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06 January 2010
Since the bowl games are so bad, I figured you needed some entertainment. I am back and trying to be better. Let's make fun of people...
- There has never been a worse slate of bowl games. Take away the team you root for and tell me how many games you thought you needed to watch from start to finish. I will answer for myself: zero. These games are second-class. That is, in part, because college football is so down this year, but also because of some of the matchups. Who wants to watch two second rate teams like Boise State and TCU defensively struggle against one another? I'd rather watch two of the girls from Jersey Shore talk about who invented the poof. Or how about that "golden" matchup last night between Georgia Tech and Iowa? My TV told me there was too much yellow on the screen and forced me to watch He's Just Not That Into You. Again. People love to hate on USC, Michigan and Notre Dame, but at least they're interesting to watch.
- Rich Brooks was a good coach at UK, but is undoubtedly overrated. People will throw a lot of things at you about how great Rich Brooks was. He beat #1 LSU, he beat Auburn and Georgia on the road and he won three straight bowl games which had never been done before at UK. He should get congratulations for the first two, but the three straight bowl wins is what really irks me. This year, there were THIRTY FOUR (34) bowl games. No coach that coached before Brooks had as many opportunities to get to bowl games. The Music City Bowl, which Brooks won twice, had its first game in 1998. Brooks' bowl wins also came against Clemson, a depleted Florida State team and East Carolina. Those three teams aren't exactly a murderers' row of college football. He was also winless against Florida and Tennessee.
- Speaking of football coaches named Rich... How does Rich Rodriguez still have a job? He's a terrible football coach. I wanted to give him the benefit of the doubt when he came to Ann Arbor and had a bad football team in 2008. I was going to let him bring in, "his players." Apparently, his players are not as good as the ones Lloyd Carr was bringing in. Rodriguez was going to be bringing in stud players to get Michigan back on top. Well, Rivals currently has Michigan with the 18th best class for 2010 (no 5-stars, five 4-stars, eighteen 3-stars, one 2-star). It's possible to win in the Big East with 3-star kids like RichRod did at West Virginia. Ohio State will continue to beat Michigan if all they can get is those types of kids. Also, I don't mean to pick on a high school kid, but the 2-star kid that's committed is a white defensive back whose only other offers were from Bowling Green and Kent State. My good gosh, be better.
- John Wall is good at basketball. Just making sure you knew. I didn't know if you'd heard of him. He has a dance.
- Tiger Woods sent Christmas cards to: Gilbert Arenas and Javaris Crittenton, Mike Leach, Jim Caldwell and the Indianapolis Colts, every person who plays Fantasy Football, Jesus (a birthday card may have been more appropriate) and roughly eighteen women.
- Your racist grandfather should watch Purdue and Wisconsin play basketball this weekend. It will remind him of simpler times, when there wasn't as much scoring. And when there were more whites on the court than any other race. Everyone who likes good basketball will be watching any other game. Hell, I may fire up He's Just Not That Into You (on every minute of every day on one of the HBO stations) instead of watching that garbage. (Sidenote, how about Gage's first post? I didn't know it was possible to ejaculate through fingers while typing. I am pretty sure JaJuan Johnson filed a restraining order against him last night. Purdue will get respect when they get a legitimate win.)
- Jason Bay's contract with the Mets will be one of the biggest disasters since the Titanic. CitiField is enormous. Jason Bay is a power hitter. Manny Ramirez thinks Jason Bay is bad in the field. New York fans are unforgiving. Tell me how this ends well?
- Knoxville needs to build an indoor climbing wall. Seriously, the student athletes need something to occupy their time.
