pearls, passes, & punt returns

With college basketball officially behind us (I can say I faithfully picked Kentucky from early on in the season, I love watching talent like theirs…), it’s time to look forward to football season. Some may notice that I’ve glazed over baseball season, which I love, being both a Rangers faithful and growing up right next to Olsen Field, but I cannot even compare that love to what waits for me with the spring practice season. My team has our first practice this weekend and Spring Game weekend is coming in just a few weeks. This always marks one of my favorite weekends of the year, when the town floods with alumni, the first tailgate of the season, and looking at players you loved and players you could grow to love take the field for the first time in months. So I encourage you, if you’re within close distance of your college town,go there and watch them play. Whether it is just for a scrimmage or for the big game, go see how last season’s rookies are stepping up and becoming leaders; watch the talent you drooled over when they were being recruited step onto the field for the first team, eager to prove themselves. See what you have to look forward to in August because, regardless whether your favorite player headed out early to the draft or you’re watching a new coach prowling the sidelines,football season is comingand we have so much to look forward to. So make that migration back home, reminisce on your college years, and take notes because the best time of the year is going to be here before we know it!

xoxo

..about USC losing their National Championship is not that Auburn now has even more reason to whine about not playing in in, not that LSU can rub USC’s noses in the fact that they’re the only champion from their year, and not that Oklahoma still lost (yes, I do in fact have a love affair with the way Bob Stoops coaches football. He is one of the greats of his generation). What makes me mad is now everyone won’t stop talking about a playoff system. Everything written about that announcement is followed by comments, anonymous of course because none of us are brave enough to attach our name to our thoughts anymore, blaming the FBS and BCS system for this problem and how a playoff would be better, blah blah blah. This is NOT about that. Did we all forget the reason USC lost all of its wins in the first place? This is about the Bush family and their illegal benefits. That’s all.

and I may be the only person who thinks the playoff system is going to make things worse. But that’s a story for another time.

Back to work! There’s an NCAA baseball regional going on & I’ve gotta take some notes!

xoxo,

me