A holiday success....

Star Southern California QB John David Booty is the latest college football autograph success. The Louisiana native returned my early December request in just 26 days. He becomes my 45th football success of the season and the first in nearly four weeks.

2006 STATS - FOOTBALL
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RECEIVED: 45
SENT: 134
% RECEIVED: 33.6%
AVG # OF DAYS: 29.5
PRICE PER SUCCESS: $2.78

College Hoops, Round Two

I'm getting ready to send out a small batch of new college hoops requests, some to those who didn't respond back in September and some to others who I left off of the original list. You can see below the names I've compiled thus far (in no certain order), but be sure to let me know if you feel I'm leaving someone off the list.

Javaris Crittenton (Georgia Tech), Spencer Hawes (Washington), Trey Johnson (Jackson State), Morris Almond (Rice), Alando Tucker (Wisconsin), Mario Boggan (Oklahoma State), Kevin Durant (Texas), D.J. Augustin (Texas), Brandan Wright (North Carolina), Joakim Noah (Florida), Julian Wright (Kansas), Aaron Gray (Pittsburgh), Daequan Cook (Ohio State), Chase Budinger (Arizona), Marcus Williams (Arizona), Luc Richard Mbah a Moute (UCLA), Corey Brewer (Florida), Josh Shipp (UCLA), Darren Collison (UCLA), Taurean Green (Florida), DeMarcus Nelson (Duke), Tasmin Mitchell (LSU), A.J. Graves (Butler), Chris Douglas-Roberts (Memphis), Tajuan Porter (Oregon), Derek Raivio (Gonzaga), Demetris Nichols (Syracuse), Nick Fazekas (Nevada), Joseph Jones (Texas A&M), Lewis Clinch (Georgia Tech)

Also, I'm beginning to compile a request list for college baseball, my first-ever time to send out such requests, so if you have any suggestions, let me know!

After a break, another success....

It's been a while since there was a successful trip to the mailbox, but that slow streak was ended today when Marquette's star point guard Dominic James signed and returned both index cards I had enclosed to him back in September. The request took just under 100 days to return and puts me over the 35% success rate for the college hoops season.

2006 STATS - HOOPS
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RECEIVED: 16
SENT: 45
% RECEIVED: 37.0%
AVG # OF DAYS: 28.4
PRICE PER SUCCESS: $2.59

A Samardzija success....

Notre Dame All-American WR Jeff Samardzija responded with this week's only success. He returned both index cards I had enclosed way back in July in 146 days care of the Notre Dame athletic department's mailing address.

2006 STATS - FOOTBALL
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RECEIVED: 44
SENT: 131
% RECEIVED: 33.6%
AVG # OF DAYS: 29.6
PRICE PER SUCCESS: $2.84