Kentucky sports and beyond.
This is from last night when Louisville coach Rick Pitino was in the TNT studios talking about the NCAA Tournament. Rick said Notre Dame would not lose to Florida State. Sir Charles said the Irish would lose.
Continue reading ‘Rick Pitino and Charles Barkley debate the Big East’
SEC links for Tuesday:
David Brandt of the Clarion-Ledger on Mississippi State losing its DC: “Mississippi State is in the market for a new defensive coordinator after Carl Torbush left the Bulldogs for the same job at Kansas under new coach Turner Gill. Torbush spent one season at Mississippi State and was the highest-paid assistant on the football staff with a one-year contract that paid $260,000.”
Marc Weiszer of the Athens Banner-Herald reports that Georgia can’t land Bud Foster: “Foster said Monday that he spoke to Georgia coach Mark Richt, but is staying in Blacksburg and will get a new deal for remaining the Hokies’ defensive coordinator. Foster said he also talked to Florida’s Urban Meyer and Florida State’s Jimbo Fisher about coordinator positions, but things got most serious with Georgia.”
Seth Emerson of The State reports on Darrin Horn’s extension: “It took all of one year for USC athletics director Eric Hyman to be convinced that men’s basketball coach Darrin Horn deserved a raise. Monday, Horn was approved for a two-year extension to 2015 and a $300,000 raise by the USC board of trustees.”
Gary Laney of The Advocate reports on LSU’s win over SLU: “LSU went to a small lineup Monday against Southeastern Louisiana. With the way Tasmin Mitchell was playing inside, it didn’t need to be any bigger.”
Continue reading ‘SEC links: Shopping for defensive coordinators’
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Ray Melick of the Birmingham News writes that not even Tim Tebow can make it cool to do the right thing: ” Last Sunday night, preparing to do ‘The Zone’ on ABC 33/40 with Mike Raita and guest co-host Charles Barkley, Raita asked the question, ‘Has Tim Tebow made it cool to do the right thing?’ Barkley quickly answered, ‘No. First of all, there’s a lot of guys doing the right thing. But it’s a lot easier to follow the bad guy.’”
Geoff Calkins of the Memphis Commercial Appeal writes that there is a playoff feel at the Georgia Dome: “Florida is fabulous. Alabama is fabulous. They’ll meet Saturday at the Georgia Dome, and the country will be riveted, and what a shame we can’t have games like this every year. Or, that we choose not to. That’s a better way to put it. We could have games like this every year if college football had a real playoff.”
Pat Dooley of the Gainesville Sun says title game is tough to pick: “I have said all along this is a coin-flip game, two teams that are very similar even if they go about doing things in different ways. The loss of Carlos Dunlap has to hurt Florida, but the Gators will not lose this game because of his absence. If they lose, it will be because Alabama is better this year.”
Continue reading ‘SEC links: Alabama-Florida headed for the big game’
SEC links for Sunday:
Tyler Smith drives on the way to 23 points.
In the Knoxville News-Sentinel, Drew Edwards reports that Lane Kiffin is ready to take on his critics, including Steve Spurrier.
Continue reading ‘SEC links: Kiffin takes on critics, Spurrier’
SEC links for Tuesday:
Mark Schlabach of espn.com. has the Charles Barkley rip, who claims race was “the No. 1 factor” behind Auburn’s football hire.Continue reading ‘SEC links: More controversy at the Auburn circus’
