I don\u2019t always think about football in May. But when I do, I drink Dr. Brown\u2019s Diet Cream Soda. <\/p>\n
Stay thirsty, my friends.<\/p>\n
So, yeah, it\u2019s drizzly, as it is most every Memorial Day weekend it seems. Didn\u2019t there used to be a Reggae Fest at the Water Tower that would get rained upon more often than not.<\/p>\n
So, an old man turns his back on hoops, for a second anyway, and contemplates the upcoming pigskin campaign.<\/p>\n
Which is just 100 days away, give or take a few moon circumnavigations.<\/p>\n
Thinking about the Cards first and foremost.<\/p>\n
Jeff Brohm\u2019s got a new contract.<\/p>\n
We\u2019ll see if he can get the Cards into the Dandy Dozen Playoff?<\/p>\n
With that sized paycheck, oughta be able to every once in awhile.<\/p>\n
Speaking of the playoff, the Big Ten guy wants 24.<\/p>\n
Certainly would give wannabe schools like U of L a better shot.<\/p>\n
Still, I\u2019m nonplussed at the prospect of such expansion.<\/p>\n
Saw some algorithmic hypothetical of how many teams around the land would have made a 24 team playdown in the last dozen years.<\/p>\n
The data spit out a total of three seasons the Cards would have qualified.<\/p>\n
Insert quizzical question mark face emoji here.<\/p>\n
Anyhow, Brohm\u2019s a QB Whisperer, right?<\/p>\n
I was frankly surprised at this year\u2019s TP grab.<\/p>\n
Lincoln Kienholz. Late of Ohio State. Where he was 11\/14 in 7 mop up appearances last campaign. B10 All Academic.<\/p>\n
Uh, OK. Less than an upper echelon resum\u00e9.<\/p>\n
He\u2019s got those Everybody Loves A Football Hero handsome looks. Which is nice, will look good in law firm ads on billboards.<\/p>\n
To say that JB\u2019s post spring game assessment of erstwhile QB numero uno\u2019s performance was underwhelming would be understatement.<\/p>\n
After stating \u201cIt\u2019s important we improve the quarterback room,\u201d Brohm parried his answer, prevaricating that Kienholz was \u201cnot given a lot of opportunities.\u201d Whatever that means.<\/p>\n
His take wasn\u2019t even in the same thesaurus as \u201cWe\u2019ve got our guy.\u201d<\/p>\n
Coach was more complimentary, if not effusive, about Davin Wydner, late of West Georgia — \u201cBig. Strong. Can throw vertically\u201d — and freshman Briggs Cherry, \u201cYoung. Strong arm. Poise in pocket.\u201d<\/p>\n
One local scribe who pays way more attention to Louisville pigskin than me — ya know, practice, interview sessions, actually attending spring game — used the word \u201ccemented\u201d when indicating Kienholz as top gun.<\/p>\n
I still go back to the comments of the Cardinals\u2019 octo-million dollar mentor. Sounded more like Kienholz needed watch out for quicksand.<\/p>\n
We\u2019ll see. Gonna be interesting.<\/p>\n
Which is to not even address the OL situation, which has been dicey for a long time here.<\/p>\n
Why is Curt Cignetti soooooooooooo good at coaching football?<\/p>\n
At the recent Big Ten meetings, he abided a couple of obligatory interviews then cut out a side door to catch a flight back to Bloomington.<\/p>\n
IU AD Scott Dotson on Cignetti, who appears to be the best college football coaching hire since Nick Saban signed up in Tuscaloosa:<\/p>\n
\u201dHe does not waste any time. I went into his office last July on a Sunday, and he\u2019s watching red-zone plays, like 900 of them, categorizing them on a Sunday in July, when nobody\u2019s around, and that\u2019s because he loves it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Teddy B — my favorite Cardinal QB ever — does it again.<\/p>\n
He infamously got suspended for a whole season after winning a state title as coach at his HS alma mater.<\/p>\n
For having the audacity and caring enough to buy food for some truly underprivileged players on his squad.<\/p>\n
Now the Teddy Bridgewater Act makes such action legal.<\/p>\n
So, peering across the entire landscape, what else will this pigskin pundit be paying attention to?<\/p>\n
Whether Brendan Sorsby, admitted compulsive gambler who wagered on his own school, will somehow finagle his way onto Texas Tech\u2019s gridiron? Or, if he\u2019ll learn what I assume he was taught in treatment for addictive behavior, even though you get it under control, there are consequences for your actions, some dire. Meaning supplemental NFL draft.<\/p>\n
LSU at Ole Miss. September 19. Welcome baaaaaaack, Laaaaaaaaaaane!<\/p>\n
Who gets canned first, Wisconsin\u2019s Luke Fickell or Florida State\u2019s Mike Norvell?<\/p>\n
Whether the Cards can make it to the CFP for the first time?<\/p>\n
An Ed Orgeron interview. The former HC in Baton Rouge is back as an assistant. When he was hired as head guy, one diehard from the bayou said, \u201cFinally we have a coach who talks like us.\u201d<\/p>\n
How well favorite son Will Stein does in his first year at UK?<\/p>\n
I mean it\u2019s Memorial Day weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I don\u2019t always think about football in May. But when I do, I drink Dr. Brown\u2019s Diet Cream…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":663712,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[399,398,396,397,99],"class_list":["post-663711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-football","tag-football","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-football","tag-ncaafootball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=663711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/663712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}