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Houston Nutt is a certifiably dirty coach According
to SIs Stewart Mandel Houston Nutt: The Ole Miss coach recently accepted
troubled Oregon QB Jeremiah Masoli as a transfer, and while they're doing the
Rebel Yell in Oxford, this acquisition will almost certainly blow up in Nutt's
face. The former Arkansas coach – who hired high school Gus Malzahn in Dec. 2005
as an assistant coach just to get his elite players – seems to be desperate to
win after last year's disappointing season. Maybe Nutt felt he was on the hot
seat, and had to play dirty to finish above .500 and get to a quality bowl game
Apparently the terminally insecure coach doesn't feel he can afford a rebuilding
year despite averaging nine wins over his past four seasons. [SI] Theres Some
Early Disagreement About Where Landry Jones Will Be Taken in the 2012 NFL Draft
Mel Kiper released his big board back in May for the 2012 NFL draft. Yes, youth soccer
cleats it was 11 months away but that's what Mel Kiper does. If you are
without ESPN Insider, Kiper had Oklahoma QB Landry Jones 10th overall, and
Nebraska's hulking defensive tackle Jared Crick 22nd. Jones put up beastly
numbers in 2010 (4,718 yards, 38 TDs) and at 6-foot-4, 230 pounds, he certainly
looks the part of an NFL QB. Crick had nine sacks as a sophomore (when he teamed
with that Suh fellow) and then 9.5 last year. (Since you probably care,

I had both players in my Top 5 in my
way-too-early-but-why-the-hell-not 2012 Mock draft.)A guy by the name of Tony
Pauline who covers the draft for Sports Illustrated, had this to say about
Jones.Tough, intelligent signal caller that does a great job commanding and mercurial soccer
cleats controlling the offense. Always on the same page as his
receivers, displays great timing and competitive. Lacks great physical skills
and a pocket passer that does not possess classic size or arm strength.Pauline
gave Jones a 4th round grade. (He equally savaged two other Oklahoma players, WR
Ryan Broyles and LB Travis Lewis, giving them 3rd and 5th round grades,
respectively. In a cursory internet search, those are by far the lowest rankings
for either player). I know what you're thinking – Pauline is low-balling all
these guys now, and then rocket them up the chart as they dominate for No. 1
Oklahoma. Except that all three are experienced players and NFL pundits are very
familiar with their games. I can't imagine any of these projections being
accurate, but that's why I'm doing this post – so that we can revisit it closer
to the 2012 draft. But I'd love to see what QBs Pauline has ahead of Jones right
now.Pauline wasn't as critical of Crick, but it was a surprising to see him give
the All-American a 2nd round grade:Explosive, competitive defensive tackle that
plays with good mechanics, quickness and intensity. Not overpowering and does
not make enough plays

on the ball. Potential three technique
lineman.Obviously, there's plenty of time before the 2012 draft (about eight
months, to be exact). And as we saw with Blaine Gabbert, people do come out of
nowhere. But Pauline seems to be going out on a short branch here with these
crazy predictions. He'll either look sage or play the, well, those guys were
really great this season and played much better than anticipated card. Week 10
Adjusted Standings and Offensive TeamStats Some things will never changeThey
stand there looking backwardsHalf unconscious from the painThey may Nike Mercurial Talaria seem rearrangedIn the backwater
swirling, there isSomething that'll never changeThanks to the Meat PuppetsThis
week, as in all I can remember doing this for during 2010, the Los Angeles
Galaxy are #1. At the beginning of the year most people had four teams that
could compete for a major trophy. One of those seems to be nearly eliminated
(hey, that's our guys), but the Galaxy, Crew and Real Salt Lake are still
dominant.TeamPointsPlayedPPMGDLos Angeles29112.6416Columbus2092.226Salt
Lake19101.9010San Jose1691.783Colorado1691.783Toronto16101.601New
York15101.50-4Houston16111.453Dallas12101.200Chicago1091.11-1Seattle12111.09-5New
England11111.00-4Chivas USA10110.91-4Kansas
City890.89-4Philadelphia780.88-7DC6100.60-13I'll be submitting my rankings this
week and honestly I don't know how many teams to rank as awful now. Seattle's
next two matches are against teams that are supposed to be worse than they are,
but New England is on a little run after getting Sharlie Joseph back with the
team.Sagarin does have Seattle 9th overall with the third toughest schedule.Team
Offensive Data after the break The most notable thing I

discovered about the Sounders is not that they are
second to last in Goals For per Match, but that they are currently so poor
offensively that the following teams score more in a half than the Sounders do
in a Full 90. Seattle score 0.82 Goals Per Game.RSL scores 1.20 in the First
Half of their games.LAG score 1.09 in First HalfTFC score 1.10 in Second HalfSJE
score 1.00 in Second HalfRSL score 0.90 in Second HalfChF score 0.89 in Second
HalfSourceThat's not pretty. And it gets less pretty.While yes the Sounders take
a ton of shots, and they win a ton of corners, they are the worst team in the
league in putting the ball on target, andthey are 5th in the league in % of
Goals to Shots. For this I have subtracted out Penaty Kick Goals, as a teams
offense has little control over those being awarded.TeamGoalsAssistsA:G
RatioShotsSoGOnTarget%Goals % SOGG % ShotsSalt
Lake21190.901084743.5%44.7%19.4%Los
Angeles18231.281274938.6%36.7%14.2%Houston14201.431084037.0%35.0%13.0%Chivas13131.001264535.7%28.9%10.3%New
England13110.851205142.5%25.5%10.8%Toronto1290.75763748.7%32.4%15.8%Columbus1280.671094036.7%30.0%11.0%Chicago11161.451004646.0%23.9%11.0%Philadelphia10111.10784051.3%25.0%12.8%SEATTLE9121.331213730.6%24.3%7.4%New
York991.001074037.4%22.5%8.4%San
Jose8151.881044644.2%17.4%7.7%Dallas8101.251335239.1%15.4%6.0%Kansas
City870.881085651.9%14.3%7.4%Colorado720.29974041.2%17.5%7.2%DC630.501084238.9%14.3%5.6%TOTALS1791881.05173070840.9%25.3%10.3%The
fact is should we really expect the team that is worst in the league at putting
shots on target to be good at scoring goals Probably not.Maybe less time at
practice trying to hit targets in the corner and just trying to hit the center
of the net and get the late runners opportunities for clean-upI don't think the
answer is more long distance shots. This would be like having a bad at passing
NFL team try to get better at passing by

running Hail Marys.