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According to ESPN’s Kirk Herbstreit Florida AD Jeremy Foley has seen enough. The Ron Zook experiment is over and MSU is responsible for hastening his exit. As a State fan, I find this hilarious and reminiscent of Gene Stallings’ departure from Bama in 1996.
Call it bad timing for Zook. He caught [...]

Collegeball.blogspot.com has updated composite rankings. Don’t ask me how we moved up when we just started practice.

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Why do I get the feeling State commitment Monta Ellis is biding his time until the McDonalds All-America Game? That game propelled Johnathon Bender - where he was the MVP and tied MJ’s scoring record - onto the national stage and allowed him to parlay his performance into an NBA first round selection.
Best case [...]

We suck. Good luck trying to get your team to think otherwise. If I were you and I was worried about complacency, I’d break out the ‘00 game tapes and hope they don’t notice.
“We’ll get their best shot,” Zook said. “I told our guys the tape we’re going to watch isn’t the team [...]

I’ve been saying this for the past year. Our lack of 4th and 5th year players has killed us! Even Ronald Fields knows:
“The Jucos, they leave and you have nobody to fill their shoes,” senior defensive tackle Ronald Fields said. “With a lot of them, you have to question why you even signed [...]

Bubba Burnham took a break from whining about David Cutcliffe not winning the BCS Championship (”That Rebel team should have been undefeated and in the Sugar Bowl playing Oklahoma for the national championship on Jan. 4th”) and talked to Darren Williams:
“We just don’t have the athletes,” said Williams. “It’s as simple as that.”Williams said that [...]

Zook’s message to his team this week: have fun. Is there any doubt that UF players look at this game as an opportunity to pad stats?
…Zook has instructed his players simply to have fun. He did so all last week, and the 20th-ranked Gators (4-2, 2-2 SEC) seemed to thoroughly enjoy their 52-16 pasting [...]

As the Clarion-Ledger reports, back-up RB Jason Jude has left team. I don’t quite understand this move. Perhaps, Jude is sick of another losing season and has decided to move on. Or perhaps the promises Jackie Sherrill made him during recruiting aren’t being met by the current staff.
Whichever, it’s obvious that [...]

Because of MSU, Vandy, Kentucky and a lesser degree Ole Miss, the SEC has dropped two spots in Jeff Sagarin’s conference rankings. The top-heavy SEC stands at #6, behind the Pac 10 , the Big 12 , the ACC, the I-A independents, and the Big 10.
Boo hoo. My heart breaks for the rest [...]

ESPN.com’s Pat Forde has a semi-serious column on how Mack Brown can finally beat OU. He suggestion is to call Jackie Sherrill.
There may be a price to pay for his advice. You may wind up with $100 bills falling out of the quarterback’s socks, NCAA investigators camping out at the Austin Residence [...]

Whatever happened to… MICHAEL HADDIX?

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In a freebie at BulldogBlitz.com Coach Croom talked about MSU’s football recruiting philosophy. He specifically pointed to Andrew Powell, Brian Anderson and Mario Bobo as the kind of players he wants:
We will go to high schools in this state and elsewhere and do our own evaluation,” Croom explained. “If we like the guy, we’ll [...]

Gatorsports.com’s columnist Robbie Andreu suggests a new non-conference opponent for State:
For the Bulldogs, who got mauled by mighty Maine, we offer up Manhattan (the basketball school, not the borough. The ‘Dogs would get lost in the big city).
Yuk, yuk, yuk. Stick to wierd name spellings, Robbie Andreu.

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The Birmingham News doesn’t think so. They found a bunch of Starkville residents that still fully support coach Croom. I think all of this is silly. Coach Croom’s contract is 4 years plus, meaning it starts AFTER the NCAA sanctions are over. No amount of bitching and moaning will affect Croom’s [...]

InsideHoops.com - College Basketball Preview:
Why the Bulldogs could win it all: Like Warrick and Syracuse, or Simien and Kansas, 6′9″ MSU big man Lawrence Roberts (16.9 points and 10.1 rebounds last season) is a leading national POY candidate who’s capable of carrying the Bulldogs a long way on his back yet again. Though rebounding machine [...]