How Do You Spell Spurrier?

Don’t you just love the way the mainstream press constantly takes a little dig at coach Calipari. In their minds he will always be remembered because one of his players at U Mass took improper benefits, read bling. Another took a test or did he and coach played him after the NCAA cleared him to play

Now South Carolina has basically admitted that 10 football players took improper benefits, playing played 4 ineligible players in 2009 and other assorted no no’s. Today they self imposed penalties on themselves before they visit the NCAA to discuss there fate. For playing ineligible players alone they should get games forfeited, if the NCAA is honest.
http://www.gogamecocks.com/2011/12/14/183812/ggf-usc-acknowledges-ncaa-violations.html

Just by looking at the numbers, 10 to 1, it seems like the old balls coach is 10 times dirtier than coach Calipari. It also looks like he was no more involved in what happened at South Carolina than coach Calipari was at U Mass and Memphis.

In the future when national media writers talk about Steve Spurrier, will they add a little comment about having had games forfeited, probably. Will they mean any thing by it, probably not. After all you can’t sully a honest mans name, unless its spelled Calipari. Now how do you spell Spurrier?

Missouri To The SEC

Its official now. The SEC released a statement saying the conference’s presidents and chancellors acted unanimously, and Missouri will join the league effective July 1, 2012.

After thinking about it I decided to issue a official BBR statement about it. Who gives a hoot, it’s basketball season!!!!!!!!!!!

Stay tuned for more come April.

Picture This If You Can

You think Mitch Barnhart has problems with Joker not having a good season. His problems pale in comparison to Miss AD Pete Boone.

http://www.mrsec.com/2011/10/forward-rebels-calls-for-immediate-termination-of-ums-boone/

Generally laughter is the best medicine but in this case it doesn’t make me feel better. Are we seeing the future of college football in this story. One of my favorite Frank Zappa lines started with, “Picture this if you can”. Try picturing one of our favorite sports when both the right and the left get into as another battleground to draw attention to their views.

Don’t think for a minute that this Lee Habeeb is into it for anything other than self promotion. Well OK if you want to you got my permission. Me I’m gonna listen to some Frank and picture my football being pure as the driven snow.

Now!!!!!!!!

Picture this if you can
[Howard:] Oh . . .
[Mark:] Bead jobs!
[Howard:] Oh!
[Mark:] Knotted nylons!
[Howard:] Oh!
[Mark:] Bamboo canes!
[Howard:] Oh!
[Mark:] Three unreleased recordings of Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young fighting in the dressing-room of the Fillmore East!

The horror of even thinking about this happening is just unbearable. Does anyone know if college bowling is in their view yet.

Its Offical A&M Is In The SEC

Well its official now. The SEC announced today that Texas A&M will join the conference effective July 1, 2012, and will begin competition in all sports for the 2012-13 academic year. How exciting can a Sunday get?

You don’t think its exciting? It is, it is, it is exciting. Sports writers all over the country are being forced to work today since the SEC, in their infinite wisdom decided that Sunday is the perfect day to tweak noses in the Big 12. Blog writers are feverishly looking for story’s to copy ideas from. Google is about to crash from SEC fans searching for Texas boards to talk smack. Coaches are looking for Texas HS players to visit now that there is a new SEC big bull in town. Texas legislators are thinking about how to impeach Gov Perry for allowing this to happen. Oklahoma fans are laughing behind their hands at the embarrassment Texas is suffering. Anyway you get the picture, Texas A&M is in the SEC next year.

I should have had something prepared to post since I knew this was going to happen. I didn’t though so I’m just going to wing it.

How is the SEC going to change. To begin with in men’s basketball there will finally a sheriff in the west. In men and women’s track A&M has won the last two national championships and will make the west stronger. Women’s soccer, volleyball and softball will be getting good upper level SEC teams. In football the SEC will be getting a mid level team who will benefit in recruiting by joining the SEC. The SEC will also be getting a school that produces the most military officers besides the academy’s.

Not bad.

SEC Media Days

The media days are off to a good start. One thing we know already is the SEC is going to be awesome in blocking wifi judging from the fact that it took forever for them to get it working. Those poor media people had to sit sadly refreshing their laptops over and over while we poor blogers could drink cheap beer and pound away on ours one finger at a time.

Perry Stevenson is shown with his awesome dunk on one of the videos they are showing during breaks. Way to go Perry!!!!!!!!

Alabama’s Nick Saban was his normal self starting politely and being led by questions into turning into a agent crunching demon. Other than saying “How are they any better than a pimp?” he reiterated what he said the other day about baning them from SEC campuses.

Well thats done but the questions were almost impossible to hear. Maybe we can ban Radio Shack for not working with the league.

Dan Mullen was as usual a entertaining talker and got the best quote of the day so far when ask a question with the word Alabama and or Saban in it. “Well, I’ve had a lot more first-round quarterbacks drafted than he’s ever had in his career.”

Urban Meyer handled the $100,000 question easily he said he went directly to Pouncey and ask if he did it and he said no. He agrees with Nick Saben on what to do with agents. He feels that there will be some sort of reaction by the NFL. Florida is going to pass mostly and run it from under center, by direct snaps and with the wildcat much like they did with Chris Leake. Nothing new there.

Joker was very upbeat about his coaches and wanted to get out in Kentucky get the Kentucky brand out for all to see. He talked about hitching himself to the basketball team during the spring. He also mentioned that the new coaching hires were already paying dividends in recruiting.

As fas as who will start at quarterback he said that we have two quarterbacks who have won in the league and three who can win and the position is still wide open. Derick Locke on the other hand said Hartline had a great spring and stepped up when it was needed.

Joker also said wanted his quarterback to “win” the game this year, rather than managing it”. You could feel the BBN stand up and run to the fridge for a cold one when that was said.

Defensive tackle Myron Walker and linebacker Will Johnson will transfer according to Joker and Paul Warford is ineligible. Warford is not really news since it was reported that he wasn’t doing to well in school. Mister Cobble’s status is up in the air right now.

Over all Joker cracked a few jokes and managed his first media days like a veteran.

Cheerleaders Gone Wild

Can you feel it? Strong winds are starting to blow across the SEC. After last years multitude of blown calls by SEC officials the SEC is going with digital replay.

As I write thousands of feet of fiber-optic cables are being run in stadiums that don’t already have them. Replay officials are getting their eyes checked so they can clearly see the new equipment being installed. SEC officials are celebrating their referee problem as being solved. ESPN is nervously awaiting the call asking for more money for the conference because the games are longer because of more replays.

Each new HD system being installed comes with three monitors. Two that show video and one that is a touch-screen computer. This will allow the replay official and replay technician to mark every angle of a play and toggle between different views.

In case your wondering if this will work the high-definition picture available in the replay booth will be much better than what we see on the tube since the picture is 25 times clearer than Blu-Ray CD’s.

In fact the picture is so clear that replay officials are already considering releasing cheerleaders gone wild CD’s to supplement their pay.

Will this make a difference in overturning calls? Of course not but fans might get lucky and get a CGW CD featuring the Louisville cheerleaders out of this system.

Respect The Bell

Six years ago this fall Thomas “Mule” Henderson Jr was a average freshman at Ole Miss. Considered brayingly funny by many of his friends he looked forward to getting his degree in radio communications and becoming a salsa DJ.

Mule and a group of friends showed up with cowbells for his first football game. Some how during the game he was struck repeatedly by cowbells. This is not a uncommon occurrence at Vaught Hemingway Stadium according to unname sources, although it seldom requires more than a dozen stitches and wearing hearing aids for the rest of their life.

In Mules case the injuries went much deeper. He spent 83 days in a coma and has been slow to recover his braying since of humor said his mother Shannon “Clover” Henderson. In fact she said, “Mule is a totally different person since his injury.” He has lost his desire to be a Salsa DJ and now is planning on being a lawyer and is a Alabama fan. These changes have been heartbreaking to his family said Shannon. His father Thomas ” Big Mule” Henderson said “to see your only son not follow in your bell ringing footsteps and give up his life long dream and settle on being a lawyer is gut wrenching.”

Shannon and mothers who have had similar experiences with loved ones started MFRCR Mothers For Responsible Cowbell Ringing five years ago. Although they faced overwhelming odds they managed to convince the SEC to force Mississippi to either control the cowbell ringing or cowbells would be banned.

Ole Miss has responded to the SEC by setting up Respectthebell.com. Which promises to bring about total chaos in the stands as Mississippi fans are the rudest in the SEC and would rather quit spitting than quit banging their cowbells.

Both the ACLU (The American Civil Liberties Union) which says using a cowbell at a football game is as American as owning a gun and the NACBM (National Association Of Cowbell Banging Musicians) which says beating a cowbell while playing music is part of their culture have filed law suits against the SEC.

Unlike most years fall promises to be an exciting time in Mississippi.

Media Dayze

The SEC media days kick off the football season on July 21 and all of us here at BigBlueRules are stoked. This year fans can watch the media days at The SEC Sports site.

Joker Phillips will be staring in his first media days on Wednesday along with a supporting cast of Kentucky players Randall Cobb, DeQuin Evans and Derrick Locke.

Some thoughts on the media days.

With no Lane Kiffin to provide the fodder this year, Tennessee will still be the star for the second year in a row. This year most eyes will be on Derrek Dooley to see if he in nimble enough to face a media that will have few questions not related to bar room brawls or how bare the cupboards are.

Will there ever be a player better with words than Dicky Lyons representing a team again.
Watch Dicky Lyons here?

Will a coach not show up like Fulmer did when he was a no-show so he couldn’t be served court papers?

Will Spurrier be the only coach not to vote Garcia as the top QB in the league?

Will a player admit that he’s not a virgin.

If any of this happens count on us to bring the news to you.

Come On Down

A question for you. Why would a player want to play for anyone other than a SEC school? To win a national championship? Thats getting harder to do if you don’t play in the SEC.

1998: – Tennessee
1999: – Florida St.
2000: – Oklahoma
2001: – Miami
2002: – Ohio St. (won on a blown call)
2003: – LSU
2004: – USC (Auburn was undefeated and didn’t play)
2005: – Texas
2006: – Florida
2007: – LSU
2008: – Florida
2009: – Alabama

To get drafted? The SEC leads in that also department also as the draft results this year show.

1. SEC – 49
2. Big Ten – 34
3. ACC – 31
4. Big 12 – 30
5. Pac-10 – 28
6. Big East – 18
7: MWC – 13

The SEC has now led or tied for the most selections in the NFL Draft for 11 of the last 13 seasons and the last four drafts and every team in the SEC had someone drafted. Alabama (7), Arkansas (1), Auburn (2), Florida (9), Georgia (5), Kentucky (3), LSU (6), Ole Miss (4), Mississippi State (2), South Carolina (2), Tennessee (6), Vanderbilt (2).

Because you love your state school? Ok this one I can understand I mean who wouldn’t want to play for Montana St. rather than Tennessee.

So if your a young man wanting to play great football and are being offered by a school like USC, Florida St. or Penn St. come on down and play for Kentucky in the SEC there isn’t anything like it.

Your Busted Cup

We are going to do a Your Busted Cup for something to do during the summer. When a SEC football team gets a player arrested and you see it post the teams name and the players name in the topic in the forums and that team will get 1 point. If a player gets kicked off the team for unspecified reasons without being arrested the team gets 2 points. If he is arrested and kicked of the team the team gets 3 points. If the player is caught having sex with a stump broke critter the team gets 5 points but we don’t expect that to happen as Louisville isn’t in the SEC. We will announce the winning team when the season is over.

So far Georgia has 2 points and Tennessee has 1 points during the past week. Florida will be sure to get involved when they realize they are behind.

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