A brilliant 5-0 vs the spread last week, 11-7 for the year. Michigan's homely 26-10 home loss to Utah was Brady Hoke's last game as head coach of the Wolverines. Hoke is now just the pile of horse droppings waiting to be cleaned up after this season's remaining parade of losses. How bad was the Utah game? Even those old *Michigan Men* boosters who loved all the Bo Schembechler nostalgia Hoke spoon fed them, and who sabotaged Rich Rodriguez' three years in Ann Arbor, aren't bothering to blame RichRod anymore. Michigan's new offensive coordinator, supposedly hired away from Alabama, is doing a worse job than Al Borges, Brady Hoke's friend, who Hoke scapegoated after last year. Michigan's offense is so pathetic, it makes the defense look bad, even though the defense is impossible to run against. Michigan's opponents just have to capitalize on the Wolverine's multiple turnovers and special teams goofs, and presto!, EZ points pile up on the scoreboard.
So now it's who's the next coach time in Ann Arbor. Of course, Jim Harbaugh's name will pop up. . .would he leave the NFL? In my opinion, Harbaugh would be better off in the college game. The man has zero loyalty to his players. If he sees the next guy up is even a cunt hair better than the current starter, it's out the door (Alex Smith, Frank Gore, etc.). That kind of cut-throat will-to-win probably has a three or four year shelf life in the NFL, where the rosters stay relatively intact, and teammate loyalty is the glue that holds the locker room together. In Harbaugh's fourth year, the 49ers have been soft in the second half, Harbaugh's intensity is not carrying over to his players. Fading to Chicago and Arizona, it looks like the 49ers are tuning out Harbaugh. In college football, the best players have a three year run, and so the roster is constantly turning over, which suits Harbaugh's mania for the next new-and-improved player. Or maybe Harbaugh will just move to another NFL team, following the Bill Parcells pattern.
Mississippi State's win over LSU seems to indicate LSU is no longer on the same level as Alabama, Auburn, Texas A&M, Georgia. They may even no longer be as good as the Mississippi schools. Result: we won't have to hear the old Schembechler guard howling for Les Miles to return to Ann Arbor. His day has come and gone.
My prediction for next Michigan head coach: John Harbaugh. I think the Ray Rice stink might be enough to move John back to Ann Arbor. He's already won a Super Bowl, the only thing left for him to accomplish in the NFL is getting fired.
UCLA -5.5 at Arizona State: The Bruins just slipped by three mediocre teams, now they play a tough conference foe on the road. The Bruins have NO CHANCE to win if they have to play faggy back-up QB Jerry Neuheisel. Arizona State's defense is shitty (they gave up over 500 yards to Colorado!?!?), but they can score a lot of points. UCLA needs Brett Hundley to play the whole game at QB if they are going to win. As I post this, still no word on his status for Thursday's game. With Hundley, the pick is UCLA. With faggy Neuheisel, the pick is Arizona State.
Florida State -21.5 at North Carolina State: The Hymen Trophy winner is reinstated after serving a whole one game suspension. That's some discipline. I'm sure the shit-colored jackass Jameis Winston is a new man. Ha ha ha. Not. Florida State hasn't been nearly as dominating as they were last year. There's some rot. Is it due to Winston fatigue, or are the *Semen*oles just fat and happy after last year's title? I have no clue whether North Carolina State is any good or not, but getting 3 touchdowns at home against a distracted FSU is worth the risk. North Carolina State.
Arkansas +8.5 at Texas A&M: Bret Bielema is starting to get his Wisconsin/Big 10 power run game established with the Razorbacks. This will be a good test to see if his 60-run-plays per game offense is up to SEC title standards. Bielema's control the clock run game should be the perfect attack to slow down Texas A&M's point a minute offense. Kevin Sumlin's A&M has never had a very good defense, but I get the feeling Arkansas isn't quite ready for the SEC big boys yet. Texas A&M.
Stanford -6.5 at Washington: Chris Peterson's Huskies, after two horrible wins against horseshit teams to start the season, have gotten better the last two weeks. But are they ready for Stanford? Even a declining Stanford? Well, it's Stanford's offense that is in decline. Their defense has only given up 13 points and 614 yards in three games. That's pretty impressive in this day and age of EA Sports football. Stanford.
Cincinnati +14 at Ohio State: Former High School glamor boy QB Gunner Kiel, now at his tenth college, should be able to put a few points on the board against the Buckeye's leaky secondary, but Cincinnati's defense won't be able to stop OSU's run game. The Buckeyes could give up 28 and still cover fairly easily. Ohio State.
Hah, I'd never heard of Gunner Kiel. And what is with that name? Were 90's parents old hippies or something? Some of these names....
ReplyDeleteAnyway, I saw ole Gunnar is a 21 year old sophomore with no major. Not even sports management, the nomenclature used by these advanced schools of education for basket weaving.
Winston.... Now the FSU pr department is saying Winston came out last game in pads at first because of a communication mix up from the coach. Coach was pissed Winston came out in pads. It sounds like the communication problem is Winston not listening to coach. And when he came back, his hat was on crooked.
That had to be addressed as well.
The media can't be too careful in the case of the Negro Hymen winner who had a report filed against him for some sexual battery. Result- he'll drop to the second or third round. But honestly report about the guy? Nope.
The media can't bring itself to report the color of flash mobs other than saying they are "rowdy youths."
Rowdy means pound caking a few Paki clerks, smash and grab, and tipping a car over now. At least when we're talking about these "youths."
It's also a misunderstanding when a girl files a report alleging some sort of sexual battery.
Interesting article about Winston and the police delaying investigation- http://www.slate.com/articles/sports/jurisprudence/2013/11/jameis_winston_the_sexual_assault_allegations_against_the_florida_state.html
ReplyDeleteGood article. . .the cops are a joke. . .what's a rape here or there compared to the Football Machine in Tallahassee? Of course, it happens on all the campuses of the big time football schools. Just another sign of the rot in the American soul.
ReplyDeleteThese schools, and pro teams, have fixers who go to the cops and ask that charges get dropped. Through giving tickets, autographs, whatever. We don't know the real number of crimes committed. Remember that Nebraska football player who raped a woman or two and Nebraska did everything they could to cover it up?
ReplyDeleteThat was 1991 or something. Because this stuff is so opaque we can only speculate as to the scale. I do think we'd be surprised at how bad it is.
Yup. . .that was Lawrence Phillips. . .a real animal. He's in prison now, I think he's got at least 15 more years to do. Tom Osborne is the guy who coddled him. Osborne, one of the *Lengendary Figures* in the game.
ReplyDeleteThe funny thing is, Nebraska would have won without him anyway. They were loaded back in the day. One big ol' black running back more or less wasn't going to stop them, but still Osborne looked the other way. I don't know how you excuse that. . .