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wFriday, October 04, 2002 Now after an A&M loss, the school can belatedly release stacks of documents that would have foretold defeat, were anyone paying attention: Former CIA Director Robert M. Gates is formally installed as Texas A&M's 22nd president. posted by Jordan at 12:29:00 PM w We've been down this road before. Colorado player unhappy with current regime and who's there to pick up the pieces? Dickey Neuweasel: CU opens Ochs' path to Washington Jesus, if you're listening, I was just thinking how cosmically fortuitous it would be if Ochs were to go through the travail of transferring, only to have Neuweasel's 51 recruiting violations currently up for review by the NCAA result in probation for the program. You know, if you're listening. posted by Jordan at 11:22:00 AM wThursday, October 03, 2002 Ron Zook, head coach University of...Pittsburgh? It could happen to you! "It turns out Pitt Coach Walt Harris did more than salvage the season last year, when the Panthers started 1-5, then won six games in a row. He also apparently saved his job." posted by Jordan at 11:21:00 AM w How To Screw a College Athlete Out of His Eligiblity: Simply place an anonymous call to the Educational Testing Service hotline and claim he cheated. That's it. Oregon RB Terrance Whithead's ACT score was questioned by some anonymous ratbag, so that means he's had to sit out the last three weeks (two games) in order to retake the test. Ducks back breaks free of eligibility questions posted by Jordan at 11:12:00 AM wWednesday, October 02, 2002 Woo ho-o-o-o-o! Four-day weekend!!! Big Ten "deletes" future officiating assignments for four refs who bungled the Purdue-Wake Forest game posted by Jordan at 3:38:00 PM wTuesday, October 01, 2002 Former Auburn coach Pat Dye's remarks on Paul Finebore's radio show regarding this Saturday's Georgia-Alabama meeting: "I don't believe Georgia's man enough to whip Alabama. That's exactly what I said and that's what I think." As a special follow-up to Dye's comments, a vent-line has been established for just the upcoming game. The Winnah: "I've been waiting for Alabama vs. Georgia for a long time. This will decide who has the most ignorant, obnoxious fans." posted by Jordan at 5:19:00 PM w The words "tummy" and "poets" have no place in a college fight song. Drinking and drowning, however, are blithely encouraged: Go Poets, go / Move that ball right down the field. Fight Poets, fight / With a will that cannot yield. posted by Jordan at 12:34:00 PM w CU offensive coordinator Shawn Watson stalking his former QB, Craig Ochs: "Watson has left messages for Ochs, only because he says he wants "more closure'' than three minutes would allow. Ochs has not returned the call." posted by Jordan at 12:18:00 PM wMonday, September 30, 2002 Florida State cancels class for both Thursday AND Friday in anticipation of Bowden Bowl III traffic. Don't they realize that, either way, fans will be leaving in convenient waves during halftime and the third quarter? Florida State lets classes out for Thursday night home game posted by Jordan at 9:34:00 PM w Kentucky was robbed!!! No, Florida's win is legit, it's UF security that's suspect, with Wildcats coaches complaining of pilfered personals from the locker room during the game. Former Gator wide rethiever Jabar Gaffney has not been implicated, but he hasn't been officially ruled out either: Kentucky Coaches Lose Game, Money posted by Jordan at 8:34:00 PM w The first of several truly meaningless (the BCS notwithstanding), regionally-biased computer rankings makes its debut: Week One: New York Times computer poll posted by Jordan at 12:29:00 PM w Know why Oregon State played at USC last Saturday after having played them on the road last year? Know where the Beavs will be playing the Trojans again next year? You guessed it. Now, see if you can make sense of this explanation why: Schedule quirks send OSU back to play at USC posted by Jordan at 12:25:00 PM w Former Penn State linebacker-turned unfortunate Spurrier captive ejected from Iowa/PSU game: Arrington Ejected From Penn St. Game posted by Jordan at 12:19:00 PM w For those unaware, Oregon State Beavers fans are the Florida Gators/Oklahoma Sooners of the American Northwest. I figured now would be a particularly good time to illustrate that fact with the kind of preposterous presumptuousness endemic of Beavs fags--sorry fans: We Told You So! posted by Jordan at 12:17:00 PM w JoePa charges after officials following OT loss to Iowa, beats to bloody death with baseball bat: Paterno Miffed Over 'Lousy Calls' Okay, so maybe he didn't "beat" them. But if the JumboTron hadn't been shadowing him... posted by Jordan at 12:08:00 PM w Further proof that they just don't get it out West. Defense doesn't win championships? Well, if offense hasn't done it (and, in the Pac-10, it most assuredly hasn't in 12 years), then what does? The best reason yet for being a Southern Cal fan posted by Jordan at 11:38:00 AM