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Friday’s 6-pack
Top six career leaders in passing yardage for the Dallas Cowboys:
34,183— Tony Romo
32,942— Troy Aikman
24,943— Dak Prescott
22,700— Roger Staubach
21,959— Danny White
17,199— Don Meredith
Quote of the Day
“He’s not an ego guy. He’s not a big media-look-at-me guy. There’s a balance; you want to be confident, but you don’t want to be the guy who’s always looking for the camera.”
Chargers’ OT Trey Pipkins III, talking about QB Justin Herbert
Friday’s quiz
Joe Montana won four Super Bowls playing for San Francisco; which NFL team did he finish his career with?
Thursday’s quiz
Todd Helton was the QB for the Tennessee Volunteers the year before Peyton Manning became Tennessee’s QB.
Wednesday’s quiz
Cavaliers’ star Donovan Mitchell played his college basketball at Louisville.
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Friday’s Den: Random stuff with the weekend here……..
— One of the most underreported stories in sports: College football coaches live a nomadic existence, especially assistant coaches. They change jobs. A lot.
Clemson fired offensive coordinator Brandon Streeter after only one year as the Tigers’ play-caller; Streeter was a longtime assistant and is a former Clemson QB, it had to be awkward, seeing how he was Clemson’s QB coach when they had Deshaun Watson/Trevor Lawerence.
Clemson then poached TCU’s OC Garrett Riley, three days after the Horned Frogs got waxed in the national championship game. They must’ve thrown a boatload of $$$ at him.
— It says on my Twitter feed that Baylor went for it on 4th down 47% of the time this season; Texas Tech went for it 42% of the time. Did they outlaw punting in the Big X?
Wyoming only went for it on 4th down 6% of the time, Nebraska 8%, Clemson 12%. Maybe if Clemson played the freshman QB sooner this season, they wouldn’t have had to fire their offensive coordinator.
— When Al Davis owned the Oakland Raiders, he used to interview guys for coaching jobs that he had no intention of hiring; he just wanted to pick their brains. Seriously.
I’m wondering if this still goes on; do coaches ever turn down interviews with rival teams?
If I was a billionaire who owned an NFL team, I’d be damned if someone would tell me who we could/could not hire as our head coach, but there are rules, so even if a team knows who they are going to hire, they have to go thru the motions and interview other people. Might as well learn something from those interviews.
— Watching the last episode of HBO’s Hard Knocks last night, had to feel bad for coach Kliff Kingsbury, whose firing this week wasn’t even a surprise, that’s how bad Arizona’s season was. He seems like a good guy.
— In better news, it only took me five years to figure out how to get HBO Max on my TV; I’ve been watching it on my laptop for years, but now that I have YouTube TV, I can watch Hard Knocks, West Wing re-runs and Curb Your Enthusiasm on my TV. Apparently I’m not as dumb as I look.
— If Chiefs/Bills meet in the AFC Championship game, it’ll be played on a neutral field in Atlanta, since the Bills/Chiefs didn’t play the same amount of games this season.
— Warriors-Spurs are playing in the Alamodome Friday night; they’re expected a crowd of about 65,000, the biggest-ever crowd for an NBA game. Hopefully none of the players will take the night off for “load management”
— Minor League baseball is expected to use an automated ball-strike umpiring system across the Triple-A level during this coming season; half the AAA games are expected to use the automated system, the other half using a challenge system, as MLB experiments with how they’re going to change the umpiring system going forward.
— Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) has 13 basketball teams, as they shuffle teams in/out, with the teams that leave going elsewhere for football-related reasons. As a result, the CAA’s rating has dropped to 24th out of 32 leagues, its lowest ranking this century and only 2nd time they’ve been out of the top 20.
CAA was the 14th-rated league last year, now they’re 24th.
— Gonzaga 75, BYU 74
BYU led by 10 points with 5:03 left.
Zags hit a 3-pointer with 0:10 left for the win.
BYU made 13-25 on the arc, only 5-10 on foul line.
— Minnesota 70, Ohio State 67— Interesting telecast on FS1, with no commercials and access to both benches/locker rooms. Banter between Minnesota coach Johnson and the refs was fun to listen to, a little like the old NFL Films stuff from the Hank Stram days.
Gophers were a 15-point underdog; this was their first conference win. Minnesota’s last four games have now been decided by either 2 or 3 points.
— Iowa 93, Michigan 84 OT— Hawkeyes trailed by 7 with 2:07 left, outscored Michigan 23-7 the rest of the way. Michigan is 9-7 now, has lost four of its last six games.
— Kansas City 81, St Thomas 60— Tommies are in their second year of D-I ball; home team is now 7-0 SU/ATS in their Summit League games this season.
— Oakland 69, Robert Morris 65— Oakland started this season 2-11, but now they’ve won five games in a row, are 5-2 in Horizon games. Grizzlies’ last three wins were by 1-2-4 points.
— Celtics 109, Nets 98— Celtics have now beaten Brooklyn nine times in a row.
Friday’s 6-pack
Top six career leaders in passing yardage for the Dallas Cowboys:
34,183— Tony Romo
32,942— Troy Aikman
24,943— Dak Prescott
22,700— Roger Staubach
21,959— Danny White
17,199— Don Meredith
Quote of the Day
“He’s not an ego guy. He’s not a big media-look-at-me guy. There’s a balance; you want to be confident, but you don’t want to be the guy who’s always looking for the camera.”
Chargers’ OT Trey Pipkins III, talking about QB Justin Herbert
Friday’s quiz
Joe Montana won four Super Bowls playing for San Francisco; which NFL team did he finish his career with?
Thursday’s quiz
Todd Helton was the QB for the Tennessee Volunteers the year before Peyton Manning became Tennessee’s QB.
Wednesday’s quiz
Cavaliers’ star Donovan Mitchell played his college basketball at Louisville.
**************************
Friday’s Den: Random stuff with the weekend here……..
— One of the most underreported stories in sports: College football coaches live a nomadic existence, especially assistant coaches. They change jobs. A lot.
Clemson fired offensive coordinator Brandon Streeter after only one year as the Tigers’ play-caller; Streeter was a longtime assistant and is a former Clemson QB, it had to be awkward, seeing how he was Clemson’s QB coach when they had Deshaun Watson/Trevor Lawerence.
Clemson then poached TCU’s OC Garrett Riley, three days after the Horned Frogs got waxed in the national championship game. They must’ve thrown a boatload of $$$ at him.
— It says on my Twitter feed that Baylor went for it on 4th down 47% of the time this season; Texas Tech went for it 42% of the time. Did they outlaw punting in the Big X?
Wyoming only went for it on 4th down 6% of the time, Nebraska 8%, Clemson 12%. Maybe if Clemson played the freshman QB sooner this season, they wouldn’t have had to fire their offensive coordinator.
— When Al Davis owned the Oakland Raiders, he used to interview guys for coaching jobs that he had no intention of hiring; he just wanted to pick their brains. Seriously.
I’m wondering if this still goes on; do coaches ever turn down interviews with rival teams?
If I was a billionaire who owned an NFL team, I’d be damned if someone would tell me who we could/could not hire as our head coach, but there are rules, so even if a team knows who they are going to hire, they have to go thru the motions and interview other people. Might as well learn something from those interviews.
— Watching the last episode of HBO’s Hard Knocks last night, had to feel bad for coach Kliff Kingsbury, whose firing this week wasn’t even a surprise, that’s how bad Arizona’s season was. He seems like a good guy.
— In better news, it only took me five years to figure out how to get HBO Max on my TV; I’ve been watching it on my laptop for years, but now that I have YouTube TV, I can watch Hard Knocks, West Wing re-runs and Curb Your Enthusiasm on my TV. Apparently I’m not as dumb as I look.
— If Chiefs/Bills meet in the AFC Championship game, it’ll be played on a neutral field in Atlanta, since the Bills/Chiefs didn’t play the same amount of games this season.
— Warriors-Spurs are playing in the Alamodome Friday night; they’re expected a crowd of about 65,000, the biggest-ever crowd for an NBA game. Hopefully none of the players will take the night off for “load management”
— Minor League baseball is expected to use an automated ball-strike umpiring system across the Triple-A level during this coming season; half the AAA games are expected to use the automated system, the other half using a challenge system, as MLB experiments with how they’re going to change the umpiring system going forward.
— Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) has 13 basketball teams, as they shuffle teams in/out, with the teams that leave going elsewhere for football-related reasons. As a result, the CAA’s rating has dropped to 24th out of 32 leagues, its lowest ranking this century and only 2nd time they’ve been out of the top 20.
CAA was the 14th-rated league last year, now they’re 24th.
— Gonzaga 75, BYU 74
BYU led by 10 points with 5:03 left.
Zags hit a 3-pointer with 0:10 left for the win.
BYU made 13-25 on the arc, only 5-10 on foul line.
— Minnesota 70, Ohio State 67— Interesting telecast on FS1, with no commercials and access to both benches/locker rooms. Banter between Minnesota coach Johnson and the refs was fun to listen to, a little like the old NFL Films stuff from the Hank Stram days.
Gophers were a 15-point underdog; this was their first conference win. Minnesota’s last four games have now been decided by either 2 or 3 points.
— Iowa 93, Michigan 84 OT— Hawkeyes trailed by 7 with 2:07 left, outscored Michigan 23-7 the rest of the way. Michigan is 9-7 now, has lost four of its last six games.
— Kansas City 81, St Thomas 60— Tommies are in their second year of D-I ball; home team is now 7-0 SU/ATS in their Summit League games this season.
— Oakland 69, Robert Morris 65— Oakland started this season 2-11, but now they’ve won five games in a row, are 5-2 in Horizon games. Grizzlies’ last three wins were by 1-2-4 points.
— Celtics 109, Nets 98— Celtics have now beaten Brooklyn nine times in a row.
