On his ESPN.com blog, Bruce Feldman has been passing some of the downtime by compiling some of his favorite college t-shirts (Insider Subs.).

I searched for the most clever — and the added bonus of biting humor helped. But some rules applied: it had to be clean enough for me to run here and unique to the school or its rival. There are plenty of witty “seven things you’d never hear a (college x) fan say,” or “a good (logo of our team), bad (logo of one of our rivals) and an ugly (caricature of one of our rivals’ coaches),” but my reasoning was, if it was part of some cottage industry where you could just substitute any school in, it wasn’t making the cut.

His top 3 were: Catholics vs. Convicts, Fat Phil Loves to Squeal and Ron Zook For Frat House President.

He comes back to the topic again today with a couple others while going into his mailbag.

Two others that I was tempted to use for that list: “The Rich Brooks Farewell Tour” (which listed the 2005 Kentucky schedule) and “I can’t Hackett” (created by the Pittsburgh fans in regards to their former coach Paul Hackett, although I think that one probably would’ve been a big seller in Los Angeles a few years back too.)

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Very occasional poster, now just with the random comment to complain about what I write, Lee, still takes great pride in the fact that he was part of the group in Tower C to hang Christmas lights to spell out “Fire Hackett” from their windows.

So I took this screenshot from today’s SI.com NCAA Basketball page. I’ve mentioned the article that is linked to Gray’s picture earlier in the week.

It’s the photo itself that caught my eye. Talk about pulling one from the archive/stock photos. That picture is from the 2004-05 season. Specifically, the February 28, 2005 beating Pitt administered to BC in Chestnut Hill. The sixth straight win over those Eagles and 10 out of 11.

I mention this in part to gleefully recollect that game, including seeing Doug Flutie in the stands seeing his team crushed and humiliated. Also, just because it seemed like a very odd photo to pull.

CollegeHoops.net has a multi-article bit on the Big East recruiting classes for 2006. Top-5, 6-10 and 11-16.

Pitt’s Jamie Dixon is set for the 06-07 ledger as he added a pair of recruits in 6-6, 190-pound Gilbert Brown of South Kent Prep. in Conn. and 6-9 center Austin Wallace from LaSalle Academy in the Bronx. Dixon also adds impact recruit Mike Cook from East Carolina. The Panthers are deep and talented along the front line as both of their recruits will have to work extremely hard for many minutes. Brown is a Top 100 player who could player at a 3-guard or power forward position.

I’m a little surprised they put Pitt’s class way down at #12. Somehow Mick Cronin and Cinci is at #7. It may be that the discussion is as much about the expected impact as it is the recruits themselves. Cinci is leaning heavily on JUCOs considering how late they got in the recruiting situation and how much they lost from the team. Their recruiting class is expected to have an immediate impact. Pitt has a deep team that with the exception of Cook, will make it difficult to get much playing time.

Or I could just be rationalizing.