This feature took last week off because there was really nothing on the field to report, but this weekend got the message boards lit up. We’ll start today’s trip where we normally end it … to check in on the most obnoxious for no apparent reason fan base in sports. How is it going at the North Avenue Trade School after their 3rd moral victory in a row over the Dawgs?
This Booby Dudd like nerd’s response to the game on Friday was on a thread regarding whether they should keep playing Georgia. The copium being taken in west midtown Atlanta in the CFB landscape since the game is some of the most potent I’ve seen.
On the field, the defensive front took the Jacketasses behind the woodshed for 60 minutes. Other than the pass off the goal line after a blatant missed intentional grounding call that should have resulted in a safety, the vaunted Buster Faulkner/Haynes King offense was in a UFC choke hold for much of the game.
Here’s a different sports analogy for you from Brooks Austin:
If the offense had done anything of note, we could have witnessed a beatdown of epic proportions in MBS. Alas, that gives us something to worry about for Saturday as if Bama wasn’t enough.
Let’s move on to Austin to check in on the formerly undefeated Texas AgCult after their faceplant in Austin in the Lone Star Showdown (or whatever they call it).
Speaking of copium, a lot of that seems to have been smoked by this genius from Aggieland. Did this guy watch his team fall behind at home to South Carolina 30-3 a couple of weeks ago? The 12th Man played with fire multiple times during this season and got burned badly by their big brother on Friday night. Marcel Reed made the Archduke look like Peyton and Eli rolled up into one. Someone (cough, cough … Notre Dame … cough, cough) at the bottom of the first round bracket is probably drooling at the thought of going to Kyle Field.
Let’s move on to East Tennessee to check on the fan base that can’t say they run this state for the next year.
Powered by a 24-3 2nd half, Vanderbilt sends the Vol faithful to the exits to the tune of a 21 point whipping in Kneeland. That’s still not likely to be good enough to earn a playoff spot, but Clark Lea should be national coach of the year for doing something never done in the history of the traditional SEC Dore-mat football program.
All of this and they lost the turnover margin -2. Oh, my.
Enjoy your trip to Orlando, Commodores. On the other hand, let’s welcome Bobby Hill to the hottest seat in the SEC entering 2026, and enjoy your trip to Charlotte or Nashville in December.
Let’s end today’s trip in Oxford where a fan base should be looking forward to being a dangerous team in the CFP but, instead, is looking at a program holding on after being stung by a scorpion in the middle of the river (if you don’t get that reference, read my post from yesterday).
The first genius needs to calm down and step away from the ledge. The second genius doesn’t understand this decision likely wasn’t about money.
“No wrath like a fan base scorned.” I have no problem with Kiffin’s decision to leave even at this time. I have a big problem with his desire to do it on his terms and his apparent decision to go scorched earth on his way out as a result of not getting his way. His decision (likely with Jimmy Sexton’s blessing) to attempt to play the victim with his social media post announcing his departure should be insulting to the Rebel faithful who supported his NIL needs to build a transfer-laden roster. If Dooley had left for Auburn in 1980 during the season, I would have been apoplectic as a teenage fan.
I would love to see whether the Cane’s locations in Oxford see a drop in business as a result of all of this or if they try to do anything to buy off the Ole Miss athletic department.
What did you see this weekend? Let us know in the comments.
I saw an auburn team that is a cfb mirror of the Atlanta falcons. They find ways to lose while showing flashes of elite playmakers.
I’m guessing Alex Golesh’s first meeting on Sunday night was with Cam Coleman to beg him to stay. I’m also assuming that the R.E.C. is already in his family’s ear about coming to T-town.
Alex Golesh’s second thing after a discussion with Cam was a call to Bryum Brown. Dude was very, very good at USF and already knows Golesh’s offense.
Excellent work ee. My personal favorites have come from Gainesville. Firing one G5 coach to hire his G5 duplicate. Organized efforts texting their new coach to not take the job are the nicest. From there the texting got personal and ugly fast.
I think Sumrall is definitely a step up from Sun Belt Billy. Whether that translates to a Florida reemergence is a completely different question.
I’m not sure who the Bull Gators wanted after it was clear Kiffin and Sexton were using them as negotiation leverage with LSU. They want a Spurrier clone.
By the way, if anyone watched the Marty Smith interview with Kiffin from the Oxford tarmac (talk about full circles), Junior didn’t look like someone who was terribly happy about getting on that plane. I don’t know if that was Sexton contrived or if Kiffin was having buyer’s remorse.
The winner in all of this is Jimmy Sexton as usual.
Not sure of Kiffin’s mood on the tarmac, but you can add the distaste of having to talk to that cornpone fake southern redneck Marty Smith.
He didn’t have to talk to Smith. He elected to speak with him before he got on the plane.
Apparently they were texting all week like teenage girls (which is what this whole manufactured “saga” was like anyway)….
Marty Smith had been camped out on Kiffin watch for over 24 hours. Wearing the same clothes round the clock coverage for ESPN outlets.
I would love to know is it true that kiffin waited till after Bama won. Due to the rumor that had bama lost KD was leaving/encouraged to take the Penn State job. At which point Kiffin dumps LSU for the Alabama job.
I wonder if there is a Bama clause in Kiffin’s new contract?
Ole Miss is responsible for this shit show. As soon as they knew he was entertaining offers, should have made him decide & take control. They left it in Kiffin’s hands
They knew exactly who he was and still hired him for the quick success as does LSU. Imagine paying $12+ mil for a guy that has not won anything knowing that he will likely bolt when something better comes open. I wish them all the worst.
From Hugh Freeze to the Laner, Ole Missy hasn’t shown much concern for rectitude in its head coaches. They can play the victim all they want but lying down with dogs means you wake up with fleas, ticks and a bad case of worms.
We already knew they were crazy but LSU has gone from drunk stripper obnoxious but fun in small doses crazy to meth tweaker taking a dump on the sidewalk while pulling out remaining teeth crazy.
Hope Lame Kitten likes cleansing breaths of corn dogs while doing yoga.
Everyone has completely lost their mind, Kentucky eating $35MM+ and thinks they can do better than Mark Stoops???
They ran their course.
Jimmy Sexton is undefeated (I assume he’s Stoops’s agent).
To ee – yes, Mark Stoops’ agent is Jimmy Sexton.
Does Jimmy have quadruplet girls, and they’re all getting married this year or something???
Ole Miss could have put an ultimatum out there earlier. They said you aren’t coaching the team in the postseason until you sign the contract extension once it was clear he was looking (apparently, his contract was up for a normal renewal). The only thing they could have done would have been to get him to sign the extension midseason before LSU fired the carpetbagging Leprechaun.
Kiffin thought he had all the leverage to have his cake and eat it, too. Carter apparently called that bluff because I’m guessing the OM president and their board of trustees (or athletic board) supported him. Kiffin admitted as much on the tarmac by saying “Carter has to live in Oxford.”
Have to admit I missed this call. Even fooled my good friend who is way up tree of coaching knowledge and families, as Lane turned out to be the face eating leopard he is. We sat in bars last week talking to OM friends, telling them we were certain he’s sticking around at least 2 more years. But the Landshark Brown Bear Rebel friends at that point were either angry at the way it was being handled by Lane, or completely over it and ready to stick him on a plane and move on.
In the meantime, being the good sport that I am, I kept the stick meant for poking in my pocket, but always had the Kirby eating popcorn gif in the back of my mind, knowing we’re in a golden age of football in Athens. It helps when you’ve recently won back-to-back Natty’s 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂
“I kept the stick meant for poking in my pocket.” Sounds like advice Coach30 would give if you see Davis’s Mom
Wishing death on a former coach and his family is some Harvey Updykian level crazy fan shit.
There are some crazies out there, in case you missed my post the other night about the Bama couple who approached me Saturday at lunch in a tiny small town bar on the MS coast to let me know that DeBoer was getting fired after the Iron Bowl and that Lane would then have his press conference to announce he’s taking the job in Tuscaloosa. I mean dead pan serious next level straight faced delusional.
I typically listen to a show on Sundays on Sirius/XM with Dari Nowkhah and Roy Philpott. This fall has been spectacular with all the firings and crazy stuff happening for weeks. Anyway, yesterday Dari and Roy were talking about “quiet rumblings” that they had both heard in some circles about DeBoer not being super happy in Tuscaloosa and that one reason the Penn State search has been so incredibly quiet is that DeBoer might wind up in Happy Valley as soon as Bama winds up out of the CFP. I immediately dismissed it as crazy talk, but in a year of some of the craziest stuff happening possible maybe it is more plausible than I give it credit for being. The silence around the Happy Valley search has been odd (to say the least) and I, for one, can only assume that following the GOAT in Tuscaloosa is an insanely pressured job with that fan base.
That would not surprise me in the least especially if we beat them on Saturday afternoon.
If KD goes to pedo state, does saban return to the sidelines?
Would be much like Dennis Franchione making a hasty exit.
While the delusion in the A&M fan thinking that they lost on purpose to avoid the SECCG seems typical for the Cult, at least he had the self-awareness to say that maybe they are just a really solid team and not spectacular. Very true. Elko is doing a pretty damn good job of moving that program from the perennial 8-4s to someone to be contended with on a weekly basis. On no level is A&M a 21/22 Georgia or 24 Ohio State, but for sure they are a very, very good football team that is well coached.
“Film Guy’s” schtick is annoying as shit. What a goober.
If there is anyone that looks absolutely nothing like what I imagined when hearing his voice on 680 The Fan, it is Brooks Austin. With those glasses and that haircut I seriously get 1960s FBI agent vibes watching him talk.
ATL yankee jock sniffer cross between Jared from Subway & Carson Beck. Looks like he has masking tape on the bridge of his glasses. He’s a poor man’s version of Josh Pate & that ain’t saying much…
I liked him for about 5 minutes. He tries way too hard to be cool and looks like a fool doing it.
More annying than Pat McAfee?
He may look goofy, but I appreciate him breaking down plays to show what the goals are and why they happen or don’t. I never played football, so Xs and Os do not come naturally for me. His explanations help me understand why things happen the way they do.
Pate lost me last season when all he could talk about was the game experience in Tuscaloosa and how great Bama was, but never addressed the second half of the game where we adjusted, and Bama didn’t.
Tell me the truth – even if I don’t like it, but don’t ignore it to push a narrative. Too many talking heads do that already. That’s why I don’t follow Pate, but follow Austin.
Crap. Forgot to log in. Hate I game to do that every time.
This past Saturday was a game we lose back in the Richt Era. We only had one really good defense back then? Offense was always suspect a game or two at least during the season.
The more I think about it; the more I can’t figure out how hiring Kiffin is any different than hiring Kelly. Maybe I’m just not smart enough. Please someone, help me understand.