Saturday Morning Odds & Ends

Just wondering...

1. What if Alabama loses to Auburn today and, gulp, OS-Who beats Oklahoma (shut up!) tonight, and then 'Bama beats Florida next week?!? We guess that would leave us with Texas and USC to fight it out. But would Texas get the nod over Texas Tech, to whom it lost three weeks ago? And what if Texas lost in the Big 12 Championship (to Mizzou)? Then you have Tech playing USC for the trophy -- despite the fact that neither team won its league. Wow. Wow times four.

2. Now that Andy Reid appears safe (stories are now being planted in the Philly papers detailing how this season's mediocrity is the fault of the O-line and receivers, not Fat Andy), the heat will surely be turned up on 76ers coach Mo Cheeks. Fair or not, Elton Brand and his max contract bring expectations with it. And floundering below .500 is not one of them. Ironically, Kyle Korver is the player who can put the 76ers in the upper echelon of the East. But he was jettisoned to make cap room for EB#42. It says here that the 76ers would move over-paid and out of positioned Andre Iguodala straight up for Korver in a milli-second. Of course, cap rules prevent such a move. And since you can't cut stiffs like Igudola and Samuel Dalembert, Cheeks may take the fall.

3. With most assuming Charlie Weis is history, we found an internet rumor about Tampa Bay coach Jon Gruden and the Golden Domers. Chuckie would do three things in South Bend: 1. He would run a hellacious off-season camp that would get one third of the kids to quit (thus freeing up tons of 'ships). 2. He would recruit like a Mo-Fo; and we mean real recruits -- not soft-suburban-white- collar-kids. 3. In four years, ND would be playing for the title.