Okay, you knew I had to comment on the new fashion in College Football. The "Coach in Waiting." I have only one comment. And it is this: Please! Look at it this way. Let's says next year, or over the next two years, the Texas defense gives up big points. And let's says they continue to lose to Oklahoma, and the Sooner score BIG each and every Red River Shootout. Do you think that old former UGA walk-on Will Muschamp will still be the coach in waiting? The answer is no. College football may think they're fooling someone, but it ain't me. Texas AD James Vilade will morph into Dave Housel and Muschamp will be out of Austin as fast as you can say Bobby Petrino.

And while we're at it, what in the world has Joker Phillips done to earn "coach in waiting" status at Kentucky.

All this bunk was brought to the limelight by that living monument to great football owners everywhere: Jerry Jones. Jason Garrett is the Dallas Cowboys coach in waiting. And after Wade Phillips is fired at the end of this season, Garrett will take his place and the King Almighty of Coaches In Waiting. Good luck, there, Jason. If you're lucky, Jones will bring in Odell Thurman and then DeAngelo Hall to go with the likes of Pacman and T.O. Great bunch of guys.

So during all this talk of Joker this and Jimbo that and now Muschamp this AND that, a though has occured to me. We ALL are coaches in waiting. The only difference between us and the current crop is a vast lack of experience and the fact that we have not been lied to by overzealous AD's. Oh, and also the fact that when Texas defense crumbles and Kentucky can no longer score points, that our record will still be unblemised.

Hello from Athens, Georgia! I thought I would take a few minutes to let you nutty football fans know that life in the UGA Athletic Department is going just fine. Oh, I was like you at one time. If the football team lost to that nothing-happening-self absorbed-worst school and fan base of all time-Florida, then I was pretty bummed out too. But then I started to pay attention to the other sports on campus. The soccer team upsets Florida, goes to its second straight SEC Championship game and is edged out by Tennessee. They then advance to the NCAA Tournament. The volleyball is having a fine year with a recent upset of the Gators, then is making strides in the SEC and has one of the talented and youngest teams in the conference. Both the men's and women's swimming and diving team are ranked in the top 10 in the nation, and their head coach, Jack Bauerle, is one of the finest ever. He was also the coach of the U.S. Olympic Women's Swim Team in Beijing. The golf teams are ranked in the top ten, and now that a successful fall season is behind them, they are looking ahead to the spring. The baseball team just finished second in the college world series and had one of the best recruiting classes in the nation. Look for great things from the Diamond Dogs. The equestrian team is defending national champion. Coach Manuel Diaz and the men's tennis team are two time defending national champs. Coach Jeff Wallace and the women's tennis team are coming off another SEC Championship season and another year of being one of the top programs in the nation. The softball team is coming off a 46 win season and a berth in the NCAA Super Regionals. In track and field, Coach Wayne Norton continues to mold some of the top athletes in the world. Distance runner Natalie Picchetti was SEC Co-Scholar Athlete of the Year. The Men's Basketball team is young and talented and coming off an amazing run in winning the SEC Tournament and going to the NCAA's. Andy Landers just secured one of the top five recruiting classes in all of women's basketball, and has, year after year, one of the top programs in the nation. And the UGA gymnastics team under Coach Suzanne Yoculan is going for another national championship, and if successful that would be FIVE titles in a row and 10 overall! So...here's the cold, hard fact. This is not only a great school, but it has one of the top athletic programs in the entire nation. The next time the football team gives up more points than you would like as they make their way to yet another 10+ win season and another top level bowl game, just remember this is the UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA! The greatest student-athletes in the nation go here.

Two seasons ago, I stood in the endzone at Commonwealth Stadium and watched as a large number of otherwise basketball fans tore down the goalposts after Kentucky got an Andy Bailey induced 24-20 win over the Georgia Bulldogs.

It's a scene I will nary forget, and one I hope Dawgs fans don't either. However, since that time it should be pointed out this football team has been on a roll.

It was November 4, 2006, and it was one of the low points in Mark Richt's stellar tenure at the helm. Matt Stafford's face was bruised and bloodied. The scene in the post game press conference was surreal. I remember leaving Lexington that weekend thinking: "Boy, are we in trouble."

How wrong I was.

The Dawgs upset Auburn on the road the following week. Dumped Tech on Thanksgiving weekend and then had a rousing comeback at the Georgia Dome over Virginia Tech to win the Chick-Fil-A-Please-Call-It-The-Peach-Bowl.

2007 brought wins over Florida (DAMN STRAIGHT, BABY!), Alabama, Auburn and Kentucky, a birth in the Sugar Bowl against Hawaii and a season ending number two ranking.

This season the team stumbled only once before the Disaster In Jacksonville. Now with the lopsided loss to the jerks from Gainesville, many are saying the program is down again.

To this I point again to November 4, 2006. Just when we think the Dawgs were knocked to the mat, they seem to somehow get up off the deck.

I have a feeling that even though the SEC Championship game has passed us by, that we are going to see quite a response from the Red and Black beginning this Saturday.

It's what well coached teams do. And if you don't agree with that statement, then I suggest you spend your time on another website.