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      Longhorns’ DC Muschamp says he’s staying in Texas

      January 14, 2010 /

      Amidst the rumors that he could possible take the head coach opening in Tennessee, Texas’ defensive coordinator Will Muschamp stated that he’s staying in Austin.

      “I’m happy at Texas and plan to be here for a long time,” Muschamp said through a school football spokesman.
      He added that he has not interviewed for any other jobs nor does he have intention to do so.

      People in the Texas athletic department spent Wednesday saying they fully expected Muschamp to be on the staff next week, next month and next season.

      Media reports from Tennessee provided Internet whiplash. Supposedly, Muschamp topped the list of candidates to replace Kiffin. There were suggestions of a five-year contract offer for $3 million annually.

      He was interviewing in Knoxville. Or Dallas. Or Tennessee athletic director Mike Hamilton was in Austin. Pick a rumor, any rumor.

      Muschamp is in line to take over for Mack Brown at Texas, so it makes sense that he’s exercising a little patience right now.

      One name that I haven’t heard being tossed around for the Tennessee position is Mike Leach. After the Lane Kiffin debacle, the Vols might take a more conservative approach with their next hire, but Leach would make for an intriguing choice in Knoxville.


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      College Football

      Sean Payton wins Coach of the Year

      January 14, 2010 /

      The Saints’ Sean Payton has been named NFL Coach of the Year by the Sporting News.

      For the second time in his four seasons as leader of the New Orleans Saints, Sean Payton is Sporting News Coach of the Year.

      After two years of the Saints not making the playoffs since they advanced to the NFC championship game after the 2006 season, Payton guided them to a 13-3 record. The five-game turnaround from 2008 took New Orleans from worst to first place in the NFC South.

      If Payton could split the award in half, I’m sure he’d give part of the honor to defensive coordinator Gregg Williams. The Saints’ defense has really struggled down the stretch, but most of that can be attributed to injuries on all three levels. For the most part, Williams has done a remarkable job turning the Saints’ defense into a unit that can (along with the offense’s help, of course) contend for a Super Bowl.

      I’m looking forward to seeing how Payton fares in his second postseason stint. His offensive schemes are excellent and he knows how to attack an opponent’s weaknesses. However, he couldn’t figure out the Cowboys in the regular season this year and the Bears in the postseason in 2006, so it’ll be interesting to see what happens if New Orleans meets Dallas again next week.


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      NFL

      Bud Selig thinks the steroid era is over

      January 13, 2010 /

      After Mark McGwire came out Monday and admitted to taking steroids during his playing career, baseball commissioner Bud Selig felt the need to recently proclaim that the steroid era is over.

      From the New York Times:

      “The use of steroids and amphetamines amongst today’s players has greatly subsided and is virtually nonexistent, as our testing results have shown,” Selig said in a statement. “The so-called steroid era — a reference that is resented by the many players who played in that era and never touched the substances — is clearly a thing of the past, and Mark’s admission today is another step in the right direction.”

      Selig noted in the statement that in 2009, there were only two positive steroid tests in major league baseball out of 3,722 samples.

      If only two positive tests came out of 3,722 samples, then the testing is a joke or players are finding better ways to mask the performance-enhancing drugs. There’s just no way those figures are correct and Selig should be ashamed of himself for actually believing that.

      Selig wants everyone to move on because he doesn’t want his name to be synonymous with the steroid era. Well, too bad. He decided to turn a blind eye and a deaf ear to the problem over the past two decades and now he must pay for it.

      I think baseball is finally moving in the right direction by having stricter testing in place. But that doesn’t mean I think the steroid era is over and instead of trying to rush the process, Selig should come to grips with the fact that it’s going to take the game a long time to get clean again (if it ever does, that is). He wants everyone to just forget about what happen and move on, but true baseball fans can’t and won’t allow that to happen.

      Guys like Selig and McGwire need to slow down, take a step back and realize the magnitude of what they saying. They need to realize that fans are tired of having the covers pulled over their eyes and don’t want to be patronized with comments like, “the steroid era is over.” Because it’s not.

      MLB

      Was Al Davis right about Lane Kiffin?

      January 13, 2010 /

      Peter Schrager of FOXSports.com points out that maybe Al Davis was right when he called Lane Kiffin out for being a liar.

      Back in October 2007, the media jumped to call Al Davis everything from “crazy” to “senile” when the Raiders owner fired Kiffin under the most bizarre circumstances imaginable. With an overhead projector exhibiting a hand written letter he had penned to Kiffin, Davis referred to his then 32-year-old coach as a “flat-out liar” and said he was guilty of “bringing disgrace to the organization.”

      On June 8, 2009, the Raiders organization issued a statement about Lane Kiffin’s hiring at Tennessee. The statement read: “Lane Kiffin is a flat-out liar. He lied to the team, he lied to the fans, and he lied to the media. He will try to destroy that university like he tried to destroy the Raiders.”

      At the time it was released, the media viewed it as nothing more than sour grapes. In hindsight, Davis was right on the money. Once a weasel, always a weasel.

      Now, the rat will have his cheese (and some wine) in Southern California.

      After he fired Kiffin in ’07, Davis famously noted, “It hurts because I picked the guy. I picked the wrong guy.”

      The University of Tennessee now knows just how Davis felt.

      And if history tells us anything, so — eventually — will USC.

      See, I told you Al Davis wasn’t crazy.

      It is amazing how Lane Kiffin stormed into Knoxville, made all of these brash comments about turning UT into a winner, attacked other SEC coaches, brought in some recruits that would later be arrested for armed robbery and then left the program after only one season. That’s freaking unbelievable.

      College Football

      Blake Griffin to have season-ending surgery

      January 13, 2010 /

      It turns out Blake Griffin’s rookie season was over before it started. Clippers.com announces that Griffin will have season-ending surgery on his knee.

      After experiencing some discomfort during his recently-accelerated rehabilitation program, Clippers’ forward Blake Griffin was examined Tuesday afternoon by Dr. Neal ElAttrache in Los Angeles.

      As a result of that examination, it has been determined that the healing in his left patella area has not improved to the expected required level. Griffin will undergo a surgical procedure in the near future, with a recovery prognosis of four to six months. Team personnel will be made available to the media. Further details will be made available as events develop.

      The Clippers are currently 17-19 and just three games out of the #8 seed in the West, and were hoping that Griffin’s return would be the missing piece to the postseason puzzle. It’s a tough blow for the kid and the franchise.


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