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Purple Yeti Roar 31: The Season Has Started….For KCCGD!

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Ho man, I’ve been waiting all year for this day.  Well it’s not the most important day, but the 2nd most.  You see, it’s my season kick off for another year of KCCGD.  I’m so stoked about what’s coming this week, but I also have some time to talk about last week’s college football news.  Yup, we’re gonna go over Nebraska, Helium, Penn State, Champions Bowl, Jerry Dome, New Orleans, Dallas, LSU, Tyrann Mathieu, Notre Dame, Maryland, Idaho, WAC, Wisconsin, Danny O’Brien, Kansas State, and Justin Tuggle. Continue reading Purple Yeti Roar 31: The Season Has Started….For KCCGD! →

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Purple Yeti Roar 04: West Virginia, Mountain Momma

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Ah yes, another Purple Yeti Roar is in the house!  I’m still recovering from the copious amount of beer and bar food from yesterday’s Super Bowl, but I had enough time to sit down and roar out my thoughts about college football for the week.  Yes, National Signing Day came and left (with a hunger for Chic-Fil-A as well).   Most of the news for the week, however, revolved around West Virginia’s maneuvering and game cancelling.  Interesting indeed.  Cue the John Devner!

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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.
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The Crib Sheet: Easter Football Egg Hunt

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We were starting to get worried here at the Crib Sheet that this week’s news would be weak.  Wednesday rolled around and we were totally saved.  Perhaps Easter had something to do with the slow news over the weekend.  This week we sift through some practices and look at some red tape a danglin’ around.  Here we go:

  • Bo Pelini is spitting out chewing gum again in Lincoln.  He’s fired up after a bad practice and is telling everyone on the block about it.  It seems to work fine up there as Nebraska is turning the corner and it’s nice to see some passion from a coach when you’re living with the Pinkel/Mangino/Snyder non speak on a daily basis.
  • Mike Leach is a definite oddball and his practice tactics are proving it.  Making players study on the field in the snow and some high balancing is unique enough.  Still I’m not sure if it will work this year after losing Michael Crabtree.
  • Glen Winston is going to jail for 6 months for kicking the tar out of fellow Michigan State athlete A. J. Sturges.  I thought hockey players were supposed to be tough?  I guess not.  Then again, he was up against Winston and Michael White from the football team.  Two football players > one hockey player.
  • Texas is trying to lure the College Football Hall of Fame away from South Bend, Indiana.  Both Dallas and Arlington have put together proposals to build a hall as well as convention center in support of the move.  Traditionally Notre Dame is king for football but recent years have shown the Fighting Irish’s prominence waning.  Now is a good time to snatch the hall, especially in a state where people eat, sleep, and crap football.
  • Other universities are interested in Kansas Atheltic Director Lou Perkins and the Jayhawks are willing to pay up to keep him.   That makes sense.  The guy produced a national champion basketball team and built and honest to goodness football team down there in Lawrence.  So another $750,000 goes to Lou.  I’m sure it will eat into Mark Mangino’s Ho Ho fund.
  • Bill Snyder still has no clue who’s gonna quarterback the Kansas State Wildcats.  It’s a tough job to replace the overrated Josh Freeman.  Chances are we’ll see all three start next season and the one who does a better job with the option will get the nod.
  • Legal documents stuffed in the AP’s pocket show that the Missouri Tigers officials and staff failed to follow proper steps to keep Aaron O’Neil from collapsing and eventually dieing back in 2005.  The director of sports medicine for the athletic department apparently even rejected suggestions from concerned players to check up on O’Neil.  Yet another example of the Tigers dropping the ball, off the field even.
  • Former Duke basketballer Greg Paulus, after trying out for the Green Bay Packers, sat down with Michigan head coach Rich Rodriguez to explore the possibility of using his one year of eligibility to play college football.  So the Rich must be feeling the heat already because even the Duke football doesn’t want him.  Both Paulus and Rodriguez are starting to look a little silly here.