Feed Your Mascot

Blu and Geoff discuss extreme weather tips, the difference between watches and warnings, space weather, Coastal Carolina's free concession plan, stats (or the lack thereof) on doping in college football, and speculate on the causes of such.

Sources

• https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/8765531/steroids-loom-major-college-football-report-says
• https://ncaaorg.s3.amazonaws.com/ssi/substance/SSI_DrugTestingManual.pd...

Blu and Geoff continue their offseason shenanigans with a discussion of journalistic corrections, a correction, the Ship of Theseus, the USS Enterprise (real), the Starship Enterprise, Kent State's Kenni Burns administrative leave, Stanford's firing of Troy Taylor, a lot about Andrew Luck, the oldest mascots, and talking about both weather and climate.

Sources

• https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/44319805/...

Blu and Geoff enter fine offseason form with a guest appearance from our favorite sports law professor to discuss an anti-climatic legal action from the state of West Virginia, efforts to revive the IU Bison mascot, the history of the Bison, and a very long sidetrack into Greek mythology, including asking if the Minotaur can block, Geoff forgetting Polyphemus has a name, building a defensive line out of mythological figures, and ma...

Blu and Geoff start with a whopping 45 minute cold open on schools having men's and women's basketball success at the same time, and then do a bit of March Madness themed discussion of an ideal tournament format (spoiler: if you are a selection committee, some things you here may be disturbing).

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Blu and Geoff continue the offseason with a discussion of plans of studies, flowcharts, what exactly is modern physics, , Geoff roasting a pork butt (check the 'gram), the history of stadiums, owning the rights to your own pictures, public transit, the ACC settlement, and Eddie George

Slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1-tWagymi6H4nrfVkoVyEdbP47Ib0w5g089BdiGpsqTA/edit?usp=sharing

Sources

• https://core.ac...

Blu and Geoff discuss the R1 status of Howard, Geoff explaining his shirt, hating a terrible person, foods named after athletes, a candy bar and a Yankees player, and our favorite favorite topic, Hawkeye.

• Sources

• https://www.tastingtable.com/1197586/the-1920s-dispute-between-mlb-legend-babe-ruth-and-baby-ruth-candy/

• https://purduesports.com/news/2013/6/25/_The_Boudia_Sandwich_Debuts_at_Triple_XXX_Restaurant

Geoff is joined by Tanner Haworth, editor-in-chief of the University of Hawaii's student paper, the Ka Leo, to discuss the culture of sports on the islands, and UH sports.

Find Tanner at https://x.com/TannerHaworth and his work at https://www.manoanow.org/kaleo/ and https://www.espnhonolulu.com/

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Geoff takes some time this week to sit down with legendary surfer and waterman Tom "Pohaku" Stone to discuss the history, culture, and experience of two ancient and native Hawaiian sports: surfing and holua sledding.

Then, a quick discussion of Geoff's experience trying surfing, and his experience at a Rainbow Wahine basketball game.

Find Tom on Instagram @pohatu or at his website https://www.hawaiibc.com/

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Blu and Geoff discuss injury recovery strategy, statistics on football injuries, Soldier Field, way too much about the Bear's stadium situation, who we would pick for our science fiction football teams, and weird 80s comic gambits

Blu and Geoff open by discussing the namings of certain schools, then move to the 2025 National Championship Game, and then discuss the wacky and wild story of the pre-AP national titles, from newspapers to alumni clubs to economics professors to historians.

Blu and Geoff are starting the offseason(ish) strong with a discussion of car buying and climate change, and then go headlong into the history of footballs, yes the literal balls. Be prepared to learn about Nobel Prize winning physics, the baseball strike zone, Hawkeye, the 2019-2020 Premier League season, and also the evolution of the game of football along the way. And just for dessert, some debate about trophies.

Geoff and our good friends Jordan and Beth of the Sickos Committee explore the long, loud, and painful history of marching percussion. Hitting on such topics as the Ottoman Empire, the terrifying horses, communication, John Philips Sousa, things that cause back pain, the limits of wood as a load baring material, drum tuning, trying to support tubas, more things that cause back pain, even more things that cause back pain, and the th...

Starting with Geoff's dubious mixology choices in the name of charity, Geoff and Blu dig into the bowl games from Orlando to Charlotte to Detroit to the Granddaddy of Them All. And do some overall analysis of the bowl season.

From geographic proximity, Blu and Geoff discuss how everyone is feeling about the CFP format, the FCS and FBS playoff games, a frisky Frisco Bowl, new bowl winners in the New Orleans Bowl, a curious Cure Bowl, and two very important (to us) FCS coaching hires.

Blu and Geoff are joined by our two favorite sports law experts in the Mountain and Pacific Time Zones to discuss the lawsuits gripping the Mountain West Conference and its leavers, why AND statements mean AND, why its really important how you write exit procedures, how breach of contract penalties are limited, and also Diego Pavia winning a lawsuit. Billable hours, as always, are undefeated.

Blu and Geoff are joined by Friend of the Pod Shea to discuss rivalries, tent pole games, Shea's rating system, rating system rational and methodology, the Pareto principal and its application to college football, conference realignment, the Army-Navy game, singing second, the Celebration Bowl, and more inequality in the FCS.

Blu and Geoff discuss what is fair about conference title games, and then get into the meat of what happened on Saturday, from the SWAC, to the Big Ten, to the Big 12, to the MAC, and beyond, as well as some very special events in the FCS playoffs. We do some scouting for NFL teams, ask some coaching hiring questions, discuss breaking news, not know about other breaking news, and provide some some broader perspective about sports.

It's rivalry week and we are reviewing the entire concept of rivalry, do some Tidewater geography, and discuss games that went to the wire and avoid one very particular game that did not.