It was my turn this week to host the Roundtable.  I survived hosting this roundtable, losing my lawyer (I need a  plantiff lawyer in Coffee County AL loserwithsocks@gmail.com), the Gerald Williams eligibility saga and the Volquest Labor Day Massacre [Ding Dong].

Speaking of Volquest, we encourage Tennessee  Fans (and other fans that have the balls) to join us at  Smash Sports South.

Random Words to live by:  …it would be a cold day in Hell before YOU would ever show a minority person anywhere near as much preference or consideration as you would someone who is not a minority.Nothing personal, but remember, that nowhere can you tell as much about a man as when you actually read his own writing! You sound way too much like those racist maggots at Fox News to be anywhere close to legit. – Volquest and Gridscaper Poster with the screen name of The Real Viper/Dad1A responding to a  message board beatdown from a Monvolian over the Gerald Williams Saga and then swiftly creating a race nexus.

(Here are my questions and responses to the Roundtable [Link].)

I hope that I captured something from each site that participated this week.  If I missed you, please email me at volquest@aol.com or Volwriter@yahoo.com.

On to the roundup:

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

Though I appreciate the extra media attention and hype, in a perfect world this game would be played on September 6, the Vols would have an off week before Florida, and I’d have much better odds at actually getting to the UAB game on August 30. Southeast Sports Blog

For me the perfect time would be 7:00 PM EST. In my perfect world that would give me the time to get my exercise in by throwing unopened jars of baby food at the homeless AKA Bammers – YMSWWC

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?He’s probably given a lot of thought to the way he’s handled troublesome players. Some have been dealt with appropriately and others too leniently. There’s a always a fine line each coach has to contend with on a multitude of subjects.

At the end of the day, Fulmer is no different than the rest of us. He takes what he believes is the best course of action and you hope you’ve made the right decision. If you discover that the decision you made was wrong, you learn from it and move along. I call that life. Moondog Sports

And anyway, can we really compare the stress of a sniper to that of a guy that tells other people how to play a game?  I’m pretty sure it’s not related (You are wrong Mr. Fulmer Belly). Fulmers Belly

Fulmer is many things — great football coach, awe-inspiring orator, terror at the Chinese Buffet, dancing phenom, master of international diplomacy, winner of the world quilting competition, beloved figure in the State of Alabama, his lawyer’s best client, man of distinction — but I have always felt that he is a man of great integrity who always trusts his gut (no pun intended) Gate 21

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?

Nick Saban is the guy with the good hair right?  I don’t know whether he’s being strategic or not, but I think it might be his own way of screwing over Mike Shula one last time by not playing any of his players.  Because if there’s one thing we know about Nick Saban, he likes bending people over.  Enjoy your coach Bama! Fulmers Belly

I do believe if there hasn’t been marked improvement by the end of the third season, the grumblings will begin. Moondog Sports

And Gate 21 thinks: My guess is, however,  that one of several things is actually going on here:

1. He’s lying.
2. He believes that if he sets the bar low for the game against the Tigers — by being able to claim that he was handicapped by having largely freshmen on the team — the Bammer faithful won’t call for his head after the first game.
3. After a long talk with Mike Shula over martinis in the bathtub, Saban has realized that he can make just as much money doing absolutely nothing other than admiring himself in the mirror, and thus hopes a 65 – 0 loss on national television will get him fired and a chance to start living the easy life.
4. He’s an idiot.
5. He finally realized that all those bribes he gave local judges in Alabama — though improving his chances of getting out of speeding tickets — are not going to result in all of his regular starting convicts players being released.
6. When asked by Pete Rose — for reasons Pete said he simply couldn’t go into — Saban agreed to play the freshmen.
7. The 10 freshmen are all the brothers of the girls down at the “Brass Pole Gentlemen’s Club” and the girls said if Nick gave their brothers a shot, they’d make it worth his while.

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

Holtz is bad. Check that, he’s terrible. It’s one thing to have the lispe, but to back that up with the stupidity that he does is amazing. You think he honestly expects 11 wins from the Irish team? South Carolina to finish in the top 10? There’s no way either one of those happens, let alone both of them. 3rdSIB

I don’t think Holtz is scripted. I don’t think he’s professional either – and those “Lou’s Pep Talks” or whatever they showed last year mean it’s bathroom break time for me. Southeast Sports Blog

The final analysis is he’s a criminally insane Irish Homer who loves the Cock. Funny thing is neither present day fan base can stand him now.  Oh yeah he sucks at everything he does. YMSWWC

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