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Unbelievable this is actually happening. This is going to be a mess. - Wahoo Tide

Consider that he and Saban coached two games against each other. Both were SEC Championship Games, as well as national semifinal playoff games. In the 2008 game, Saban’s undefeated Alabama team was ranked No. 1, and Meyer’s one-loss Florida team was ranked No. 2. Meyer’s team controlled the fourth quarter to win. In the 2009 rematch, Meyer’s undefeated Florida team was ranked No. 1, and Saban’s undefeated Alabama team was ranked No. 2. Saban’s team controlled the game for four quarters to win. In the last two years, Saban is 25-2, and so is Meyer. Now Florida needs someone who can measure up to Meyer, which means someone who can stand up to Saban. - Wahoo Tide

"Now that Ingram has broken Alabama’s Heisman drought, and Alabama fans have ended their Heisman apathy, it’ll be up to the Alabama team to snap the Heisman jinx. That’s the one that seems to doom the Heisman winner if he happens to play for the national championship." - Wahoo Tide

The loss was Florida’s worst since a 31-3 defeat at Alabama in 2005. - Wahoo Tide

Stat of the game: Florida’s defense had only given up nine touchdowns in 12 games prior to Saturday’s SEC championship game, but gave up four to Alabama in seeing its 22-game winning streak snapped. - Wahoo Tide

"...piling up the most yards ever (490) against an Urban Meyer-coached Florida team and also rushing for the most yards ever (251) against Meyer’s Gators." - Wahoo Tide

"At this point, going to law school is like starting to smoke. It’s expensive, it’s probably going to kill you, and it’s a stupid life decision. But some people just don’t care. At the very least, prospective law students should be forced to study for and take the LSAT outside. Mothers with small children should sneer and hold their nose when they pass these kids on the street." - Wahoo Tide

Sitting at his desk on a recent hectic, game-planning Monday, Saban paused to explain what makes McClain's grasp of defense different from most players. If his defensive playbook were a math text, it would be calculus. McClain knows it like a Tuscaloosa first-grader knows that two plus two equals 3rd-and-6. - Wahoo Tide

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"Playing running back until the ninth grade gave me field vision, and you have to go through three levels when you're playing running back -- the d-line, linebackers and secondary . . . Now it's just one line of defense out there. If I break that, it's a touchdown." Here's hoping my law school alma mater beats the ever-loving stew out of my college alma mater's in-state rival in the first game of the season on Sept. 5th. ROLL TIDE. - Wahoo Tide

I couldn't help but laugh out loud at this headline - Wahoo Tide

I hesitate to even post this as it is the pure definition of scathing sensationalistic sarcasm that I so despise in liberal talking heads such as Keith Olbermamn, but it's so over the top that I had to laugh (and for once, the sarcasm is targetted at the Dems). Please read with a large grain of salt. - Wahoo Tide

"President Obama delivered a major speech yesterday on how he intends to prosecute the war on terror (or whatever it's now called), and in particular his desire to close the detention facilities at Guantanamo Bay. As rhetoric, his remarks were at pains to declare a bold new moral direction. On substance, however, the speech and other events this week look more like a vindication of the past seven years. The President's speech came after both houses of Congress had denied his funding requests to shut down Guantanamo and relocate some of the most dangerous prisoners to the U.S. The 90-6 vote in the Senate was especially notable because all but a half-dozen Democrats opposed their own President, on that high-minded principle known as not-in-my-backyard." - Wahoo Tide

"President Obama revealed Monday that he's half a supply-sider. If only someone could explain to him the other half. We have a tax code, the President said, "that says you should pay lower taxes if you create a job in Bangalore, India, than if you create one in Buffalo, New York." That sounds like a great argument for lowering taxes on the guy creating jobs in Buffalo. Alas, that's not what he has in mind." - Wahoo Tide

"The sweep of the administration's plan took some tax experts by surprise, and foreshadows potential fights with big businesses later this year over some of their most cherished breaks, particularly as Congress looks for revenue to pay for new initiatives." - Wahoo Tide

"On Thursday by 10:30 a.m., trading had been under way for an hour on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Down a stone stairwell, half a dozen traders sat in a dark room, slumped in black office chairs watching a movie. Officially a members' lounge, the "Movie Room" has screened hundreds of DVDs on a TV set during trading hours, traders say. "Rambo," "Star Wars" and "Wall Street" are among the favorites. As the financial markets continue their wildest ride in decades, many once-frantic floor traders find themselves all dressed up in mesh-backed jackets with less work to do. Some say they're flat-out bored." - Wahoo Tide

One of the fathers of "Reganomics" & a pretty good description of what the Republican party once (and still should) aspire to be: "Importantly, however, and unlike many of today's Republicans, Kemp's populism was inclusive. Across his career, he ventured into neighborhoods where Republicans too rarely tread. His policy innovations included enterprise zones, public-housing vouchers and a free-trade pact for all of North America. Also like Reagan, he believed that immigrants made America stronger and more vibrant. His religious faith was strong but never censorious. Kemp's loquacious optimism was contagious, even if he did sometimes get carried away." - Wahoo Tide

"Friday's hearing put the fat back in pork barrel politics. Barton represents a ton of Texas fans in his district, and most of them are royally peeved the Longhorns got left out of the BCS title mix last year. Orrin Hatch, who leads the anti-BCS crusade in the Senate, represents Utah, where the flagship state university enjoyed a 12-0 regular season but had a zero-percent chance of playing for the national title in 2008. Meanwhile, President Barack Obama can spout off about a playoff because he knows it's the lone issue most Republicans will join him to support." - Wahoo Tide

"Thus does our current mess look like the 1970s more than anything. There are some notable differences, of course: House speculation, poorly understood credit derivatives, crazy leverage, bad accounting rules and lax SEC enforcement created today's woes. In the 1970s, it was oil shocks, inflation, tax bracket creep and a growing welfare state. Those differences aside, we seem to have wound up in the same place. We are led by a government that once again (1) distrusts markets, (2) embraces oddly contradictory Keynesian deficit spending for growth and Malthusian limits to growth (except for the government) and (3) is run by a president with a deep regard for his own virtue. Then as now, the U.S. economy will recover. But it is hard to imagine anything stronger than a tepid recovery--occasional bright periods of growth interrupted by numerous mini recessions, oil shocks and so forth. On the whole, this will produce European-style growth of 1% to 2%. If you doubt this, then think of the... - Wahoo Tide

"We'll take pro-growth victories wherever we can find them these days, and last week saw a small one in the U.S. Senate, of all places. The Members voted 51-48 to cut permanently the death tax rate to 35% and exempt all estates of less than $10 million per couple ($5 million for a single taxpayer) from any tax. President Obama wants a 45% rate with only a $7 million exemption. Every Republican voted for the lower rate, and so did 10 Democrats. This is the closest thing to bipartisanship we've seen so far this year on Capitol Hill, but naturally the White House and most of the media are appalled. Their idea of bipartisanship is when three Republicans cross party lines to pass $780 billion in "stimulus" spending." - Wahoo Tide

I might have to try some of the offerings from El Verano Taquería or Blue Smoke BBQ tonight at the Mets-Red Sox Exhibition game (assuming the rain ever stops) - Wahoo Tide

"Rick Bragg, the Pulitzer Prize winning writer, now teaches at the University of Alabama. He coined what I believe is the single best description of SEC football I’ve ever heard when he said that every conference game is “like a knife fight in a ditch.” He meant it affectionately." - Wahoo Tide

Money quote: "In its most basic form, it's about as silly an idea as can be imagined that America in the aggregate can increase the standards of living of future generations by taxing individual Americans for passing on higher standards of living to future generations of Americans of their choice." - Wahoo Tide

A little High School Pride - Wahoo Tide

"stocks have become steadily more important in the real economic condition of average Americans. The spread of 401(k)s and individual retirement accounts means market conditions penetrate tens of millions more homes now, which is one of the most significant changes in the structure of the economy in the past generation" - Wahoo Tide

"But, when the first major political battle of his administration came, the President tossed "change the tone" out the window. Sure, he was willing to ply his Republican opponents with some cocktails at the White House - but when that didn't do the trick, he resorted to attacking a straw man, falsely implying that his opponents preferred to do nothing at all. Now, we have come to the second major political battle of his administration, and - whaddaya know! - his team is attacking a straw man once again. This time, they are doing so by pushing the patently absurd claim that Rush Limbaugh is the leader of the Republican Party." - Wahoo Tide

"The wealth of those experiences may have far more to do with Kennedy's sober and deliberative approach upon taking office than the politics of the moment, just as Obama's background and experience may help explain why he appears to be in such a rush to push through an expansive, transformational agenda" - Wahoo Tide

Every new President has a finite stock of capital -- financial and political -- to deploy, and amid recession Mr. Obama has more than most. But one negative revelation has been the way he has chosen to spend his scarce resources on income transfers rather than growth promotion. Most of his "stimulus" spending was devoted to social programs, rather than public works, and nearly all of the tax cuts were devoted to income maintenance rather than to improving incentives to work or invest - Wahoo Tide

My undergrad business program, after years at #2 behind UPenn's Wharton, is now ranked as the #1 undergraduate business program in the country! Wahoo-wa! - Wahoo Tide

Tonight we'll get another measure of the president's ideas about the way forward, when he travels to Capitol Hill to deliver a prime-time address to Congress. Most of this address will focus on the economy. And one good gauge of its prospects for success will be how he treats a group of Americans who have been largely absent from the president's most important economic statements and speeches: our entrepreneurs and small business owners - Wahoo Tide