"In My South" framing this is consider "art."
If you're not fired up for football yet (and frankly, if you're reading this blog you're likely way past fired up), Ron Higgins' article in the Memphis Commerical Appeal will push you over the edge. Some highlights:
IN MY COLLEGE FOOTBALL SOUTH:Another great quote from the article comes from Jackie Sherrill:
By Ron Higgins
With apologies to the Turner South network and its "My South" promotion ...
We don't think we invented college football, we just believe we perfected it.
It's cool for women to call the Hogs and for men to bark like Dogs.
An RV is considered a fall vacation home.
It's an honor to be arrested for trying to tear down a goalpost.
Roll Tide, War Eagle, Hunker down Hairy Dawgs and Geaux Tigers are acceptable substitutes for hello.
A cowbell is a fashion accessory.
And Grandma, why is that live tiger in a cage sitting next to the bench?
"[College Football is] like a religion. It's like being a Catholic, or Methodist or Baptist or Presbyterian or Jewish. If you're an Alabama fan or a Florida fan or an LSU fan, you are true to that team always. You have an unshakable belief, a faith."Amen, Jackie. Verily.
From that hellified start, Tony Barnhart gets us ready for SEC and ACC media days this week. He brings us his Top 10 questions for the SEC and ACC. His comments about the Gamecocks took me off guard saying the Spurrier "just wants to win more than he loses." That doesn't sound like the Evil Genius of days gone by.
Down on the Bayou, they're saying that the Tiger faithful are finally starting to warm up to Les Miles (Baton Rouge Advocate). He had some pretty solid one liners at the last stop on the pre-season Tiger Road Show including this zinger about the lack of deep balls last year.
He let on that he understood the frustrations of LSU fans who wondered why the Tigers didn’t throw enough deep balls to take advantage of the world-class track speed of NCAA champion Xavier Carter, whose swiftness on the track never translated equally to the football field.Back here in Atlanta, Mark Bradley bring us "All is Right with Richt." An article about just how well things are going for UGA right now. It's Bradley's best pro-UGA piece in years.
“It was very difficult to design routes that were 100 yards or 200 yards,” Miles joked. “We won’t have that problem anymore.”
Yeah. We've got it pretty dialed in right now. Photo by Jim Hipple
And if you're interested, I did a little thing about coaching changes across the country. You know...from the Idle Speculation Department.
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