Hosting talk
posted by LW, Monday, May 18, 2009
Riginos' wife is scheduled to undergo a C-section next Tuesday as the couple welcomes its third child into the world (a boy).
Riginos told me a few weeks ago that he was hoping the Tigers would play host to an NCAA Regional so he wouldn't have to head out of town the day after the procedure.
Looks like Riginos will be able to keep his bags in the closet after he returns from the ACC Tournament. The Tigers' convincing sweep of N.C. State makes them a good bet to be home next week for the regionals.
That notion is underscored today in pieces by The Post and Courier and Independent-Mail.
Not much else out there today...
Mike Huguenin of Rivals has his Monday column and wonders what all the Paulus fuss was about.
America is held hostage no more: Greg Paulus has chosen a new school.
Paulus, the former Duke basketball guard, has decided he will continue his college career – this time, as a quarterback – at Syracuse. Never have so many written so much about … well, about a guy who hasn't played football in four seasons.
Look, Syracuse is bad. And Paulus was a high school quarterback of some renown. But come on. Are the Orange so bad that a slow-footed, 6-foot basketball player is going to walk on campus and start at quarterback? Syracuse is a major college program, right?
If Paulus does start at quarterback, that is a huge indictment of the recruiting abilities of former Syracuse coach Greg Robinson and his staff. That would mean Robinson and his staff couldn't sign and develop a quarterback who could beat out a guy who hasn't played football in four years.
Also at Rivals: A roundtable that explores the most compelling opening-week matchups.
The popular pick: Alabama-Virginia Tech.
Good stuff here in the AJC on how an early signing period would affect the players doing the signing.
Also in the AJC: Will the Georgia-Florida game eventually move from Jacksonville to the campuses in Gainesville and Athens?
The current contract with Jacksonville runs through the 2010 game, and Evans says the time is near for deciding what to do after that.
“I’d venture a guess that over the summer we would need to make a decision,” he said.
Evans said many factors will be weighed, but one that won’t get an overweighting is the Bulldogs’ 3-16 record vs. the Gators since 1990.
“I’m willing to listen and look,” Evans said, “but at the end of the day, I’m going to try to do what’s appropriate for us and not overreact to maybe ‘We’re losing’ or be shortsighted and say, ‘No, we don’t need to move the game.’ I’m going to sit back and listen to the city of Jacksonville and look at the pros and cons of everything involved.”
He notes Georgia won in Jacksonville in 2007 and suggests that if the Bulldogs also had won in 2008, the site would not be stirring such debate today. Alas, Florida won 49-10.
“Some people may say Florida is beating us because we’re in Jacksonville,” Evans said. “I’m not an excuse guy.”
The always interesting Frank Broyles gives his take on athletic department budgets and the economy.
"There's going to be a major crisis if ticket sales go down. It's going to be tough to balance the budget and some schools are feeling it already. How can we raise tuition for students when athletic departments are spending more than they make? Most athletic departments in the SEC make their own decisions. They have to come under control of the schools.”
And here's a playoff proposition that seems utterly sensible.
LW
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Looks like everything is unfolding exactly how Tom Riginos drew it up.
Riginos' wife is scheduled to undergo a C-section next Tuesday as the couple welcomes its third child into the world (a boy).
Riginos told me a few weeks ago that he was hoping the Tigers would play host to an NCAA Regional so he wouldn't have to head out of town the day after the procedure.
Looks like Riginos will be able to keep his bags in the closet after he returns from the ACC Tournament. The Tigers' convincing sweep of N.C. State makes them a good bet to be home next week for the regionals.
That notion is underscored today in pieces by The Post and Courier and Independent-Mail.
Not much else out there today...
Mike Huguenin of Rivals has his Monday column and wonders what all the Paulus fuss was about.
America is held hostage no more: Greg Paulus has chosen a new school.
Paulus, the former Duke basketball guard, has decided he will continue his college career – this time, as a quarterback – at Syracuse. Never have so many written so much about … well, about a guy who hasn't played football in four seasons.
Look, Syracuse is bad. And Paulus was a high school quarterback of some renown. But come on. Are the Orange so bad that a slow-footed, 6-foot basketball player is going to walk on campus and start at quarterback? Syracuse is a major college program, right?
If Paulus does start at quarterback, that is a huge indictment of the recruiting abilities of former Syracuse coach Greg Robinson and his staff. That would mean Robinson and his staff couldn't sign and develop a quarterback who could beat out a guy who hasn't played football in four years.
Also at Rivals: A roundtable that explores the most compelling opening-week matchups.
The popular pick: Alabama-Virginia Tech.
Good stuff here in the AJC on how an early signing period would affect the players doing the signing.
Also in the AJC: Will the Georgia-Florida game eventually move from Jacksonville to the campuses in Gainesville and Athens?
The current contract with Jacksonville runs through the 2010 game, and Evans says the time is near for deciding what to do after that.
“I’d venture a guess that over the summer we would need to make a decision,” he said.
Evans said many factors will be weighed, but one that won’t get an overweighting is the Bulldogs’ 3-16 record vs. the Gators since 1990.
“I’m willing to listen and look,” Evans said, “but at the end of the day, I’m going to try to do what’s appropriate for us and not overreact to maybe ‘We’re losing’ or be shortsighted and say, ‘No, we don’t need to move the game.’ I’m going to sit back and listen to the city of Jacksonville and look at the pros and cons of everything involved.”
He notes Georgia won in Jacksonville in 2007 and suggests that if the Bulldogs also had won in 2008, the site would not be stirring such debate today. Alas, Florida won 49-10.
“Some people may say Florida is beating us because we’re in Jacksonville,” Evans said. “I’m not an excuse guy.”
The always interesting Frank Broyles gives his take on athletic department budgets and the economy.
"There's going to be a major crisis if ticket sales go down. It's going to be tough to balance the budget and some schools are feeling it already. How can we raise tuition for students when athletic departments are spending more than they make? Most athletic departments in the SEC make their own decisions. They have to come under control of the schools.”
And here's a playoff proposition that seems utterly sensible.
LW
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