Duke will get at least one top 25 vote
I'm so glad that Steve Spurrier is back in college football. I don't have the intense dislike for him that most non-Florida fans do. I loved his tongue-in-cheek, yet needling remarks toward his SEC rivals like "You cant' spell citrus withouth 'UT'".
Well, the hits keep coming. Here he reveals that for several years he's been giving Duke a vote in the preseason poll because he simply likes them (in case you didn't know, he's a former Blue Devil head coach).
Speaking of the SEC, they are jumping on the instant replay bandwagon. League officials said that they'll use a system similar to the Big 10's from 2004, but that instead of relying on tivo, they'll use a fancy nine panel touch screen monitor. Supposedly, it will speed the process up considerably. While reading the articles about this, I keep picturing these two conferences as two guys trying to one-up each other with tech-gadget purchases. One gets Tivo on his 27" plasma HDTV, then, not to be outdone, his buddy goes with the 36" LCD model with touch screen functionality. The good news about this conference arms/tech race is that MTV Cribs: Vanderbilt Press Box will be airing soon.
That reminds me, my favorite thing about the Big 10 replay was the camera installed in the room where the replay official was stationed. The first time I saw it was in the Wisconsin/Bowling Green game, and they cut to a shot of the replay official, and the guy was slouching in his chair, with his hand mere inches from slipping into the front of his pants Al Bundy-style, with a bottle of Aquafina (that might as well have been a Miller Lite) by his side. I saw it and immediately called the Big Ten offices for a job application.
Speaking of things going on in the booth at Wisconsin games, does anyone remember the ESPN broadcast of the Wisconsin/Northwestern game in (I'm guessing) about 1996? Probably not, but its notable because Chris Farley was in the broadcast booth for a while. The only thing i remember from that game was when one of the ESPN guys, I believe Mike Gottfried, was talking about Aaron Gibson as the camera panned to him on the sideline. As the shot got tighter, Gottfried (if it was him) said, in a kind of oddly serious tone, "he is just a behemoth, weighing in at 395 pounds" or something like that. Then there was this awkward silence for about 5 seconds because they wanted to hear Farley's reaction. Eventually, Farley just says, "God bless him". It doesn't translate to the written medium that well, but it was absolutely hillarious.
If anyone knows which game that is or, better yet, has it on tape, email me.
Well, the hits keep coming. Here he reveals that for several years he's been giving Duke a vote in the preseason poll because he simply likes them (in case you didn't know, he's a former Blue Devil head coach).
Speaking of the SEC, they are jumping on the instant replay bandwagon. League officials said that they'll use a system similar to the Big 10's from 2004, but that instead of relying on tivo, they'll use a fancy nine panel touch screen monitor. Supposedly, it will speed the process up considerably. While reading the articles about this, I keep picturing these two conferences as two guys trying to one-up each other with tech-gadget purchases. One gets Tivo on his 27" plasma HDTV, then, not to be outdone, his buddy goes with the 36" LCD model with touch screen functionality. The good news about this conference arms/tech race is that MTV Cribs: Vanderbilt Press Box will be airing soon.
That reminds me, my favorite thing about the Big 10 replay was the camera installed in the room where the replay official was stationed. The first time I saw it was in the Wisconsin/Bowling Green game, and they cut to a shot of the replay official, and the guy was slouching in his chair, with his hand mere inches from slipping into the front of his pants Al Bundy-style, with a bottle of Aquafina (that might as well have been a Miller Lite) by his side. I saw it and immediately called the Big Ten offices for a job application.
Speaking of things going on in the booth at Wisconsin games, does anyone remember the ESPN broadcast of the Wisconsin/Northwestern game in (I'm guessing) about 1996? Probably not, but its notable because Chris Farley was in the broadcast booth for a while. The only thing i remember from that game was when one of the ESPN guys, I believe Mike Gottfried, was talking about Aaron Gibson as the camera panned to him on the sideline. As the shot got tighter, Gottfried (if it was him) said, in a kind of oddly serious tone, "he is just a behemoth, weighing in at 395 pounds" or something like that. Then there was this awkward silence for about 5 seconds because they wanted to hear Farley's reaction. Eventually, Farley just says, "God bless him". It doesn't translate to the written medium that well, but it was absolutely hillarious.
If anyone knows which game that is or, better yet, has it on tape, email me.
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