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Solution to College Football Coaches Problem

I have a simple solution to this ridiculous problem that the NCAA is facing with college football coaches showing as much loyalty to their contracts as Tony Parker shows to Eva Longoria. There is no need for college coaches to be signing these ludicrous 8 year extensions and then flirting it up with a different school the very next year, or in Les Miles’ case, the very next week. (Yes I know that he said he was helping his alma mater find a new coach but I’m not buying it because God gifted me with more intelligence than a raccoon. There is no reason a top 5 program coach needs to help a school like Michigan search for a new coach).

It is absolutely unfair that college athletes are expected to basically sign their commitments in blood while coaches can do whatever they want. A college football coach contract means absolutely NOTHING. Frank Beamer can sign a 137 year extension for all intensive purposes and it means absolutely nothing. To the contrary, if a college football player wants to transfer, he is placed ineligible for the next season. You tell me how that’s fair. I challenge anyone to convince me how that is fair. A five star recruit can commit to a university based on promises a coach made, and then that coach decides to leave the next year and the player is forced to stay or face ineligibility? From my understanding, that’s like someone selling you a brand new Mercedes and then you drive it off the lot and the engine dies. Well, you did sign the contract and you did test drive it so I guess it’s your fault, deal with it… right? Bull. (For you geeks out there, please save the legal mumbo jumbo about how you can sue the car dealership yada yada because it was just a quick example… relax, and put down your Law book). Here’s how you fix the problem in college football:

Option 1: Include opt-out clauses; which means you also include periods of time where a coach is not allowed to opt out. For example, LSU signs Les Miles to a 7 year deal of which the first four years, he is not allowed to talk to other universities, period. No variations or if-then scenarios. He’s not allowed to talk to other universities and that’s final. Year five comes along and he has the option to opt out of his contract like a free agent and pursue whatever college he wants to. He can also sign a new extension, with a new set of required years and opt out years included. If he absolutely cannot stand to coach another minute at LSU and he’s still in his third year of the deal, tough. He can resign his position, but by NCAA rules, he is ineligible to coach anywhere else until the opt out year comes along.

Option 2: The original idea for this one was that if a coach wants to go to a different school while still under contract, he becomes ineligible for one year like a college player would. However, that option is flawed because job vacancies don’t wait for years at a time. Instead, if a coach is under contract and wants to go somewhere else, his new school of choice is ineligible for a bowl game for one year. Simple as that. So for example, Michigan would be ineligible for a bowl game in 2008.

Option 3: Make the buyout more than just $2 or $3 million dollars. That is chump change for coaches, especially when they’re going to be compensated by the new school of their choice. You think Rodriguez didn’t mention to Michigan, “Hey you do realize that if opt out of WVU, I’ll have to pay this amount in buyout fees so how about we go ahead and work that into my contract.” If you don’t want to go with the route of having required time contracts or the ineligible bowl scenario, then make the buyout so hefty that coaches think twice about leaving. Okay Rodriguez, you want to go to Michigan? $8 million bucks big boy. If you’re going to let your head coach go, make his ass pay up at least.

I’m sure there are people out there much smarter than I, who will come up with much better ideas than I have. But the point of me throwing out a few of my suggestions was to show you that there ARE ways to fix this problem. It just has to be made a priority. However, silly of me to think that college football will try and fix something that is clearly flawed, even when dozens of feasible suggestions are thrown around. Last I checked, the BCS system is still in place. This is college football for you.

So I wonder who will ditch their school next to jump at the WVU head coaching position 

Weekend Recap

The NFC Playoff Push.  If you stayed up to watch last night, you would have seen the Redskins go into New York in a must win game and give the Giants a beatdown with a 22-10 victory.  It is the second straight for the Redskins, and third straight home loss for the slumping Giants.  The win puts the Skins at 7-7 and drops the Giants to 9-5.  New York, who had a clear path to the 5^th seed in the NFC playoffs, suddenly finds itself in a must win at Buffalo, who also is in a must win situation.  If the Giants lose at Buffalo and drop to 9-6, they will have to beat a Patriots team that will likely be going for a 16-0 mark.  If the Giants manage to drop their last two games, which is very possible, they would potentially miss the playoffs.  The Redskins travel to Minnesota for what is basically a playoff game next week.  They follow that up with a home game against Dallas, who suddenly looks banged up and down.  The status of Tony Romo’s thumb is not known at this time, but that could serve as a serious problem for a team that has hopes of reaching the Super Bowl.  If the Redskins win out, they’d be a lock for the playoffs.  The Saints are also in the mix after winning 3 of their last 4.  They have a home game against the Eagles followed by a road finale at Chicago.  A loss in either game would basically eliminate them from the wild card chase.  The Vikings are most in control of their destiny with two of their final three games at home (the road game being at Denver).  What it comes down to is each team controls its own destiny.  Win and you’re in; lose and the tiebreakers and odds come into factor.  Should be an interesting and entertaining final couple of weeks. 

No more celeb girlfriends in Dallas!  Dallas fans are pretty upset this Monday morning; and they’re upset at Jessica Simpson.  She is the second celebrity girlfriend that Tony Romo has brought to a game and for the second time, he’s had a terrible game and the Cowboys subsequently lost.  Last year, he brought Carrie Underwood to the playoff game against Seattle.  I think we all remember how that turned out.  Yesterday, Jessica Simpson was sporting a pink Romo jersey in the press box.  Romo had his worst game of the season, and in some statistical categories, the worst of his career.  The Cowboys lost to a sub .500 Eagles team and failed to score a touchdown for the first time since 2004.  “Leave your girls at home” is the common sentiment in the big D this morning.

Another College Football coach peaces out.  Extension through 2013 huh?  Yeah, we all know the way this story goes.  College football coach flirts with a different university.  Comes back to his own university and signs a big extension.  And the following year?  Gone.  Rich Rodriguez was raised in West Virginia, attended WVU, put WVU football on the map as a perennial top 15 program; and has now left it for the lures of Michigan.  Rodriguez signed with Michigan faster than Lindsay Lohan would sign a movie contract these days.  Rumors are that the Athletic Director and Rodriguez didn’t see eye to eye on a lot of things.  Who knows.  All I know is that another college coach sold out on his team by going to a more attractive school.  Now that the WVU job is open, I wonder which football coach will be the next to slip his way out of his current contract and come to Morgantown. 

Allow Me to Reintroduce Myself

Wow. It has been over a week since I have gotten the chance to post. Been extremely busy with work and some social events but fear not; I’m back. A lot has happened since the last time we spoke. Dallas and Green Bay showed that they are the class of the NFC and will square off in the coming week. LSU learned how to pronounce ARKANSAS; mainly because Darren McFadden gave them a lesson that they won’t soon forget. Missouri is number one in the nation?! Virginia Tech kicked Virginia in the teeth and taught them not to talk badly about their superiors. The Washington Redskins found a way to outgain an opponent by almost 300 yards, in one half, and still lose. Devin Hester is the greatest return man in NFL history. Frank Caliendo is great at doing impressions, but his show is a flop.

Let’s talk college football. The BCS Rankings were announced and they were as follows:

1. Missouri
2. West Virginia
3. Ohio State
4. Georgia
5. Kansas
6. Virginia Tech
7. LSU
8. USC
9. Oklahoma
10. Florida

I can’t argue with that. The only change I’d make is have Kansas behind VT and LSU. But I can also understand them being where they’re at. This has been a crazy season but when it’s all said and done, West Virginia is going to play Ohio State, and beat Ohio State. The final rankings will look something like:

1. West Virginia
2. Ohio State
3. Georgia
4. Virginia Tech
5. LSU

I will say this though. College football is in dire need of a playoff system because it is ridiculous to think of West Virginia as potential national champions. I can’t accept a team that got punished by South Florida, who’s ranked in the upper teens somewhere, as college football’s best team. I just can’t. It’s looking like the title game is going to be WVU vs. Ohio State and to be honest, brutally honest, I won’t view either one of them as the best team regardless of who wins. In an eight team playoff system, with the current seedings, WVU wouldn’t get out of the first freaking round. Now I know that the BCS isn’t going away because it makes more money. I realize that, and I’m not going to write a 10 page paper on the benefits of a playoff. However, I can’t sit here and say that WVU or Ohio State is the best team in the nation when in fact I know that if you throw the top 8 teams in the mix for a two round playoff concluding with a championship game, LSU or Georgia would have the best shot at winning. A playoff would look something like this:

Round 1                           Round 2                      Championship

USC @ Missouri              LSU @ Missouri            LSU @ Georgia

LSU @ WVU                   Georgia @ Ohio State

VT @ Ohio State

Kansas @ Georgia

Also, it is ludicrous that some conferences have championship games while others don’t. How the hell that was decided is beyond me. College football is light years behind college basketball and all professional sports when it comes to scheduling and common sense.

I’m not going into too much depth today about the NFL weekend, mainly because yesterday lacked star power and interest. However, I want to show you something Don Banks from SI posted.

Down 19-10 with 2:10 remaining in the third quarter, Gibbs bypassed a chip shot field goal to go for it on fourth-and-1 from the Bucs’ 4. Clinton Portis got stuffed for no gain on the play, and Washington could have used those three points when Jason Campbell was intercepted in the end zone by Brian Kelly with 17 seconds to go in the 19-13 Redskins loss.

If the Skins had taken the field goal earlier, they would have been in position to tie the game at 19-19 and force overtime later. The play that Campbell was picked off on was a second-and-10 from the Bucs’ 16 — putting Washington easily within Shaun Suisham’s range.

If you are going to submit analysis for games, do your audience a favor and watch the entire game; not snippets from Sportscenter or the FOX halftime show. And don’t do the hypothesis style “If the Skins had taken the field goal earlier…then they would have been in position” crap. What are you, a twelve year old science student? Yeah, obviously IF the Redskins played perfectly all season, THEN they would be undefeated. That doesn’t mean jack and neither does your god awful analysis. Had Banks followed the basic rule of objective journalism (watch the game you’re going to comment on), he would have known that Washington was dominating that entire drive; moving the ball at will. The Redskins had the Bucs guessing between pass and run, and were successful at doing both. They came out of halftime with a lot of steam after a dismal first half. To stop that drive and kick a field goal when all the momentum is in your favor, and while Bucs defensive players are visibly exhausted, would not be good coaching. Yes, looking back, you would have had three points and things might have been different. But at that juncture in the game, it made the most sense to continue to move the ball and try for a conversion on fourth down. A touchdown on that drive would have sent the Bucs much more into a panic than a measily field goal would have. So to Don Banks, and all the other jackasses who think they are great analysts because they write up a paragraph after watching one or two highlights narrated by Terry Bradshaw, learn to see the big picture and how things work in the scheme of things before you open your mouths. I don’t call out coaches and their decisions for games that I don’t watch. Neither should you.

And since today is Monday, a rainy one at that, and I am in a rainy Monday mood, I am going to take this time to launch a new page on this site. It will be dubbed, The Jackass Den. Each time I feel someone does or says something that warrants me calling them a jackass, I will add them to the list. Don Banks will be the first on the list and believe me, there will be many more. Look for that page a little later. Enjoy the power rankings, and look for much more from me this week.

College Football Rankings Week 11

There are a few key things we learned this weekend. Let’s recap.

• Boston College was overrated all season
  • Jesse Palmer made the comment that “Virginia Tech doesn’t belong on the same field as BC”. I guess by that same token, BC doesn’t belong on the same field as unranked Maryland either.
• Illinois is going to be really good for years to come
• Every team in the SEC is hot one week, cold the next (with the exception of LSU)
  • See Auburn, Florida, South Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia
• This college football season lacks a clear cut champion or a true number one team. Some people like it. I, personally, hate it and don’t like how the top 3 teams can’t stay put for more than a week at a time.
• Virginia Tech is a different football team with Tyrod Taylor on the field. It’s kind of like the difference between the Atlanta Falcons with Michael Vick and the Atlanta Falcons with Joey Harrington

Enjoy the rankings.

The Curse of Willingham

Everyone knows about Notre Dame’s struggles by now. In all honesty, it’s past the point of even being funny. When they were 0-4, I was laughing but we are beyond that position. It’s ridiculous how bad they really are. If anyone has seen a single game of theirs, you know what I’m talking about. The team doesn’t look like a team. They have no emotion, no confidence, nothing. Charlie Weis went from the toast of the town to being questioned louder and louder on a week to week basis.

The much publicized firing of Ty Willingham a few years back was starting to look like a thing of the past; something that Notre Dame would no longer have to answer for. After two straight BCS bowl appearances, it looked like the replacement for Willingham was the right choice. It earned Weis a 10 year contract. But this is college football and things can change from better to worse as fast as anything we know. The Willingham saga is now rearing its head again as critics are asking the question, “Will Charlie get fired? Ty Willingham did.”

It’s a valid question. Everyone who has an ounce of sanity knows that what happened to Willingham was not right. Now as much as I hate Notre Dame and dislike Charlie Weis, and as much as I like and respect Ty Willingham for handling his departure with class, I can’t sit here and say that firing Weis is the right decision. Yes, he is having the worst season in Notre Dame’s history. Yes, he doesn’t seem to have much, if any, control over his team. Yes, he looks lost. Yes, if this was a scenario where you replaced Weis with Willingham, Willingham would have been fired for sure by now. But two wrongs don’t make a right. I firmly believe that. Firing Willingham was a hasty, improper decision. But you can’t correct that mistake by treating Weis the same way.

Suppose you fire Weis and the next coach comes along and has similar struggles. Do you give him the same time span you gave Willingham and Weis? If you fire Weis now, you have set a precedent for the future and nobody will want to coach there.

As much as Notre Dame has struggled, let’s not forget that Charlie Weis is no dummy. The guy knows how to run offenses and he will get things rolling again. Give him a couple of seasons and if the results are not what Notre Dame fans and alum are expecting, you can make the change. But making a change now just for the sake of it will cause much more harm than it will good.

Ty Willingham may be on the other side of the country, but his presence is very much felt these days in South Bend.

College Weekly Picks Week 9

As you’ve probably noticed, I have not updated my site since Thursday. The reason being, I just stopped puking from disgust in how my alma mater, Virginia Tech, squandered a 10 point lead in the final 2 minutes of a game in which they had the number two team in the nation laying in their coffin. This collapse of epic proportions rivals that of some of my losses in Madden for xbox360, which lead me to vow never to play the game again; just like I have vowed never to watch VT football again 28,492 in the past four years. But like an addict, I always come back. Score on a 91 yard touchdown drive, kick the onside, recover it, and then score a touchdown with 11 seconds left on a 3rd and 20. I have never seen the air sucked out of a restaurant so quickly as I did Thursday night when I was with a bunch of friends in a venue that housed about 1,000 Hokie faithful. But what are you going to do? At least we had the opportunity this year to make a national title run, twice. If we didn’t capitalize, that’s on us. We faced the #2 team in the nation two times in the same season which is as rare as can be. We messed up, but at least we had the chance to mess up.

The fans were great. I will not budge from my statements in my previous post about Tech being a near impossible place to win on a Thursday night. There is a reason rivals.com has ranked Lane Stadium the toughest place to play in the nation. It took a miraculous collapse for BC to even get on the scoreboard. Their high powered offense was shutout for more than 55 minutes. You can’t ask for more from VT’s defense. I am hearing a lot of criticism of the defense and how they choked at the end. Wrong. The defense was on the field for a vast majority of the game because of the offense’s ineptitude to move the football consistently. The defense was gassed. I don’t blame them. I’m not going to make excuses but it is significant to note before you pile on Virginia Tech and call them the “Chokies” that they were without their starting quarterback. The quarterback that played, Sean Glennon, has led the Hokies to score 27 points in 3 games that he has started. That’s 9 point per game average for the mathematically challenged readers. I am also not going to sit here and say Matt Ryan won the Heisman with that performance. He played awful almost the entire game and played outstanding for the final few minutes. That’s impressive, but that doesn’t make you a Heisman winner. But again, I give all the credit in the world to Boston College for coming in and beating Virginia Tech in a low scoring slugfest. They deserve to be considered for the national championship. And I end this column with the same sentiment I’ve ended so many years of following the Hokies with everything I have:

Maybe next year.

Time to Teach Boston College a Lesson

Thursday, October 25, 2007 will be the night that Boston College students, fans, and football players learn a few lessons.

Class begins: 7:30 PM

Location: Lane Stadium.

Attendance: Not Recommended

If you failed to realize, Boston College is number two in the BCS polls. They have earned their right to be there. They’ve played and won all seven of their games. The Eagles are off to their first 7-0 start in 65 years.

-They have Heisman caliber quarterback who has thrown 18 touchdowns thus far.

-They move the ball consistently.

-They score.

-They win at home.

-They win on the road.

The Boston College Eagles’ destiny lies within their hands. Win their remaining games and a ticket to the National Championship is all but guaranteed. The quest for a National Championship continues tonight. That’s where the problem lies.

The Eagles will be going into Blacksburg, Virginia; home of the 8^th ranked Virginia Tech Hokies. The Hokies have been an ACC powerhouse since they joined the conference by winning the conference title their first year and being runners up the second year. They bring a fast, hard hitting, and intimidating defense to the field annually. The Hokies have NFL talent on that defense every single season. From the Deangelo Halls to the Darryl Tapps to the Xavier Adibi’s and the Vince Halls. The Hokies defense, led by defensive coordinator Bud Foster, knows how to bring the pain.

However, that’s not what Boston College should fear most. Boston College needs to fear the 65,000+ that will fill Lane Stadium tonight. They should fear the sea of orange and maroon that will fill every possible space in the venue to see their Hokies trash the Eagles. They should fear the noise that the Virginia Tech fans will bring from 15 minutes before kickoff until they rush the field. These aren’t ordinary college football fans. A lot of people nationwide haven’t realized this yet, because they have not been there. I have, for four years.

What makes the fans in Lane Stadium so intimidating is their exceptional knowledge of football and their thirst for victory. Nothing dominates the news in Blacksburg the way football does. Football is what brings all the students together. Football is what makes Monday’s in 30 degree weather with 45 mile per hour winds bearable. Football makes this town run.

This is the first big home game for the Hokies. Last time they were on national television, they got trashed and embarrassed by the LSU Tigers in Tiger stadium. Actually, trashed and embarrassed is putting it lightly. This was in week 2. We are now in week 8, but Hokie fans have not forgotten how they were laughed at on message boards around the country. They have not forgotten what it feels like to be humiliated and outplayed when everyone is watching. They are angry. The fans have had weeks full of pent up rage that they will let loose come 7:30 tonight.

I can’t remember the last time there was this much internally stored fury waiting to be unleashed like a caged animal who has been waiting for his opportunity to attack a rival Alpha male. You don’t want to open that cage door because what will be set free is a monster that cannot be controlled. This is Virginia Tech football. Furthermore, you definitely do not want to poke the caged beast with a stick. That is what Boston College’s head coach did by saying that his team is not intimidated by big stadiums or loud fans and having the audacity, the nerve to compare Virginia Tech to Georgia Tech. Jesse Palmer of ESPN went on to say that Virginia Tech doesn’t belong on the same field as Boston College. He is in for a rude awakening.

One thing I know about Virginia Tech students is that they read; and they read everything. They hear everything. They know everything. They know the national perception is that we are annually overrated. They know that people, such as ESPN’s experts, are picking Boston College to come into our house, on our field, and take it to us. The fans know this. They have been poked with the stick for ten days now and tonight is the night Boston College will have to face the animal that are the fans.

Tonight, Boston College is going to learn a lesson.

Boston College has failed to realize what it’s like to be standing less than a foot away from another person and not being able to hear what they’re saying. I do. Boston College doesn’t know what it’s like to see 65,000+ fans jumping and screaming every time they have the ball on offense to the point where they can’t differentiate a football being passed through the air from a sea of maroon in the stands. I do. Boston College doesn’t know what it’s like to feel like the stadium is going to collapse because it is shaking and bouncing violently the entire game. I do. Boston College doesn’t know what it’s like to see 65,000+ alumni and students screaming for their head and saying the nastiest of things because they’ve been drinking all day in the parking lot behind McBryde Hall. I do. Boston College does not know what it’s like to see a Virginia Tech football team run out of the tunnel after “Enter Sandman” has been playing for over 30 seconds and has sent the students into a cult like frenzy in which the entire stadium looks like a giant mosh pit. I do.

Mark Wahlberg has a movie in theatres called “We Own the Night”. I bring this up because Boston College is going to step onto the field tonight for 60 minutes of a brutal, vicious beat down; one that they could never dream of in their most awful of worst nightmares. They will walk off the field tonight after a loss, and with that loss they will take home one more new lesson about Virginia Tech Football and Virginia Tech fans:

We Own the Night.

Week 8 College Rankings

South Florida people are going to hate me but I really couldn’t care less.  I said they play sloppy and wouldn’t last a whole season and guess what, they didn’t.  I’m in love with Florida and am more impressed with them as they mature more and more each week.  Glad to see Michigan on the upswing again.  That Ohio State-Michigan game will be a big one.  I would love to see Michigan come back and stick it to the Buckeyes who mocked them when they lost to Appalachian St.  Enjoy the rankings…

Torre, South Florida, Red Sox and More…

Torre Says Thanks, but No Thanks

I was at work yesterday around the three o’clock hour when I got a text message from a buddy of mine in New York. He said that he had just heard Joe Torre was being offered a one year deal for $5 million, with $3 million offered as incentives if the Yankees reach the World Series. First thing that came to mind? Joe, please do not take this deal. Please do not disrespect yourself and your legacy by being a puppet, a scapegoat, and a mere peasant in the empire that is the New York Yankees. Do not let George Steinbrenner belittle you by offering you another one year deal, with incentives no less, so that you have to deal with the constant façade of questions relating to your job all season. The fact that the Yankees threw in “incentives” makes me so angry and outraged because monetary incentives are thrown to motivate people. Joe Torre needs to be motivated to reach the World Series? Dusty Baker agreed with this sentiment when he said in an interview with Michael Kay that this was such blatant disrespect of a man who has won four World Series and made it to the postseason in each of the past 12 years. Now he needs motivation, monetary motivation at that? Absolutely absurd.

Being a Yankees fan, hearing the news on my drive home from work about Torre rejecting the offer was bittersweet. I was happy that he is leaving with his pride, or whats left of it after twelve years of dealing with “The Boss”. However, I was sad because Torre had turned the Yankees into such a respectful, classy organization that was always an elite team. Mike Greenberg said it best this morning on his radio show:

“You can hate them, or you can love them. But you cannot deny that the Yankees were as classy as any under Joe Torre.”

I don’t know who the next guy will be. Mattingly, Girardi, whomever. I don’t know if they will be successful or not. I don’t know which Yankees will be back, which will be gone, which will retire. I do know one thing though. There will never be another manager in Yankees history who won the way Torre did, and who carried himself the way he did. Good luck to you Joe, with whatever you do.

South Florida Cinderella Story is Over

Well it was nice while it lasted, but as I said earlier this week; historically dominant and elite teams win in college football. In college basketball, yes, Cinderella stories happen nearly every year. Not so in football. USF was defeated by Rutgers 30-27 last night. I was impressed by the confidence the team carried into this game, but never in the past six or seven weeks was I impressed by their game play. A reader of this site said it best, “I swear, every game of their’s I watched, it was like high school ball”. He is referring to the sloppy, missed tackles, turnover filled victories that they had up to this point. Again, good for USF for starting to make a name for themselves. But you have to win consistently for a few years before you can be taken seriously.

Red Sox defeat Indians; Beckett and Lofton Jaw

With the 7-1 win last night, the Red Sox have given fans a reason to watch the championship series as they cut the series lead to a game, 3-2. The series shifts back to Boston for games 6 and 7, starting Saturday night at 8pm. (On a related note, what a terrible decision to show the game at 8pm on a Saturday night. Who is going to sit at home on the one weekend night that they can go out and watch a 5 hour baseball game? Terrible.)

The game became rather interesting last night when Beckett and Kenny Lofton began jawing at each other, rather intensely. Both benches cleared, but nothing came of it. The two have a history dating back to a few years ago, where Beckett has said that it is disrespectful to the pitcher the way Lofton tosses his bat on his way to first base after a walk. He said he would like it if Lofton would show a little more respect. Lofton of course, tossed his bat like he normally does, and on his way to first base, Beckett began screaming obscenities in the direction of Lofton, to which he responded.

What a bunch of weak, whiny behavior this is. You’re mad because he tosses his bat a certain way? Seriously? It’s that big of a deal to you? That is extremely lame and I hope every Cleveland batter starts tossing their bats the same way (which is really unnoticeable unless you are looking for it). The whining of Curt Shilling and now Josh Beckett, among other Red Sox never ceases to amaze me. It’s really like the city of Boston and the Red Sox shrill, school girl attitude were a match made in heaven.

The Fan vs The Athlete Update

We had quite an interesting discussion on a variety of subjects regarding the relationship between a fan and a team. It was all started by the Manny Ramirez “Who cares” comments. The link to the page is listed at the top, and here.

College Weekly Picks Week 8

It’s pretty unbelievable that we’re already in week 8 of the college football season. It’s even more unbelievable that the University of South Florida is #2 in the nation. Well, that’s going to change tonight. It was a nice Cinderella story but Cindarellas don’t win national championship games. They win the Meineke Car Care Bowls. Another team that’s going to get bumped in the rankings? University of Virginia. What are they even doing at 19?! Yeah they’ll be gone soon. Actually, I’d rather have them win all their games until Thanksgiving weekend when they play Virginia Tech. I’d take great personal satisfaction in watching them get pummeled, again, as they do annually by the Hokies. Enjoy your college football weekend folks.