* University of Florida football coach Urban Meyer admitted that he was among the last to know about Rev. Terry Jones of Gainesville and his internationally-reported plans to hold a nearby Koran burning. Any way that happens if All-American evangelical Tim Tebow was still at UF? His absence has had more than on-field implications for the Gators.
* This might be unprecedented: Next year Plant High will be represented by former quarterbacks on three major college football teams. Robert Marve will be a senior at Purdue; Aaron Murray a sophomore at Georgia; and Phillip Ely a freshman at Alabama.
* While the Bucs’ TV blackout has some fans grumbling, it does mean more exposure for Gene Deckerhoff. He’s been the radio voice of the Bucs for more than 20 years. Deckerhoff is well-liked and an enthusiastic chronicler of the action on the field. But while it’s expected that announcers will be homers, which is how fans like it, Deckerhoff overdoes it. Use of the first-person plural–“We fumble!”, “We score!”–is not big league.