If you follow football recruiting, you may have seen that in the last month, there have been a number of highly recruited players who have de-committed from earlier choices and opted to play for UNC instead. Most of these were from Clemson, whose program seemed to be in the tank just a few weeks ago. However, one major recruit who had picked the University of South Carolina has recently made news because Steve Spurrier has made a special effort to win him back, even by claiming that USC is a better academic institution than UNC.

Sorry Steve, I'm sure there are many fine graduates of your school, and a college is only what you make of it, but I'll keep my UNC degree, thank you very much.

Here's a humorous take on the story that includes a few relevant numbers.

In other sports news, I learned today that many, many members of my family will be making the trip to Charlotte for the UNC's bowl game, but not us, who will still be in CO at the time. But I have big plans to drag Brooklynne and Ben out to some Colorado Springs watering hole to watch from afar, so I'll be there in spirit.