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Wednesday Morning Dawg Bites: 76 Straight Wins Lead the Big Parade
In this, the season of mixing it up here at Dawg Sports, I am going to use this morning’s midweek edition of "Dawg Bites" to offer links of interest and personal observations I considered worthy of note. Think of them as truth bombs, and enjoy them with your morning cup of coffee as you get up to...
Conference Expansion, Contracts, and Commitments: The Problem of a Nine-Game SEC Schedule
We interrupt Hate Week (or, if you prefer, "Hate Week II: This Time, It’s Historical") to bring you this SEC expansion update. As you may have heard, the Missouri Tigers will be joining the SEC East in 2012, which poses the immediate problem of scheduling with seven-team divisions. Though Greg...
How to Implement an 18-Game SEC Basketball Schedule Without Doing Away with the Divisions
As noted here recently, change is in the air regarding SEC basketball scheduling, as the league is considering doing away with divisional play and adopting an 18-game conference slate. The primary purpose of doing away with the divisions in basketball is to avoid the incongruity caused by allowing...
Thursday College Football Game Night Open Comment Thread
It’s Thursday night, there’s high-flying point-scoring Big 12 conference action on ESPN, and we have plenty to discuss, from the release of the new BlogPoll to the release of the new SEC Power Poll to Big East expansion (seriously?) to the latest on Brian VanGorder to the latest on Odell Thurman...
Should Nebraska Schedule Colorado for a "Money Game"?
Earlier this week, Colorado agreed to a game next season at Ohio State in a one-game deal. Instead of making a return trip to Boulder, the Buckeyes will pay the cash-strapped Colorado athletic department $1.4 million. That deal made me stop and think for a while. Colorado athletic director Mike...
INPIYL2I: Cupcakes Won't Make You Fat, Right?
It's Not Plagiarism If You Link To It is BHGP's regular news roundup. Send all tips to any of the email addresses at the bottom of the page. But preferably not all of them at once. We usually end up laughing at people who do that. Cupcake overload in 3... 2... 1... The newly-redesigned Hawk...
Why College Teams Should Play Tough Non-Conference Opponents
While I’m sure my good friends at Garnet and Black Attack will disagree with this statement, I believe we all could benefit from following the example of Clemson. More specifically, we would do well to emulate Frank Howard. Between 1930 and 1957, the Country Gentlemen began 28 straight seasons...
Kyle Gets Contrary: Why I Don't Like Mike Leach
I believe the success of the "Kyle Gets Contrary" series is attested to by the reaction the first two installments have garnered in the blogosphere, so I am moved to go out on a limb in this third installment, in which I part company with the overwhelming majority of college football bloggers. Here...
The Connect: Gators Are Effing Pansies Edition
This morning's Connect is dedicated solely to the cowardice that is the Florida Gator (Go, Gator!). UF has rejected yet another proposal by UM to play regularly scheduled games; AD Jeremy Foley said in an e-mail to the Herald, "This may change, but if it did, it would not be on a schedule of twice...
Lagniappe
Congratulations to Spain on its Euro2008 victory. Kevin Amstrong writes about Trindon Holliday's pursuit of making the 2008 U.S. Olympic team. I believe somebody important should revisit this proposal and make it happen. I've long believed an SEC/Big 12 Challenge would be lots of fun, but I'll...
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