The Back Alley Archives

This thread is so quaint, five years later.

I honestly thought they'd keep him on for the duration of their sanctions. That's how bad of a coach he is.

I've heard they may want to hire Jack Del Rio as his replacement.

When your group's rallying cry is "Jags-Tebow, Why Not?" you know you've got a group of fans who've given up on the season already.

I mean, fuck it, why not?

Wait, wat again? Five Southeastern Conference football stars violated NCAA rules by receiving extra benefits prior to completing their collegiate careers, a Yahoo Sports investigation has found. The benefits – which in some cases came from multiple individuals – were conveyed to University of Alabam...

I agree, Joakim. 100%.

We dominated them statistically. But you just can't win turning the ball over that much. That was ridiculous. There's a huge correlation in turnovers and winning games.

This is ridiculous. Been in the red zone three times and came away with nothing. Driskell pick. Went for it on 4th down instead of kicking the field goal and got stuffed. And now a fumble.

Sloppy as heck early. A couple of really dumb penalties, two turnovers. Ugh.

Game day!

When I was a wee child, my dad and I went to a game between Miami and UF. We beat them 28-3. Even then, I knew it was pretty glorious.

Why in the world would any newspaper give that idiot a column?

Couldn't have happened to a nicer bunch.

I went out with friends Saturday night and we were casually watching this game at the place we were at. I know UGA lost a lot of its defense to the NFL, but man, their defense sucked! Then I learn this morning that their best receiver is now out for the year with a knee injury. Maybe if we don't tur...

Second half impressions: They basically went completely vanilla once they got up 24-6. Guess they weren't going to really show anything for Miami or Tennessee.

Oh, the type of visitors we attract around here.

Halftime thoughts: The defense looks as advertised. RoPo, Fowler, and Easley look nasty up front. Easley definitely has his explosion off the ball back. The offense looks a lot better from last year. Offensive line is playing well, Mack Brown is running all over them, and Driskel looks improved. Yes...

Just look at this bullshit: http://www.cbssports.com/collegefootbal ... on-clowney

I heard that NC was cheap shotting Clowney. That's some classless BS.

And if USC's conditioning is bad, then good for us. When the second half comes around for Muschamp's Gators, HULK SMASH!

Oh, the Georgia one was spot on. The write up for USC (how are they ranked?) is also very good.

Deadspin's been doing this series for every team in the NFL for the past few weeks, "Why Your Team Sucks." If you're a fan of football, it's some seriously funny reading. Now they've posted their Hater's Guide to the Top 25 for college football. Definitely worth reading. The intro sums up ...

Yeah, I don't get that quote at all. Our whole season last year was dicking around and keeping it close in the first half, then going HULK SMASH on people in the second half. Hope our offense is better at getting things going early this year.

And here's the screenshot of Texas A&M's website announcement of the suspension of Manziel. Yes, this is for real.



h/t CBS Sports: https://twitter.com/WillBrinson/status/ ... 16/photo/1

The gist of it seems to be that Manziel admitted that he signed thousands and thousands of pieces of memorabilia, but claimed he had absolutely no idea anybody would try to sell all those items for money. He denied to the NCAA that he took money and that was the only evidence that had to go on. So h...

And the NCAA shows that not only can the expedite an investigation, they can also bring the hammer. Manziel suspended for the first half of the game against Rice.

Remind me again why Shariff Floyd was suspended for four games?