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Agree totally. My concern there is do they want to be thorough and fair in judging who’s the best of the lot, or are they kicking the can down the road to the last minute because they’re scared someone will walk?

Again, it’s a new world. You need to pick your guy and if someone walks because of it, then he walks.

I like this one by Del Amitri better …

And another from a band from Fort Worth.

E8 … I would not call that a failure after the ups and downs.

Aside from the teams already mentioned I like Grand Canyon and Lipscomb.

Played at Xavier of Louisiana and wasn’t even drafted, but his coach at Xavier was Bill Russell’s cousin, Russell was coaching Seattle then, and called in a favor and got Russell to give him a tryout and he made the team. First player in NBA history to lead the league in assists and steals in the same season. I remember and the photos verify that he played a lot taller than 6-1.

Ted Williams says “Hey.” He was called a selfish player in his day because he would not give in to a pitcher and swing at anything that wasn’t a strike and he walked in 21% of his plate appearances during his career. I call him the GOAT hitter.

Before yesterday, agonizingly close to the Final Four by an agonizingly close score.

After yesterday, by 50 points in the first round.

People keep talking about we need to run the ball more. I just ran the numbers and we were in the top half of the conference as far as running vs. passing.

Percentage of plays that were runs:

S.C. 61.7%
Tennessee 61%
Vanderbilt 61%
A&M 59.3%
Kentucky 58.7%
Oklahoma 58.3%
Bama 58%
Florida 57.4%
Missouri 56.2%
Arkansas 54.4%
Ole Miss 53.5%
Miss. State 53.2%
Auburn 52.3%
Texas 52%
Georgia 45.5%
LSU 41.1%

That being said, I am fully aware that people are talking about getting the ball to the backs more. I really hope that we get the ball to the backs more. But the QB is inherently the most important person in this offense, and we shouldn’t expect DeBoer and Grubb to change the basic stuff they do.

Where I said the ship has sailed is people that want us to go back to the Wishbone or have 67 ISO plays in the playbook and DeBoer to channel Woody Hayes and us to go back to a game manager at quarterback because that’s what they grew up with and what they think is tradition.

If Russell starts this fall then DeBoer and Grubb are staking their livelihoods on Russell being a generationally elite talent, on Russell being “Him.” Because all honeymoon credit for this staff expired after last year.

I have repeatedly said that I want the best QB to play, period, I don’t care who he is or how long he’s been here.

But when we’re talking about a true freshman, you better be F-ing sure.