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I’ve gotta say, I didn’t think I would, but I loved the pregame videos this year. Not for everyone I know, but I enjoyed them. Very professional and well paced. Couple of comments though… How can the Munson video (which could use some polishing) not have the Stafford to Massaquoi TD pass in the GT game? That was the play of the year. Also, the pregame video about it being Saturday in Athens was solid. Does Tech have a video talking about it being Thursday? Just curious.

The ESPN crew pretty well fumbled several things during their broadcast. Did you catch the image of Mikey Henderson amongst the OL in place of Haverkamp? They also made the comment that Thomas Brown missed all of last season. How do you make that mistake? The same crew will be doing the game this week so hopefully they’ll be more together.

It was weird seeing the Dawg Walk line take a couple of turns before it got to the road so it could meander around the construction for the new Tate Center expansion. That’s gonna be UNREAL when they get done with it.

Not sure if you heard or not, but Michigan got beat last week. Get this, it was by a DIAA team from Boone, NC. That was sarcastic as I’m sure you didn’t miss all 523 stories on that this week. Between that and Notre Dame being god-awful, I was frankly shocked we got any mention at all in recap shows. I’m tired of ND. If they’re good, it’s big news, if they’re bad, they cover it incessantly. Just let Charlie Weiss eat in peace and at the end of the season watch the administration squirm as they try to explain the difference in Ty Willingham’s first two seasons and Weiss’. For the record, they’ll end up being eerily similar only Weiss came out with a massive contract and a hotshot QB recruit that looks like an emu (Jimmy Clausen).

Apparently the new kickoff rules didn’t affect the SC-ULL game. SC’s star kicker/punter Ryan Succop had 4 of his 5 kickoffs go for touchbacks. That’s impressive. Coutu has a strong leg, connecting on 3 FGs of 40 yards or more in last season’s contest (and he has a career long of 58 I believe), but as expected, we went for the directional approach and aside from one return it worked well. As has become the norm for us, we almost took a punt all the way back. Don’t look for that to happen this week though as SC does that weird punt style that leads to punts that aren’t easily returnable.

I’m a Braves fan, those of you that know me know that’s the case, but I almost wish the Braves would just hold a press conference and say they’re removing themselves from the pennant race. I think it would be classier and it would allow me to stop getting my hopes up every time they win (increasingly rare these days). This is actually just a reverse psychology ploy. I’m so tired of the Braves toying with my emotions.

Kudos to longtime writeup reader Chad McDaniel who pointed out that Locke’s dad from Lost (and the guy who looked just like T. Boone Pickens) was also one of the bad guys in Roadhouse that worked at the Double Deuce. How did I not make THAT connection? The tagline for that movie apparently was “The dancing’s over. Now it gets dirty.” They just don’t make ‘em like that anymore. I apologize to you all as that was a much funnier correlation. Chad always does that to me. After getting such good feedback on the comparison, I thought of doing another one this week. I had a few ideas but ultimately bailed on them… 1) No one looked like a character from Lost. 2) Spurrier just looks too common and this is a PG column so I couldn’t get REALLY creative. 3) I couldn’t find a good picture of George Rogers that I thought most folks would recognize (has there ever been a less recognizable major college figure in the South?). I was going to pair him with Tyrone Biggums from the Chappelle Show…yeah, that guy. 4) While Blake Mitchell does look like Jar Jar Binks, that comparison has already been made (a lot). Still applies though.

Have a safe weekend,
Jody