Let all the Bulldog faithful rally behind the men who now wear the red and black with two words, two simple words which express the sentiments of the entire Bulldog Nation: Auburn Sucks.
In Kirby’s defense, pretty much everybody had Texas winning against Georgia in 2024. Still, he entertained the reporter and said what he had to say, even throwing shade at the Network about it. But he did it in a “nice”, or let’s say, professional way.
Sark, meanwhile, is neglecting the preseason fodder that has declared Texass is back and many thought Texas should win, especially at the stadium where the rule book gets thrown out the proverbial window.
Meanwhile, Archduke got involved in it, making light of an AI generated video that shows Sark punching Holly Rowe in the face.
Nah they gotta get Arch Manning some media training ASAP. This is CRAZY lmaoo
“I saw the AI Edit of (Sark) slapping Holly Rowe… That’s a good one” – Arch Manning pic.twitter.com/YoJFeA4ByI
So your wunderkind quarterback gets his signature win, you act like you’ve never been in the arena, and the kid later has to issue an apology. Life comes at your fast, Archie. Let’s just say it starts at the top with the head leader of men, and how he reacted to Rowe in the first place. Instead of taking the time to advocate or beat his chest like Kirby, Sark chose the other road, and that makes all the difference.
Honestly, Sark acted like…
Well, that’s for you to tell us. Was Sark offsides? Even if he was, it’s Austin baby, and they don’t call Texas for penalties in Austin, do they?
You know what time it is Refugees…time to right the wrongs of those know-nothing media types by inserting your two pennies into the only poll that matters…the Mumme Poll.
Some of you said this used to wait until the release of the CFP, but let’s be participatory and get it going earlier this year, so weigh in on your thoughts about where the teams are ranking after the first games of the year.
Corn Dogs gonna Corn Dog. Although the flip side with Ole Miss wouldn’t surprise me, I’m sure the athletic association is letting frat boys run wild in Vaught-Hemingway. If I were at Ole Miss frat boys, I would be chasing some Ole Miss sorority girls instead.
Trusted sources tell MBG that fraternities at #OleMiss have been hiding golf balls inside the stadium in preparation for this week's game. pic.twitter.com/A4aQiq6nV5
Handle business is Arkansas and again a week later against Oklahoma, and maybe the chatter gets turned down some. Not that I’ll expect it to be, especially since we have a five week stretch where we play Oklahoma, Alabama, and Auburn.
We’re getting in to business season…to borrow a long forgotten phrase, are we man enough?
I’m just surprised she hasn’t been named to the CFP Committee, if I’m being honest. She’s in the news again because she left Michigan at 17 after their loss/win from Saturday.
Anyway, here’s the breakdown of the latest voting:
Worth noting Mike Griffith’s voting at the bottom. LSU #1? Hmmm.
NEWS: LSU football is adding two players to the school’s roster, which will complete it at 105 players, per ESPN sources. This will lock LSU’s roster for the rest of the year, which will eliminate the program’s ability to add Dae’Quan Wright and Zxavian Harris. pic.twitter.com/gLJj7AyvPw
If there’s one person out there, whether you hate him or love him, who wouldn’t mind burning the business down on his way out, it’s probably Lane Kiffin.
Given the slings and arrows he endured as he exited Oxford, it’s hard not see how he could have some feelings about his indictment as a turncoat in modern college football. Transfers everywhere, people chasing a bag, so why not…and, oh, a loophole that allows 2022 players an extra year of eligibility to boot? Lane saw an opportunity for chaos, and jumped at the chance.
let’s pour gasoline on the fire and see what happens…because some people get a kick out of watching the fire department do their damndest to fight to extinguish something that’s impossible to put out.
Meanwhile, Lane has shifted from courtroom antics to locker room antics.
We can also laugh at “secretly released”… Kiffin WANTED that videoed & released. That’s why a staff member did it. pic.twitter.com/QoPn9PH44N
It sounds like he’s trying to channel his inner Kirby while also embracing the idea that he’s happy to kick a person when they’re down. He’s trying to make LSU a feared program again, and will use any fabricated voodoo to get there.
Gotta say, I’m impressed. Somehow in the midst of it all he’s had an expose book written about his horndog lifestyle in Tuscaloosa, tattled about tampering, abandoned a college football program as they were heading to the CFP, and all anyone can talk about is court and eligibility of pro players, whom he won’t even roster in the end.
And a 51-10 ass whipping of Clemson.
Lane decided that, instead of hating the PR machine for what it is, he’d hack it and use it to his benefit to rebrand himself as the villain of college football, a rogue badass who will now lay wate to everyone in his path, and not as Joey Freshwater anymore.
If you were looking for Dabo and Company to be the hero that nobody asked for, but everybody needs, then you’ll find you’re sadly disappointed. It started well enough with a quick turnover and field goal for the Greater Anderson Cow College, but it quickly turned into reality from there.
Of course, Lane should’ve had a little more compassion for Dabo, given all the offseason tampering fun they had with Ole Miss, right?
Nope.
I caught Lane Kiffin on the field after press conferences and asked if he was surprised: "I thought it'd be like 35-7, 35-10" he said but "I didn't know they'd be that dysfunctional on offense." Noted that LSU scout team scored more on their defense than Clemson did.
It was Dabo’s worst loss of his career, and he’s now lost in 5 of his 6 last opening games. Give him credit for scheduling real opponents for Game One, but Swinney may have coached his last season opener for Clemson.
Reminder that all glory is as fleeting as a quarterback running from a massage parlor in Cleveland, Ohio. He’d probably be the only thing running for Clemson right about now.
I’ve seen some folks saying Swinney can come join Kirby’s staff once he’s booted, but I doubt Kirby wants anything to do with a guy that has so soundly rejected adjustment in the modern game in Athens.
Lane has become the face of new college football. Dabo was the face of traditional holdouts. Guess which one is going to be unemployed first, and that says all you need to know about college sports today.
The court has ruled in favor of the athletes! Again, they are not professional football players circling back after years in the NFL. They are college players who were told, by the NCAA, that they were done. So they took the only door that was open, only to watch the NCAA change…
Yep, to literally no one’s surprise, another Kangaroo Court makes 2026 the year of bizarro in college sports.
Don’t get me wrong, the crosshairs are aimed squarely at Lane Kiffin and LSU, compelling some of us to head to church on Sunday to repent for ever pulling for Orange, but that’s where we are at. I’m pulling hard for Dabo now, and I never thought I’d say that in a million years.
What’s worse is that the foolishness of litigation around college sports has become so pronounced, that you have moments like this from the court drama on Thursday:
Louisiana attorney Tony Clayton yelling at Greg Sankey’s attorney “Ain’t no fun when the rabbit got the gun!” in open court, with Sankey on the stand, is the stuff legends are made of https://t.co/n8cjGsvPkZ
It’s becoming not only a farce for the sport, but for the courts, too. Maybe we take it more seriously as passionate fans, or maybe we’re missing some greater point.
Is it that the NCAA has been too fickle throughout the years, and this is the pendulum swing to counter balance that? Or is it that outsiders are seeing it for what it is, a money-making machine that is still raking in the dough while still trying to rally around some bullshit concept like amateurism?
At least we have college football tomorrow…or what’s left of it.
How is the LSU vs the SEC going to go down? Don’t ask your Vegas odds maker (note: I couldn’t find odds on any betting site for this), just ask college sports attorney extraordinaire Tom Mars:
Former NFL Players v. SEC: You only need to get to page 2 of the SEC’s brief to realize this lawsuit against the SEC and Greg Sankey is going to be tossed in the trash pretty quickly – maybe as soon as tomorrow.
Former NFL Players v. SEC: You only need to get to page 2 of the SEC’s brief to realize this lawsuit against the SEC and Greg Sankey is going to be tossed in the trash pretty quickly – maybe as soon as tomorrow.
Page 2 includes citations to a 1996 Louisiana Supreme Court decision and two Louisiana Court of Appeals decisions going back to 1973 – all three of which clearly stand for the proposition that the SEC may enforce its own rules based on the undisputed facts of this case. Therefore, unless the courts in Louisiana are willing to ignore or overrule 30 years of Louisiana Supreme Court precedent, and more than 50 years of precedent from the Court of Appeals, this entire case against the SEC and the Commissioner is going to be thrown out as a matter of law. The SEC’s brief makes other compelling arguments, but the very first one is enough to end what’s become the most momentous legal battle in college sports history. So much for the lawyers’ fifteen minutes of fame.
I don’t see how the players’ lawyers could possibly respond to the SEC’s legal arguments with a straight face. In all seriousness, I won’t be surprised if they withdraw their claims against the SEC and the Commissioner before tomorrow’s hearing. But I suspect that pride will cause them to choose a public ass-whipping instead.
Pride? Will pride goeth before the fall camp is over? Also, this is the same program doing this:
What if it was all just a distraction, just like the Jayden Daniels situation with the squabbling over the number 5? What could they be covering up? Has there been an appearance of a romantic Cajun named Jeaux Eau Douce?
Meanwhile, even Georgia’s Attorney General Chris Carr is getting in on the action:
If you ever wanted a deeper context of Lane Kiffin, there’s a nice excerpt from the book “Lane Being Lane” that details the genesis of the moniker “Joey Freshwater”, as well as his time in Tuscaloosa that lead to his firing the week before the National Championship game with Clemson.
Layla and the kids never made the move to Tuscaloosa, leaving Kiffin to go off the rails, frequenting Tuscaloosa-area bars. On at least one occasion, an Alabama staffer had to go to Innisfree Irish Pub to retrieve a golf cart Kiffin had left there the night before. “[Innisfree co-owner Derick] Purdy would call me and say, your boy Lane’s back in here asking where the hotties are,” says Josh Booty. “‘Can you introduce me to hotties?’” As one friend of Kiffin’s during that time put it, he was afraid Kiffin was going to “drink himself to death.” He was lonely without his family, and he was facing intense pressure working for a man he couldn’t understand. The stress was almost unbearable at times, and he looked for relief around town. With that came guilt and further strain from his family over his actions. “I’ve seen him on the floor crying like a goddamn baby,” the friend described, when Kiffin faced repercussions from mistakes that impacted his family. “And then I’ve seen him doing shit that’s like ‘you got to put your dick back in your pants.’” Layla filed for divorce in March 2016, citing irreconcilable differences. A month before the filing, Kiffin issued a statement to Fox Sports stating the couple had “mutually decided to divorce.”
It was around this time that Kiffin’s most famous nickname debuted: Joey Freshwater.
The story goes that Kiffin, not wanting to say his real name when recognized in local bars, would tell women his name was Joey Freshwater. There are those who were around Tuscaloosa at that time who insist this was a real thing he did. “The Joey Freshwater thing, it got out there for a reason,” says Trevor Hewett, who worked at Innisfree in addition to covering the team. Kiffin wasn’t the first Alabama assistant to enjoy an adult beverage on the town after the game, nor would he be the last, but he wasn’t subtle about it the way others were to avoid Saban’s wrath. “Lane was visible publicly in a time where Alabama coaches were not visible publicly,” Hewett says. “The other coaches just never went out, and Lane was definitely different in that aspect. Lane was going to be in public at times, sometimes at very odd times during the season.”
The more Hewett thought about it, the more impressed he was that it had mostly stayed as scuttlebutt and never morphed into a public scandal. In some ways, he said half-jokingly, it was Kiffin’s biggest accomplishment while at Alabama. “The fact he made it out of Tuscaloosa without anything becoming super public is wild,” he says.
In 2017, radio host Clay Travis asked Kiffin directly about the Joey Freshwater nickname.
Kiffin denied it as only he could.
“I’ve used Jimmy Chestnut but not Joey Freshwater,” he said. “Someone told me Joey Freshwater is the best thing I’ve ever heard, and I said, ‘Well, his friend is Jimmy Chestnut and is just as good.’”
True or not, those rumors hurt his ability to become a head coach again. Multiple Alabama sources insisted that Kiffin’s behavior during his time in Tuscaloosa precluded him from ever succeeding Nick Saban and becoming the Crimson Tide’s head coach. He had upset too many important people, and the stories were too well-known for it to be palatable for those in power. College administrators viewed him as immature and a liability, even if he was having a lot of on-field success as Saban’s offensive coordinator.
Question now is this: Kiffin has obviously shown his mettle as a head coach again, and, despite the off-field nonsense he’s generated this year, if he’s successful at LSU, are the bridges still burned in Tuscaloosa? We all know that the Crimson Tide fanbase is a fickle one, and that a thirst for success makes for some short memories when it comes to getting great again at Alabama.
Granted, the question remains if he can have success at LSU as an SEC head coach if the presidents of the SEC decide to ban them from the league?
At least they’ve hedged their bets on Kalshi to pay the buyout when he jumps to Tuscaloosa.
