He had time for that

Usually the man above doesn't have time for this shit. But since it is the off season for his football squad he made an exception. After Alabama's basketball team got slapped by Arkansas, Nick Saban stopped by and gave them a pep talk:

Fulfill your role and play with pride.

Well, list the Jedi Mind Trick as an additional Saban skill because the next day they go out and beat Georgia.

"For the head football coach to come talk to us, that's just motivation," freshman forward JaMychal Green said. "He's a good speaker."

Yeah. Real good. He should sell that.

Your Wednesday Moment of Zen

March To Madness presents... Stanford!


(HT: Rush the Court)

So it goes

Had a conversation with an Aztec fan here at work. He kept on talking about 20 wins and how we look to be poised to get 20 wins and if we get 20 wins we'll get into the NCAA Tournament blah blah blah...

First, we don't necessarily subscribe to the 20 wins philosophy. There has been many teams left out with 20 or more wins. Second, who cares when you can't play consistent good ball? There is a part of us that almost doesn't want SDSU to be in March Madness just because they'll get beat up. Look, here is San Diego State in a nutshell: Can't win games against talented teams outside our conference (Arizona, Arizona State, St. Mary's), we lose the games we have no business losing (Wyoming). We can totally beat up on top talent within our conference (BYU, Utah, UNLV) but that is not good enough, damnit.

As long as those issues remain, we will forever be NIT bound.

(HT: MGoBlog for the pic)

Trust Rick Pitino

Is UConn really the best team in America? Well, lets ask the guy who just got his ass kicked by them.

"They're very truly the No. 1 team in the country," said Louisville coach Rick Pitino. "We weren't in their league tonight."

Thanks, Rick. We'll keep that in mind when the new blogpoll starts up next week.

Let's go to the tape

We last talked about Ole Miss coach Andy Kennedy when he got his ass arrested for attacking a poor migrant cabbie. Now we have tape of the incident. Kennedy can be heard begging the cops not to take him to jail. Stay classy, Andy (HT: FanHouse).

Next up, our favorite category: FnDC!

The leading scorer on the University of Charleston men's basketball team is facing a misdemeanor battery charge following an incident with a West Virginia State player outside a Charleston nightclub.

In a criminal complaint filed Thursday in Kanawha County Magistrate Court, Charleston police said UC senior Anthony Anderson punched West Virginia State senior Wade Pidock in the face during an argument around 2 a.m. on Jan. 4 outside the Boom Boom Room, a bar on Capitol Street.

How appropriate is the name of the bar and what happened outside? We love unintentional comedy. And we wonder if West Virginia State and University of Charleston are bitter rivals. If they weren't, they are now.

Following in daddy's footsteps

Introducing Profiles in Coaching with Texas Tech's Pat Knight -

Papa Knight would be proud.

We got a winnar!

Super Bowl is now over and this is the best commercial we saw...

Yup, that's us on Mondays...