Blogger dadvocate51, apparently the parent of a football recruit and Tennessee alum, wrote a post comparing his son's experiences at both Tennessee and Notre Dame's recruiting events.

Returning, as directed, to the registration site at UT, completing registration included my son being measured and weighed, having his picture taken with and without his shirt on, plus him running a 40 yard dash and doing the shuttle run. His times were slow as he was stiff and sore from the ND camp which had only finished the day before.

Taking pictures of kids with no shirts, and holding a white board with their height and weight at UT, was too weird for me. At UT’s introductory meeting, they claimed the camp wasn’t a “recruiting camp.” If so, why did they take height, weight, pictures with no shirt (the kids never received a copy of either picture taken of them), and later divide the groups into high school seniors and others? Indeed, the camp appeared to be nothing but a camp to assess potential talent.

I have to agree. That is a little creepy of the Tennessee staff. But Kiffin did learn from the best, did he not?

Arnold "zings" UCLA by making this comment during his commencement speech to USC grads:

My daughter told me all about, for instance, the Victory Bell. She sat me down and she told me it weighs 295 pounds and how the winner of the annual football game between USC and UCLA takes this bell and gets to paint it in the school colors. And I stopped her in the middle of talking, I said, "Wait a minute, Katherine, back up a little bit. UCLA has a football team?" (Applause)

Not much of a zinger actually when you consider that football is probably the only thing, athletic or academic, USC has over UCLA right now, but no doubt the USC folk drank the Kool-Aid. OOooooh Yeahahhh!

Nick Douchel over at BusterSports has written an article saying that if USC is found guilty of losing institutional control after a report claiming that USC basketball coach Tim Floyd gave cash to O.J. Mayo's handler that a USC probation would be bad for the PAC-10.

Because as much as you’d like to see Southern California pay for its alleged transgressions, it would not be good for the Pac-10 to find Trojans football in the dumper.

Simply put, the better USC football is, the better it is for the Pac-10.

When USC is good, the country notices the Pac-10. As much as fans say they like the underdog, what they secretly crave is greatness.

According to Nick Douchel, it would be better for the PAC-10 to have a cheater in its midst which unfairly puts every other team in the league at a disadvantage than play with integrity and follow the rules that everybody else does.

Here's where he really lost any credibility whatsoever.

No team in the Pac-10 carries the level of national clout as USC. When it was good, Washington could do some damage because of its cosmopolitan location, tradition and television market. But the Huskies aren’t anywhere close to appealing these days.

What Douchel doesn't seem to understand is that in college football, things are cyclical. Washington USED to have the caché, the annual top-ten rankings, national championships, etc. Until they cheated, the conference buried them for it and they started losing. It wasn't necessarily the cheating that caused the Huskies to go down, it's that they started losing. In college football, you lose, and that's your reputation. USC has the caché and national awareness now because they almost always win! The nation takes notice when somebody is consistently raping one of "their" teams. If USC is punished appropriately for any proven transgressions and they start to lose, another team will take its place and the nation will begin to notice that team more instead. That's how it works in college ball. To put in writing that it'd be better for a conference to turn the other way while a cheater cheats, that's just douchey.

When last year it was reported that Terrelle Pryor had action figurines of himself made before playing a down of football, I asked myself: "Who could possibly love Terrelle Pryor more than Terrelle Pryor?" The answer is: Andy Staples. Lets call this article on Terrelle Pryor in Ohio State's spring game what it is: Pandering to a large, influential group college football fans.

The sophomore from Jeanette, Pa., stands 6-foot-6 and weighs 235 pounds. He's almost as thick as Florida's Tim Tebow, but faster. Pryor can make the same throws as Oklahoma's Sam Bradford, but remains a threat to run.

No doubt Pryor is a great athlete, but to write pre-season before Pryor has really done anything meaningful in a game that he's basically a hybrid of Tim Tebow and Sam Bradford, except faster? Hold the cheese, please.

With a spring-game record 95,722 watching, Pryor stepped up in the pocket and fired a laser beam over the right sideline and into the teeth of a 24-mph wind. The throw whistled past cornerback Andre Amos' earhole and into the hands of a sprinting Ray Small, who juked two defenders to finish off a 42-yard touchdown connection.

So many exciting adjectives to turn on Ohio State fans! Lets see how such a paragraph could have been written by somebody who doesn't have a crush on Pryor.

With a spring-game record 95,722 watching, Pryor stepped up in the pocket and threw the football over the right sideline into the wind which was caught by Ray Small in stride, who evaded two defenders for a 42-yard touchdown.

The bit about "whistling past Andrew Amos' ear was taken out because, really, if the ball DOESN'T go by a cornerback's head, it's more because either the receiver did something good, or the corner really sucks, than the QB being superman. It's obvious Staples just added it for dramatic effect. So at the end of the day, we have a quarterback making a long touchdown pass in a spring game. Something that quarterbacks all over the country have been doing every spring game since the beginning of college football.

I'm getting to love Lane Kiffin. He gives me a lot of material to use on this site. Somehow he's managed to get himself banned from Pahokee High School in Florida after saying to the media:

"For those of you who haven't been to Pahokee, there ain't much going on. You take that hour drive up from South Florida, there ain't a gas station that works. Nobody's got enough money to even have shoes or a shirt on."

This comes after his quote about South Carolina:

...it's not the first time Kiffin has been accused of trashing a community or even an entire state. South Carolina signee Alshon Jeffery and his coach, Walter Wilson, both said Kiffin told Jeffery during an early-morning phone conversation on signing day that he would be pumping gas for the rest of his life like all the other players from the state of South Carolina if he signed with the Gamecocks.

So the lesson is: If you're a football player from Pahokee, do not play football at South Carolina, or else you'll end up pumping gas at a broken gas station.

Not necessarily football related, but definitely holy-shit-that-was-awesome related. John Stewart's Daily Show heads to Arizona State to see what gives with their decision not to give President Obama an honorary degree from this prestigious institution (Yay for sarcasm!). Keep reading below to check out the video segment!

Some of my personal favorites from the segment:

"I've heard that ASU is like the Harvard of date rape."
"It's definitely the Harvard of . . . scholastics."
"Wouldn't that be Harvard?"

"We're trying to be like the Cambridges, where they don't give out any, uh, honorary degrees. To make them so, uh, y'know, prestigious. They give 'em to, like, important people, heads of state and stuff like that."

Yes, the following is the old man's son, currently a high school freshman in Oklahoma. He looks like he could play in any BCS conference right now. Keep reading to see some of his awesome highlight videos. My money's on Mack Brown offering him a Texas schollie first.

Utah's Attorney General Mark Shurtleff says he still plans to file a lawsuit against the BCS, and that he is hopeful he will receive funding aid from other state as well as the federal government in order to persecute against what is a blatantly obvious unjust college football championship system.

In looking at the actual timing of events, however, you really have to evaluate whether Shurtleff has any ulterior motives.

Why has he waited to file his suit? Could it be that he is still seeking higher political office and needs something that the citizens of Utah will rally behind?

Funds raised at the event will feed Shurtleff's recently formed Political Action Committee, P.A.C. for Utah's Future. "That money is there to further interest in other campaigns and special projects," Shurtleff campaign manager Powers said.

A lesson in how to win friends and influence people in advance of a statewide run. And by win, I really mean buy.

According to PAC-10 associate commissioner for communications and football administration Jim Muldoon, the PAC-10 going away from their current round-robin schedule and having every team play eight conference games every year is on the table as a cost-cutting measure.

Muldoon also said that the major issue for the football coaches was recommending that the conference go away from the round-robin schedule of playing each of the other nine conference teams, which was implemented in 2006, and instead playing just eight conference games. Muldoon said the primary reason for wanting to go back to the eight-game schedule is so it would be easier for more conference teams to get bowl eligible.

I'm all for letting the conferences choose how they want to designate their champion, whether it be by win/loss record or championship game, but I thought PAC-10 teams skipping a conference game every year was stupid in 2006, the last year the conference did that, and it's still stupid now. Primarily because it's unfair. When the conference was still doing things that way, California, UCLA and USC would still play each other every year whereas other teams did not. Reason? I assume logistics, having all the California teams play each other all the times kept costs minimal, but teams that skip a USC or Oregon every year have an advantage over teams that have to skip Washington or Washington State.

I don't know what is worse. Tennessee adding a convicted rapist to its roster, or Oklahoma taking on somebody who put a screwdriver to his girlfriend's neck.

The victim told police [Justin] Chaisson punched her in the ribs and drove her into the desert where he pulled her from the car. She said he then put a screwdriver to her neck and threatened to kill her until two of her friends pulled up on the scene and he forced her into his car again.

His lawyer still insists Chaisson is a good boy who deserves to play for the Sooners.

“This was two young people who were together in a relationship for four years, there were a lot of emotions that went into it,” Cristalli said. “Anybody who remembers their first emotional relationship can understand those types of feelings at 18 years old. She was never placed in a position where Justin was going to hurt her. She was not injured.

Call me Captain Crazy, but if your emotions cause you to punch a girl in the ribs, take a screwdriver to her neck and then threaten to kill her, then you really have some issues that need to be dealt with before you get taxpayers and boosters to pay for your room, board and education for the next three-to-four years. But really, what do I know about second chances and whether they are deserved or not. I still remember Rey Maualuga at USC getting a second chance after stabbing some dude in the chest, only to take advantage of it by punching in some USC guy's face at a party.