Cam Newton Wins For Homecoming Queen

"The Heisman Memorial Trophy annually recognizes the outstanding college football player whose performance best exhibits the pursuit of excellence with integrity. Winners epitomize great ability combined with diligence, perseverance, and hard work. The Heisman Trophy Trust ensures the continuation and integrity of this award. The Trust, furthermore, has a charitable mission to support amateur athletics and to provide greater opportunities to the youth of our country. Our goal through these charitable endeavors is for the Heisman Trophy to symbolize the fostering of a sense of community responsibility and service to our youth, especially those disadvantaged or afflicted. All assets of the Trust beyond the expense of maintaining the annual presentation of the Heisman Memorial Trophy are reserved for such charitable causes. The Trustees, who all serve pro bono, are guided by a devotion to college football and are committed to community service and the valued tradition which the Trophy represents."

The Heisamn Trophy has quickly become the biggest joke in amateur  athletics.  Wait, I might want to retract that last statement.  Cam Newton and Reggie Bush were not amateurs!  There are many reasons that this once distinguished award has lost its credibility. They include, but are not limited to the inability of anybody other than a quarterback or runningback from the top team to actually have an ability to win, the inability of anybody from a non BCS school to win it, to its newest winner Cam Newton.   This award has become as legitimate as a high school homecoming queen contest. 

But back to the mission statement of the Heisman Trust.  You will notice that key words from the mission statement are hilighted.  I am just curious where there is any sort of integrity in breaking NCAA rules as the Heaisman Trust outlines in its mission statement?  What type of integrity was Cam Newton showing when he was busted for cheating at Florida, not once, but twice!  And what type of integrity does it take to steal a lap top?  Do heisman voters not realize that the reason Cam Newton is even at Auburn  right now is because he LACKS INTEGRITY?  A LACK OF INTEGRITY positioned Cam Newton to be in the spotlight he is currently in.

So, the Heisman Trust might want to re-write their mission statement.  After selecting Reggie Bush as its winner in 2005, the trophy was again given to another scandalous player.  I guess they did not learn their lesson the first time around.  Please, do us all a favor Heisman Trust.  Rewrite your mission statement and take out words such as integrity, amateur, and responsibility, because none of those apply to Cam Newton. 

 

Sammy Baugh Award???

Of course the award had to go out to an over hyped player!  Landry Jones you were the winner.  However, The Over Hyped says otherwise.  Who is our winner of the best passing quarterback in college football?  Well it ain't Scam Newton, Kellen Moore, or Ryan Mallet.  Who is it you ask?  I bet you are dying to know!  Can you stand the suspense? 

Alright, our QB of the year goes to........ Bryant Moniz of Hawaii!  You might ask why? Well, I will tell you why!  Moniz threw for more yards than Jones did this season in less pass attempts. He threw one more TD pass than Jones, averaged more yards per attempt and completion, and had a higher passing rating.

Bryant Moniz, you were the best QB in college football in 2010.  Kellen Moore, you were right there beside him!

How Can You Afford To Keep Him?

How in the world can the University of New Mexico afford to keep coach Mike Locksley?  Does the state of New Mexico know something the rest of us don't in regards to the economy?  Did the University receive some sort of bailout that allows crowds, like those shown in the picture above, to pay the bills?  Did they somehow escape the sub prime fallout unscathed?  If you can pay for a 20 million dollar plus budget with a crowd like that, then their AD needs to take the place of Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke!

So how does this university afford this?  This picture (compliments of Rob in Albuquerque) was taken in the third quarter of a game vs. #4 TCU!  Yes the #4 team in the country was there!

So not only is fan attendance lagging at New Mexico, but their coach seems to be a ticking time bomb.  In less than two full years on the job he has been sued for sexual harassment and for assaulting an assistant coach.  How does this guy keep his job?  This does not even account for the alleged incident between he and a reporter at a local bar. 

And then, yes there is more, he banned all football players from visiting downtown Albuquerque night clubs.  Wait, let me get this straight.  Coach can go out to bars and get into it but his players can't?  Makes sense to me.  Too bad for the Lobos they don't play night club bouncers ever week.  It seems as if they are more their size!

So, a guy can lose a lot of football games and bring in no revenue (see picture above), sexually harass a secretary, beat up an assistant coach, and get into altercations with reporters, but keep his job?  HOW?  The cost of a buy out?  Hell, with all of the legal fees the University has spent covering for him, he should be buying them out! 

I don't know if there is any coach in America that would still have a job with this baggage, much less the worst football team in America.  Do you guys in New Mexico know something the rest of us don't?

I think I know something New Mexico doesn't know.  Mike Locksley is the worst coach in NCAA football!

More Cam Newton

SEC Bylaw 14.01.3.2

If at any time before or after matriculation in a member institution a student-athlete or any member of his/her family receives or AGREES to receive, directly or INDIRECTLY, any aid or assistance beyond or in addition to that permitted by the Bylaws of this Conference (except such aid or assistance as such student-athlete may receive from those persons on whom the student is naturally or legally dependent for support), such student- athlete shall be ineligible for competition in any intercollegiate sport within the Conference for the remainder of his/her college career.

Well let me see.  The NCAA and the SEC both agree that Cecil Newton attempted to solicit payment for his sons services.  Then there are the text messages which outline a payment schedule for these services.  So, the NCAA and the SEC both state that no money was ever exchanged between a representative of Newton and an NCAA institution.  Alright, there is no proof of this, yet!  And they declare him good to go.

However, lets take a look at the words up top in the bold font.  It clearly states AGREED and INDIRECTLY.  It says nothing about receiving an actual payment.  Wouldn't the text messages outlining a payment plan be an AGREEMENT?  I would believe so.  Those are not my words either.  They are straight from NCAA by-laws.

What would the NCAA or the SEC have done if this were Mississippi?

So, it is obvious the SEC and the NCAA are sweeping this under the rug until after the 2010 season is complete.  Auburn will still make tens of millions of dollars based on this season's successes.  A school like TCU will lose out on the chance to play for a National Tile, and the rest of us must relive the Reggie Bush scandal all over again.  All for what?  So the NCAA can come back 3 years from now and make Auburn vacate their wins on paper?  Wow!  What a joke the NCAA is becoming.  By not standing up to Auburn and Cam Newton, the NCAA is potentially cutting its own throat. They are opening themselves up to lawsuits, a PR nightmare, and a potential demise of the BCS.

Our Final Top 25

1.  Auburn
2.  Texas Christian
3.  Oregon
4.  Michigan St.
5.  Wisconsin
6.  Stanford
7.  Ohio St.
8. Nevada
9. Boise St.
10.  Arkansas
11.  Oklahoma
12. LSU
13. Virginia Tech
14. Oklahoma St.
15. Missouri
16. Utah
17. Alabama
18. Nebraska
19. Texas A&M
20. Connecticut
21. Central Florida
22. West Virginia
23. Hawaii
24. Navy
25. S. Carolina

Most Over Hyped Coach!!!!!

And the award for The Most Over Hyped Coach goes to……….drum roll…………  Mike Stoops!  Yes, Mike Stoops is the most over rated and over hyped coach in America!  You might be saying, but they were ranked in the top 10 at one point this season.  Well, they were, and so was Texas!  And where are they now?  Where you start the season is not important but rather where you finish the season. 

Speaking of finishing the season.  Under stoops, Arizona has yet to finish a season ranked in the top 25.  Barring some major help from voters, Arizona won’t finish this season ranked either. 

I know, I know Arizona has won 8 games each of the last two seasons. However, you must look closely at the numbers.

Mike Stoops is 40-44 for his career at Arizona.  In 84 games, Stoops still has a losing record.  Now, take away his wins against Northern Arizona and Stephen F. Austin and Stoops is 34-44.  Yes that is TEN games below .500 against Division 1 football teams.  Take away his 3 wins vs. the MAC and Stoops is 31-44! So, in a nutshell, Arizona is great at beating the little guys!

Wait I retract that last sentence!  Mike Stoops has a losing record vs. the Mountain West Conference!  Yes, in his time at Arizona, Stoops is 2-5 against the Mountain West Conference.  That includes an 0-2 record vs. Utah and New Mexico.  Wait, New Mexico?  He is 0-2 against New Mexico?  WOW!

Alright, how about the Pac 10?  Against the Pac 10, Stoops has, well you probably guessed it, a losing record!  His Pac 10 record is 27-34.  As a matter of fact, he only has one season in which Arizona has finished with a winning Pac 10 record.    And how has he fared against the Big 3 (Oregon St., Oregon, USC) Pac 10 opponents?  Well you probably guessed by now.  He has a losing record! Yup, 5-16!

What about other BCS conferences?  Well, Arizona is 1-5.  I think you know what comes next.  That is a losing record.  His only win versus a program from another BCS conference was against Iowa this season. 

Am I saying that Mike Stoops is a bad coach?  No!  Is he over-hyped?  Yes!   ESPN commentators were talking up Arizona as a National Championship contender after they started the season 4-0.  Come on guys slow down!  Stoops is not some top tier coach like you guys love to make him out to be.  If, and that is a big if, Arizona could play the MAC, Northern Arizona, Citadel and Washington state every week, they just might be that National Championship contender.   

Other Candidates Considered:

Greg Schiano- Rutgers

Rich Rodriguez- Michigan

Butch Davis- North Carolina

Speaking of Overhyped

It is time for the NCAA to make a rule change regarding quarterback statistics.  I am tired of seeing guys throw the ball forward, behind the line of scrimmage, and getting credit for passing yards.  In a game earlier this season, Landry Jones of Oklahoma, had over 100 yards passing in the first quarter of a game and only threw two balls past the line of scrimmage.  He kept swinging it out to backs and throwing screen passes to his backs and receivers. 

These QBs throw for 3,000 yards plus a season throwing swing passes and screens!  Talk about over hyped!   How many of them play QB in the NFL?

I am tired of seeing quarterbacks and their record breaking statistics week in and week out.  I think every kid playing QB can throw a ball 7 yards to a running back! It's time for the NCAA to count every pass thrown behind the line of scrimmage as a run!

This Smells Like Poo!

Today, Cam Newton was cleared by the NCAA to play without any conditions surrounding his eligibility.  In their release, the NCAA did admit that Cam's father attempted to shop his son to another school.  Wait dad tried to sell son, and probably did, but he is ok to play?  If this does not stink like poo then my newborn daughters pampers smell like roses!

Really?  Didn't USC just go on probation for things Reggie Bush's parents did?  Things that Reggie supposedly had no knowledge of.  USC is paying dearly for "Reggie's parents",  yet Cam Newton is clean as a silk sheet at a 5 star hotel.   And he knew nothing of this?  "Sure dad decide my future.  Send me anywhere you want.  I know you are doing it, simply out of the kindness of your heart."  "Who cares where I want to go?"  Give me a break!  The kid can't be that dumb to think daddy did not have anything illegal going on.  Wait this is also the same kid who cheated in entry level college classes.  Maybe he is that dumb!  The NCAA made an example of USC.  Why?  Because they are from the west coast, plain and simple!

So wait, Dez Bryant can't work out with Deion Sanders, but Cam Newton's father can try to sell him?  A coach can't give a kid a ride or buy him a burger, but you can attempt (i think it was more than an attempt) to sell your son's services?

What would have happened to Cam Newton if he was the QB at Arkansas State?  He would have been ruled ineligible and the school would have been given the death penalty!

Wait again! Let me get this straight.  You can cheat if you are playing for a National Title contender, but not a little guy!  Why is this that the NCAA clears Cam Newton?  Is it because they don't want to see TCU play in the title game and possibly win the title?  I think so!  If TCU won a National Title the BCS would die a quick, yet painful death. 

And then there is the Milton McGregor dilemma.  Rumors float around that he rigged slot machines to pay out Auburn football players.  They went to the casino, played some slots, collected their winnings, and walked out with ZERO paper trail. 

Something at Auburn stinks right now and it ain't Cam Newton's dirty jock strap!

Stand Up Like A Man!!!!!!

Its time for the BCS to stop its garbage.  The BCS guys need to remember the famous words of Mike Gundy.  These guys are not professional athletes.  Don't kick them when they are down.  Be a MAN like Mike Gundy!  I hope someday the BCS advocates have a child and somebody downgrades him and belittles him and they have to look him in the eye and say its ok, they are supposed to be mature adults and they are not.  Are you kidding me?  Come on BCS powers that be!  Quit picking on the poor kids at non-BCS schools.  Pick on me!  I am 32.  I am a MAN!

Anyhow, I am tired of hearing the non-BCS leagues bitch and complain about not belonging to the BCS.  Do something about it!  Quit bitching and stand up for yourselves!!!!!   What if Martin Luther King waited for Civil Rights to happen on their own.  What if Americans quit when the Germans (Animal House) bombed pearl harbor? Don't even get me started about Pearl Harbor.  We are the Americans, and they are the enemy.  Never Again! We don't have to take it like Rosa Parks or David Lee Roth when he left Van Halen.

What am I trying to say here?  Stand up for yourselves little guys (WAC, MWC, C-USA, MAC, SunBelt).  Hit the BCS guys in the mouth!  You have the power and you aren't even using it!  What am I talking about?  

Simple!  Quit playing BCS schools!  The BCS schools need the so called little guys, more than the little guy needs them.  Imagine if the so called big boys could not pad their schedules with easy wins over bottom feeding programs?  Imagine if the Big 10 did not have the MAC to pay, oh I mean play, or the SEC the Sun Belt and C-USA?  Who would they play?  EACH OTHER!!!!!  No more freebie wins for the so called BCS schools.  How does this impact them?  They would not be able to have 8 or 9 bowl eligible teams each year as they do now.  This would in essence destroy mid level bowl games. More schools might have losing records which impacts fan support and financial support.  That might open up some eyes and force a bit of a change.

So, its simple. Stop playing schools from BCS conferences!  Be men like Mike Gundy!  Stand up for yourselves. Quit pimping yourself out and then blaming the Pimp for taking your money! Force the change! 

Come Out of the Closet Craig James!

Wait, maybe he should stay there!  Where is Mike Leach when we need him to lock up another James in a closet?  Craig needs to join his son there as soon as possible!

Craig James said, "BCS schools have better coaching" than non BCS programs.  Is he kidding me?  There are only 60 or so good coaches out there?  Craig, was Jim Tressel a bad coach before he went to Ohio St.?  Mark Dantonio before Michigan St.?  Nick Saban before Michigan St. and Alabama?  Urban Myer before Florida?  Derek Dooley before Tennessee?  Chip Kelley before Oregon?  Houston Nutt before Arkansas?  Mack Brown before Texas? I think you get the point here!

Craig, do us all a favor, shut your mouth and lock yourself in a closet! Coach Leach, take care of the light work please!

Nuts and Bolts, Nuts and Bolts, Spartans Got Screwed

Michigan St. not going to the Rose bowl, or a BCS game for that matter, is a complete injustice to a near
perfect season for the Spartans.  We all know Wisconsin and Ohio State will be in BCS games based on the hype that surrounds their programs.  I have no problem with Wisconsin in a BCS game, but Ohio St.????  Get Real!

First off, because of the 3 way tie, head to head can not be used.  Correct?  That is what we are told anyways.  Remember two years ago when Texas Tech beat Texas, Texas beat Oklahoma, and Oklahoma beat Texas Tech?  Well yeah, you can not use head to head since all three teams beat each other. 

However, this years Big 10 race is completely different.  Why?  Because Michigan St. and Ohio St. did not play each other.  Two years ago Texas, Oklahoma, and Texas Tech were all 1-1 against each other.  This year Michigan St. is 1-0, Wisconsin 1-1, and Ohio St. 1-1 when all three go head to head.  Shouldn't Michigan St.  be the team going to Pasadena?  I think so!

Why is Michigan St. not going to the Rose Bowl?  The answer is rather simple.  They lost later than Wisconsin and Ohio St.  Wisconsin lost on October 2nd, Ohio St. on October 16th, and Michigan St. on October 30th.  So reality is that those two teams will be in BCS games because they lost before Michigan St.  So, had The Michigan St. Iowa game been played in September, Michigan St. would be in the Rose Bowl for sure!

And then there is the schedule.  Ohio St. has ZERO, yes ZERO wins vs. current top 25 teams.  Why do they deserve a BCS bid?  Hell, Boise has wins over 2 top 25 teams.  Oh yeah, I almost forgot that Ohio St. played murder's row! 

In short, Ohio St. does not belong in a BCS game, especially not over Michigan St.!  WHy are voters in football polls all over the country deciding the fate of the Big 10 BCS games? 

Murderer's Row!!!!!

Seriously, what kind of drugs would one have to be on to actually believe this stuff?  What stuff you might ask?  The quote that Ohio State University President Gordon Gee made in a recent ESPN story.

"I do know, having been both a Southeastern Conference president and a Big Ten president, that it's like murderer's row every week for these schools. We do not play the Little Sisters of the Poor. We play very fine schools on any given day."

Has he bothered to take a look at the Ohio St. schedule this year?

Marshall
Ohio
Eastern Michigan
Illinois
Indiana
Purdue
Minnesota

Yeah sounds like murderers row to me!  I bet every school in America is afraid of that schedule!  Ohio State is the only school with enough balls to play it!
And then there are Miami, Penn St., and Michigan who are nowhere near as good as they were back in the 80s when Gordon Gees drug addiction started.  Wait, they do play that mighy Michign program that beat Massachusets by 5 points!  Yeah, you play the toughest schedule around Mr. Gee.  You keep believing that!  You might want to lay off the dope and join the rest of us in the 21st century!

The truth:  Ohio St. has had to play two big games all year.  Yes, two teams currently ranked!  How many will Boise play? TWO, just like Ohio St.!!!!!!!!!

New NCAA Bottom 10 Workout

You try and lift Bristol Palin 20 times a night and throw her in the air!

Happy Trails to the WAC

Happy trails to the Western Athletic Conference.  What a fun ride it has been for the conference, but unfortunately, it has come to an abrupt end.  The conference saw itsself form a new identity every time a school or two left.  It even survived the mass exodus of 8 schools in 1999.  Unfortunately the conference has used up all of its 9 lives.  Come the end of the 2011 season, the WAC will no longer exist.

Of the six original charter members, Arizona, Arizona St., and Utah will all be members of the Pac 12 in 2011.  BYU has since claimed its independence, and New Mexico and Wyoming are currently members of the Mountain West.

Throw in the fact that the WAC was also home to the likes of  Nevada, Boise, Fresno St., TCU, and the Air Force Academy, you could say it definitely had nation wide name recognition.  After all, Boise, Utah, TCU, and BYU have become some of the biggest names in college football.

Most people would not realize this, but the WAC is home to 32 NCAA Championships.  The most famous of these being the 1984 BYU Football Championship, the 2003 Rice College World Series Championship, and the 2008 Fresno State College World Series Championship.

Once upon a time ago the WAC was a revolutionary conference.  Before there was a BCS to bust or BCS Busters, the WAC was knocking at the door of the big boys. On a December evening in 1984 BYU knocked down that door, and cemented their place in history, when they won the Holiday Bowl and the AP National Championship!  They were a program revolutionizing the college football game.  BYU was a trend setter.  They set the stage for BCS busting.

How many people love to marvel at guys like Mike Leach?  He is often referred to as the mad scientist and some sort of football genius.  How many people realize his and Hal Mumme's Air Raid offense was the direct bi product of  La Velle Edward's BYU offenses?  Yes thats right, BYU was spreading the field and chucking the ball all over the place in the 80s.  BYU was not the only WAC team spreading the field and chucking the ball all over the place. Utah, and later Fresno would do the same. At one point in time, nobody scored more points than WAC schools! In the meantime the rest of the country was still running out of the wishbone, T-formation, and split back veer.

Where did the WAC go wrong?  How did up start conferences like the Sun-Belt and C-USA outlast the WAC in this money driven day in age? I mean the Sun Belt Conference did not even start playing football until 2001.   Question after question can be asked, but reality is the WAC is all but 6 feet under right now and there are no answers that will change this.

I won't lie that the loss of the WAC is a bit saddening.  My first exposure to college football was predicated around WAC football games.  However, it is time to celebrate the WAC and thank its current and former members for a lot of great memories.

Just as any college student leaving home to start a new life, former WAC schools should remember their roots and where they started.  Its fans can remember those cold November games in La Velle Edwards stadium.  They can remember those 52-48 shootouts across the conference.  Their fans can celebrate the memories and cheer on future successes, knowing that the WAC laid the groundwork for their successes.  WAC fans can now watch the Mountain West Conference and cheer them on, knowing that every one of their current members was once a part of the WAC.  The MWC is not like the WAC of old.  It has been transformed into a hard nosed, physical, and big time conference.  However its success can all be traced back to its roots.  The days good ole Wacky WAC!

The Second Coming of the U??????

After watching the Auburn win over Georgia last week, it became pretty apparent that Auburn looks like a program that has the potential to spiral out of control.  Their players played dirty, they lacked self control, and looked more like a group of guys wanting to go brawl at the local bar.  Watching that game along with Auburn's out of control behavior brought back eerie similarities of the 1980s Miami Hurricanes.  Then throw in the Cam Newton drama and we have a program living on the edge.

Honestly, how does a guy like Gene Chizik go 5-19 at Iowa State and land a promotion at a school like Auburn?  How does a coach with a 5-19 record turn another program into a National Championship contender?  How does he unexpectedly land the top QB and JC recruit in the nation?

Well folks, we have seen the second coming of the U!

Take a look at the pics and watch the video:

Watch Nick Fairley Cheap Shot Artist Here

Trying to take out a knee?

Hands to the face.  Should be 15.

The Newest NCAA Award

Starting in 2010, the REGGIE BUSH AWARD, will be given  to the college football player who displays a lack of integrity off the field but can set the field on fire when he plays!

And the list of the 2010 candidates goes to:

1.  Cam Newton: QB Auburn- "It will take more than a scholarship to land my son."

Rumor has it, Newton cheated on his signature when he signed his letter of intent. C-A-M. "Did is write Cam gooder daddy?"


2.  Jeremiah Masoli: QB  Mississippi-  The list of troubles include: second-degree felony burglary charges and misdemeanor drug charges.  He still landed on his feet!  Thanks for saving this troubled young man Coach Nutt!

 The above picture is of Masoli teaching a teammate how to assume the position in prison. 


3.  Chris Rainey:  WR Florida- "Time to die." That is the famous text message from Rainy to a girl he was dating.  Rainey faced charges of aggravated stalking. Those are the words he uttered to Georgia Coach Mark Richt during his first game back.

4. La Michael James: RB Oregon-  Like Rainey, James is having a difficult time finding love.  It seems he is a more physical lover than he is football player.  James was arrested and charged with 5 misdemeanor charges including: strangulation, assault, and physical harassment of his girlfriend.

5.  Janzen Jackson: DB  Tennessee-  Janzen was arrested and charged with armed robbery.  He and two teammates attempted to rob three men parked outside a Knoxville gas station.  Needless to say he is a much better football player than criminal.

Honorable Mention: Tyler Thomas Oregon St.-  If not for being dismissed from the team, Thomas may have been the winner.  A naked Thomas stormed into the room of a 32 year old woman's house and got set in a three point stance.  All the while the woman and the arresting officers watched.  What happened next?  He was tased.  Down, set, tase! 

2010 Hypesman Standings

 Here is the list of the top 5 most over-rated 2010 college football players.  Every one of these guys was hyped up at the beginning of the year as a true Heisman contender.  Well, where are they now?  Denard Robinson actually had to play a few schools that played defense and he did not quite look like Superman anymore.  Please, no more preseason hype!  Let the games begin before we anoint Heisman Trophy winners!

1.  Jerrod Johnson- QB Texas A&M
2.  Denard Robinson- QB Michigan
3.  Jacory Harris- QB Miami
4.  Jacquizz Rogers- RB Oregon St.
5.  Jake Locker- QB Washington