A Quinnen Attitude

Quinnen Williams was once again a big hit today when the red light turned on. Whether he's cutting himself off on a Kyler Murray answer or blessing and thanking himself mid interview, that big braced smile has been capturing America's heart for the last couple months now. There is no one in the world happier to play football right now than Q. But how did he get so happy? 

I don't know how happy people generally are getting drafted by the smelly Jets but Quinnen is off the rails. In explaining why he's been fan-girling over Leonard Williams he had this to say, "You gotta think about it at the time, like seven months ago, I didn't even know if I was gunna start. So to be in this position right now I'm like bro this is crazy." Wild. The 2018 Consensus All-American and John Outland recipient was battling in the trenches for a starting spot in August. Here's how he panned out: 

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I don't know if that link will work but it's a sweet clip of Quinnen bulldozing an LSU double team for a sack. If the link doesn't work just take my word for it, it's dope. Quinnen went on to have 8 sacks and 19.5 tackles for loss which led to the Jets taking him 3rd overall in this years draft. But would all of this been possible if he had left Alabama? 

Nick Saban as of late has been stressing the importance of developing a player before they fill a starter role. In recent years Saban has had players such as CJ Mosley, Reuben Foster, Daron Payne, and Josh Jacobs all not start until their junior year and still be drafted in the first round. With college free agency right around the corner that practice could become extinct. Big name players like Justin Fields, Tate Martell, and Jalen Hurts are normalizing the immediately eligible transfers that could kickoff the trend to leave if you don't start. Diamonds aren't made without a little pressure. 

This what Quinnen Williams had to say about the possibility of transferring on College Sports on Sirius XM, "I thought about transferring, but knowing the Alabama process and the Alabama standard is second to none, I was willing to wait, willing to sit behind great guys who were great leaders, who taught me how to be a professional on the field and off the field." 

So to the discouraged underclassmen: tough it out, keep learning, put in the work, fuck around and get drafted 3rd overall.  

P.s. Fuck the Transfer Portal and Manny Diaz too. 

Alabama Schedules Home Series Vs Clemson In The Year 2100

Man what a way to kick off the new century! Seriously, these future home series are getting out of fucking control. Here are some future home and home series scheduled already: Georgia vs FSU 2027-2028, Alabama vs Oklahoma 2032-2033, and Oklahoma vs Clemson 2035-2036. Wtf?! 2036! I'll be 43. How dare you make me think of the year 2036. Oh my God. Nick Saban will be 84. Pump the breaks for chrissakes. 

There needs to be some sort of cap on when you can schedule home-and-home. You don't know how poopy that program is going to be in seventeen years? That's how we got games like Alabama beating up on Louisville last year. This year they open up against Duke. We need that out of conference game to be strong for our resume. Have an inkling of an idea of where the program is heading before you schedule the game. Granted I don't know the behind the scenes on setting up these games but how hard can it be? High noon that shit if you have to. Meet me at this stadium, on this day, when the sun goes down. Done. Then we won't have teams like Georgia who just canceled their 2023 game vs. Indiana State. Yeah no shit either team wants to play each other. It's a waste of an out of conference game for Kirby, and Indiana State doesn't want to get the shit kicked out of them.  

My solution:games can't be scheduled more than four years in advance. 

George Steinbrenner, Ohio State Buckeye

Baseball is back! Yankees stink, so heres some college football to ease your mind. Ok, so the picture has nothing to do with college football. It's just so sublime that it should be posted whenever its even slightly appropriate. George Steinbrenner was a god. He brought the Yankees back from the dead. But before he was the Boss, he was the assistant; to Woody Hayes. 

The Buckeyes won the Rose Bowl in 1954, after an undefeated 10-0 season with legendary coach Woody Hayes. George Steinbrenner's only year as Ohio State's assistant? 1954. There is no such thing as coincidence. Woody Hayes' book You Win With People! outlines that a winning mentality and hard work are the key components to being successful. Obviously Woody and George are cut from the same cloth, but just how similar are they? 

Master Motivators 

Both were leader of men. Sometimes you have to think outside the box. Woody Hayes during a rant about toughness, decided to lead by example. Urban Meyer claimed Woody took out a snapping turtle in the locker room, pulled down his pants, and let it latch on to his woody screaming "That's f'n toughness!". Ohio State later claimed that Urban was just joking but theres just no way. You're a perverted psycho if you make that story up. 

After the Yankees lost three straight games in the 1981 World Series to the Dodgers, George needed to find an angle to motivate the team. The Boss showed up to a presser with a broken hand slung up. When questioned about his injury George alleged that he fought two Dodgers fans in an elevator. He claimed the assailants called his beloved Yankees "chokers" and New Yorkers "animals". "I clocked them. There are two guys in this town looking for their teeth and two guys who will probably sue me." Nobody ever sued and nobody ever reported that George Steinbrenner fought them in an elevator. He was 51 at the time. Years after the incident George never swayed from his story and denied that he just punched the elevator door. 

Deadly Tongues

We're talking about next level trash talkers. Woody was kicking the ever loving shit out of Michigan in 1968. Up five touchdowns with 1:23 left, he kept the offense out there for a two point conversion. After the game he was asked why go for two when you're up so much to which he replied "Because I couldn't go for three." Just rubbing the Wolverines face in dog shit. 

George was a silver-tongued devil. There's plenty of different accounts on his banter but this one in particular really projects his masterful grasp on the english language. In the ninth inning of an April 1st game, (so what like a few days into the season or maybe even spring training?) an overweight Hideki Irabu botched his second out of the inning. Irabu wasn't fast enough and was unable to cover first base in time. So what does George do? Calls him a "fat pussy toad." My God, just chalk him out right there. George traded Hideki after the season. 

Fighters

Neither man was a stranger to chuckin-knucks controversy. The 1978 Gator Bowl. Woody was 65, handed three straight losses from Michigan, and on a downhill spiral. Clemson was up two with about two minutes left. Buckeyes were driving, almost in field goal position, when Charlie Bauman picked the ball off for Clemson. Bauman, the DT, was pushed out of bounds right at the feet of Woody Hayes. Bauman got up to celebrate and BOOM! Woody fuckin judo chopped him right in the neck. A Clemson linebacker later claimed he heard Woody scream "You SOB I just lost my job!", right before the hit. Woody Hayes never coached another game. 

One time George Steinbrenner beat up two guys at once. In an elevator. By himself. 

Nixon and Holiday Birthdays 

This is just kind of a miscellaneous paragraph. Woody's birthday was Valentine's Day, and George's was the 4th of July. So American. Both also had this weird Nixon connection. Woody Hayes kept in touch with Nixon a lot. They wrote letters to each other and often talked on the phone. Nixon even eulogized Woody on his televised funeral. George's relationship wasn't as romantic. He was involved in Watergate and plead guilty to illegal campaign contributions. Steinbrenner would give employees bonuses and tell them it wasn't really for them that they have to donate it to the Nixon campaign.

Winners 

Woody won five National Championships and thirteen Big 10 titles. "Without winners, there wouldn't even be any civilization."-Hayes. 

George's Yankees won seven World Series and eleven pennants. "Winning is the most important thing in my life, after breathing. Breathing first, winning next." -Steinbrenner. 

Two Buckeyes coaches, two titans of their field. Steinbrenner achieved his masters from Ohio State and him and his wife donated $1.5 million to the school for Steinbrenner Band Center which is still in use today. 

Baseball is back in full swing, which means college football is right around the corner.   

Leaving Beaver Stadium

Thanks to HBO's Leaving Neverland documentary, anti-pedophilia is very in season right now. Now, you might be wondering, shouldn't it always be hip to not like pedophiles? And I agree but apparently that isn't always the case. 

Oh, I'm sorry. Did you think I forgot? Is it still too soon? Do I have to wait 10 years after his death like Oprah did to say, "Hey this guy that everyone loved did really shitty things?" Paterno might not have committed the act himself but do you know who wasn't anti-pedophilia in 2001? Joe Pa. HBO paid a lot of money to remind you that Michael Jackson was actually a piece of shit. Here's a reminder on Joe Paterno for free.

In the Jerry Sandusky police report, assistant coach, Mike McQueary claimed that he personally told Coach Paterno that he saw Jerry in the shower with a young boy. McQueary alleges that Paterno sat back in his chair with his eyes welling up with tears, and told him that this is the "second complaint of that nature" in regards to Jerry Sandusky. Oh wah fucking wah old man. You know who else's eyes have probably welled up with tears? Oh I don't know maybe the ten children that were raped by a grown man on your watch. Three more boys were raped by Sandusky following McQueary's confrontation of 2001.

After McQueary blew his whistle on this whole program, Paterno was stammering around with quotes on how much he knew. Under oath Paterno was asked if he knew of anything prior to the 2001 allegation and this was his response: "I do not know of anything else that Jerry would be involved in of that nature, no. I do not know of it. You did mention, I think you said something about a rumor. It may have been discussed in my presence, something else about somebody." Well what the fuck does that mean? You did hear a rumor about Sandusky? You heard a rumor about somebody else molesting minors? What the fuck are you talking about? A year later in an interview with Sally Jenkins Paterno went on to say he "had no inkling" of the twisted shit Uncle Jerry was up to. Yet when Penn State canned his ass in 2011 he ended his statement with "I wish I had done more." How can you do more for something you had no inkling of?

Then came the Freeh Report, post mortem. Louis Freeh is a former FBI Director hired to investigate the Sandusky case and Penn State's involvement. Among his findings, Freeh exposed emails from Penn State's AD who stated "I touched base with Coach" regarding a 1998 molestation allegation. Could this be the other complaint that McQueary claims Paterno heard about? Tim Curley, the athletic director, testified that he and Paterno had a conversation about the '98 incident and he later plead guilty to misdemeanor child endangerment. The Paterno family denied Freeh's findings and even planned to sue but later dropped the lawsuit. Hmmm *BBM thinking face*.

Following Paterno's firing, thousands of Penn State students flooded the streets in protest. Hundreds of them found themselves outside of Joe Pa's house chanting his name. He eventually confronted the student body and gave a speech on how much he loves the students and the program. Paterno went on to say that he has 17 grandchildren and that him and his wife pray for them every night and that he's going to start praying for the victims. Those kids didn't need your fucking prayers old man. They needed someone to protect them. Where the fuck was your Christianity when pedophile rumors were brought to your desk? I hope you have to play the SEC in hell. 

Penn State eventually took down Joey's statue outside of Beaver Stadium. They fenced it up and drew up blue tarp so no one could witness the act. They should've toppled it like Saddam's statue in Baghdad. 

Look, I know Paterno is very dead. But this isn't some cheap shot. Michael Jackson had more money than God to protect the allegations made against him. Jerry Sandusky had Joe Pa. So if you're a Nittany Lion planning on watching Leaving Neverland so you can tweet your brave stance on being against child molestation, don't. Not until you've denounced Joe Paterno. 

4 TDs And 70+ Years Ago (Presidents In College Football)

Kmarko recently wrote a blog on Gianni Russo and the tall tales of his new book. Russo claims to have seen JFK do a line off some chick's tummy and apparently thought that was going to be breaking news. That's exactly what I thought JFK was doing. Anyway it put me on to a JFK rabbit hole that brought me to presidents in college football. Heres what I found. 

We'll start with JFK. The original Johnny Football; except not really. Kennedy wasn't very good if we're being honest. He knew it though, "Politics is an astonishing profession, it has enabled me from being an obscure member of the junior varsity at Harvard to being an honorary member of the Football Hall of Fame." Good for him. Got his gold jacket even though the highest he reached was Harvard's JV wide out. JFK's talent never kept him from being a fan of the game. This is the transcript of his "going to the moon" speech that he delivered in Rice's stadium. 

Last minute JFK wrote in to his speech Why does Rice Play Texas? Right up there with Why climb the highest mountain? Why 35 years ago fly the Atlantic? Clearly Everest and Lindbergh aren't nearly as impressive as the Owls scheduling the Longhorns. Jack's Rice line was received with so much applause that it took him three tries to get the next line out over the noise of the crowd. 

Before he was creating the National Aeronautic and Space Administration, Ike Eisenhower was creating space on the gridiron. Ike was the starting running back for Army in 1912. In a game vs Tufts he blew his knee out, ending his football career. Apparently he became so depressed that he was unable to play football, that he strongly considered leaving the West Point. Thank God he stuck it out because he went on to send America's greatest all-out blitz and stormed the beaches of Normandy marking the beginning of the end for WWII. 

Herbert Hoover didn't ball but he was a baller. Hoover was the business manager for Stanford and helped arrange one of the first big west coast games vs Cal. He rented out a baseball field for $250 and printed out 5,000 $2 tickets. 10,000 people wound up showing up and were granted admission if they had the two dollars cash. $20,000 was collected and Hoover dashed and stashed the cash in his hotel room. He didn't even watch the game over fear that someone would rob the money. If you think that ol Herbie didn't skim a little off the top in the year of our Lord 1892, then you're out of your bird. I like to imagine a then young, would-be-president, with overstuffed suitcases of cash sitting on the bed of his hotel room, shaking with the lights out and a baseball bat in his hand. He probably paid off his tuition the next day. Didn't need Lori Loughlin for that one.   

Gerald Ford is the greatest backup in American History. He is the only man to become President and Vice President without being elected to either position. But he didn't have to worry about backup roles for the Michigan Wolverines since they named him their team MVP in 1934. Ford is easily the best pure player to ever sit in the oval office. He's the handsome SOB pictured above. As a linebacker/center he helped lead Michigan to two Big 10 chips and back to back national championships. Ford was offered a spot with the Lions and the Packers but turned it down to attend Yale Law School and the rest was history. Michigan went on to retire Ford's #48 jersey. 

So there it is. Reagan and Nixon also played for minor schools but there wasn't much to go off of besides the fact that they played. Dream big kids, play college football, but if you have an inkling to maybe head to law school instead of the league, take it. You could change the course of history.  

But You Know, Gotta Let It Go, Cause The Party Ain't Jumpin Like It Use To!

LET IT AuBURN BABY. Auburn stinks. I know they stink, you know they stink, Byron Cowart knows they stink. Cowart was ESPN's number one recruit coming out of high school in 2015. Gus Malzahn landed him and stranded him. "I was bigger and stronger than everybody, I didn't understand that at the time. I'm just thinking you wake up, practice a little bit and it happened in the game. I didn't know the preparation that it took to be good on Saturday and Sunday." Uhmm how about you be a leader of men and develop your talent there, Gus. This has been a recurring trend. Auburn is losing more stars than the #MeToo movement. 

Cowart isn't alone in 5 stars who pack their shit and head out from the barn. 2014 five star recruit (247 Sports), Roc Thomas left the program when he couldn't find a spot in the Tiger backfield. He transferred to Jacksonville State and was an FCS All-American. More recently, 2017 class, five star OT Calvin Ashley landed with the King of the Transfer Portal, Manny Diaz, in Miami. This just didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. Why not plug the five star monster into a line that had under 100 rushing yards and gave up 3 sacks to Southern Miss! Southern fricken Miss. But hey, keep doing your thing little brother. Never forget the 2017 Iron Bowl didn't matter.   

Block Or Felony Charge?

Well, it's time to pour one out for another internet fad ruined by a middle aged white guy who's begging to connect with millennials. The once proud coach who beat Nick Saban in back to back seasons at Ole Miss has resorted to partaking in Twitter haha's for 8 retweets. 

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Do you know what really gets recruits to like you? Hookers. Stick to your guns, Hugh. Dial up that administrative assigned phone, hop on Backpage and do what you do best. Don't turn yourself into that backwards hat, skateboard over the shoulder, Buschemi meme. 

Honestly though, good riddance. The whole block or charge thing really isn't that funny. You just gotta love Hugh for twisting the knife. Have just the tiniest bit of awareness. A block or a charge is like a 50/50 call. You should never be using the word "charge" knowing that you yourself could be charged with soliciting prostitution.