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Remember when the Tennessee Volunteers football squad did a shirtless photo shoot around an orange Lamborghini? And we all had a pleasant chuckle at the silliness & slightly homoerotic quality of it all? Well, the Duke Blue Devils are not to be outdone in such shirtless-posing matters:
Ladies & gentlemen - presenting your 2009 Iron Dukes motivational poster!
It’s not surprising that College GameDay will be making its third straight appearance in SEC country this weekend. But Nashville? I thought UT was in Knoxville. Oh, Vanderbilt? They have a team? That’s right, sports fans, Lee Corso will be embarrassing himself at Vandy this Saturday as the 4-0 ‘Dores prepare to face off with Auburn.
It’s a nod to the stunning new college football landscape, where Vandy, Duke, and Northwestern are a combined 12-1 (with the only loss being by Duke to Northwestern). Vanderbilt hasn’t had a winning season since 1982. Northwestern hasn’t been 5-0 since 1962. Prior to this past Saturday, Duke hadn’t won an ACC game since Millard Fillmore was president. It’s insanity.
Ridiculous video after the jump.
Despite sharing a name, I have no affiliation with the Duke football team. And thank God: they suck on toast. To the point that ATHLISTS decided to use them as their “model” program when breaking down the steps to take in order to build The Worst Football Program in America. (And no, Notre Dame haters, “have failed gastric bypass surgery, then sue” was not one of the options.)
It’s almost more difficult to be as inept as Duke has been than it is to be as dominant as a USC, LSU or Oklahoma. Consider this: the Blue Devils have won two games in the past three seasons, and have gone 13 straight seasons with a losing record. Since the last Duke winning season in 1994, perennial doormats like Oregon St. and Kansas have not only played in but won BCS bowl games. Hell, Washington State has gone to two Rose Bowls, and they are so far out in the boonies that they might actually be in Canada.
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Duke Blue Devils football coach David Cutcliffe is a man that’s not afraid of a challenge. How else do you explain his willingness to take over a team that has only had three winning seasons in the last 25 years?
As coaches tend to do, Cutcliffe is focused on changing the culture of the program. The players have been put through a new training program, and introduced to the Cutcliffe family code through a story about the coach’s father. Read more…
MICHIGAN GRABS A MOUNTAINEERS COACH FOR 2ND TIME: Morgantown is turning into Ann Arbor’s farm team.
In their search for a head coach, Michigan has yet again pilfered West Virginia. On Sunday, The Wolverines hired Rich Rodriguez away from the Mountaineers, ending a month-long quest that saw LSU’s Les Miles and Rutgers’ Greg Schiano say no to the Maize & Blue.
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As the CHARLESTON (WV) DAILY MAIL points out, it’s the second time this year the Big Ten power has borrowed brains from the Big East school. Last April, Michigan lured away Mountaineers men’s basketball coach John Beilein to prowl along the Crisler Arena courtside.Unlike a recent head coach who sneaked out on his team, Rodriguez met with his players in person before Sunday’s practice to inform them of his decision. As cornerback Vaughn Rivers noted, “Coach Rod was a man about it.”
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On a side note, for those Wolverines fans looking toward the future, the domain fireRichRodriguez.com is still available for only $250.• In other employment news, Duke’s online ad seems to have worked, as Tennessee offensive coordinator David Cutcliffe agreed to take over the Blue Devils:
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Meanwhile, Northern Illinois made a Kill-ing by hiring away Southern Illinois’ Jerry KillSteve Fairchild to handle the Huskies, Colorado State charged Buffalo Bills OC with turning around the Rams, and Houston snagged Sooners assistant Kevin Sumlin to lead the Cougars.The new hirings mean that only West Virginia, UCLA and SMU are left searching the want ads.
