November 12, 2009 – 9:21 pm
Another 3-2 W/L last week, and my season tally is 29-21. And that’s a fact, Jack.
And, if you think I’m going to rest on my laurels and pick a bunch o’ bunnies, think again, shankapatamous.
So, I’ll start at the top and work my way down the totem pole of student athletic pigskinnery.
Syracuse @ Louisville. So, [...]
November 11, 2009 – 8:36 pm
So the phone just rings and on the line is the person Formerly Known As Source of the Year.
The first words out of his mouth: “I know nothing.”
I know he’s referring to who might be U of L’s next football coach. (Which assumes that Steve Kragthorpe will be terminated sometime soon.)
Then, correctly assuming I’m viewing [...]
November 10, 2009 – 10:48 am
Just for argument’s sake, let’s assume for a moment that Tom Jurich is displeased with the performance of his head football coach Steve Kragthorpe.
I have no idea whether TJ is pleased as punch or disgruntled with the state of U of L football. Since he’s made no public statements other than his Steve-has-my-full-support-yada-yada-yada to national [...]
November 8, 2009 – 10:13 am
Coach Quote’s post game comments were more like a literal not a figurative post mortem.
His FAU charges were manhandled by UAB, the paradigm of mediocrity.
29-56. Ouch.
The Schnell did not mince words, calling the L “the worst beating we ever had.” He continued, “This is a very difficult defeat for us to have to endure.”
The Fighting [...]
November 7, 2009 – 9:37 pm
I received ESPN The Magazine’s College Basketball Preview issue in the mail today.
The panel of experts ranks their top 64 schools.
Kansas is #1.
Kentucky is #4.
Louisville is # . . . I dunno. The Cards are nowhere to be found.
Which is to say the sports giant which heralds Bilas and Fraschilla and Gottleib and Vitale and [...]
November 7, 2009 – 8:42 pm
Rule #1: You gotta come ready to play. (Unless your opponent is Louisville, a team coached by an allegedly decent man of stunning incompetence, which will find a way to lose no matter how inept the opponent.)
Okay, Coach Accountable, It’s Time to Step Up and Do The Right Thing. Steve Kragthrope, you keep saying it’s [...]
November 5, 2009 – 10:18 am
Thanks to the Cards, who may have notched their last W of the year, the surprising Blue Devils and the Mighty Mighty Quack, I went 3-2 last week. The tally for the season is 26 up and 19 down. Not enough to pay for a trip to Vegas, but not bad.
Boise State @ Louisiana Tech. [...]
November 5, 2009 – 9:37 am
Some quick observations on the Louisville/ Bellarmine match up that was far less scintillating than I thought it would be.
Speaking of quick, can Preston Knowles elevate and launch in a nanosecond? Yes he can. But I digress.
As for the kids who trekked down Eastern Parkway from their Norris Place home, Scotty Davenport’s Bellarmine Knights simply [...]
November 4, 2009 – 5:12 pm
Tonight’s “exhibition” against the formidable Bellarmine Knights is not your daddy’s walkover.
Exhibit A: LeMoyne 82, Syracuse 79.
Exhibit B: Bellarmine Knights. Allow me to repeat what I said about last year’s edition of the Norris Placers. “They run the motion offense better than any team I’ve seen this year at any level.” There is no reason [...]
November 2, 2009 – 10:50 am
This is about college football, not the Breeders Cup or Churchill Downs’ fall meet. But, hey, anything to grab your — the readers’ — attention, right?
Some meandering ruminations:
The annual carping about the BCS can now officially begin. Anybody with any football sense watching Oregon draw and quarter Southern Cal Saturday understands that this is a [...]
