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A fool and his money are soon elected.
Let's hope so. As avid readers of Barking Carnival know, there is a strict NO POLITICS policy. This discussion of a politics leads a to a divisiveness and lack of intelligent discourse not seen since the great Simms / Applewhite arguments of yesteryear. This policy has served us well. Until...
Pony Excess: Tipping Point in The Demise of The SWC
Our brethren over at Recruitocosm have been ahead of the curve on their coverage of the changes in the coaching staff over at the 40 Acres, and now they holding class on street agents -- who have infested college basketball over time and are now setting their sights on getting a stranglehold in...
The Week That Will Be (9-4-10)
Last Week: 0-0 ATS 0-0 SU For the Year: 0-0 (.000) $0 ATS 0-0 (.000) SU We sat on the golf course, under the trees along the cart path, about 150 yards off the tee box where one of my errant left hook drives might have ended up waiting for traffic to clear out. We sat there in silence, wondering...
Arizona State Pulls Offer to SMU's June Jones
This one definitely deserves its own post. Earlier in the day, sources had said that Arizona State University and SMU coach June Jones had reached an agreement for Jones to become the next head coach of the Sun Devils. Sources claimed that the two parties were merely ironing out the details, and an...
TCU 2011 Outlook– the Schedule
The Frogs open 2011 with a pair of very similar road games. Both come against familiar foes—Baylor has played TCU three times since 2006, including last year's "game" in Fort Worth. Air Force has been a conference opponent for seven years running. Both opponents feature senior quarterbacks,...
SMU 2011 Outlook
This is the spring of Year Four of the June Jones revival on the Hilltop. Nobody questions that coach Jones has brought the Mustangs to a higher plateau, or that the Ponies are going to be bowl eligible most years. But, in a subtle tribute to Jones's success, that's no longer enough. This team...
Spring Questions
A few key questions that TCU and each of its D-1A opponents look to answer this spring. Air Force- Will Ken Lamendola, out for most of two seasons with injuries, reclaim a starting role at linebacker? And who's going to replace Reggie Rembert and Anthony Wright in the secondary? Baylor- Skipping...
Recruiting Tidbits
Kibbles and bits about the freshly inked classes of recruits of TCU and its opponents: Air Force is an out-of-state school that flexes the Texas connection better than most of the others. Its 13 Texan signees (caveat: because AFA signees must jump through more than the usual number of hoops...
Wrap up: in 2010 the Frogs got the monkey off their back
Way back on September 2nd (only in football does three months a few days seem way back) the Wimple offered, as a public service, five reasons to curb our collective enthusiasm for the newborn football season. Relax, was the message: 2009 rocked, and there're a lot of good reasons to expect 2010,...
Dominance Ranking, Week 5
The "Dominance Ranking" is a stat that I maintain as a measure of how strongly teams are beating their opponents. Each team’s "Dominance Score" is the sum of each team’s national rank in scoring offense and in scoring defense. I tally these stats weekly, but don’t put any stock whatsoever into...
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