NCAA Baseball

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Apr
25

Baseball America:

1. Virginia (40-4)

2. South Carolina (31-8)

3. Oregon State (29-8)

4. Vanderbilt (35-5)

5. UFlorida (31-10)

 USAToday:

 1. Virginia (40-4) 

4. UFlorida (31-10)

5. Texas (30-10)

You may notice that there’s a team missing from the BIG10′s usual 11 teams (right!)….Yeah, Wisconsin does not field a Baseball Team. They haven’t, in fact, fielded a Baseball team for 20 years now! The move was done, along with dropping both Fencing and gymnastics’ teams, to save $2 million. The ironic part of Wisconsin NOT having a team? - MLB Commish Bud Selig is an alum!! Odd why they haven’t promoted the notion of getting back into the game….they were a 105 year member of Big 10 Baseball prior to dropping the sport!…With only 4 of 10 teams above .500, it shouldn’t be all that difficult to get back…uh…”into the swing” of things?

Gators add indoor Track Title

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Mar
14

NATIONAL TITLE, Track & Field 2010

The No. 1 University of Florida men’s track and field team captured the first NCAA Indoor Championship in program history on Saturday night, scoring 57 total team points and the Gator women placed fourth to cap off one of the most successful national meets in program history at the Randal Tyson Track Center on the campus of the University of Arkansas.

The Gator men scored 57 total team points, winning by 13 points over Oregon and Texas A&M, who finished tied for second with 44 total team points. The No. 4 Florida women placed fourth with 33 total team points. The Ducks won the women’s team title with 61 points, while Tennessee was second with 36 points and LSU was third with 35 points. It was the first top-five indoor finish on the women’s side since the Gators were second nationally in 2005.

The national championship by the Florida men’s track and field team marked the 23rd by a Gator team (all sports) in program history.

“It has been a long journey and I’m just so proud of my athletes and my staff,” Florida head coach Mike Holloway said. “I’m almost at a loss for words because of how happy I am. We kind of felt coming in that the first team that got to 50 would be the national champion. Everybody that put on the Gator uniform got after it this weekend. It shows the direction this program is headed in to win a national championship on the men’s side and to finish fourth on the women’s side.”

Over the course of the weekend, Florida captured national titles in the women’s mile (Charlotte Browning), men’s 60-meter dash (Jeff Demps), women’s shot put (Mariam Kevkhishvili) and men’s triple jump (Christian Taylor). The Gators also recorded 16 All-America honors on the weekend.

Freshman sprinter Jeff Demps (Winter Garden, Fla.) became the first person in school history to win the NCAA men’s 60-meter dash championship, doing so in a time of 6.57. That’s just shy of the school-record-setting time of 6.56 that he set in the preliminaries last night. Senior sprinter Jeremy Hall (Jacksonville , Fla.) placed sixth in 6.66. The Gators earned 13 total team points in the men’s 60m dash.

Senior thrower Mariam Kevkhishvili (Tbilisi, Georgia) became just the second woman in NCAA history to capture three consecutive NCAA indoor shot put titles, claiming the championship on Saturday with a school-record toss of 18.59m/61-0. That shattered her previous personal-record throw of 18.56m/60-10.75.Kevkhishvili has now won 13 consecutive indoor competitions dating back to her 2008 NCAA Indoor Championship also held in Fayetteville, Ark. Regina Cavanaugh of Rice is the only other woman in NCAA history to accomplish that feat, doing so from 1984-86

Junior distance runner Charlotte Browning (Pullborough, England) became just the second person in school history to win the NCAA mile championship, doing so in a time of 4:35.66. Browning, the 2010 SEC Indoor Champion in both the mile and 3,000m run, is the first Gator woman to win a national champion in the mile since Becki Wells did so in 1997. Browning set the school record in the women’s mile already this season at 4:31.24.

Sophomore jumper Christian Taylor (Fayetteville, Ga.) broke his own school record in winning the NCAA title the men’s triple jump, becoming the first athlete in school history to break the 17-meter plateau at 17.18m/56-4.50. Taylor captured the event for the second consecutive year, becoming the first person to win back-to-back NCAA men’s indoor triple jump title since Walter Davis of LSU accomplished the feat in 2001 and 2002.

Freshman jumper Omar Craddock (Kileen, Texas) placed seventh in the men’s triple jump to earn All-America honors in the first NCAA meet of his young career with a mark of 16.15m/53-0.

Freshman sprinter Tony McQuay (Riviera Beach, Fla.) earned All-America honors, finishing third in the men’s 400-meter dash in a career-best time of 45.74, which goes down as the third-fastest time in school history. Senior sprinter Calvin Smith (Lutz, Fla.) was eighth in 46.60.

The men’s 4x400m relay placed fourth overall in a time of 3:05.78, using the quartet of Preston Wilson (Orlando, Fla.), McQuay, Jovon Toppin (Port-of-Spain, Trinidad) and Smith to earn All-America honors.

With two All-America honors in the meet, Smith became Florida’s all-time men’s leader in total All-America honors with 15 in his career. He surpassed Mike Morrison (14) for the all-time lead – indoors and outdoors combined.

Senior jumper Shara Proctor (The Valley, Anguilla) earned All-America honors in her second event of the weekend, placing third in the women’s triple jump with a mark of 13.71m/44-11.75.

Junior thrower Keely Medeiros (Luziana, Brazil) finished eighth in the women’s shot put to earn All-America honors with a toss of 16.44m/53-11.25.

Florida opens its 2010 outdoor track and field season on Saturday, March 20, when it travels to Orlando, Fla., to participate in the UCF Black and Gold Challenge.

NCAA INDOOR CHAMPIONSHIPS (MARCH 12-13, 2010, FAYETTEVILLE, ARK.)

Saturday, March 13, 2010

Men’s Heptathlon – 12 p.m. ET (AUTO: 5,675; PROV: 5,325)

15th/DNF. Gray Horn – 4,256

Heptathlon 60mH (AUTO: 7.70; PROV: 7.91)

15. Gray Horn – 10.78 (403 points)

Heptathlon Pole Vault (AUTO: 5.50m; PROV: 5.20m)

13. Gray Horn – 4.40m/14-5.25 (731 points)

Heptathlon 1,000m Run (Not an NCAA Championship Event)

–. Gray Horn – DNS

Women’s Shot Put – 5:30 p.m. ET (AUTO: 16.90m; PROV: 15.20m)

1. Mariam Kevkhishvili – 18.59m/61-0 (10 points)

8. Keely Medeiros – 16.44m/53-11.25 (1 point)

Men’s Triple Jump – 6:30 p.m. ET (AUTO: 16.15m; PROV: 15.45m)

1. Christian Taylor – 17.18m/56-4.50 (10 points)

7. Omar Craddock – 16.15m/53-0 (2 points)                           

Women’s Mile Final – 7:25 p.m. ET (AUTO: 4:37.00; PROV: 4:46.70)

1. Charlotte Browning – 4:35.66 (10 points)

Women’s Triple Jump – 7:30 p.m. ET (AUTO: 13.30m; PROV: 12.65m)

3. Shara Proctor – 13.71m/44-11.75 (6 points)

Men’s 400m Final – 7:55 p.m. ET (AUTO: 46.15; PROV: 47.25)

3. Tony McQuay – 45.74 (6 points)

8. Calvin Smith – 46.60 (1 point)

Men’s 60m Final – 8:15 p.m. ET (AUTO: 6.60; PROV: 6.71)

1. Jeff Demps – 6.57 (10 points)

6. Jeremy Hall – 6.66 (3 points)

Men’s 4x400m Relay – 9:25 p.m. ET (AUTO: 3:06.50; PROV: 3:10.40)

4. Florida – 3:05.78 (5 points)

(Preston Wilson, Tony McQuay, Jovon Toppin, Calvin Smith)

FLORIDA NCAA CHAMPIONS (ENTIRE WEEKEND)

• Charlotte Browning – Women’s Mile – 4:35.66
• Jeff Demps (Yes, the “RB” from the Football team!) – Men’s 60m – 6.57
• Mariam Kevkhishvili – Women’s Shot Put – 18.59m/61-0
• Christian Taylor – Men’s Triple Jump – 17.18m/56-4.50

FLORIDA ALL-AMERICANS (ENTIRE WEEKEND)

• Charlotte Browning – Women’s Mile – 4:35.66 (1st)
• Omar Craddock – Men’s Triple Jump – 16.15m/53-0 (7th)
• Jeff Demps – Men’s 60m – 6.57 (1st)
• Jeremy Hall – Men’s 60m – 6.66 (6th)
• Mariam Kevkhishvili – Women’s Shot Put – 18.59m/61-0 (1st)
• Tony McQuay – Men’s 400m – 45.74 (3rd)
• Tony McQuay – Men’s 200m – 20.80 (8th)
• Keely Medeiros – Women’s Shot Put – 16.44m/53-11.25 (8th)
• Kemal Mesic – Men’s Shot Put – 19.26m/63-2.25 (2nd)
• Shara Proctor – Women’s Long Jump – 6.64m/21-9.50 (3rd)
• Shara Proctor – Women’s Triple Jump – 13.71m/44-11.75 (3rd)
• Calvin Smith – Men’s 200m – 20.67 (6th)
• Calvin Smith – Men’s 400m – 46.60 (8th)
• Christian Taylor – Men’s Triple Jump – 17.18m/56-4.50 (1st)
• Christian Taylor – Men’s Long Jump – 7.93m/26-0.25 (2nd)
• Men’s 4x400m Relay – 3:05.78 (Wilson, McQuay, Toppin, Smith) (4th)

Final NCAA Indoor Championship Men’s Team Scores

1. Florida – 57

2. Texas A&M – 44

2. Oregon – 44

4. LSU – 42

5. Arkansas – 38

Final NCAA Indoor Championship Women’s Team Scores

1. Oregon – 61

2. Tennessee – 36

3. LSU – 35

4. Florida – 33

5. Texas A&M – 31

NSD, and you know it!

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Feb
3

National Signing Day!…the day silly ass College Football junkies (like myself) are glued to their favorite sites waiting for 17 – 18 year old kids to commit their College choices! For the Florida Gators, the class is pretty much complete; and all before 11am! This is the earliest I can recall this being “over”!…Well, there is a highly regarded OL Chaz Green who they still hope to get, but the rest are Signed sealed and ALL GATORS!. Check out that link, and dot the lines on what will be an amazing Defensive Line.

5* DE Ronald Powell (#1 overall recruit, per Rivals)

5* DT Sharrif Floyd (#4 overall recruit, per Rivals)

5* DT Dominique Easley (#7 overall recruit, per Rivals)

4* DE Lynden Trail (#123 overall recruit, per Rivals)

Add Safety Matt Elam (5*, overall #25 player, per Rivals) and Cornerback Joshua Shaw (4* overall #28 player, per Rivals) and the Defense might be kinda strong!…AGAIN!

Collectively, 10 of the Rival Top 100 are signed in as Gators…well, Travon Van isn’t “in” yet, but should be (HE’S SIGNED NOW!) (He’s not in the top 100 though). If Chaz Green (#43 overall, per Rival / OL) avoids the UTenn temptations, he could make 11 of the top 100 that are Gators (& 5 of the top 28 !). Not bad for a Coach who nearly had to quit due to health problems, in the middle of recruiting! Just added Adrian Coxson, 6’2″ wr from Maryland. 27 loi’s, one spot left….for Mr Green!?!?!?!

OSU is humming right around the #26 mark, though when OL Seantrell Henderson (#2 overall recruit, per Rivals) commits, that will shoot them back in the top 20 easy! They really didn’t have a whole lot of need this year. Young team, pretty much already set for 2010. Still, got a good class.

UC hasn’t cashed in, they are listed at #56…B-Kelly left no favors when he parted. They’ve lost a few of the touted recruits they had. By late afternoon they could fall into the 60′s in class rank. 

The SEC is, once again, taking the bulk of the talent, by conference. Seven of the top 19 ranked classes are from the SEC. (Florida, Auburn, Alabama, LoSerU, Tennessee, Jawja, and Ole Miss ; SoCarolina fell to #26) Making it once again, the top conference in recruiting. Somehow people STILL doubt they are the best!…As if 4 National Titles in a row, and 5 out of the last 6 didn’t nail it down for them….???

Pete “70′s hairstyle man” ducking out before penalties!?

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Jan
9

USC fans are fearing the cloak-n-dagger “Browns-move-to-Baltimore” style antics of Mr Pete Carroll as he “Signs-n-drives” outta LA!….Sure, Prater and maybe Baxter (a WR and an RB recruit, who are rated as the #2 and #3 overall recruits this year; Baxter reportedly likes Florida and Michigan as “alts”) might “re-open” their options because of this, but that’s small potatoes! THEY may leave (or seek options) maybe not ONLY because the Coach is making off with a ton of cash! (rumored to be approx. 7 million and nearly FULL control!), but because “there be” good reason(s) Pete couldn’t say no THIS time! P-E-N-A-L-T-I-E-S !!!!,…and if they have teeth; the end of USC domination as we’ve come to know it!

Riiiiggghhhtt!, there are NCAA people snoopin’ ’round them fertile football grounds now, and they may not leave for a little while this time! So much for the heroic, “The Captain always goes down with his ship”, saying, eh? Not when said ship can be replaced with 35 million in “G” dollars!

The NCAA couldn’t get any evidence on Reggie Bush before (they lack subpoena power, so they couldn’t make Bush spill any details), but the Bush trial just got green-lite, so the NCAA will get all the evidence they need from the public record of the trial. As much as I love conspiracy theories and the NCAA, for the most part it’s due to a serious lack of power in terms of evidence gathering. They need snitches to make a case, period. Things may be getting steamy for Carroll, and he might be leaving before his factory gets put on serious probation! Like 7 million wont ease his pain,….

The PAC10 and the NCAA had reasons to keep looking the other way, in the USC case. There is (or “was”) a void of good football interests in the far West (Go ahead, say it with me; East Coast Bias!…East Coast Bias!…); That is until recently (Oregon, aka: Nike U!) with the development of that team in Eugene (see Nike co-founder Phil Knight ).  The colorful Ducks can take up the slack now, they have the funding, and a great Offense brewing up there. Typical to the Pac10 ways, though, they dont much bother with playing defense!

So, Pete’s skippin’ off to Seattle and staying a few steps ahead of the law…..can ya blame him? AND!,..after all, its NEVER the people who actually DO the bad things that EVER pay the price in these cases!…..Pete, Maye, Bush, McKnight (who declared for te NFL just now!) all got theirs!…Its just the school and the fans that get the groin shot and a vacation from “Bowling”!!!

Nice work Pete, enjoy your time resurecting the Seahawks!…..and, all that great coffee! Please keep us abreast of how that Colton Harris-Moore case is going!

Mark Sanchez says: THIS,..or, listen to him HERE

Its November, must be time for the PAC10 whine!

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Nov
22

Oregon and Arizona played a thriller last Saturday (11.21.09) and the game went into overtime, before Akili Smith hooked up with Tony Hartley to end it 145-142! It was an NBA all-star game for gawd’s sake!…OK, so Akili Smith and Tony Hartley weren’t there, and it was Jerimiah Masoli who ACTUALLY guided the “Ducks” to that big win. It was a good game, but let’s stop the tired old “West Coast Bias” chant that gets SOOOO much play EVERY freakin’ year. Oregon with a HORRIBLE performance against Boise State to begin the year, and a dump game against Stanford, is sitting 8th in the latest BCS STANDING. They ARE going to play THE Ohio State University in the beloved Rose Bowl, and it should be a great game. Deserving of the Rose Bowl! Outside that?…STFU already with that silly ass “WAH” crap about how those on the East Coast don’t value the late night Pac10 games. There are, what, 27 Div 1 teams west of Texas?…and some 90 teams “East” of that? USC and Boise State (thanks to their schedule) are the top two teams? Yeah, ”Eastern” folks should care MORE about what’s going on out there….Oooh, how do we resist that draw? I also missed Air Force and Idaho State playing a few weeks ago – They must be devasted!

You cant swing a dead cat in any State in this Union, without hitting a gaggle of writers willing to blow Pete Carroll’s horn, and lend him every credit known to a Head Coach; but, we should pay more attention to late night OT thrillers in AriZONA!! Yeah, they’ve been relevant since never! They get “breakfast” Football out there, and they’re complaining!? Every Year they get the Rose Bowl!…and,…and,…FSU in the Emerald Nuts Bowl? What else do they NEED? Plus, how many of those fish taco eaters are even watching our noon games out there? Bias hypocrite mother F-! Seventy-five percent of the population lives East of the Mississippi, shouldn’t we have interests of our own? Isn’t it conceivable that there are more good teams in that region?…NO?..oh, my bad!

side note: Jay Cutler is a douchebag little bitch,…sure, you already knew that. He just TJ Houshmandzadeh’d his coaches with that feminine hand-throw gesture in the NFL night game. Bengal fans know the move!

I’ve seen more Oregon games than (I believe) 99% of “Duck” fans have seen Gator games!…..With 2 losses and NO chance to move into the top stops, why should it matter? I appreciate what they’ve done, and I dont think “JUST” because they are West Coasters that they stink,..so…end it!…End that cheesey crap ass talk about lack of respect! Maybe putting that fruit loop QB Harrington poster up in Time Square a few years ago was a bad move? I’m not saying that IS the reason, just maybe! Its been 18 years since a team NOT called the Trojans even played a part in the National Title picture! Washington’s split Title with Miami in 1991 was the last team that won the thing! No, they deserve more love…yeah,..more.

1 Florida
2 Alabama
3 Texas
4 TCU
5 Cincinnati
6 Boise State
7 Georgia Tech
8 Oregon
9 Pittsburgh
10 Ohio State

Know them, so you can properly lothe them!

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Aug
11

Florida’s Offense 2009

Quarterback – Tim Tebow (SR)
Running Back – Jeffery Demps (SO), Chris Rainey (RSO)
Wide Receiver – Riley Cooper (SR), Andre Debose (FR)
Wide Receiver – David Nelson (SR), Carl Moore (SR)
Wide Receiver – Deonte Thompson (RSO)
Tight End – Aaron Hernandez (JR)
Left Tackle – Carl Johnson (RJR), Matt Patchan (SO)
Left Guard – James Wilson (RSO), Maurkice Pouncey (JR)
Center – Maurkice Pouncey (JR), Sam Robey (RFR)
Right Guard – Mike Pouncey (JR)
Right Tackle – Marcus Gilbert (RJR)

A few items of note when it comes to the offense…I assumed that more often than not, the Gators will line up with three receivers and one player in the backfield. Call the player in the backfield or the slot whatever you like, but I’ll default to Demps getting that role with Debose earning more time in it as the season progresses. However, we can’t forget about Rainey’s contributions to the offense. Whether lined up in the backfield or motioning out, #3 will get plenty of chances to shine.I’d also like to point out that while I want Debose to be a star as much as the next fan, I don’t expect him to be Percy Harvin right away. Or maybe ever. I do believe Debose will be a great player, but I also believe the offense will be more dangerous with multiple players filling Harvin’s role. And just remember, Debose was a very high-rated recruit, but Harvin was a truly rare talent.As for the offensive line, I like all of the Robey talk and hope he has the talent the make a name for himself as a Gator. But why rush him? Unless someone like Wilson struggles and Florida needs improved play at the left guard position, I don’t see the point in moving Maurkice out of the center spot just yet. Let Robey get some time late in games first, before throwing him into the fire.I also believe Patchan has the talent to play in the SEC. I’m just not sure if he has the size. According to the Florida roster, Big Carl outweighs him by 82 pounds. 82 POUNDS!!! Patchan weighs in at 260, which is way too light for a tackle in this conference. Add that to the fact that Johnson has played in 25 games on the offensive line compared to Patchan’s zero, and I can’t see Patchan beating him out right away.

 Florida Defense – 2009

Defensive End – Jermaine Cunningham (SR)
Defensive End – Carlos Dunlap (JR), Justin Trattou (JR)
Defensive Tackle – Lawrence Marsh (RJR)
Defensive Tackle – Terron Sanders (RJR), Omar Hunter (RFR)
Middle Linebacker – Brandon Spikes (SR)
Outside Linebacker – Brandon Hicks (JR), A.J. Jones (RJR)
Outside Linebacker – Ryan Stamper (RSR), Dustin Doe (SR)
Cornerback – Joe Haden (JR)
Cornerback – Janoris Jenkins (SO)
Safety – Ahmad Black (JR)
Safety – Major Wright (JR)
Nickel Back – Will Hill (SO)

Some notes on the defense…Trattou actually started 13 games at defensive end during the 2008 season and could be on the field for the first snap during a number of games again in 2009. But the two most talented ends are Cunningham and Dunlap and overall, they should see the most time on the field.Marsh and Sanders did their jobs last season, but coaches are looking for the interior linemen to make more of an impact. Those two should be the starters again when the season begins, but look for Hunter to push them. And we may even see Gary Brown get some important time as a true freshman.A number of outside linebackers could see action this year and the Gators wouldn’t miss a beat. Doe, Hicks, Jones, and Stamper all have experience starting. Look for a number of others to also get time in 2009.Although Hill is a monster talent, Black and Wright (especially as the season progressed) played too well to be unseated easily. However, coaches will figure out a way to get Hill on the field as much as possible. He will be a star of the special teams again and should be the primary nickel back.

The way you dream it up!….

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Jun
1

OKLAHOMA CITY — To understand why Ali Gardiner was crying at the postgame press conference, you have to understand where she was coming from. Because this was not supposed to be happening.

In the most important part of the season, she was struggling mightily. Gardiner was hitless in her last 15 at-bats and oh-for-OKC. And now it was all up to her.

“I’ve been working to try to get out of my own head all week,” she said.

Gardiner got out of her head and went out of the park. Her grand slam, two-out, opposite-field, walk-off home run gave Florida a remarkable 6-5 win over Alabama in the Women’s College World Series Sunday. The 63-3 Gators will face Washington, which beat Georgia 9-3 on Sunday night. The series will be a best-of-three finale for the national championship.

It was an emotional win for Florida and an emotional loss for rival Alabama. Gardiner wasn’t the only one shedding tears. Tide coach Patrick Murphy sniffled through his press conference and losing pitcher Kelsi Dunne, who has now given up four grand slams to the Gators in two years, gave terse one-word answers for the most part after the game.

But the biggest tears came from Gardiner, a senior leader on the team who had been dropped to sixth in the lineup. The tears were triggered by her parents.

“I’ve never seen either of my parents cry in my whole life,” Gardiner said, wiping away tears. “My dad especially, who worked with me my whole life. He doesn’t show much emotion. And the last couple of days, we haven’t talked much.”

Florida appeared heading for a late-night elimination game going to the bottom of the seventh. A rare bad inning for pitcher Stacey Nelson had given the Tide a 5-2 lead. Nelson had been staked to a 2-1 lead on a Kelsey Bruder two-run homer in the fourth and Nelson looked strong at the start of the fifth. She was one pitch away from striking out the side when Brittany Rogers beat out a grounder, stole second and scored on Lauren Parker’s single. It was the first earned run allowed by Nelson in the last 39 innings.

And there were more to come. Nelson gave up four runs in the inning, the most she has allowed this year.

“Scoring that many runs against Stacey is a feat in itself,” Florida coach Tim Walton said. “She didn’t have her best stuff, but Alabama always does well against her.”

Walton turned to Stepanie Brombacher to start the sixth and give Nelson some rest for the second game that appeared imminent. Brombacher held Alabama scoreless thanks to a diving catch in right by Bruder in the top of the seventh.

“The only thing going through my mind is that I was diving towards the line which is exactly what you are not supposed to do,” Bruder said. “I knew I had better catch it or keep it in front of me.”

That set the stage for Gardiner’s heroics. Aja Paculba walked, Francesca Enea singled and Megan Bush worked a two-out walk.

Gardiner lifted a 2-1 pitch to left and threw down her bat thinking it was a deep fly out.

“I didn’t think it was out,” she said. “I thought she was going to catch it against the fence.”

But the wind blowing to left carried the ball well over the outstretched glove of left fielder Whitney Larsen and bedlam ensued. Walton began jumping up and down like he had just won the lottery. Gardiner’s teammates sprinted to the plate to welcome her. Six earrings were lost in the dogpile.

“I was afraid I was going to look like a pirate on ESPN,” Gardiner said. “I kept my helmet on because my hair looked so bad.”

The grand slam was Florida’s 12th of the season but the first for Gardiner in her Gator career.

“I have been coaching softball for 11 years and I’ve never seen a team with so much determination and fight,” Walton said. “Ali was struggling more than anybody knows.”

Walton never doubted the ball would clear the fence.

“I put my arm in the air right away,” he said. “The way the wind was blowing, I knew it was gone right away.”

The win was Florida’s 28th straight and fourth in five games against Alabama, which made it to Sunday by scoring 20 runs in two games Saturday. But one out away from forcing an elimination game with the Gators, Gardiner got in the way.

“I’m so glad after a whole year of my teammates picking me up,” Gardiner said, “I could pick them up.”

Can you say…..SCOREBOARD?

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Jan
9

While it’s cold and dry up here in Cincinnati, it’s hot and wet down in Florida.
Some of these college presidents in the Ohio Valley need to get a clue. Because the south is killing us in everything!
We’re about to get “run-ruled” in the 4th inning!

They got Teeebow!
They got Championships!
They got Suuunshine!
They got Gatorz!
And…well….a picture is worth a thousand words. None of which I need to speak right now! Amen!

Tebow, denied a chance for two!

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Dec
15

Controversy?…at the Heisman Award? GET OUT!

The He15man, is now the Heisman again. Sam Bradford took home the hardware, and with the gaudy numbers it was a legit win,…or was it? Yes, it was/is!

Sam Bradford, of the slingin’ Stoops’es, took the award home Saturday night, as the second consecutive Sophomore QB to earn the award. Bradford is a Redshirt Soph, who plays for the XBOX Offense in the BIG12 this year, along with 2 or even 4 OTHER guys who made big names for themselves the past couple of years in that conference!

Tim Tebow got 309 1st place votes in this years VOTE!, Bradford 300, and McCoy 266. Its happened before, where the #1 first vote-getter didn’t win, but it makes you think about a few things….Predominently, the Southwestern portion of the US voters left Tebow OFF their ballots. 154 total, have no Tebow,….and in the Ohio area, also, not a Tebow friendly area. Some say Graham Harrell was left off because he was “not from a BIG School”, and there are some who feel there should have been an African-American in the mix too.- Conspiracy theorists aren’t in short supply!

Graham Harrell had an awesome season,….just not Heisman worthy. He did have 7 MORE passing TD’s this year than Time Tebow did (who WAS invited), but 11 were against the sub’Div 1 teams they played….SURE!, they all count, and everyone plays lower rungs teams at times.  Tebow ran in 12 TD’s, to help balance out the numbers, AND led his team to te BCS Final…..and looked all Braveheart during the rainstorm in Tallahassee a few weeks ago! Did that impress the Southwest voters?….apparently NOT enUFf!

Some voter’s, like Lee Corso, sent in their ballots before the final week of the season,…or, the Championship Weekend (which technically is post-season, while still being “during the season????)….anyway, he was convicted in his choice!….but, you have to ask, why?…Worried that the ballot wouldn’t be counted (I understand its done electronically now, so….mail delivery probably wasn’t a big deal,…but maybe a hanging chad was?…anyway!) or was he worried that his mind would be changed as a result of the Final weekend? This is the bothersome part. Most of the ballots were cast after, but there was still a good amount sent in ahead of that finish…and that’s odd,….Odd like the 154 cards that ommitted Tebow all together. It seems that those who voted for Teeb’s #1, also included Bradford and McCoy on their “cards”, but at least a large number that voted McCoy or Sammy #1, left Tebow off entirely. Did they really think he was undeserving?….of even a 3rd place vote, or was there more motivation?

If African-Americans can use race here, and say that it was an issue at “some” level, and get away with it,…why can’t it ALSO be possible to think that some of “it” went agaisnt Tebow in a “We hate him, we’re not voting him in ANYWHERE”, kinda way? I’d be willing to bet it was MORE of a factor than the race issue being played.

Nothing is ever (anymore) going to make everyone “happy”, all the time. Nothing! You could hand a gold bar to everyone in a room, and some one would feel they were wronged, some how. We don’t get to “pick” one thing over the other, but if UFlorida can somehow manage to beat OU in the BCS Final, this “loss” will mean very little. If “The Sam” takes the title (too), then both stink!…and Texas fans will still think they got gyped!