I will admit it. I like the pros in football more than college, but not that much more. College football during the regular season was relevant as opposed to the college roundballers. Due to no continuity because of one and out for the elite players, college basketball is meaningless during the regular season. Just the way it's structured.
Today we had another top team eliminated from the BCS championship...Texas. The top 4 rated Horns were destroyed by UCLA, a team that had troubles for most of the previous 3 games. Not so today. UCLA got thumped on the ground. Texas is playing a ton of freshmen and will get better as the season progresses. My problem with Texas is that with all the talent they get, why can't they run the ball. They have had one good running back in the last 10 years, Jamaal Charles. Remember, Vince Young and Colt Mccoy were not running backs.
When is Lou Holtz going to give it up on Notre Dame? Every game he shills this team and every game they get thumped. Stanford had them outclassed the minute they got off the bus. Notre Dame has had the same team for the last 17 years. Slow on defense and not quite enough tools on offense....and of course very over hyped. Is it just me or does Mark May make Lou Holtz look like a fool on every show on ESPN. He is the ultimate Golden Domer shill.
Down here in Houston we have a really crazy reality. There are probably as many or more Cowboy fans than there are Houston Texan Fans. I don't usually take sides on a jersey, but it would keep the volume of obnoxious on the low end if Dallas loses tomorrow. I have nothing against the Cowboys but their fans in Houston are the ultimate front runners. I mean, they don't tend to root for the other Dallas professional teams. I think with the injuries Houston could have it's hands full. It is very hard to win 3 in a row in the NFL and also hard for a pretty decent team to lose 3 in a row. Dallas is a pretty decent team.
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Here's What the Fans Say About the East West Media Bias:
Rick Wrote
Nice sports blog, Rick. You are absolutely right. Eastern media bias is a thorn in the side of anyone who lives in the West and follows sports coverage. Loved your examples, especially the USC-ND rivalry.
Sports coverage of western teams is terrible here in Maine. The only way to get a PAC-10 score or highlight is via cable/satellite TV. With local network affiliates, you never see highlights or get coverage of any teams outside of New England unless they happen to play the Celtics, Red Sox, Patriots, or UMaine.
Mike Wrote
X-lent.
I remember....maybe when you were at Miami, and I was playing round ball on the ASU concrete with all the football players all day on Sunday - and many nights - listening to ASU games when I lived off of Mill Avenue down from the stadium in Tempe, watching Danny White or some player sit next to Coach Kush on his TV show talking about all the mistakes made in the game two nights ago. Well, it was all predictable - Woody Green would run touchdowns, the defense would crush the poor opponents, and we would have to suffer through Sunday's announcer call ASU "Arizona" if and when they rarely mentioned them........and wait until Monday to read the shortest, briefest mention of ASU's latest improbable win or score.
We would sit in the back yard, Bud can in hand, and wait for the fireworks on those Saturday nights. It seemed like we were always underdogs if you read the press or listened to the radio/TV experts. Thank God for the Arizona Republic. ASU in the WAC and what little notice they got reminds of Boise's situation.
It was amazing to watch whatever player sat next to Kush when he was asking questions. It was beyond respect what these guys had for him........it really was some kind of fear. It was an interesting time with Kush's aura and all that talent and speed on our team - OUR team, the one that didn't get any respect.
I hope on all those games where they killed a big 'un from the East or Midwest that someone got very, very rich in Las Vegas on us.
It really was quite a time for seven to eight years, and it was pure Phoenix, at least the Phoenix that I remember.
You know who sends shivers up my spine now watching and listening to this perfect example of excellence in taking cues on when to speak and when to cut away for a commercial, and all the while do it so smoothly that if you didn't know any better, you'd think he might know what he was talking about? It's that insipid, Brent Musberger. He HAS to have a great agent. God, was he terrible on that Boise game!?! Does stating the most obvious in a boring, ignorant fashion count for analysis now? He has turned into the 60's Chris Shenkel. They both belong on the old black and white Shell's Wonderful World of Golf.
Goldwater was right: they should cut off the east coast and let in fall into the ocean.
(Thank You Readers...Maybe the only 2 I have)
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I have lived in Phoenix, San Diego, Miami, San Antonio and Houston and spent tons of time in LA. Of all those towns, I would have to say Phoenix in the 70's was really the best in many ways. We only had the Suns and ASU football was the social event of the year. In fact, since teams would not invite ASU to play in Bowl games, we had to invent a Bowl. It was the Fiesta Bowl. Some of the teams that lost to ASU in the Fiesta Bowl include Nebraska, Florida State, Pitt with Tony Dorsett twice, and a Barry Switzer coached Oklahoma squad. This program is an accident waiting to happen if it ever gets aligned correctly. Biggest student body in the country, newest weight room and gorgeous stadium. It's hard to believe a school that was in the top 5 in sending players to the pros has fallen so far in recent times. Okay, enough for shilling the old days. The East Coast isn't that bad and once they move out west they usually see the errors of their ways. Like a guy recently said, "A 50 year old in New York looks 65 and a 50 year old in L.A. looks about 35. The lifestyle is just so much better."
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