The 2013 Miami Heat are a wayward and fractious lot, riven by ego and feelings and constantly in need of affirmation. 

This year LeBron James hasn't so much become an indomitable force of basketball will as he has a psychologist, Dr. Phil sitting on a couch with his head in his hands nodding quietly and listening as his teammates pour out their misgivings.

The LeBron vs. Jordan debate has been ongoing for several years now, but most people have missed the essential difference between the two men -- their generations. LeBron's a millennial hugger, Jordan was an old school puncher. One man tries to work out his teammate's issues by listening, the other bristled at the idea that there could ever be issues. LeBron's more inclusive, Jordan was my way or the highway with his teammates. Once you get this distinction down, everything makes sense about why this debate doesn't quite connect, their talents are both luminescent, but their mental backgrounds are completely different.

Jordan vs. Lebron isn't a battle of basketball wills. 

It's will vs. Dr. Phil. 

Can LeBron's style of leadership, a gentler listening inclusiveness, pay off with a title? 

We've spent a lot of time talking about leaders willing their team to a title, but we've spent hardly any time talking about a player Dr. Philling his team to the title.

For months Mike McQueary has remained silent about what exactly he witnessed in the Penn State locker room showers back in the spring of 2002. Today he finally broke that silence in a pretrial hearing involving the perjury charges levied against former Penn State athletic director Tim Curley and former university vice-president Gary Schultz. McQueary's story was graphic and detailed. In particular, McQueary made it clear that he'd told Joe Paterno exactly what he'd witnessed and that he'd also conveyed what he'd seen to Paterno's superiors.

Here is Mike McQueary's 130 minute testimony today. For purposes of this story I have relied primarily on the in-court Twitter feed of Nate Bauer of Blue and White Illustrated.

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On that day McQueary said he opened the locker room door and heard "rhythmic slapping sounds. Two or three slaps that you would hear skin on skin." McQueary said that he initially witnessed Jerry Sandusky and the young boy in a mirror reflection. "It appeared that Jerry was directly behind the boy and the boy had his hands up against the wall," McQueary testified.

McQueary stated that he couldn't be 100% sure that there was intercourse, but that's what he believes was occurring. "I did not see insertion, nor was there any verbiage, screaming or yelling."

At this point McQueary said he slammed the locker room door and approached the shower for a closer look. By this time Sandusky and the boy had separated. "They had both turned," McQueary testified, "so their bodies were totally facing me and looking at me. They were four or five feet apart."

The SEC will release its official schedule early next week. That schedule will be for 14 teams, including Texas A&M and Missouri. That will put to rest scheduling issues in the SEC, but it will further crystallize existing scheduling issues in the Big 12 and the Big East. Namely, who will blink first when it comes to where West Virginia will play in 2012. The Big East and the Big 12 can't finalize their football schedules until that issue is decided.

It's a huge mess, particularly because football schedules are generally hammered out several years in advance. Those schedules are hammered out several years in advance because of all the complexities required in getting multiple teams, dates, and events all to fit.   

It's especially an issue in the Big 12 where every school plays every other school in the conference. That is, there are nine conference games played among the ten teams. Except right now there are only nine teams that can be reliably scheduled in the Big 12. So who will blink first? Will the Big 12 go ahead and announce a schedule including West Virginia? Or will the Big 12 plan on an eight game conference slate leaving every school required to buy an additional game on short notice?

If that's the plan it could end up costing the Big 12 schools millions.

Who will be on the hook for that payout? It should be the conference, not the individual schools who relied upon the conference being able to put together a nine-game conference slate.

With the recruiting dead period approaching as the holidays draw near, a number of high-profile committed recruits from around the Southeast are looking around in an effort to reaffirm their pledges or find new destinations before National Signing Day. With three SEC offensive coordinators taking head coaching jobs outside the region in recent days, some skill players and offensive linemen will be back in play in the coming days.

How will the departures of Gus Malzahn, Jim McElwain and Charlie Weis impact the schools they've departed from a recruiting standpoint?

Right now, let's all just take a deep breath. Don't expect much of a fallout at Auburn, Alabama or Florida. The Tide and Gators are unlikely to make major shifts in their offensive philosophy, and in Alabama's case, there's a chance they may even look to promote from within to fill the vacancy. Both schools will look for caretakers who will stick to the script of the conventional, pro-style offense that both head coaches are comfortable with. Auburn's change is the most interesting one - will the Tigers stick with a spread running attack or return to the more traditional I-formation tendencies that became the school's trademark for years?

From a recruiting standpoint, the ramifications of losing coordinators in the bowl season/dead period are often overblown. Rarely do classes fall apart despite the initial worst-case scenario reaction of fans.

Raise your hand if you had Gus Malzahn leaving $1.3 million a year to take the Arkansas State head coaching job for $800k.

Yeah, didn't think so.

Raise your hand if you thought Arkansas State would make the best hire of the 2011 coaching carousel. (Stop with the emails Ohio State fans. You were going to get someone good. Urban Meyer's better than good, but Arkansas State outkicked their coaching coverage a lot more than you guys did).

Gus Malzahn, the erstwhile highest paid offensive coordinator in the country, is the new head coach of Arkansas State.

All of this raises the question, why now? Why is Gus Malzahn leaving Auburn at this time for this job?

Let's dive in and try to make sense of this move.

Vanderbilt is heading to the Liberty Bowl. The school has already sold out of their initial allotment of tickets and is pushing for a substantial show of support for first year head coach James Franklin. How can you take ticket sales to the next level?

With Elvis, of course.

Start your Wednesday off right as Elvis takes a tour of the Commodore facilties, hangs with students, and dances with mascots.

The only edit that needed to be made? This video should have ended with James Franklin and Elvis driving away in a pink cadillac.

Now that the coaching carousel has slowed down and only one big job remains open, I thought it might make sense to objectively assess the best coaching jobs in America. That is, irrespective of who is coaching right now or what the current team's record is or how good the players are, what are the actual top college football jobs in America? While I tried to eliminate current results from the equation, I did consider two primary factors: a. the size of the athletic department and b. ability to recruit.

My thinking in making these the primary criteria was twofold: first, the size of the athletic department gives a rough approximation of how much a school can pay, which gives us a suitable market valuation of the coaching job (it also gives us a sense of the size of the fan base since revenue derives from fans) and second, the ability to get recruits to the school is the lifeblood of any program. If you have to bring all your players from a large geographical distance then your program is, by definition, a more challenging job than other jobs. 

So I tried to break down these jobs to money and players. (Not necessarily buying players, although Auburn is in the top 20 jobs).  

The way I tried to think of it was this, if every school was a complete blank slate in terms of players and coaches, which would be the most desirable jobs? In other words, if coaches conducted a fantasy coaching draft which would be the top picks?

If you're interested in reviewing the athletic department revenue numbers, here is the link to examine those.

It's also important to note that in today's college football market, the right coach can elevate a program to new heights and the wrong coach can tank it even with all the benefits. (See Zook, Ron). In other words, any of these programs could win a national title. But some have easier paths to that national title than others.

Being clutch in sports is like Supreme Court justice Potter Stewart's definition of obscenity -- we know it when we see it.

We can't always quantify clutch in sports, but we all know that some athletes are clutch and some are not. Hell, the level of the sport really doesn't matter when it comes to analyzing who is clutch. If you played little league baseball there was a guy that you wanted up to bat in the bottom of the sixth or pitching to get the final out; if you played rec league basketball there was a guy you wanted taking the final shot, if you're playing golf in a scramble there's a guy you'd choose to attempt the final putt.

Clutch athletes are not always the most skilled -- think Robert Horry's NBA career -- but time after time they deliver down the stretch.  

In the wake of Sunday's overtime victory over the Denver Broncos, there can be no doubt -- Tim Tebow is clutch. Perhaps the most clutch football player of our generation.

Les Miles is my favorite sports figure because of videos like the one you're about to see. As he enters the Heisman Trophy ceremony Miles passes by several Alabama fans who have chosen to spend their vacation in New York City wearing Alabama apparel and waving their pom-pons on a sidewalk outside the Heisman ceremony. If you think this is strange then you haven't spent much time around Alabama fans. As Bama fans scream, "Roll Tide," Miles, as only Les Miles can do, responds to an Alabama fan in a houndstooth hat.

What does Miles say to the man?

"Nice hat."

I blame y'all for not letting me know about this story. Just when I thought all the drama was taking place on the field during the Titans 23-17 win, two teachers were arrested for having sex in Ralph Wilson Stadium bathrooms. Seriously. What percentage of women would have sex in a public bathroom even if you knew no one else would enter? (For purposes of this question, LSU girls are excluded). Gotta be low, right? Okay, now make it a crowded football stadium bathroom.

I can see you cringing from here, ladies.

Okay, well, let's let Buffalo's WIVB take it from here.

35 year-old Jennifer Rotella and 38 year-old Michael France were among those arrested, both elementary school teachers, who work for the Wilson Central School District. Rotella is a teacher at Stevenson Elementary School and France is a teacher at Thomas Marks Elementary School. Both are charged with public lewdness.

Sources tell News 4 the pair was caught having sex inside a bathroom at the Bills stadium. France's wife told News 4 her husband was stopped while leaving the lavatory, but she wouldn't confirm if he was alone or with someone.

Proven fact: nothing makes women hotter than a December game in Buffalo featuring a sub .500 team.

See, you're not that bad of a husband after all. How do you know? Because you weren't cheating on your wife in a public bathroom during a football game and arrested for doing so.  

Next time your wife is mad at you for drinking too much at a game, trot out this argument: "Honey, it could be worse. You could have had to bail me out of jail for cheating on you in a public bathroom during a football game."

Today CBS Sports announced that the three highest rated college football telecasts of the 2011 season were all SEC game: LSU-Alabama, the SEC title game (LSU-Georgia), and the LSU-Arkansas game all received a 15 share or better. (The LSU-Alabama game received a 20 share, one of the highest ratings for a college football game in the past cable era). Let's go ahead and kill the idea that a rematch is going to tank BCS ratings. If the SEC title game did a 15 share, an LSU-Alabama rematch will score high numbers as well.

More importantly, the SEC eclipsed its top competition in prime viewing, ESPN/ABC's hand-selected Saturday night game that features the best game from the Big 12, the Pac 12, the Big East, the ACC, or the Big Ten, for the third consecutive year.  

The SEC on CBS posted a 4.2/9 average against a 3.5/8 for ESPN/ABC.

Why does that matter?

Because it proves that the SEC is becoming more and more of a national brand. This won't get as much attention as it should, but the best game of the other five major conferences wasn't able to beat the SEC for a third consecutive season. 

Think about how shocking that is for a moment.