If you were wondering why your beloved or lead man in terms of the greatest confederation of football schools on this website has effectively ignored recruiting. This news item will explain myself. For you see, going into 2009? Tyrik Rollison was the great hope of the Plainsmen.

Chris Todd? He made Jonathan Crompton look like a random Clausen. Kodi Burns? Sure he was athletic, but he couldn’t beat out Chris Todd until he got hurt. So suffice it to say? They wanted this Texan to be ready soon.

But then. Like a Paul Finebaum column the week after a small event changed conventional wisdom. Things changed. Gus Malzahn became a genius. Chris Todd brought people back from the ledge in terms of actually being impressed by his play. And Cam Newton’s coming!

He’s 7′2″ 400 pounds and runs a 3.67 40. Arms are like tree trunks. He has a shock of hair. Red, like the fires of hell. Tyrik Rollison wasn’t feeling the love anymore. And he’s decided to go to Sam Houston State.

Which in one way is weird, because I’m sure some FBS school would love to love to have him. But in another way, it’s weirder. It’s the whole reason why my mind can’t wrap around that whole recruiting thing.

If the number two dual threat quarterback of 2009 barely makes it a year? Then who really cares if you have a Top Ten recruiting class, right?

It’s always a tragedy in the singular. Statistically Rajaan Bennett was not the only one who lost his life today. He’s not the greatest. He won’t be the worst. But someone loved by his family and friends is not alive to see today.

And it’s because of the potential lost. Rajaan was, by all accounts an excellent young man. And not just because he was a four star recruit. He hit the books with aplomb. He was the man of the house for a long while. And he died senselessly.

I don’t want to steal a quote from Mitch Albom, but it feels apt here. Fairness does not govern life and death, because if it did? No good person would ever die young.

If we could be so lucky.

Ryan Mallett Breaks His Foot.

I post this because I’m kind of baffled. In the Bobby Petrino supsersystem, I honestly thought that he had the oak tree of a quarerback he has needed for forever. Not since the days of Chris Redman’s recruiting misadventures has he had someone close to the Hammer. But in this day and age? When every move is so important?

A broken foot is even important for a quarterback whose main deignation is throw the deep corner route. How will he com back from it?

*Looks up*

It’s Feburary? Really? Mallett will be back by June at the latest? COME ON!

Stupid knockoff medicine can’t even keep me in a good coma until Fuhbawl returns. And I know that’s Mike Hartline. That’s how little impact this will have in the fall. Nobody’s going to remember that I went to the Mike Hartline card.

But good looking out in the SEC West Hoops Hawgs. Pelfrey circled the wagons man style.

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Bad news for Kiffin haters: USC is the cushiest job in all of NCAA football, next to Notre Dame. They get crazy amount of talent and media coverage, and their conference sucks at every aspect of the game of football. He will most likely do a serviceable job at USC. He will most likely play in a few Rose Bowls. The only good news is that he will never go undefeated, and never play for a National Championship. If Pete could not do it his last few years, I doubt Lane will sniff an undefeated season.

Before Lane Kiffin quit, there was some exciting drama in the news room. To test how easily you are annoyed just press play on the video below and see how much you can stand. If you make it all the way to the end without punching a hole in the nearest wall, then you can go to Knoxville and pick up your press pass.

Hat Tip FOTP

Are you surprised? I’m not. What in the world has told you that Lane Kiffin is anything but a man of low moral fiber. The multiple offseason controversies of last season? The fact that two of his hottest recruits rolled up on random people at a gas station for pocket change? Starting Jonathan Crompton?

That was cheap. I’m sorry.

Basically, what I’m saying is, the average football coach is nothing more than a politician. They want to keep the power of their fiefdom. And they will say and do anything to keep it. Until something better comes along.

And for Kiffykins? It was ol’ SC.

I know you’re angry. You have an absolute right to be. You lost a coach who’s actively trying to steal as many recruits as he can as he goes out the door. I don’t think you need to be burning cars? But we all feel sadness in different ways.

But you know what? There’s a way to solve the problem. You get a controversial coach. A coach who actually is a proven winner at a difficult place to play. A coach who has his own built in fanbase.

Who dare I suggest?

Kidding again! h/t: EDSBS

The dread pirate Leach will [lock in a closet joke] with an assault on their broadside.

Texas was held to a field goal and Bama scored a TD. The score is now 24-6 going into the 3rd. Colt will not return. Texas had Bama on the ropes. This injury might be the biggest part of Bama getting, what they call, # 13.

You know he was embarrassed but it was an honest slip of the tongue.

Or: SEC ACTION NEWSBRIEF TWO! THE NEWSBRIEFENING!

Or at least the guy who made the single greatest run of “success” in Kentucky history. He brought them to four straight bowl games. Bear Bryant couldn’t do that, and Bear Bryant once killed a Bear with nothing more than his fedora. And this year just might have pulled out his greatest trick. He won this year with little more than luck, pluck, and Randall Cobb. 

It’s true.  I checked.

I will miss Rich Brooks, and I hope you do too.