Alabama smothered LSU in the BCS Championship Game, and 'Bama fans have dedicated every waking minute since to reminding LSU fans that it happened.

During Wednesday's basketball game between LSU and Alabama, 'Bama fans mockingly cheered when the Tigers dribbled past half court on their first possession because during the national championship, LSU managed to get across the 50-yard-line just once and eventually were pushed backward into their own side of the field.

The Fairhope Animal Clinic in Fairhope, Ala., - yeah, an animal clinic - got in on the action this week by posting an LSU jab on the marquee outside it's building. It read, "FREE TO GOOD HOME BADLY BEATEN HONEY BADGER" taking an obvious shot at LSU cornerback Tyrann Mathieu, who is nicknamed "Honey Badger" and, well, was badly beaten by Alabama receivers throughout the game.

If you've been wondering what happened to former Arkansas/USC quarterback Mitch Mustain, Fayetteville, Ark., filmmaker Matthew Wolfe is here to help.

Wolfe is making a documentary on Mustain called, "The Identity Theft of Mitch Mustain," and it picks up where the former top-rated recruit left off after his collegiate eligibility was exhausted.

The trailer, which Wolfe posted on the Vimeo site for Incognito Mosquito Flicks, is a little ambiguous. It shows Mustain in his first appearance with the Razorbacks and all the hype that surrounded it, then shows Mustain in a car, which is interlaced with shots of Mustain randomly shooting guns in a forest. It doesn't exactly look like he's hunting, either, unless he hunts with an assault rifle and a handgun.

After we're treated to his display of marksmanship, Mustain says, "The longer I'm away from the game, the more out of the light I get, the easier it is to get comfortable with myself and what it is I want to be."

From this trailer, it looks like Mustain wants to be a trained assassin. Mustain is even wearing black O.J. Simpson-inspired gloves, you know, so there are no prints left when he dumps the weapon into the river.

According to Wolfe, the documentary has little to do with Mustain as a football player and more about what he's been doing since he left football behind:

Eight days after West Virginia embarrassed Clemson's defense in a 70-33 rout in the Orange Bowl, Clemson defensive coordinator Kevin Steele is out.

"I have had a great experience at Clemson and feel good about what we have accomplished the last three years," Steele said in a statement. "But, there are some other coaching opportunities I wish to pursue at this time.

"It has been rewarding to see this program grow to the point of winning Clemson's first ACC Championship in 20 years. I want to thank the coaches and players who worked so hard these last three years. Clemson is a special place and I wish the program and the players continued success."

Russell Shepard has decided to leave LSU with a year of eligibility remaining, and he's getting a little flack for it.

Shepard, a junior, tweeted Wednesday that he had a "had decision to make" and then tweeted, "Thanks for your support Tiger Nation...but I have to do what's best for my family and myself...Geaux Tigers." He didn't explicitly say whether he was going pro or transferring.

But after his cryptic announcement, Shepard started to get some backlash on his Twitter page, especially since he only had 14 catches for 190 yards and four touchdowns this season and only has 52 catches for 478 yards and 5 touchdowns in his career, after arriving in 2009 as one of the most celebrated incoming recruits in the nation.

So what did Shepard do? He lashed out on Twitter, of course, defending his decision to leave and blaming his lack of production on poor quarterback play — though not in so many words:

Oklahoma is getting the Stoops brothers back together.

Former Arizona head coach Mike Stoops is on his way to Norman to reunite with his brother, Bob, and resume the defensive coordinator position he held before leaving for Tucson in 2004.

However, current defensive coordinator Brent Venables might not be around to share that title. According to Dave Sittler of the Tulsa World, Venables has been offered the defensive coordinator position at West Virginia and is also on the short list at Clemson.

Venables could share defensive coordinating duties with Joe DeForrest, who was just hired from Oklahoma State but his official title has not yet been announced. The decision for Venebles would come down to his best opportunity. If he shares the defensive coordinator position with Stoops, his play-calling duties are likely done. Bringing Stoops back into the fold would be an effort to rekindle the heyday of Oklahoma football. However, Venables would be the play caller at West Virginia based on experience and Clemson, should they get into the race for Venables services, wouldn't ask him to share the defensive coordinator role at all.

Sittler notes that Oklahoma is trying to keep Venables a part of their plan moving forward. Venables and Stoops co-coordinated Oklahoma's defense — with Stoops calling the signals — from 1999 until Stoops left for Arizona in 2003. Venables has called plays ever since.

Nick Hill tatCollege football players and tattoos can be a dangerous combination. I think we're all still trying to figure out what Alabama quarterback (and newly MVP of the BCS championship game) A.J. McCarron was thinking when he got his chest tattoo.

But Michigan State redshirt freshman running back Nick Hill has officially set the standard by which all college football players' tattoos will now be judged.

Hill's design is simple. It's a Spartan straight out of the movie "300" and runs the length of Hill's right oblique. The menacing Spartan has a helmet, cape, spear, shield and loin armor. It even has clouds as a bit of an accent to make the whole thing look quite artistic. The thing had to cost a fortune because the detail is immaculate right down to the adornments on the loin armor. It also had to be unbelievably painful. Credit tattoo artist Solomon Trofatter at Splash of Color Tattoos in East Lansing, Mich., for this fine work.

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Add Tulsa's Damaris Johnson to the growing list of players that would rather seek other options than face the repercussions of a suspension.

Johnson, the NCAA leader in career all-purpose yardage, has decided to leave school and look for opportunity in the NFL after withdrawing from school in December. He didn't enroll for the spring semester, and is believed he his back in his home state, Louisiana.

"It looks like he made the decision to try to throw his lot in with the NFL and see what happens," Tulsa coach Bill Blankenship told the Tulsa World. "It was my hope that he would want to stick around and work his way back onto the field and make things better for himself."

Johnson was suspended from Tulsa in August after pleading guilty to felony embezzlement along with his girlfriend, Chamon Jones. The two received a one-year deferred sentence for allegedly embezzling $2,610.67 worth of merchandise between Aug. 20 and 25 from a Macy's department store where Jones worked.

But Tulsa hadn't given up on its star player — quite the opposite, in fact. Blankenship said there was a plan in place to get Johnson back on the field in 2012 and get him back on track for future endeavors, but apparently Johnson didn't want to wait that long.

It looks like Obie the Orange Bowl mascot was not OK, after all, after being tackled by West Virginia safety Darwin Cook after Cook's 99-yard fumble return in the Orange Bowl.

The Orange Bowl Twitter feed posted a photo Tuesday of poor Obie being released from the hospital with several bandages, crutches and a missing tooth (which, I personally think is a nice touch). Obie, who is conveniently standing in front of an ambulance, is also holding a sign that reads, "Not Cool @D_Cook25," a reference to Cook's Twitter handle.

Apparently a video is soon to follow. Oh yeah, we'll have that, too, in an effort to help the Orange Bowl to milk this for all it can.

The injuries seemed to manifest a little late since the game was last Thursday, but I hope Cook has retained good legal representation in case Obie has an ambulance chaser of her own. Oh, that's right, if you didn't hear: Obie is actually a female, a little bit of information Cook didn't find out until after the game. And Cook was