Babers with LOL Presser

Coach Babers delivered some presser magic last week, full of his assortment of colorful and arcane references to make his point.

To wit:  he said BG played conservatively with their emotion on defense against Tennessee and that when Trent Greene blew up the FB and then blew up the TB on that play down by the goal line, he described it as reckless driving.  "That's not having your hands at 10 and 2, that's one hand on the wheel and you're rockin' and rollin'."

He says Matt Johnson is making very fast progress but the still makes mistakes.  "We're still allowed to coach him.  He isn't Peyton Manning."

He said that Memphis is bigger and faster than BG.  They won 10 games last year and beat BYU in a bowl game.

When asked about the 4th down calls, he said that when you go to Las Vegas and you see all those giant casinos, that's because they usually win...and point spreads are usually the same way.  When BG is an underdog, we have to do something to change the odds.

He says BG will be an underdog for the third straight week.  (Currently +3).

He made some kind of reference to using a bunch of weird formations on extra points to putting stuff on film to confuse our conference opponents.

They asked him if he had special teams concerns.

The answer:  Yes.

He said we need gunnars and we need the punter to get it higher and not so long.  He said our kickoff guy has to do better on specialty kickoffs.  As for Tate:  "He's allowed to have a bad day."

Anyway, that's the Babers presser news...there were several laugh out loud moments.  He is a funny man who draws truly fascinating examples.