Big Orange Round Table Week #8

The Big Orange Round Table.  I nearly forgot about it.   Here are my “queries”:

1.  In a perfect world, what time would your UCLA Kick-off start?

In my ideal world there would be a daylight savings-style one hour time shift about twice a week. This week I’d love to get up each day around ten, but next week should be eleven or noon, and probably within about six months I think I could get back around full circle jerk to getting up at ten AM again. It sounds like madness even to me, but at least it’s my own sort of madness. Go Vols

I do plan on live blogging this ball game.  More to follow.  Big 10 Football is the worst.  GBO

2.  Sometimes doing the right thing is tough. Sometimes we have to choose between bad and worse.  I have known snipers that get bothered even though what they did was absolutely right. It seems being a coach would have some similar circumstances. Did you think that  Coach Fulmer and staff ever lose any sleep over their choices?

No, Often favorably compared to a “IBM” man, I doubt that “Cerebral” Clawson loses any sleep.  Let’s face it, at Tennessee, we don’t have the sharpest pencils in the drawer. So, Fulmer and company are not going to overload them with checks and 9,000 different things. We don’t want our guys ever out there memorizing what to do.

Sharp pencils...nope not really

3.  Nick Saban is going to start 10 freshman against Clemson.  Why is he doing this and did he just buy another year of grace from the Red Elephant Club?

Yes,it is a built in excuse for losing and Shreveport in December is beautiful.  I think Bama is playing 10 frosh because they are 10 of the best 22 on the roster.  One of the sportswriters on the SEC tour mentioned that you can pick out their freshman on the practice field because they are taller, quicker and heavier than the veterans.  Saban will be gone bfore these kids are seniors anyway.  Or at least the players that survive…..

4. Critique Lou Holtz as a ESPN “analyst”. Irish and Cock Homer or scripted live rassler?

I was watching the ESPN College Gameday preview this weekend and the panel was asked about who was going to beat UGA this year. Lee Corso picked our beloved Vols and as soon as he did, Lou Holtz busted out laughing and told Corso “you’re wrong”.  That old man is one bitter motherfucker, one win against my beloved Vols in all of his probation riddled coaching career will make you a hater [CFB Warehouse ].

I wish that I had the video of the Tennessee fan that stole that old man’s hat after the 1990 (his only win vs Tennessee) during the post game video.  GOLD.

Holtz went on to pick Notre Dame to win 11 games.  And then he struggled to envelope the Cocks.  His Perfect Storm? Notre Dame vs. SCAR in a BCS NC matchup.

Watch this clip of Lou Holtz fellating Notre Dame and South Carolina. Proving that ESPN is becoming more and more like Live Wrestling.

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