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Where Should Greg McGarity Turn If Jay Clark is to be Replaced as Head Coach of the Gym Dogs?
I see no need to mince words here: Jay Clark’s two-year tenure as the head coach of the Gym Dogs began in disappointing fashion, has featured absolute disasters, and, in my opinion, needs to end as soon as this gymnastics season concludes. Because I am completely off the fence where Coach Clark is...
The Pac-10 Cannot Expand Without Both Utah and BYU
Since I raised the issue of Big Ten expansion last night, I suppose it’s only fair that I mention the much more immediate likelihood of Pac-10 expansion while I’m at it. There has been talk to the effect that it’s Colorado or it’s no one, but I disagree, for three reasons. These are they: 1. With...
How the Mountain West Can Become an Automatic BCS Qualifier
The ongoing agitation for a playoff, while not without its intelligent and principled adherents, nevertheless is in some quarters largely a knee-jerk reaction born primarily of greed and envy. Last night’s Fiesta Bowl once again exposed the hypocrisy of this position, as two supposedly disheartened...
Did Rece Davis Just Say What I Think He Just Said?
This evening, I took my son to movie night at his elementary school, so I arrived home around halftime of the Friday night game . . . just in time to hear Rece Davis say the following as part of his "Extra Point": While a seeded playoff would be better than the BCS, the BCS is better than the...
Kyle Gets Contrary: Congress, the B.C.S., and the Virtue of Being Elitist
It is no secret to anyone that I am staunch in my opposition to a Division I-A college football playoff in any form whatsoever. It is, I hope, also no secret to anyone that I give mid-majors their due when casting my BlogPoll ballot and when welcoming our new Boise State blogger to SB Nation. In...
Don't Bet On It!: National Games of Interest
Aside from the biggies (war, poverty, famine, etc.), there are five things in the world that truly, utterly stink: wet socks, Monday mornings, Atlantic Coast Conference football, my skills as a prognosticator, and the September 6 slate of college gridiron games not involving Southeastern Conference...
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