, The Thundering Herd?  We’ll find out about that as well as how mascot are marketed to kids so let’s rumble on through.

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Crib Sheet: Pop Open Your Windows

It’s that time of year. It’s time to pop open the windows and enjoy the weather a bit. Summer is just right around the corner and I’m happy that I’m not breathing recycled air at night. It’s a good time of the year for college football, too. The bones inside the players, the coaches, and the fans are just starting to itch. Warmer weather means practice is getting closer and games are not that far off. It’s especially exciting with the prospect of being the only kind of organized football on in the fall. Tune in later this year but in the meantime, hit up the Crib Sheet:

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Mascot Monday: The Speedy Geoduck

So yesterday I was hanging out at the pool and was stuck trying to figure out just who should I profile for this week’s Mascot Monday. I figured, “Well, hey, I’m at the pool. I might as well do a mascot that’s water based.” You know what? There’s hardly a college mascot out there that is water based. Sure, pro sports has plenty of Sharks, Dolphins, and Devil Rays but at the college ranks, there’s hardly a mollusk. So for this week, I will talk about the only mollusk mascot and one of the only water based mascots in college, Evergreen State’s Speedy Geoduck.

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Crib Sheet: Deep in the Heat of Texas

Welp I’m finally settled down here as the KCCGD Express is powered down and unpacked.  You know, people were saying that the heat is bad down here but I don’t mind it so much.  It’s not July yet, but mid 90s in late April/early May is a new thing for me.  And I love it.  People were meant to wear less clothes.  Now on to this week’s Crib Sheet:

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Mascot Monday: Rocky the Bull

Another week of Mascot Monday is bearing down and I’ve got another costumed character to pass judgement over.  You know, it isn’t as bad as it sounds and we’ll prove it with this week’s mascot.  A couple of weeks ago we featured a mascot by the name of Rocky and we are continuing that trend by looking at the University of South Florida’s version, Rocky the Bull.  A school that’s up and coming in football has the same feeling for this steed so let’s check him out.

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Crib Sheet: Saddling Up and Settling In

I’m sure you’ve seen my previous post about the major move down to Austin yesterday.  Yeah I’m still pretty shocked myself and I’m the one that knew about it for over month.   Never fear, we’ll still chug along and it continues today with this week’s Crib Sheep:

  • Missouri players get together and bond by paintballing.  I’ve never done it myself but I imagine pelting someone square in the chest with a faux bullet brings some sort of joy.
  • Even though there’s a contest at quarterback this spring for Kansas State, Collin Klein shoulders all of the expectations going into next season.  Meanwhile, Bill Snyder 2.0 is trying to use that competition to blow the steam off of former #1 recruit Bryce Brown.
  • They already are bucking tradition by introducing a championship game, so it makes sense that Big 10 Commissioner Jim Delany is trying to push for later start times on games.  Everyone knows the Big 10 starts mega early, with the Big 12, so why go and change it?  I want to maximize my football watching day.
  • Speaking of the Big 10, Nebraska lost its AAU membership.  Ho man that just made my week.  One of the strong points for Nebraska to move was its AAU membership.  Now both the Cornhuskers and the Big 10 look dumb.
  • Texas Tech head coach Tommy Tubberville offered his viewpoint on the whole ‘birthers’ debate.  It’s few and far between when football comments on politics.  I’d rather have that then the other way around.
  • The BCS set the dates for the bowl games next year, but they have to wait until the NFL cleans up its mess before they can lock it down.  I’m not sure how long they will wait, as the NFL can bump a month and still have a full season.
  • It looks like being a part of the big boys for Boise State means having a couple of NCAA violations attached to their program.  Its secondary so they won’t suffer too much.  Welcome to big time, guys.
  • The Pac 12 will get a mega buck deal from Fox and ESPN, much like the Big 12.  Except it’s the biggest deal in history.  Too bad they have 2 more teams to split up the costs with.
  • The tornadoes last week missed me while I was driving down and it missed Alabama’s Bryant-Denny Stadium.  The Crimson Tide’s long snapper Carson Tinker was injured, however.  Auburn is even reaching out to help the area recover from the nasty storms.  Just goes to show that heated rivals will always team up against mother nature.
  • No more new bowls for the next three years.  The NCAA will review the licensing process in that time to determine if enough is enough.  Three years is plenty time for the FBS to expand so that the bowls can expand without leaving the chance of a school with a losing record in on the fun.
  • ESPN analyst Kirk Herbstreit is taking some time out from Twitter because his Ohio State homies are bashing him for being fair.  The Internet is a cruel place, Kirk.  A cruel, cruel place.