Memories: Getting Ready for Florida-Georgia
The Big Lead —
But does last year’s “Celebration” top the flea-flicker Spurrier called in 1995 with five minutes left in the game when the Gators were ahead 45-17? Ordinarily, this is where we’d get giddy for trash talk … but Urban Meyer’s put a gag order on his Gators.
Cocktails Anyone?
Amphibious Sports Duo —
We are a mere two days away from the one of the msot anticipated college football games of the season. However instead of focusing on the actual match-up, the hype machine that is ESPN and others in the media are choosing only to focus on what transpired in the first quarter of last year's 42-30 Georgia victory. In case you don't know what I'm talking about, you can watch the video here. But there is more to this game than Florida exacting revenge and they better realize it they will lose the game and the SEC East title. In an unsurprising, reverse phsycology move, Florida coach Urban Meyer put the kibosh on any of his players ...
Bellotti: Should Celebration Penalties Overturn the Touchdown?
Corn Nation —
Oregon coach Mike Bellotti, who's the head of the NCAA rules committee, is thinking about how to crack down on unsportsmanlike conduct. One of his ideas is to make unsportsmanlike conduct a live ball penalty. If a player starts doing excessive celebrating before scoring, the penalty is enforced from that spot, and the score is nullified. Think back to Nebraska/Oklahoma in 1980 and Jarvis Redwine's long run. Redwine looks back and starts pointing at the Sooner chasing him. In that case, the ref could throw the flag, and mark off ten or fifteen yards from that spot. So rather than an NU touchdown, it would be Husker ...
Headlinin': The good news for Herzlich (relatively speaking)
Dr. Saturday —
• Just the facts, please. Mark Herzlich's stunning cancer announcement Thursday is destined to launch a round of "inspirational" pablum, and then several more rounds as the All-American linebacker's recovery (hopefully) progresses and he returns to football, or doesn't. At least the Boston Globe is there this morning with some actual information:
• Herzlich's tumor -- a rare variety usually found in "the pelvic area" of male teenagers, but discovered in Herzlich's left leg -- has not metastasized, according to his father: "We received very positive news that the cancer ...
Assessing Georgia's path out of (relative) rock-bottom
Dr. Saturday —
Every bad season has that nauseating, "over the falls in a barrel" moment, and for Georgia, I suspect that moment was with roughly 12 minutes remaining in the first half Saturday at Knoxville, when perennial laughingstock Jonathan Crompton hit Denarius Moore for a 33-yard touchdown to put Tennessee up 14-7. It was Crompton's second TD pass in as many drives, a first in his beleaguered career, and signaled that the rest of the Bulldogs' afternoon would be the gridiron equivalent of the barrel hitting the rocks at the bottom over and over (and over and over, once for each of the subsequent Vol touchdowns from that point) for the rest of the ...
