I cannot even explain how much I enjoy the college football season.
1. I hope Ole Miss goes 10-2, which is impossible, but would be a blast and make H Freeze the next Longhorn Head Coach.
2. Mack Brown- It is too hard to even say again and again. Gray is better than Malcom Brown!!!
3. USC- Too much Talent for this output. Kiffing is worse than I thought. With UCLA and their great Soph QB, it is going to be fun in LA.
4. Muschamp is the new Les Miles. Great talent with no offensive identity. They dominated Miami and couldn't win. Hardest team for me to watch in College.
5. Arkansas is pounding the ball with the new Coach. Well here comes the real men also known as the SEC. If he can win, he deserves a pay raise. It will not happen anytime soon.
6. Auburn- I like the coach as you know. If he is able to maintain a positive atmosphere after they start losing he will be a great coach.
7. MSTATE- Coach Mullen has lost his mind. Lucky for him that, Haughton product, Prescott was given a chance to play because of an injury and maybe Mullen cannot ignore the truth about which QB makes his team work better.
8. Ohio State- Does Meyer ever lose when he isn't playing Saban or Miles.
9. Oregon- Stanford and UCLA hopefully will put a dent in this team to give them one loss.
10. Big 12- Art Briles to Austin? League looks bad.
11. ACC - Again have the 2nd most NFL caliber players and it seems the coaches have improved enough to finally make an impact nationally.
12. LSU-BAMA Game It matters like Death and Taxes.
13. Cam Cameron makes those incredible WR's at LSU important. Please make Les not get too involved when he gets nervous. While you are there tell him Hill and Magee should get 30 carries a game. Hillard and Blue 5 combined.
14. Ga still frustrates me with the inconsistency.
15. Spurrier is still my hero.
16. Michigan - ND 115000 people, when is too big an issue.
17. Leach at Wash St is 2-1 losing at Auburn but beating the brat, as Bill King calls him, at USC
18. Bama play Vandy-Tenn in SEC non-conf.
19. Aggies play Misso-Kentucky
20. LSU remaining schedule- OUCH. Georgia, Florida, Bama,Ole Miss, Aggies.
Any talk of tougher schedule is a homer for another conference.
20A. Did I mention Manziel is fun to watch.
J.
Wednesday, September 18, 2013
JFF
During the last half century, I have only seen a four players that truly controlled football games. I must admit that Johnny Manziel qualifies and is as electric as any player that I have seen.
He is great. Quickness, Vision, Toughness with Accuracy is just SPECIAL.
(S, you said it best.)
While Sumlin and the Aggie administration is waking up this sleeping giant in College Station. Manziel has made the Aggies a national contender with his unique abilities on a team with below LSU, BAMA, GA, FLA or even South Carolina talent.
The last two QB's I saw do this:
1. Cam Newton- Undefeated NC with 5th best talent in SEC.
2. Doug Flutie- I have compared JFF to him since I watched the Fla game last year. This is as big a compliment as I can give a player. He beat Bama his freshman year and I hated him, but the play never died with Flutie.
3. I don't have the vivid memories of Archie Manning, but I do think of him as the best College QB I had ever seen until Flutie.
I would have loved to have seen Roger "The Dodger" Staubach at Navy and Fran Tarkenton at GA.
Tebow, Frazier and Young were great, but they did not do these things with less talent than the opposition. Newton, Flutie and JFF win despite the talent.
Only Dorsett, Walker and Campbell were close to dominating a season from the RB position. Earl lost his NC to the Irish and it hurts to remember.
I will enjoy every game until Manziel leaves and I want it to be this year.
He is killing the LSU recruiting base.
J.
He is great. Quickness, Vision, Toughness with Accuracy is just SPECIAL.
(S, you said it best.)
While Sumlin and the Aggie administration is waking up this sleeping giant in College Station. Manziel has made the Aggies a national contender with his unique abilities on a team with below LSU, BAMA, GA, FLA or even South Carolina talent.
The last two QB's I saw do this:
1. Cam Newton- Undefeated NC with 5th best talent in SEC.
2. Doug Flutie- I have compared JFF to him since I watched the Fla game last year. This is as big a compliment as I can give a player. He beat Bama his freshman year and I hated him, but the play never died with Flutie.
3. I don't have the vivid memories of Archie Manning, but I do think of him as the best College QB I had ever seen until Flutie.
I would have loved to have seen Roger "The Dodger" Staubach at Navy and Fran Tarkenton at GA.
Tebow, Frazier and Young were great, but they did not do these things with less talent than the opposition. Newton, Flutie and JFF win despite the talent.
Only Dorsett, Walker and Campbell were close to dominating a season from the RB position. Earl lost his NC to the Irish and it hurts to remember.
I will enjoy every game until Manziel leaves and I want it to be this year.
He is killing the LSU recruiting base.
J.
Bo Pelini cannot hide his stripes
I haven't made many positive post on Manic Bo, even while at LSU.
This made me laugh:
"Our crowd. What a bunch of f------ fair-weather f------ — they can all kiss my ass out the f------ door. 'Cause the day is f------ coming now. We'll see what they can do when I'm f------ gone."
Then Tommie Frazier made a comment that Bo needed to go.
Bo in his fashion then upset more Huskers fans with this.
"Since I came back here, I've embraced former players," Pelini said. "If he feels like that, then so be it. We don't need him. That's a shame. Until you've sat in this seat, until you've sat here and done it, anybody can have an opinion. It's easy to point fingers when you stand outside and throw stones. So I just take it for what it is."
Bo really didn't do anything bad with Frazier, but Tommie Boy is a well earned hero. Nebraska fans are truly great, but they do live too much with the "Osborne steroid and recruiting anyone past."
I just listened to him on Bill King and Bo can't apologize and sound sincere, he doesn't seem to understand how.
j
This made me laugh:
"Our crowd. What a bunch of f------ fair-weather f------ — they can all kiss my ass out the f------ door. 'Cause the day is f------ coming now. We'll see what they can do when I'm f------ gone."
Then Tommie Frazier made a comment that Bo needed to go.
Bo in his fashion then upset more Huskers fans with this.
"Since I came back here, I've embraced former players," Pelini said. "If he feels like that, then so be it. We don't need him. That's a shame. Until you've sat in this seat, until you've sat here and done it, anybody can have an opinion. It's easy to point fingers when you stand outside and throw stones. So I just take it for what it is."
Bo really didn't do anything bad with Frazier, but Tommie Boy is a well earned hero. Nebraska fans are truly great, but they do live too much with the "Osborne steroid and recruiting anyone past."
I just listened to him on Bill King and Bo can't apologize and sound sincere, he doesn't seem to understand how.
j
Romobilized
Sometimes being correct about the Cowboys gives me a stomach ache.
Romo was not healed from the start of the season. A new throwing motion with less velocity and less accuracy is bothersome news for 2013 (and this was prior to the bruised Ribs against the Giants.)
The Boys look like the "same ole same ole" as related to the rest of the league.
8-8 seems about right if Romo's back improves during the year.
Offense: I was upset with myself during the first quarter vs. the Giants when I had forgotten that part of the news conference announcing Bill Callahan. The most important and disappointing parts was the comment that went like this.
" We will run the same offense, I will just help with play calling"
How did I miss it? The same offense that Ed Reed and others made comments about being surprising simplistic!
The equation=Run into the line twice then pray for Romo on 3rd down. If your behind turn Romo loose in the 2 min offense and score. Well if Romo is inaccurate, they will not win 9 games.
Defense: It looks better, I am not sold on the coverage when a team spreads the field. Eli seemed to throw at will when he went to a hurry up.
Ware is hidden on the corner so far, the positive is Lee, Carter and Church are flying to the ball.
J.
Tuesday, July 30, 2013
Romo inaccurate in scrimmages?
Something sounds fishy regarding Romo's back surgery.
The Cowboys continue to play "Tough Guy" in the way they report injuries. We have heard rumors for the past three or four years about Romo's back. Now a surgery for a reported cyst, but a longer than normal recovery period followed.
Then Babe L. talked about seeing that for the first time in his career, Romo was missing receivers badly.
If this is a worse injury that we have been led to believe. We are in for some bad years with JJ drafting players.
j.
The Cowboys continue to play "Tough Guy" in the way they report injuries. We have heard rumors for the past three or four years about Romo's back. Now a surgery for a reported cyst, but a longer than normal recovery period followed.
Then Babe L. talked about seeing that for the first time in his career, Romo was missing receivers badly.
If this is a worse injury that we have been led to believe. We are in for some bad years with JJ drafting players.
j.
Wednesday, June 19, 2013
Omaha
I hated that LSU went down in 2 games, but the games were played fast enough that I could enjoy the play. At times I miss the long ball, but the 5 hour games of the past were hard for me to stomach.
The umps, as BPender keeps telling me, are giving the pitchers the low strike at the knees and it is great. We will no longer ruin pitchers in college with the juiced up ball and fear to pitch inside and low. The players should be better prepared to go straight to the majors with these toned down bats.
College baseball is set to become a line-drive hitters game in the near future, Coaches better adjust or they will follow LSU with "2 and Done." Depending on baserunning and defense is a recipe for 50 games one year and a 500% season the next. The LSU lack of hitting the last 3 years is difficult to explain, but leaving 20 runners on base in the last two games was more about pressure of the situation.
I am wearing my Mississippi State Baseball T-Shirt today in honor of BCompton, who pitched for the dogs in 98.
J.
The umps, as BPender keeps telling me, are giving the pitchers the low strike at the knees and it is great. We will no longer ruin pitchers in college with the juiced up ball and fear to pitch inside and low. The players should be better prepared to go straight to the majors with these toned down bats.
College baseball is set to become a line-drive hitters game in the near future, Coaches better adjust or they will follow LSU with "2 and Done." Depending on baserunning and defense is a recipe for 50 games one year and a 500% season the next. The LSU lack of hitting the last 3 years is difficult to explain, but leaving 20 runners on base in the last two games was more about pressure of the situation.
I am wearing my Mississippi State Baseball T-Shirt today in honor of BCompton, who pitched for the dogs in 98.
J.
NFL
Did the Cowboys handle anything right this offseason.
In my opinion. NO.
8-8 maybe a stretch unless the Defense is much better than I expect.
J.
In my opinion. NO.
8-8 maybe a stretch unless the Defense is much better than I expect.
J.
US OPEN`
Father's Day has become difficult for me to watch in recent years because of golf and the NBA finals.
Phil losing US Opens is gut wrenching. The year he lost it on 18 and the Mavs were robbed in Miami made me quit watching TV for a month.
Phil has 4 majors, but I think he needs 6 to get his due among the greats of all time. We cannot forget that Tiger is just a phenom that is mentioned as greatest ever, but that Phil is an all time great.
I have never seen a supposedly great putter, like Lefty, miss as many birdie putts inside of ten feet. It is the complete opposite of Jack and Tiger. This makes it gut-wrenching for me in every major.
Still, I enjoy watching the wizardry and relate to the failures with Phil more than any golfer I have ever rooted for in sports.
Rory, has to have Girl issues. He loses concentration completely. His ball striking is still below last year, but better than 95% of the PGA, but his putting is killing him. Can the new ball effect the read of putts that much? I would like to see the math on the subject.
Tiger, has been the best putter on tour by a wide margin for most of the year, but in the last month fallen off again. I am confused by his lost ability to read putts better than anyone we have ever seen.
Justin Rose is a great golfer and I am glad he won a major. I like his game and felt he deserved to win shooting 3 under the last 3 days when the course became harder. His birdie after watching Phil Eagle 10 was eerily familiar to watching him make long putts in the recent Ryder Cup to beat Phil, who was playing great.
It is great to watch and almost funny, but you can tell that Rose likes Phil and wants to beat him out of respect. It is like, Phil has made people better somehow. What a great competitor Rose has become?
J
Phil losing US Opens is gut wrenching. The year he lost it on 18 and the Mavs were robbed in Miami made me quit watching TV for a month.
Phil has 4 majors, but I think he needs 6 to get his due among the greats of all time. We cannot forget that Tiger is just a phenom that is mentioned as greatest ever, but that Phil is an all time great.
I have never seen a supposedly great putter, like Lefty, miss as many birdie putts inside of ten feet. It is the complete opposite of Jack and Tiger. This makes it gut-wrenching for me in every major.
Still, I enjoy watching the wizardry and relate to the failures with Phil more than any golfer I have ever rooted for in sports.
Rory, has to have Girl issues. He loses concentration completely. His ball striking is still below last year, but better than 95% of the PGA, but his putting is killing him. Can the new ball effect the read of putts that much? I would like to see the math on the subject.
Tiger, has been the best putter on tour by a wide margin for most of the year, but in the last month fallen off again. I am confused by his lost ability to read putts better than anyone we have ever seen.
Justin Rose is a great golfer and I am glad he won a major. I like his game and felt he deserved to win shooting 3 under the last 3 days when the course became harder. His birdie after watching Phil Eagle 10 was eerily familiar to watching him make long putts in the recent Ryder Cup to beat Phil, who was playing great.
It is great to watch and almost funny, but you can tell that Rose likes Phil and wants to beat him out of respect. It is like, Phil has made people better somehow. What a great competitor Rose has become?
J
Heat Spurs
A few weeks ago SI published and article about Lebron. In the article an insider made a comment that they didn't realize that Lebron was the best player in the NBA when they got him and tried to make him play just a role on the team.
? How did they not know?
Cavs in Finals, with who as teammates?
So much for the myth of ex-players recognizing talent.
He is incredible, not better defensively than MJ, but great. (People forget MJ guarded the best players also and completely took them out of the game.)
I heard someone recently say that they never saw Malone guarding an All Star PG. - Lebron Can!
He is not better than MJ in the lane on offense, but better than Kobe every thought about being.
I am still amazed at how fast he is down the court when takes off, the Heat coaching has contained his speed with his duties as a PG. I cannot fathom what he would do if he had a Stockton-Malone type passer with him. Ca
The Heat are a team in desperate need of ADHD meds.
Between Wade clogging up the offense and Bosh being place out of position to help on interior defense, they are just hard to watch.
The Spurs on the other hand, seem to be the best at developing players and just play a great team game. When Wade and James are on the floor they double and triple Lebron, while knowing that Bosh stays outside so those two can clog up the paint and force issues.
If the Heat win, Wade will have to play defense with abandon or be sitting on the bench while the shooters spread the floor and let Lebron work the lane and kick it out.
I am curious if Lebron will opt out of his contract. He cannot be happy with the griping reportedly in the locker room for the Heat.
J.
? How did they not know?
Cavs in Finals, with who as teammates?
So much for the myth of ex-players recognizing talent.
He is incredible, not better defensively than MJ, but great. (People forget MJ guarded the best players also and completely took them out of the game.)
I heard someone recently say that they never saw Malone guarding an All Star PG. - Lebron Can!
He is not better than MJ in the lane on offense, but better than Kobe every thought about being.
I am still amazed at how fast he is down the court when takes off, the Heat coaching has contained his speed with his duties as a PG. I cannot fathom what he would do if he had a Stockton-Malone type passer with him. Ca
The Heat are a team in desperate need of ADHD meds.
Between Wade clogging up the offense and Bosh being place out of position to help on interior defense, they are just hard to watch.
The Spurs on the other hand, seem to be the best at developing players and just play a great team game. When Wade and James are on the floor they double and triple Lebron, while knowing that Bosh stays outside so those two can clog up the paint and force issues.
If the Heat win, Wade will have to play defense with abandon or be sitting on the bench while the shooters spread the floor and let Lebron work the lane and kick it out.
I am curious if Lebron will opt out of his contract. He cannot be happy with the griping reportedly in the locker room for the Heat.
J.
Airline High School Story Baseball
http://www.shreveporttimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2013306150013
Interesting article .
J.
As a side note:
I cannot remmeber the specifics but there was around 7 kids from that played in Bossier Youth leagues in Omaha when the Bell Boys were at LSU.
Interesting article .
J.
As a side note:
I cannot remmeber the specifics but there was around 7 kids from that played in Bossier Youth leagues in Omaha when the Bell Boys were at LSU.
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