NCAA Week 15

That JU team also had Rex Morgan and Pembrook Burrows III, a 7-footer who was a twin tower with Gilmore and went on to be the tallest state police officer in Florida

 

Pembrook Burrows III.
Now that is a great name.

 

Jacksonville is an odd case. Had a chance to make the FCS playoffs once the non-scholarship Pioneer League got an automatic bid, but then they got dinged for ... uh ... giving their players scholarship money, which is against PL rules. They never really recovered from that. The stadium was worse than most middle school stadiums. Really not surprised they dropped the sport.

 

And Vaughn Wedeking, a pretty darn good point guard.

 

And let me guess ... Rex Morgan went to med school.

 

There are a lot of schools that should consider doing this.

 

Presbyterian, a school with like 1,200 students, just dropped from the Big South to the Pioneer. I've spent a decent amount of time around that school, and they simply aren't big enough to support even FCS football. For awhile, they were playing THREE money games a year just to prop the athletic department. They finished above .500 once, I think, and that was with the three body bag games.

Some schools have their thing. Gonzaga and Xavier are all hoops. Stetson has a pretty decent baseball program, though it still tries to dabble in the Pioneer as well. Not everyone needs to be a football school these days.

 

Classic stuff here. Somebody's bitter that the SEC may not get its second team in the tournament.

 

F-bomb got his ass lit up on Twitter over this. Personally, I greatly enjoyed Utah whipping the Tide's ass in the Sugar Bowl, and hope they get in - and win.

 

He's not wrong.

 

"The country" covers a lot of territory, including places like NYC, Boston and LA where interest in the playoff will be close to nil no matter who's in it. If Finebaum had said "the South" he'd have been right.