Today my blog is going to be short and sweet. I am leaving for vacation and wanted to make sure I got a blog finished that would end with my prediction of conference championship games.
Tiger Woods, the perfect example about what is good about sports. Yeah, right, are you kidding me. I know this issue started a while back now, but the reason I have decided to blog about it, is because I think him in a rehab facility is absolutely ridiculous. First I want to start by saying what Tiger has done is obviously wrong(cheating on his wife). There is no reason for the man to be in rehab. Being part of the negotiating of his marriage staying together is the only reason I can think of for him being there. What does not make sense to me is how is this going to help? Tiger does not have a sickness. What he has is a prima donna athlete complex. Rich, good looking man, who might be the most famous man in the world, and has always been a spoiled brat that always has gotten what he wanted his whole life. That is the problem and sex rehab is not going to fix that. Sex has nothing to do with it. He did what he did, because he could. And has never had to take other peoples feelings into account. He is Tiger Woods. So I think it is funny that he is at a center for sex rehab.
I want to go slightly farther on this little agenda. I just wish famous rich athletes would just wake up. The Kobe's and Tigers of this world are far more normal then the rest. For a famous athlete, they should all do the smart thing, wait to get married. No matter what, they should all wait until at least their late 30's and hopefully until after their playing days are over. If they all did this you could just about cut out all this kind of stuff. The mix of being famous, rich, and traveling(being away from home) a good portion of the year is just a guarantee for this stuff to happen. So save us all from the headlines and making your self look bad and just wait. And for women that marry these men young, come on, you know what you are getting and you better be ready to expect it if you are dumb enough to jump into something like this.
Well my prediction for the week as previously noted is the conference championships. As I mentioned in my last blog I am a Vikings fan! Just wanted to remind everyone before making my prediction. I guess my prediction is not going to be exciting and it pains me to make it. I am going with both home teams and a Super Bowl that will be Colts vs. Saints! Sorry Vikes, I hope I am wrong and will still be rooting for you, but when I make predictions I try to not be biased at all. I just think the home teams in the domes will win. For Viking fans if it makes you feel better I would have taken the Vikings if they were playing in MN. So for once I really hope my prediction is wrong.
Saturday, January 23, 2010
Monday, January 18, 2010
Vikings: Wrong or Right????
Today's blog is about the way the Minnesota Vikings handled the end of the playoff game against the Dallas Cowboys.
I would like to take a second and announce I am Vikings fan. I just thought it would make good sense to make sure the readers knew this before reading the blog today.
There seems to be a lot of controversy concerning the way the playoff game this week ended. I have heard many people argue both sides of the argument. There is the side that says it was inappropriate the way the Vikings handle the end of the game and that it was poor sportsmanship. While I have also heard people say, they are professionals and it is the Cowboys job to stop them no matter what the score and time left in the game is. There are many different opinions and reasons for those opinions that I have heard.
I will now give you my take on the situation and after reading this I welcome yours. To me, the bottom line, this was a classless, poor sportsmanship like display portrayed by a bonehead of a coach(Brad Childress). I think Brad's explanation after the game made it worse. Growing up, I was always taught, win or lose, the most important thing is good sportsmanship. Well let me tell you something, there was none of that on display Sunday. The Vikings could of done many things instead of pass for a TD. They could have kicked a field goal or just ran 4 running plays and just handed the ball back to the Cowboys with less then 2 minutes left to go in the game deep in their own end. Either way there was no way the Cowboys had a chance. Those would have been the options the Vikings could have chose to display good sportsmanship. Of course they did not do this. There was just really no good valid reason for acting like they did.
The excuse they are professionals seems like the most ridiculous excuse of all the ones I have heard. So because you are a professional you no longer respect your opponent? I think this really sends a mixed message to kids. OK, Johnny once you become a professional it is OK to embarrass, disrespect, and play without sportsmanship. But until then you should act differently. Come on, really? Nice message to send to the kids, Brad. To me being a professional means you are even more respectful and raise the level of sportsmanship to the highest of levels if anything.
To be honest the only good thing Brad Childress has done as coach of the Minnesota Vikings is negotiate Farve signing on. On top of that I really do not think other then it finally getting done that Childress even handled that in a good way.
So bottom line my final opinion on this is: The Vikings acted in the wrong manner. That being sad. GO VIKINGS!
My prediction for this blog is going to be who will be the next head coach at East Carolina. My guess is going to be someone most of you probably have never heard of. That answer is Rod Broadway, current head coach of Grambling. Later this week in a blog I will be giving my prediction of the to NFL Championship games.
I would like to take a second and announce I am Vikings fan. I just thought it would make good sense to make sure the readers knew this before reading the blog today.
There seems to be a lot of controversy concerning the way the playoff game this week ended. I have heard many people argue both sides of the argument. There is the side that says it was inappropriate the way the Vikings handle the end of the game and that it was poor sportsmanship. While I have also heard people say, they are professionals and it is the Cowboys job to stop them no matter what the score and time left in the game is. There are many different opinions and reasons for those opinions that I have heard.
I will now give you my take on the situation and after reading this I welcome yours. To me, the bottom line, this was a classless, poor sportsmanship like display portrayed by a bonehead of a coach(Brad Childress). I think Brad's explanation after the game made it worse. Growing up, I was always taught, win or lose, the most important thing is good sportsmanship. Well let me tell you something, there was none of that on display Sunday. The Vikings could of done many things instead of pass for a TD. They could have kicked a field goal or just ran 4 running plays and just handed the ball back to the Cowboys with less then 2 minutes left to go in the game deep in their own end. Either way there was no way the Cowboys had a chance. Those would have been the options the Vikings could have chose to display good sportsmanship. Of course they did not do this. There was just really no good valid reason for acting like they did.
The excuse they are professionals seems like the most ridiculous excuse of all the ones I have heard. So because you are a professional you no longer respect your opponent? I think this really sends a mixed message to kids. OK, Johnny once you become a professional it is OK to embarrass, disrespect, and play without sportsmanship. But until then you should act differently. Come on, really? Nice message to send to the kids, Brad. To me being a professional means you are even more respectful and raise the level of sportsmanship to the highest of levels if anything.
To be honest the only good thing Brad Childress has done as coach of the Minnesota Vikings is negotiate Farve signing on. On top of that I really do not think other then it finally getting done that Childress even handled that in a good way.
So bottom line my final opinion on this is: The Vikings acted in the wrong manner. That being sad. GO VIKINGS!
My prediction for this blog is going to be who will be the next head coach at East Carolina. My guess is going to be someone most of you probably have never heard of. That answer is Rod Broadway, current head coach of Grambling. Later this week in a blog I will be giving my prediction of the to NFL Championship games.
Thursday, January 14, 2010
Just a hint
For anyone leaving comments which I very much appreciate!!!! I guess you have to click "post" a couple times to make it work.
THANKS!!!
This is not going to be a blog. I just wanted to let readers know, that I appreciate any feedback or comments they might have on my blogs. Also there opinion are definitely welcome!
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Lane Kiffin
My blog today is about the hysteria surrounding the hiring of Lane Kiffin at USC.
First thing I want to start off by saying is USC really pulled a rabbit out of the hat on this one. It is odd to me that most experts wonder why USC would hire Kiffin considering he has not really accomplished that much as a head coach yet. Let me give you 3 reasons. Those reasons are called Monte Kiffin, Ed Orgeron, and Norm Chow! First of all, one thing that Lane has proved at both UT and formerly at USC is that he can recruit. Ed Orgeron is also a great recruiter. Kids will run to USC in droves to play for Monte Kiffin(the man Pete Carroll called the best DC ever). So in short, USC will continue to get the best players in the country and I actually think this change will actually make the recruiting at USC even better if that is possible. So in the end I think USC will be fine, actually I do not just think they will be fine, I think with in a couple years they will be back to being one of the top couple teams in the country, and maybe the best. Matter of fact here comes the predictor in me. I predict two years from now they will be playing in the National Championship game.
I also want to throw my opinion out there on all the people that are also hating on Lane Kiffin for taking the USC. Now do not get me wrong, I am not saying that I would want Lane to be my friend or that he is an honest person all the time. But I do not see anything wrong with him taking the job and doing what he did. He was offered his dream job. Why should he not take it? I remember when I was a kid, Lou Holtz was the coach for the Minnesota Gophers for like 3 years. The previous years before he arrived the Gophers were terrible. When Lou came in he got the whole town excited and he turned the program around and got us going back to bowl games again. Then after 3 years he leaves us high and dry to take the job at Notre Dame. In his contract at Minnesota he had stated if Notre Dame(which was his dream job) was ever to offer him the job that he would leave. So that is exactly what happened. Everyone in Minnesota felt betrayed and jilted. This was Lane's dream job he even stated it. So I think good for him that he got it. To make people understand this better. Take the average Joe. Say he just started a new job six months ago. We all probably have our own jobs we dream about having even though many might be unattainable. So after six months on the job, Joe gets the opportunity to take his dream job. Do you think Joe is staying at his job he has been at the last six months if that is not his dream job just because he had only been there for 6 months? Do you think his employer when hiring him thought he would only stay 6 months? Of course not. To me there is no difference and we all would do the same thing for our dream job. Remember he is going from UT to USC. Not UT to the University of Minnesota.
I know I made a prediction earlier in the blog but I always have to make one at the end also. Besides i can never make enough predictions. So tonight I am predicting who I think will be replacing Lane Kiffin. I think it will be David Cutcliffe. I really see no other viable option at this point. To add to that I think Cutcliffe will fail and not be that successful. Really to add more to my prediction I predict that UT will struggle to just barely make bowl games if that for the near future with the new coaching staff and think they will be going through the hiring process again with in the next 3 years. The only other candidate I can see them hiring is the runner up for the job last year, Troy Calhoun. Either way I think both will end of failing. I am still shocked Tommy Bowden is still unemployed at the same time.
This is all what makes college football the greatest sport in the world!
First thing I want to start off by saying is USC really pulled a rabbit out of the hat on this one. It is odd to me that most experts wonder why USC would hire Kiffin considering he has not really accomplished that much as a head coach yet. Let me give you 3 reasons. Those reasons are called Monte Kiffin, Ed Orgeron, and Norm Chow! First of all, one thing that Lane has proved at both UT and formerly at USC is that he can recruit. Ed Orgeron is also a great recruiter. Kids will run to USC in droves to play for Monte Kiffin(the man Pete Carroll called the best DC ever). So in short, USC will continue to get the best players in the country and I actually think this change will actually make the recruiting at USC even better if that is possible. So in the end I think USC will be fine, actually I do not just think they will be fine, I think with in a couple years they will be back to being one of the top couple teams in the country, and maybe the best. Matter of fact here comes the predictor in me. I predict two years from now they will be playing in the National Championship game.
I also want to throw my opinion out there on all the people that are also hating on Lane Kiffin for taking the USC. Now do not get me wrong, I am not saying that I would want Lane to be my friend or that he is an honest person all the time. But I do not see anything wrong with him taking the job and doing what he did. He was offered his dream job. Why should he not take it? I remember when I was a kid, Lou Holtz was the coach for the Minnesota Gophers for like 3 years. The previous years before he arrived the Gophers were terrible. When Lou came in he got the whole town excited and he turned the program around and got us going back to bowl games again. Then after 3 years he leaves us high and dry to take the job at Notre Dame. In his contract at Minnesota he had stated if Notre Dame(which was his dream job) was ever to offer him the job that he would leave. So that is exactly what happened. Everyone in Minnesota felt betrayed and jilted. This was Lane's dream job he even stated it. So I think good for him that he got it. To make people understand this better. Take the average Joe. Say he just started a new job six months ago. We all probably have our own jobs we dream about having even though many might be unattainable. So after six months on the job, Joe gets the opportunity to take his dream job. Do you think Joe is staying at his job he has been at the last six months if that is not his dream job just because he had only been there for 6 months? Do you think his employer when hiring him thought he would only stay 6 months? Of course not. To me there is no difference and we all would do the same thing for our dream job. Remember he is going from UT to USC. Not UT to the University of Minnesota.
I know I made a prediction earlier in the blog but I always have to make one at the end also. Besides i can never make enough predictions. So tonight I am predicting who I think will be replacing Lane Kiffin. I think it will be David Cutcliffe. I really see no other viable option at this point. To add to that I think Cutcliffe will fail and not be that successful. Really to add more to my prediction I predict that UT will struggle to just barely make bowl games if that for the near future with the new coaching staff and think they will be going through the hiring process again with in the next 3 years. The only other candidate I can see them hiring is the runner up for the job last year, Troy Calhoun. Either way I think both will end of failing. I am still shocked Tommy Bowden is still unemployed at the same time.
This is all what makes college football the greatest sport in the world!
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
My first blog
This is my first blog. So anyone reading this, if you have suggestions I will gladly accept them.
Since it is my first blog I will give a short background on the name. I have this thing about predicting sports outcomes(I am usually wrong but do it anyway). Everything from who will win the Super Bowl to who will be the next coach for the USF Bulls.
I have been thinking of writing a blog for a long time now. I finally decided to do it after some kind words of encouragement by one of my best friends. So I kind of dedicate my induction to the blog world to him.
For the most part all my blogs are going to be about sports. I will be giving my thoughts on all sorts of stuff having to do with sports. And of course I will probably include one prediction in each one.
The first topic I will ever blog about is going to be the admission of Mark Mcgwire taking steroids. This admission is kind of funny to me. We all knew he took them so it should not come as a shock to anyone. I do not know about anyone else, but I do not feel any different about him now then I did before he admitted what we all already knew. The whole purpose of the admission was self serving and pointless to me. He only did it because my guess is he was forced to come clean in order to keep his job as the hitting coach for the Cardinals.
I think it is sad what has happened to baseball. You might as well wipe out over a whole decade of scores and records. They all mean nothing now. We will never know if any of it would have happened or not with out steroids.
To me it is also comical the way all these guys are reading from the book of Andy Pettitte. Tell everyone you only took the drugs to heal faster or to stay healthy so you could play more or sooner. Who ever came up with that excuse was a genius. That excuse just about makes it sound like taking the drugs was like taking aspirin for pain so you can play. Let me tell you Mark Mcgwire did not take steroids so he could stay healthy. He took them so he would perform better. Heck my guess is the steroids caused him to be injured so often. What makes it worse is people like Mark Mcgwire, Alex Rodriguez, and Barry Bonds would all have probably been Hall Of Fame type players without taking any performance enhancing drugs.
I am going to end my first blog a little short. My one and only prediction for the first blog is who I think the next head coach of the USF Bulls is going to be. I think they will hire Skip Holtz.
Since it is my first blog I will give a short background on the name. I have this thing about predicting sports outcomes(I am usually wrong but do it anyway). Everything from who will win the Super Bowl to who will be the next coach for the USF Bulls.
I have been thinking of writing a blog for a long time now. I finally decided to do it after some kind words of encouragement by one of my best friends. So I kind of dedicate my induction to the blog world to him.
For the most part all my blogs are going to be about sports. I will be giving my thoughts on all sorts of stuff having to do with sports. And of course I will probably include one prediction in each one.
The first topic I will ever blog about is going to be the admission of Mark Mcgwire taking steroids. This admission is kind of funny to me. We all knew he took them so it should not come as a shock to anyone. I do not know about anyone else, but I do not feel any different about him now then I did before he admitted what we all already knew. The whole purpose of the admission was self serving and pointless to me. He only did it because my guess is he was forced to come clean in order to keep his job as the hitting coach for the Cardinals.
I think it is sad what has happened to baseball. You might as well wipe out over a whole decade of scores and records. They all mean nothing now. We will never know if any of it would have happened or not with out steroids.
To me it is also comical the way all these guys are reading from the book of Andy Pettitte. Tell everyone you only took the drugs to heal faster or to stay healthy so you could play more or sooner. Who ever came up with that excuse was a genius. That excuse just about makes it sound like taking the drugs was like taking aspirin for pain so you can play. Let me tell you Mark Mcgwire did not take steroids so he could stay healthy. He took them so he would perform better. Heck my guess is the steroids caused him to be injured so often. What makes it worse is people like Mark Mcgwire, Alex Rodriguez, and Barry Bonds would all have probably been Hall Of Fame type players without taking any performance enhancing drugs.
I am going to end my first blog a little short. My one and only prediction for the first blog is who I think the next head coach of the USF Bulls is going to be. I think they will hire Skip Holtz.
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