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Raking The Muck: Catching Up With Mr. Jones and Mr. Frazer

Just a few things of note as you wind down your day...

I enjoyed this Dan Wetzel column on Charlie Weis and the various projections for the season.  The more I think about it, it is really odd that there are objective analysts citing anything from a firing to a BCS berth, but that's what you get after a couple maddeningly inconsistent and/or terrible seasons.  I've loved the attitude of Weis and this team from the beginning of camp: we are going to say nothing.  We are going to just go out and attempt to play winning football and let the cards fall where they may.  Wrapping the whole thing up in Teddy Roosevelt's oft-cited quote makes sense, and is something Irish fans should pay heed to in the coming weeks as well (although don't carry a big stick around with you, your co-workers may think it a bit odd.  A small-to-medium sized stick will work in a jam).

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Demetrius Jones had an interception yesterday in the Bearcats' rout of Rutgers, along with seven tackles and 2.5 tackles for loss in his first start at linebacker.  Not to be outdone by his former battery mate, Zach Frazer registered three picks in UConn's opening win.  That was not as good, because Frazer was playing quarterback against Ohio, but still, a win is a win.

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The best Irish site on the internet does there thing in breaking down the running game Saturday, starting with a look at formation usage/effectiveness and then looking at who was sliding into the frontline as the game progressed

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A thousand cocktails to Orson for this excerpt from his weekend review:

Songs by Kenny Chesney we have rewritten for the pleasure of paying proper tribute to this year's new theme for College Gameday on ESPN.

"No Shirt, No Shoes, No Problem, Because I Have Been Garroted by Orson Swindle and Thrown Off the Lester and Virginia Maddox Bridge, and Am Dead."

"I Will Stand (In A Vat Of Concrete Bound And Gagged While Orson Swindle Entombs Him In the Foundations Of The Swindle Home For Smartass Children with ADD.")

"You Had Me From ‘Hello, This Is Tiger With a Taste for Human Flesh, Particularly the Short And Sleeveless.'"

"She Thinks My Tractor's Sexy, Especially When It's Being Hit With An RPG Fired By Orson Swindle With Me On It."

"There Goes My Life" (No editing needed.)

"Guitars and Tiki Bars and OH GOD NOT IN THE FACE."

My take on ESPN using Dave Matthews Band and Mr. Chesney as their preferred football music is that they're simply showing us who runs the show.  They're the boss, we have no control and if we want football, we're going to take it in whatever form they want to dish it out.  Is there a single artist that would make you not watch college football on Saturday?  And is there a single artist that's going to bring in non-fans to watch just because they get to here snippets of his/her/their music upon going to break?  No, of course not, so ESPN is just screwing with us, flexing at the top of the mountain as they sprinkle the occasional pigskin nourishment down to us huddled masses. 

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