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Wow! You dug up a picture of me back in the old days. And you have become extremely computer savy digitally adding a poster of Tebow into the picture. I sure looked great back then! Thank God the season does not end with the last game. Yes, we always want the good things to last forever and now I can be on the front end of the speculation plus learn ahead of time about the recruiting. By the way, I have hated Ohio State since the Woody Hayes days when he would play against Michigan. Hope they lose by thousands of points! Would that it be so. And now time for another fun sports season: college BB. Much better than the pros.

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Ok gang, its my turn to rant. I can take LSU leaping 5 spots after barely beating Tennessee, who UF killed by like 50 points or something. I can take Hawaii trashing the skills of our (likely) sophomore heisman winner. But I CANNOT take any more OHIO STATE. Words cannot describe how sick I am of this pathetic team. They are horrible. They have a dull, uninspired coach. They have less than mediocre athletes. They are weak opponents and play a weak schedule. Ohio State is the kind of team I would want to play early in the season to let our players warm up, or later in the season as a guaranteed win for the homecoming game - seriously. I am calling them out now as losers in the big game this year - 38-7 is my prediction. And I think that is generous. How did these fools get into ANOTHER championship? When is everyone going to realize how bad this program is? Being an Ohio State fan must be like a severely mentally challenged person waking up each Christmas to a call from the Nobel prize committee, delivering the news of his nomination (sorry to any PC sensitive bloggers). I guess I'm not old enough, but excuse me for not knowing who the hell Archie Griffin is. I've watched a ton of old football highlights, shows, whatever, and I have never seen anything about Archie Griffin. I've never seen him do anything cool on or off the football field. Attn: World - get over Archie Griffin, whoever he is, and GET OVER OHIO STATE!!! They are PITIFUL.

Victor--

You're right. Mizzou ranked ahead of SC is an outrage. But, hey, I've begun to focus on this year's recruiting which looks very good so far. Note to Nora-- You only think the football obsession ends with the last bowl game! Recruiting season is upon us and the blog will be alive with rumor and speculation between now and mid February as to who is signing up with whom. UF and SC are usually pretty strong in this area (1&2) last year. Anyway sorry about my rave on June Johnson, he really ticked me off. I'm fine now. Had a bad reaction to red tide exposure this weekend (more global warming) which threw me for a loop. It's a pretty powerful neurotoxin and it made me very dizzy and a little lightheaded so I had bad dreams of rainbow warriors doing war dances all over The Swamp -- pretty ugly stuff. In re coaching changes @ UCLA who's the top prospect? Who's going to replace Dorrell?

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Finally, I have my Tebow picture! Great conversation back and forth. Too bad the Hawaii coach was such a dufus. I was looking forward to seeing them play in a bowl game. There are still some great match-ups and football for days. It sure has been fun.

Over the Top

Vic, Thanks for your comment. I could not agree more that the teams in strong conferences really get punished by the BS system. SC is a perfect example of a great team in a great conference that got jumped over by lesser teams. UF ended up where I expected in a true rebuilding year where we also suffered a number of serious injuries (as did SC). Be that as it may, the system stinks. I was actually in a pretty good mood looking forward to next year when I heard the June Jones interview and it sent me over the top. This guy really went overboard. I could not believe my ears. He actually started trashing Tebow out of the blue in the most ridiculous mean spirited way. The whole ESPN panel seemed shocked. (Click on the post below and see somebody else's take on it). I literally came out of my chair and started cursing at him because he became for me the perfect poster boy of what's wrong with the BS system. Great teams in great conferences get passed over and cute little crappy teams who play other cute little crappy teams get invited to the party. Once in a while a Boise State comes along and that's great. I appreciate it. You say that Jones is a "run-and-shoot offensive guru". I'd like to see how well he does against the pass rushes and smothering coverages in the SEC. So far he's played nobody, as far as I can see from their pathetic schedule. I don't know what kind of offensive numbers he's going to put up against Georgia. Put me down as a skeptic on that one. What I do know is that this offensive guru is going to play us at The Swamp next year ---and I'm going to be there to watch the bloodletting! Let me make a prediction (as far as next year's game at The Swamp) Remember you heard it here first: Hawaii will not score a single point at the Swamp. Not one. Nada. And the Gators will put up over 60.

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Congrats Trojans & BCS Stuff & Some Idiot from WAC

First, Congratulations Trojans on your victory against the Bruins. Saw the game yesterday at the beach --really enjoyed it. In terms of BCS --Luisleon, your tigers have a chance at redemption now. You must destroy OSU --Remember the Buckeyes are 0-8 against the SEC and were most recently dismembered by my Gators. Don't blow it! Hope losing Pelini to Nebraska wont be too much of a distraction. Trojans against the Zooker in the Rose bowl! I thought the Gators would have to go against our old coach. Victor, I'm glad you have a shot at the Zooker instead of us. When he was with us the Zooker had a habit of winning games he was supposed to lose and losing games he was supposed to win --so be real careful! :) I'm much happier playing Michigan. Oklahoma and Georgia really got screwed. Either of them probably could beat OSU (but so could a lot of people). I thought Oklahoma looked awesome yesterday against Mizzou, but Mizzou was a real paper tiger as was West Virginia so it's hard to tell. I just heard June Jones, head coach for Hawaii, on ESPN. He's an absolute imbecile. A blithering idiot. He just said Tebow "can't pass" and "would not do very well" in their system. The chances of Hawaii recruiting someone the caliber of Tebow is less than a trillion to one! Wait, those odds are too high. I hope Georgia absolutely tears his heart out and stomps on it. What an incredible moron! Frankly I've had a long weekend and was falling asleep --he just woke me up!!! What a perfect idiot. I thought Hawaii was the ultimate fake bs cute little crap team to play in a BCS bowl game and this comemierda just confirmed it. Who has his team played? Fresno State? San Jose State? A crappy little coach in a crappy little WAC team who would not be qualified to mop the locker room floor at Florida just said on national television that the quarterback with one of the highest passing efficiencies in the nation (playing against real teams), the front runner for the Heisman, one of the best quarterbacks to ever play the game, "can't pass" and "would not do very well in our system." Who does this cretin, this birdbrained drooling little moron jackass think he is??? I wasn't going to watch this game because I have no interest in cute little WAC teams, but now I'm just going to enjoy the Dawgs running up the score against this joker. But that's going to be nothing compared to the joy of August 30, 2008. By sheer coincidence, Hawaii is the first team we play next year at the Swamp! Wow! We usually don't have stuff to post up in the locker room when we play cupcake teams because their players and coaches are smart enough to keep their mouths shut. Idiot Jones just became the exception. I'm going to save a transcript of the ESPN interview just in case Meyer missed it!

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well, the AP and coaches polls just came out.... Looks like it may be an OSU-LSU national championship game. Unreal. Georgia stayed put at 4, and Oklahoma moved to 3. This is pure insanity. So many teams must be upset, and strangely....none have that much to argue for anymore. Nobody earned a spot in anything this year except possibly Hawaii. The only way teams are even given a chance when they increase in ranking by default after 10 teams ahead of them lose. There has been an all out war this year in college football. All of the big dogs went down, many small teams had big wins, but then lost again. I feel like this season has been like one of those old school revolutionary war infantry battles, where hundreds of people line up in perfect files, stand 30 feet apart and continuously fire muskets at each other. Ohio state has played the part of the field general, sitting safely out of harms way watching the battle through a set of binoculars on a nearby hilltop. Oh well....i guess we will see for sure when the BSC selection show comes on tonight

The Blog

Amazing. I can now post, I think. Not that my musings will match the boys, but it is fun to be included in the coast to coast banter. Jose and Johnny are at the game. Victor and I at my house for the tailgater (housegater). Nora

cheers!

Just wanted to wish everyone a great Saturday - good luck to everyone who has teams playing in conference championships today!