The Transfer

It would appear the news today is that another quarterback bites the dust....
Redshirt QB Conner Brewer has left the Texas program and it seeking transfer to another program, though he was not specific about which one.  Considering he had 14 offers, I'm sure someone will be happy to have him, but I hope he doesn't follow in his swimmer sister's footsteps and transfer to USC.

Though I guess Lane Kiffen can have our sloppy seconds if he wants them.

Does this mean that Jalen Overstreet will be taken out of the receivers corp and popped back into the quarterback rotation, or will Ash, McCoy, and Swoopes be enough?

The Hand Horns

Here at Adventures of a Football Blog, other than subliminal endorsements of random booze, I've never just flat out endorsed a product. 

Get Ready.  Put your Horns Up.

Your Hand Horns.

That's right, I said Hand Horns.  Today I came across this kickstarter project and literally wanted to kick myself for not having discovered it sooner so I could get in on the initial run of them in time for the 2013 season. 

Brilliant. 

I don't know when they're going to hit the streets, but when they do, find them, buy many of them and, as Walter Cronkite would say "Get your Horns up."
  
Your Hand Horns.  

The Stupid Research Project

According to Ivan Maisel:

Two University of Texas researchers, writing in the Journal of Sport Management, conclude that alcohol sales at college football games should be limited to premium seating areas. The researchers looked at an unnamed public university’s financial data from 2008-10, wrote that by the time the concessionaire took its cut, the increase in revenue from general admission sales wasn’t worth the social and ethical costs. However, the availability of alcohol in the club seats helped drive demand for them. 

FOR SHAME!! 

"Damn it feels good to be a gangsta..."

Stupid researchers and their stupid facts and stupid statistics.  

Ethics, Schmethics!   It's much more ethical for me to buy beer at the game than it is for me to sneak liquor to my seat inside in my boot! 

I can promise you if I want to be drunk at a game I'll do it...might as well make money off of me.  Especially the University of Texas, which in addition to being The Devil has been hailed as a Money-Grubbing-Scroodge-Face.

FOR SHAME!!

Booo you, University of Texas researchers.  I hear by strip ye of your burnt orange flasks and coozies and banish you to Utah.  Or if the Cougars won't have you, to prohibition times...how quickly you would fold under the gangster rule of Bonnie, Clyde and Steve Buscemi.

  

The Pants on Fire

In a report by Christopher Wilson at Yahoo! Sports, here's what current Ohio State Coach and former Florida Gators Coach Meyer has to say when asked what troubles Hernandez had at Florida:

"Relatively speaking, he had very minor stuff. He was questioned about being a witness (to a shooting), and he had an argument in a restaurant (in which Hernandez allegedly struck an employee in an argument over an unpaid bill), and he was suspended one game (reportedly for a failed marijuana test). Other than that, he was three years a good player. That was it." 

That's right, Meyer.  A slow clap is due.

Minor stuff, you know.  Like a traffic ticket or an MIP ... or ... being somehow involved in a shooting, doing drugs, stealing from restaurants and assault.

The most interesting part about the article is Meyer skirting the question of the failed drug tests by saying  

“I just received an email from a friend where there is an accusation of multiple failed drug tests covered up by the Univ. of Florida or the coaching staff,” Meyer wrote in a text to The Sun. “This is absolutely not true. Hernandez was held to the same drug testing policy as every other player.

That's kind of a non-answer, no?  Since the Boston Globe, Sports Illustrated, two Florida staff members and Hernandez himself are reporting that he failed "4 to 6" drug tests while at Florida it's weird that Hernandez was only penalized for, and Meyer is only recognizing, one. 

I smell a fire.  Pants! Fire! 

Meyer trying to play that his programs are run so clean is laughable, especially considered the estimated 34% of the 2008 Championship Team were either arrested while in school at Florida or in the 5 years since.  

Clean.  Soapy, soapy clean. 

If Ohio State is looking to clear up their image of cover-ups in the football program, I fear they may have picked the wrong guy...