Quality coaching is letting your players make a play, like the VCU coach did there.

Who came up with the bright idea to have James Brown do a game?

I completely remember The National. And it was worth the 50, then 75 cents. It's hard to explain how incredibly wonderful it was for a sports geek who didn't give a rat's ass about the crappy national coverage in the local paper (and didn't really care for USA Today unless I desperately needed a stat. Living in…

I wonder if the Park Avenue suits are regretting giving Miami two SBs within three years.

As a point of clarification, here's what WWLS means by their little message:

May I add to Messer Pope's post:

I flipped by to catch a score at around 2:45 p.m. ET, and managed to catch the second-half kickoff. Based solely on what you see as the ball is in the air, I'd say the stadium is, at most, half-full, with whole swatches of empty seats.

I'd like to say, on behalf of those of use living in the 47 other states, it's obscenely cruel to show a shot of an In-N-Out Burger for a bumper. Now I desperately want a double-double animal style. Damn you, NBC!

Google: It's not that you shouldn't block a punt; it's that you shouldn't touch a blocked punt that crosses the line of scrimmage. If he doesn't touch that ball, it's KC's ball on the 19.

And it would help if I actually, you know, linked to the right page.

I am not an animal! I am a human being!

In fact, if you go to the Detroit Free Press home page ... you'll see how well our local media have gotten over something that happened five freaking days ago. It should be the third "Latest News" (HA!) story down.

Lloyd Carr: "Beeks! Where the hell is Beeks?"

To piggyback on Yost's comment: I do wish Carr would say more, I understand that it's a Michigan tradition to play down anything other than a Rose Bowl berth, but I really thought that Meyer's comment after the U-M/OSU game ("If [a rematch] does happen, all the presidents need to get together immediately and put…

To answer my own question: http://www.usatoday.com/sports/graphic… has all of the coaches ballots.

SA: Don't forget the granddaddy of them all, The Poulan Weed Eater Independence Bowl.

A few thoughts:

Just remember, kids: this year for the first time, the final ballots for the coaches poll will be made public. So it'll be really interesting to see who puts whom where when it's released.

Shamu: Not only did I see the shirt, I laughed heartily!

I don't usually watch SEC football; is this a Southern thing to blow all three time outs in one drive?