Bash and Bush

The things you don't find out until it's too late ...

From the favorite local sports memories of a San Diego-area blogger (link):

In football, Helix outscoring Ramona in a playoff game with future Heisman Trophy winner Reggie Bush and Dartmouth's Jason Bash trading long touchdown runs.

With the record he has compiled over the past decade or so Colgate coach Dick Biddle's name has surfaced periodically with regard to other jobs. Recognizing a good thing when it has one, Colgate has signed its coach to a three-year extension. From the Observer-Dispatch:

Biddle, 62, is a four-time Patriot League Coach of the Year and was the Division I-AA National Coach of the Year in 2003, when the Raiders went 15-1 and reached the NCAA Division I-AA final. The Raiders have won six league titles and played in six NCAA playoffs during his tenure, and the last 10 years they are 67-18 against Patriot League teams and 34-8 against Ivy League opponents. This year’s team finished 9-2 and ranked 21st in The Sports Network Poll and 20th in the Football Championship Subdivision Coaches poll.

While others put their efforts into the West Coast offense, the spread or whatever attack is the lates and the greatest, here's Biddle's time-tested philosophy in his own words:

“The basic concept has not changed about what we think you need to do to win, and our players have bought into it. You’ve got to run the ball and stop the run, and avoid losing the game and try to win the game in the fourth quarter."

Today's obligatory non-football note, with a nod toward another blogger equally amazed at the numbers: Penn may have won the Ivy League football title, but it's hardly a banner year on the hardwood in West Philly. Hard as it is to believe, the once-mighty Quakers are 0-8 in men's basketball (and headed for 0-9 with a game tomorrow at Duke) while the Penn women are 0-9. That's a combined 0-17.

Got down to 4.5 below zero last night. Winter has arrived.