Another big college football weekend

Nelson Mandela
The "father of Africa" commie Nelson Mandela is dead.  By all accounts a decent happy warrior.  He once said he that he was fortunate that he was arrested in South Africa before he could set off bombs that would have hurt innocent people.  Juxtapose that to today's Islamo-Terror-Fascists who wantonly blow up the innocent because of some perceived wrong, like a paper publishing a caricature of Mohammed or a fake report of korans being flushed in G'itmo.  RIP Nelson Mandela.

Excrement Man
Martin Bashir has left MessNBC.  One wonders how it was that Marty was given the opportunity to resign rather than being met at the door by security and a box of his stuff the morning after his remarks about Sara Palin.  Hey it's MessNBC.  What did you expect, standards?  Word is he has landed on his feet and already has a new job at the White Hose were he will serve as Queen Mooch's personal chef serving up excre...oh never mind.

BCS and other football stuff
Creepy know-it-alls, including King Creep himself, have trashed the BCS.  In its place they advocate a four team play-off series adding another game to a season that's already two games too long.  I've looked at the BCS champion and except for 2004 when a #3 USC team whined and got a share of the national title with LSU and 2012 where AL won  a rematch with LSU (making a rubber game necessary to determine the real National Champ), the BCS has gotten it right.

The four team play off scheme is likely to cause more problems than it solves.  Look if there were a four team play off this year.  There are two (3 when counting N. IL) undefeated teams right now and 5 one loss teams.  If the unthinkable happens, there could be as many as 7 one loss teams.  Who goes to the four team play off?   Well the BCS rankings decide, right?  How is that any different from what's happening right now?  All that is happening with a 4 team play off is the extension of a season that is already too long.  It won't be two years before the creeps want the play-off expanded to 8 teams, then 16 and so on.

And just a bit on conference rivalry.  Since its inception in 1998, the SEC has won 9 BCS championships, including the last 7.  That is a very impressive record.  But it's totally expected when you consider that the SEC is poaching Ohio boys to coach up their otherwise dismal football talent.  Les Miles (1 BCS), Urban Meyer (2 BCS's) and Nick Saban (4 BCSs) all first learned football in Ohio.  The first two being born there and the last attending Kent State University where he learned under football coaching legend Don James also an Ohio native.

Also consider the elements the SEC plays in as compared to the Big 10.  The SEC always plays on a fast track.  Their teams are built for speed and they all have a bunch of it.  Try that set up in Madison, WI or Columbus, OH in late Nov when its 20 degrees and sleeting sideway through the ear hole of your helmet.  Now consider that as a recruiting tool.  Nick Saban sits in a QB's or star receiver's living room and says, "Hey look you want a shot at the NFL? Better come play down south where the football doesn't get as hard and slick as it does in Ohio Stadium on a cold Saturday in Nov."

ASIDE: I get a kick out of SEC players in hoodies, gloves and stocking caps when the temps dip below 60. 

Big 10 teams are built to run and stop the run in late Nov.  That's how Big 10 conference titles are won in climates where it snows occasionally.  The SEC has no such concerns.  It's also why the SEC has ducked coming north into Ohio Stadium in Nov.  Wisconsin had to agree to play at a "neutral" southern site (how is a southern site "neutral" for the SEC?  What does the "S" in SEC stand for again?) to get the SEC to come out of their own backyard for three game series scheduled for 2014-16.

Comparing the two conferences is like comparing NASCAR to Formula I racing.  Sure FI cars are faster, but they wouldn't last two laps in a NASCAR race.  The first time Johnny Redneck tapped Frenchy Pierre's back bumper Frenchy's pretty car would be doing cartwheels into the crowd.  Johnny would be saying, "Heck all I did was try to push him a bit.  Boy howdy them things is sensitive."

Take that sis! ;)

GB