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Barspotting: We’re Gonna Work the Straw in Wichita

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Yup, you heard us right. It’s the first of what looks to be a ton of road trips for the KCCGD crew this year.  The first stop is down in the heart of Kansas.  We’ll be touring one of the best sports bars in Wichita, but we don’t kn0w which one just yet.  We’ll have to wait for the locals to point us in the right direction.  Let’s face it, no one else in the KCCGD viewing area will be out and about in Wichita so we’re not too worried.  As of now, we are looking at some potential in Mulligan’s Pub, Larry Bud’s, Heroes, Players, The Fieldhouse, or maybe Emerson Biggins.  We’ll tweet that out when we know, follow us @kccgd.

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Mascot Monday: Sebastian the Ibis

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Another week of mascots and we cracked the top ten of Phil Steele’s Preseason Top  40 with the #9 Miami of Florida Hurricanes and their mascot Sebastian the Ibis.  Just what is an Ibis?  How the heck does it go with Hurricane?  We’ll answer those questions as well as blow through Sebastian’s somewhat fiery past.  Some say the Hurricanes are on the cusp of being back this year.  Mr. Steele believes that they are Top Ten worthy.  Now let’s find out if Sebastian is just as worthy.

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Crib Sheet: Hot and Heavy

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The beating heat of the summer is getting to us.  We’re producing an inordinate amount of swass underneath while compiling this week’s very beefy Crib Sheet.  We’re going for some lemonade and to air our sweat regions.  Here’s the Crib Sheet:

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Magnifying the Expansion Part 4: Now I’m Yelling Dominoes

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We laid the foundation with our last 3 post for the Big 10 expansion.  Now let’s talk about how other conferences are reacting.  Some of them could be massively depleted whereas others are moving to counteract the possible Big 10 growth.  Every major BCS conference has about two cents to toss in and little brother mid major conferences are chirping in as well.  It’s time for the conferences to lay down their tiles and see just how much they could change.

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Crib Sheet: No Buzzword Bingo for these Meetings

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It’s the middle of May and many of the big time conferences are in the middle of meetings.  Athletic directors and coaches nationwide are now meeting to check up on things and discuss to goings on of their respective schools.  Now usually, this will blow over with not much of a drop of news to report.  This year, however, it’s getting bigger attention because of the expansion talk coming from the Big 10.  Where last year there might have been one or two beat writers covering the meeting, this year it’s a media hoopla.  No, the KCCGD Crib Sheet did not travel to the Big 10 meeting, but the Big 12 one is in Kansas City next week so we may crash that party.  In the meantime, read up on our Big 10 expansion series and check out this week’s Crib Sheet:

  • Blair Kerkhoff speculated last week how Kansas City could be affected with Missouri and/or Nebraska leaving the conference.  We’ll cover it later this week, but this is a nice roundup of how serious of a move this is for the local area.
  • Rivalries could be affected as well, especially with Kansas and Missouri.  Lew Perkins hinted heavily last week that Kansas might have a hard time doing a rivalry game if it wasn’t in conference.  Big time decisions with consequences are fun for Missouri right now.
  • Mike Sherman’s been away to Iraq talking to Aggie troops.  He went out there for the Aggie Muster, which is a roll call of fallen Texas A&M soldiers on April 21.  He ended up being late and had to stay later due to the Iceland volcano blowing ash.   Sherman’s got our respect here for spending his own dough and sticking through to keep up the tradition.
  • Notre Dame and Miami are looking to renew their rivalry.  Sounds good to us.  Back in the day, this game meant national championships.  Today, well, these teams are struggling to get back to the big time.  Maybe this renewed tussle will help them get back on the track.
  • It seems like there is some trouble going on over in Lawrence.   We might have not mentioned it before, but there is a big brewhaha over former fundraiser Rodney Jones’ abuse over tickets and plane ride solicitations.  On the field, first stringer defensive tackle Jamal Greene is off the team because of his arrest for a little breaking and entering and armed robbery.  At least they are cleaning things up now.
  • The speculation for the Big Ten expansion now grows toward the Sun Belt, according the head honcho Jim Delany.  Let the fake reports triple because of this.
  • Bennie F. Abram, the Ole Miss player who collapsed and died on the field during a workout, had the sickle-cell trait.  The enlarged heart due to that caused the seizure.  When  will the NCAA institute a rule that monitors this disease in football players?  Every year there’s a new kid that dies because of this.  Where is the clamor?
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Crib Sheet: Adding a Notch to the Expansion Talk

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So the Big 10 expansion speculation that’s been building the last couple of months has finally come to a head here at the KCCGD Headquarters.  We’ll give our thoughts about the whole shebang in the next couple days, but we wanted to whet your appetite with some tasty nuggets of information in the Crib Sheet.  You, too, can munch down on expansion rumor to fill your belly with enough information to win your sports bar argument.  Sports screaming at its finest, folks.  On to the Crib Sheet:

  • In case you thing we’ve forgotten, Mike Leach’s case against Texas Tech has a hearing coming up May 14th and last week Texas Tech officials filed a motion to dismiss the lawsuit altogether.   They say the sworn statements are all that is needed and that Leach’s treatment was an offense worthy of termination.  Leach on the other hand is making the case that it was about his contract and the bonus he was about to receive.
  • Kansas State, ever the team to take on tough new challenges, forged a mega deal to face the fearsome University of Texas San Antonio.  Who?  Yes that’s right, The Roadrunners, led by former Miami coach Larry Coker, will face the Wildcats in their inaugural FCS seasons.  Man, UCLA isn’t that tough.  Leave it up to Bill Snyder 2.0 to find the scrubs of the scrubs.
  • Here is your 2010-11 college football bowl schedule!  Just in case you missed the Big 12 match ups, new Big 12 blogger David Ubben follows up with schedule for the respective conference teams.  Kudos goes to the Insght Bowl for making the jump from the NFL Network to ESPN.
  • Notre Dame tight end Mike Ragone was feeling green big time last Saturday.  No, not green for the Fighting Irish, but green for rolling doobies.  New coach Brian Kelly is going to bitch slap him around a hit and call it a done deal.  It’s the new century, football players get stoned all the time, even the pious ones.
  • Our homeboy Kevin Kietzman here at WHB 810 am filled the airwaves with reports that the Big 10 offered invitations to the conference to Missouri, Nebraska, Rutgers, and Notre Dame.  The wave of denials built up so big that Big 10 commissioner Jim Delany had to send out comment denying the report.  This summer’s only going to get hotter with speculation.
  • So the speculation has been about what conferences will do to react to the Big 10 Expansion.  Well, on the Big 12 side it seems they may be exploring options with a pact between them and the Pac 10 (see the play on words?).  Basically, the two conferences will have something similar to the hardwood series we enjoy but on the football field.  The speculation is that there is also a potential Rose Bowl spot that could be up for grabs too.  Remember, it’s speculation only.
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Crib Sheet: College Town World Tour

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So I’m just now getting back into the swing of things now that I’m back from the SXSW conference.  The yearly Music/Film/Interactive conference can take a toll on your body and even though I got back Monday, I’m still feeling the effect.  The drive there uses I-35 and actually hits up a couple of college towns.  Big 12 wise, we sped through Oklahoma’s home in Norman and landed in Austin, the home of the Texas Longhorns.  Which one is better?  It’s not fair, really.  The conference was in Austin and I only drove through Oklahoma.  Now here’s this week’s Crib Sheet:

  • Speaking of Texas, apparently they are hitting the eiquette skills as well as the plyometric skills down in Austin.  If you are going to be a football dignitary, the I guess you would need to know how to flaunt elitist like chops.  Do they really need to know how to hold a fork right when tearing into some ribs from the Salt Lick, however?
  • Much ballyhooed recruit Bryce Brown has left the Tennessee program, due to either personal issues or the fact that Lane Kiffin left.  So let the rumor mills begin again!  First one out of the gate:  Bryce’s brother left Miami and is heading the K-State.  So that means there may be a chance Bryce will come play for Bill Snyder 2.0 and the Wildcats.  I hope the second round of hype around Bryce is faster.
  • Weakened and ill coach Urban Meyer returned to the Florida Gators and practice last week.  If you remember he quit the team due to health reasons but then came back when he realized that he could get better.  Or at least put on some poundage.  This year will be a nice off year for Meyer so he can reload next year, both on football and his health.
  • Just like when baseball’s Chicago Cubs shocked everyone and had its first ever night game a decade or two ago, now the Big House in Michigan will be doing the same.  What better way to do so than against the Notre Dame Fighthing Irish?  This should be a close game, with a new coach on one side and another almost on the hot seat.
  • Nick Saban is your first ever Bobby Bowden national collegiate coach of the year.  The Over the Mountain Touchdown Club is in Bowden’s home town of Birmingham, Alabama.  Not much surprise here.  The coach that wins the national title for the school in the home state of the award title’s name.  Zlam Dunk.
  • Expansion or not, the Pac 10 may be looking into instituting a conference title game.  Commissioner Larry Scott mentioned that when going over all expansion possibilities with CBS Sports.  There’s an NCAA rule that states you need to have 12 teams to have a conference title game.  So if they do want to do it without expansion, then they need to change that rule.
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Pick It Standings Week 12: Gobble Gear Up

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It’s a short week here as we’re are in training for Thanksgiving Thursday.  We thought about calling up Mark Mangino to help us train but we don’t like being verbally abused and we most certainly don’t want him to hog all of the food.  So here we are stretching and exercising for the marathon of food we get to sprint through.  A couple of things to note in setting your eat order is:  Do you use dark meat or white meat?   Are you a gravy fan?  Pumpkin or  Apple pie?  These answers can lead you to the top of the glutton mountain and be crowned the Feast King.  Now here’s the Pick It and Stick It standings:

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Pick It Standings Week 10: Yawnster of a Weekend

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We’re back this week with another round of Pick It Standings.  Not much of a shake up this weekend in terms of college football and it’s reflected in the pick set.  Really when you think about it, there was no real big upset over the weekend, unless you count USC falling down hard to Stanford.  Everybody else won as expected and they are turning to corner for the home stretch of the season.  This is going to be a tight one to the end, both for the BCS race and the Pick It race.  Here’s this week’s lap:

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Pick It and Stick It: Crusting Over With Joy

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We’re in a good mood this week.  Thanksgiving is coming up.  The bowl picture is settling up.  We even have a local team in the running for the Big 12 North title.  Even though we are inching closer to the end of the season, it already has met expectations for entertainment.  We have a little pep in our step.  We also have some games coming up tomorrow that should keep us hopping.  So whistle while you work and check out this week’s Pick It and Stick It:

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Pick It Standings Week 09: Candy Hangover

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Halloween is over and we’re still feeling the hurt over the load of candy and Joose.  We rocked many parties and kinda wished we were at one that had Kansas State at Oklahoma on.  Oh well.  We are still enjoying the various fun sizes of candy.  Our favorites include Snickers, Butterfinger, and Milky Way.  But enough about candy.  We’re sweet on the Pick It Standings now.  We also have some tasty BCS standings to go over as the polls turned sweeter to some winning teams over some other teams that had some sour victorious.  Get your toothbrush ready, you’ll need it after this.

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Pick It and Stick It: Packing One In

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It’s the first road trip of the year for KCCGD crew and we’re getting ready today for the fantastic Oklahoma and Kansas match up in Lawrence.  Typically people leave first thing in the morning and head back after the game.  It’s nice for us because the game is at 2:30, but even the 11:00 am games require the big morning road trip.  Usually that means packing up the night before and going over the football watching checklist.   Food, booze, drinks, gear, and radios all need to be packed up and ready to rock.  So tonight we’ll be busy making sure we are fully represented for the tailgating and the game.  On top of going over this week’s pick set:

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Pick It Standings Week 06: Bored with Florida

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The weekend of football left us a little deflated.  There was much hype going into the Florida vs LSU game but it ended up being pretty boring.  The other games on the docket were pretty uneventful.  It’s saying something when the most exciting game of the week came from the Big 10 of all places.  The pick it standings this week reflect that.  There were lots of easy calls and people missed most of the same picks.  Ho hum.  The next week should spice up at bit, especially with the Red River Rivalry coming our way.

Favored Aub Kan OHSt Tex FLSt Fla Iowa
Spread 2.5 19.5 16.0 32.5 3.0 7.5 8.0
Underdog Ark IASt Wis Colo GT LSU Mich
Team Name Points
Mangino
is FAT!!!		 Ark
(5)		 IASt
(4)		 Wis
(7)		 Colo
(15)		 GT
(3)		 LSU
(2)		 Mich
(1)		 113
Daniel
Thomas is the man!		 Aub
(13)		 Kan
(3)		 OHSt
(8)		 Tex
(5)		 GT
(11)		 Fla
(1)		 Iowa
(4)		 110
Katpak Aub
(14)		 IASt
(5)		 Wis
(6)		 Colo
(9)		 GT
(4)		 LSU
(3)		 Iowa
(2)		 104
krizzou Aub
(4)		 IASt
(17)		 OHSt
(11)		 Tex
(14)		 GT
(13)		 Fla
5)		 Mich
(15)		 98
Snyder
In Syder		 Aub
(10)		 Kan
(9)		 OHSt
(3)		 Colo
(4)		 GT
(2)		 LSU
(1)		 Iowa
(6)		 88
King
Of Pop Had A Va-J-J		 Aub
(16)		 Kan
(3)		 Wis
(7)		 Tex
(11)		 FLSt
(5)		 Fla
(4)		 Iowa
(1)		 83
KSU
finally makes a bowl again		 Aub
(6)		 Kan
(12)		 Wis
(8)		 Tex
(2)		 GT
(15)		 Fla
(3)		 Iowa
(10)		 81
KSOFM Aub
(3)		 Kan
(15)		 OHSt
(7)		 Tex
(11)		 FLSt
(13)		 LSU
(14)		 Iowa
(16)		 60

You may notice the results are a little slim.  Well we don’t include the picks where everyone else chose the same.  So for instance, this week everyone picked Virginia Tech, Penn State, Oregon, Alabama, Miami, and BYU.  They missed South Carolina, Oklahoma State, and TCU.  With that out of the way we once again point out Krizzou being the lone rebel and going with Baylor against Oklahoma.  Good call by Mangino is Fat!!! for picking Arkansas.

Rank Pick Set Name Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 Week 5 Week 6 Week 11 Week 12 Week 13 Week 14 Total Pts
1 KSU finally makes a bowl again 125 138 149 133 84 81 0 0 0 0 710
2 Katpak 97 137 163 114 78 104 0 0 0 0 693
3 Mangino is FAT!!! 111 124 155 132 57 113 0 0 0 0 692
4 King Of Pop Had A Va-J-J 91 121 149 151 57 83 0 0 0 0 652
5 KSOFM 111 123 154 108 88 60 0 0 0 0 644
6 krizzou 100 113 141 132 46 98 0 0 0 0 630
7 Daniel Thomas is the man! 104 109 0 123 95 110 0 0 0 0 541
8 Purple Yeti 119 0 155 85 73 88 0 0 0 0 520
9 Polly want a Tinkle 0 0 0 96 73 0 0 0 0 0 169

We’re almost at the middle of the season and the pack is starting to break away.   Minus any major upsets, it looks as though it will be a three person race between KSU finally makes a bowl again, Katpak, and Mangino is FAT!!!  There’s a battle brewing for the cellar, too, between the Purple Yeti and Daniel Thomas is the man!  But there’s still plenty of season left over and now that many of the Top 25 teams won’t have that many weekends off, the points should bump up.  Get ready, because the BCS standings are coming out next week.

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Pick It Standings Week 05: Feeling Overhyped

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The non conference schedule is over and the Big 12 is limping out.   Oklahoma losing another close on to Miami capped off a 34-14 non conference schedule with one more game remaining.   The Arkansas rout of Texas A&M Saturday especially stung because it was from a SEC team.  So it looks as though that the Big 12 won’t end up being the 2nd strongest conference.  That can hurt Texas if they notch a loss and there’s no undefeated team in the conference.  Heaven forbid USC or even Ohio State sneaks into the national title game again.   One thing is for sure, the SEC is living up to the hype this year.  Now it’s time to figure out if we lived up to our Pick It hype:

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Pick It and Stick It: It’s Getting Hard

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Well hard and cold.  Hard because the teams are starting to even out and we are actually seeing tougher calls for the spread.  On top of that, the confidence points don’t work out too well anymore.  There won’t be hardly anymore Off bets to drop the big points on.  Cold because of the weather.  It’s getting nippy out folks.   Bundle up and bring the Irish coffee.

Favorite VS Underdog Final Status (times in CDT)
(20)BYU VS Utah St. 24 Fri, Oct 2 at 8:00 pm
(6)Virginia Tech @ Duke 17 Sat, Oct 3 at 11:00 am
(13)Iowa VS Arkansas St. 21 Sat, Oct 3 at 11:00 am
Michigan St. VS (22)Michigan 3 Sat, Oct 3 at 11:00 am
(3)Alabama @ Kentucky 15.5 Sat, Oct 3 at 11:21 am
(10)Cincinnati @ Miami (OH) 29 Sat, Oct 3 at 12:00 pm
(15)Penn St. @ Illinois 7 Sat, Oct 3 at 2:30 pm
(18)Georgia VS (4)LSU 3 Sat, Oct 3 at 2:30 pm
(9)Ohio St. @ Indiana 18 Sat, Oct 3 at 6:00 pm
(21)Mississippi @ Vanderbilt 9.5 Sat, Oct 3 at 6:00 pm
(25)Georgia Tech @ Mississippi St. 6 Sat, Oct 3 at 6:30 pm
(8)Oklahoma @ (17)Miami (FL) 7.5 Sat, Oct 3 at 7:00 pm
(7)USC @ (24)California 5 Sat, Oct 3 at 7:00 pm
(11)TCU VS SMU 28 Sat, Oct 3 at 7:00 pm
(5)Boise St. VS UC Davis Off (0) Sat, Oct 3 at 7:00 pm
(12)Houston @ UTEP 15 Sat, Oct 3 at 8:00 pm
(16)Oregon VS Washington St. 33.5 Sat, Oct 3 at 8:15 pm

Okay so the only Off just happens to be Boise State.  The BCS Bronco Busting Broncos  are riding there way to a somewhat cake conference schedule.  Will they make it?  UC Davis will help.  Cincinnati is supposed to roll Miami of Ohio even though it’s a rivalry game.  The other Miami is hosting Landry Jones and Oklahoma.  Looks like the loss to Virginia Tech was enough to put the Sooners out ahead on the spread.  Georgia and LSU have the smallest spread because, well, it’s the SEC and it’s Defense.  Did you see LSU last week?  Yeah it will be close.  The other close game will be the Paul Bunyan Trophy contest that pits Michigan against Michigan State.  Last week’s gift for the Wolverines is why the are favored 3.  It’s 3 points from the referees and the Big 10.