Published on: 4th October, 2009
For those of you waiting for Greg McElroy to finally show his first year jitters, yesterday may be as close as you come. His 15 of 28 performance, and 53 percent competition ratio proved even superman can have an off day in this 38-20 win. For the first game ever, ...Published on: 1st October, 2009
In the locker room at Bryant Denny Stadium, the lockers have names of noteworthy people who shared each number with the current players. Greg McElroy's has some pretty impressive names on it: Joe Namath, Pat Trammel, and Kenny Stabler, to name a few famous No. 12s. In fact, few people know ...Published on: 28th September, 2009
Watching game film, Bobby Petrino must have been sweating bullets. Once it gets rolling, Alabama's offense seems unstoppable, the defense seems unmovable. What's a coach to do? Petrino made a decision on what to do on defense, stop the run, keep Alabama from grinding down the defense and controlling the clock. ...Published on: 28th September, 2009
Georgia, South Carolina, Kentucky, Vanderbilt and Tennessee have all floundered in the East and Ole Miss laid a big egg, Arkansas got stomped and Mississippi State while looking better, are still losing. That leaves Auburn and LSU undefeated, but LSU's close call against Mississippi State and Auburn still being Auburn means ...Published on: 28th September, 2009
No one knows a team like the coaches and players know themselves and this week I was able to ask them what they felt about the comparisons to this year’s team and last years. Starting with Nick Saban he feels this is a quicker, deeper and more athletic team with much ...Published on: 27th September, 2009
This past week the Old Ball Coach threw a lot of us in Prognosticatin' Profession an old curve ball this week when he mustered up the Gamecock's to put a peckin' on them Rebels. And Baccardi the Wonder Dog's feelings about his brother dogs almost pullin' off the upset at ...Published on: 24th September, 2009
I like to visit sports bars sometimes and just hang out with fans. It gives me sense of what the fans are interested in at that particular time. Living in a vacation town (Panama City Beach, Florida), we get visitors from all over the United States so I get a little ...Published on: 21st September, 2009
Three new coaches came into the SEC last year and all three inherited teams that didn't make a bowl game and generally had a worse than expected year. With three of the first 12 games gone in the regular season, I guess if would be fair to give each a first ...Published on: 20th September, 2009
My goodness, one quarter of the regular season has done been played and the Little Smart Pill Machine still ain't quite up to snuff despite some close calls with perfection. Me and Baccardi have tweaked it all weekend and we think we've finally got the potion in proportion, so with a ...Published on: 19th September, 2009
Usually by week three, trends start getting established, leaders step forward, and questions start getting answered. Let's examine some questions and answers. Question one would have to be, is USC really that good? No, they're not. They were just beaten by a really bad team. How Bad? They lost every game they played ...