College Football is the greatest spectator sport in America. Tailgating is an art form, sampling the local fare, traditions and partaking in a beverage or two is a must. Atmosphere is everything! If you don't attend a game, you can still tailgate right in the confines of your own man-cave. I am on a quest to attend a game and pre- game event at all now - 136 Division 1A stadiums and much more. Come join me!
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Greetings Tailgaters! So the Tailgate jumped on an early morning flight to Portland to attend a tailgate and game in Corvallis on the campus of Oregon State. We streamed down I-5 from the PDX airport to Corvallis in a caravan that looked like the great exodus only each car either was decked out in Beaver orange and black or Duck green and yellow (Oregon also had a home game Saturday). But before the game, we partook in the traditional ritual called “Tailgating”. I was joined again by veteran Tailgater West Point Wiggins and OSU alum and diehard fan Randy “I bleed orange” Choi. Wiggins being a former Quartermaster Officer was tasked with securing provisions for the gate. Apparently he raided the local commissary the night before and had his rental car stuffed to the gills with enough provisions to feed the freshman dorms in Corvallis. Included in the haul were a grill, table, cooler and an assortment of meats, chips, etc. Well done Captain Wiggins! Beverages were provided by our local chaperone Randy with an assortment of local Oregon brews. We put the grill together in record time, fired it up and charred some burgers and brats; literally I charred some of these meats beyond recognition. Oh yeah, one ingredient we used today that will be a staple in all future tailgates was cheez whiz! We put it on the brats, the burgers, the chips, even mixed it with some of the brew! We are having a yard sale this AM at our hotel parking lot on all the left over goodies. Anyone want a grill?
The Grill Master charring to order!
Cheez Whiz is the healthy alternative to fresh cheese, just ask West Point Wiggins!
Dan inside Beaver "Reser" Stadium at OSU
Tickets were acquired from that same guy who is at every game in every city at every venue, $50 for row 1, 50 yard line. Not bad at all if you don’t mind standing most of the game. But what a perspective you get being at hit level! This was a new chapter in the childhood classic of The Wind and The Willow with Bucky the Badger meeting a new friend, Benny the Beaver. The atmosphere on campus was electric with the fans doing an “Orange Out”. Being a contrarian I wore a black OSU T-shirt. The young OSU defense swarmed all over Heisman candidate Montee Ball and abused the massive O-line of the corn fed Badgers. Coach “Curly Bielema of Wisconsin was heard asking himself “hey Moe, what do we do? Gnuk gnuk gnuk, hey you wise guy! But in this case Moe must have been former Offensive Coordinator Paul Christ who is now coaching the Pitt Panthers and was nowhere to be found. So Curly had no answers to solve the dominant DAM Beaver defense. By the end of the DAM battle, the Beavers chewed up the Badgers and pulled off a major upset besting UW 10-7. Three local De La Salle boys all played key roles for the Beavers including D-line phenom Dylan Wynn. Yes I know, you want to know if we stormed the field with the students. To find out the answer, see the pictures at the bottom.
Seperated at birth!
Around the country - I will not mention any D-1 schools that played D1AA Schools unless they lost like Colorado & Colorado State did (Rocky Mountain Low)! More on this topic below. Friday night’s battle at Promontory Point for the Romney Cup pitted the Utes (not youth’s Mr. Pesci) against the upstart Aggies from Ute State. As was the case last year, this was another classic Friday night battle ending in OT with the Aggies topping the Utes for the first time in 15 years. Students stormed the field and I would have too if I were there. State Penn’s inexperienced Ficken Kicker missed 4 Ficken field goals as the UVA Cavs swash buckled a win over the kittens and the Kicken Ficken! Coach O’Brien was overheard by a reporter as he stormed off the field “I am going to strangle that Ficken Kicker! It’s better than what their old D coordinator would want to do, right Tickle Monster? Mizzou and Texas A&M were rudely welcomed to the SEC. Nice move Mizzou for mouthing off before the game. How does that “old man football” taste now? In the battle of the Hawkeye State, the Cyclones blew away their better known neighbors from Iowa City. MSU scalped the Chippewas and the question of “Where have you gone Mr. Robinson” was answered with a redemption performance in a Wolverine win over Air Force in the Big House. C Thomas Howell and Patrick Swayze can still be heard yelling “Wolverines” from the mountaintop after the win. Charlie Weiss gets eaten by Rice, huh? Welcome back Coach Front Butt! UCLA and the PAC 12 had a big day overall. Under new Management in the Rose Bowl, this is a different Bruin team. As Carrie Underwood states “ There’s not enough rain in Oklahoma, to wash the sins away” of the Cowpokes performance in Tucson. Is Rich Rod back for real this time? John L Smith, Coach of the Razorbacks filed for bankruptcy this past week. After losing to UL Monroe on Saturday, the University of Arkansas also filed for bankruptcy! That’s for my boy from the Village. In the Brainiac Bowls, Stanford proved more than Lucky in trouncing Duke and the Wildcats from Northwestern out engineered the Commodores from Vandy. They should have a Smart School trophy like the Military Academy’s Commander in Chief trophy. We could call it the Nerdmander and Geek Cup. Washington, at least you could have put up a respectable performance in Baton Rouge. Sark, you ought to be embarrassed. Even the Honey Badger in the stands thought you played like you didn’t care. Bama rolling over Western Kentucky in a tune up for next week’s match up in Fayetteville. And lastly, the shine of the emerald isle was clearly worn off in the Irish’s lackluster performance versus the Purdue Boilermakers. And did we really have to see Tommy Reese again?
Local boy Dylan Wynn firing up the crowd in Corvallis
Ficken Kicker!
Okay, I need pictures and guest tailgate stories from any of you going to games (especially the next 2 weeks). I need them by 6 PM Pacific on Sunday evenings. Also, for anyone interested, I wear an XXL T- shirt. Keep those team t shirts coming. I would like to have one from every D-1 school, so your donations are appreciated. Contact me in the comments section below, select e-mail and I will send you my mailing address. It is good luck when I wear these shirts on game day. New shirts only, no used ones please! Heisman Watch – I may have to rewrite the bulk of the pre season Heisman hopefuls poll with the exception of Matt Barkley who threw six TD’s yesterday against a hapless Orange Defense in leading SC to its second win of the season. Send me your thoughts on who to include. Gripe of the week – D1 Schools playing D1 AA schools or other lower division schools early season. I understand the economic reasons of doing this. I know some schools were left with few choices after conference realignment left them with voids in the schedule. This is college football’s version of a TARP bailout. I respect all levels of College football, but you play at a different level based on your abilities and potential, not to mention size, speed, facilities, illegal money, etc.. D1 A should always beat D1 AA in theory. Even you diehard fans who may be initially offended by my position have to admit that getting up for these games is as much fun as watching your spouse drain the bank account on Black Friday. Let’s look at Savannah State the last two weeks, losing 84-0 to Ok State and Mother Nature showing mercy on them in Tallahassee by shortening the game at a mere 55 -0 score. Seriously Clarke? You may have earned a nice paycheck for your school, but you probably lost a number of players to injuries, not to mention losing your dignity in the process as well. At a minimum, D1 schools should only play the best sub division programs. So if you were wondering why I didn’t give a shout out to your school this week, now you know. Prayers go out to the Tulane player who suffered a spinal injury yesterday. Also special prayers to OU faithful fan “Uncle Roy” who is going through some very serious health issues. The next two weeks the Tailgate will be relegated to Tailgate HQ and will be hosting several backyard Tailgates. Happy Tailgating!
Clearly another red solo cup monet at the postgame tailgate.
OSU Students storm the field...
...and so does Dan!
Live feed from the field..I did get a little sideways on Staurday.
It is good that the natural order of things is back where they belong with Saturdays once again having meaning in my myopic existence. The Tailgate went large to start the season with a double header in the Mitten State. Thursday we set up camp in Mt. Pleasant, Michigan for the Central Michigan University Chippewa’s home opener against Southeast Missouri State. I was joined by my siblings Brian and Eileen, both veterans of the Tailgate. CMU is a beautiful campus that afforded us the opportunity to set up shop in the main parking lot 50 steps from the front gate of Kelly Shorts Stadium. We feasted on Sis’s famous beer soaked Wisconsin brats, cheesy potatoes, deviled eggs and Mongo’s baked beans (Think Blazing Saddles) and of course a bevy of Miller 64. We were interviewed by the school newspaper, asked by an Occupy (OWS) protester pollster to stir up the pot with social concerns, and most entertained by the college kids partying in the adjacent lot. Two upper classmen came over to show off their newly acquired business negotiating skills and bartered 2 of their higher octane beers for 2 of Sis’s brats and a deviled egg. Van Wilder, a self proclaimed 6th year junior approached us looking like Moses on his 40th day in the desert complaining of dehydration. When asked why he was dehydrated he admitted that his tailgate had begun when Matt Lauer was hosting some TV Show earlier that day. We hydrated him with some of Bobby Bouche’s pure H2O and sent him back out to finish his decade long college matriculation! But, mostly we watched student after student being harassed by the campus storm troopers or SS or some form of jack booted thugs busting these kids for being minors in possession (MIP). More on this later. The chillin chips took down SEMSU with a convincing second half to put the game away. Nice little stadium that seats about 30+ thousand. It was maybe a third full for the game.
Day 2, the Tailgate traveled sixty miles west to the town of East Lansing to prepare for the much ballyhooed battle between Boise State and Michigan State. We picked up my nephew Nate of State, a Freshman Spartan himself. As the dynamics of our foursome progressed throughout our roof top Tailgate, it became clear that we were the cast of the original Two and Half Men and Berta too! After setting up our gear and firing up the grill and laying everything out, I reached into the cooler for a nice cool one. Only problem is that there were no cool ones to wrap my mitts around. Seems to be that Berta (clearly not to point fingers here) forgot to restock the cooler with the most important Tailgate ingredient of all, 12 ounce silver silos! No worries, Charlie and Jake hiked three miles on foot in the 95 degree heat and returned an hour later with a twelve pack in hand. Game on again! Berta and Alan grilled up some Eagan chicken breasts and cheesy broccoli salad and assortment of other goodies. We invented a new remix dance combining the techniques of the dosey doe and the more modern steps of hip hop, now aptly called Square Freaking (See pics). I will say that all of the MSU tailgaters and fans I met throughout the night were very classy and gracious hosts. The stadium was great for viewing but a bear to find your seats as I misnavigated (I learned that word from the book of Clemens) and hiked up to the top of one side of the stadium only to learn we were on the opposite side of the stadium with no connecting concourse! Although the score of the game ended with MSU besting Boise 17 -13, the game was clearly dominated by MSU statistically. This is a very young and inexperienced Boise team that is a mere shadow of the team they were the last three years. They were led by Danville’s own Joe Southwick who had giant shoes to fill of the now Detroit Lion Kellen Moore. The offense could never really get anything going and failed to score an offensive touchdown for the first time since the American Revolution. Nonetheless, the atmosphere and aura of the night represented all that is good with College Football.
Saturday had me back at Tailgate world headquarters doing the remote control cardio workout. So let’s go around the country and see what happened during the first 5 days of Christmas: Before making it home, I caught most of the Notre Dame Navy game from Dublin, Ireland while I was stranded at O’Hare making my way back home. I proceeded to do an Irish Jig at gate C 12 after each Irish score. After delivering a rousing speech at the Republican National Convention in Tampa midweek, Governor Chris Christie AKA Brady Hoke then led his Michigan Wolverines into Birmingham to take on the defending National Champions. The most anticipated game of the week was over in the first quarter. Simply put, the Tide rolled. They might be better than last year’s team if that’s possible. Jim Mora junior, just like his Dad is not yet ready to talk about playoffs (okay I will refrain from saying it this year) after UCLA ate up Rice in the new Mora era. USC and Matt Barkley surfed all over the Warriors from Hawaii showing the country that they are for real this year. Yes I know you are thinking, why am I not ripping SC like usual and saying something cheap like “ Beating Hawaii is like Germany invading Belgium”. No, I am better than that and will not resort to taking shots at SC this year and the son and his demented Dad who coach them. Cal, not a good way to ring in your new crib getting embarrassed by the Wolf Pack from Nevada. Coach Tedford, my advice to you is you should scout out your seat in the new coliseum for next year’s games. Stanford, have you run out of Luck this year, almost losing to San Jose State at home? Oklahoma, you were almost detained at the Border in El Paso. Stop listening to Stoops’s brother for crying out loud! And what’s up with the OK State Cowboys steamrolling Savannah State like Sherman marching to the sea?
Cat on Cat crimes were out of control this weekend with the Cougs of” Bringem Young & Playem Old” telling the old Pirate Mike Leach to stay on his own ship in the Palouse of Wazoo with his Cougs, and Taj Boyd and the purring Dabos of Clemson clawing it out in the Chick Fil A classic against the felines of Scamnewtonville, AL all for a piece of chicken?. That may have been the best matchup of the weekend. And the biggest cat fight upset of all was the Tyler Tettleton Ohio Bobcats scratching out a win in the not so Happy Valley of the Paternoless Penn State Kitties.
Welcome back to Coach Myers and his urban renewal project in Columbus, OH with a statement win over Miami of Ohio. Taylor Martinez and the Huskers shucked their way to a silky smooth win over the tough Southern Mississippi Fighting Favres. Montee Ball and the Badgers struggled mightily in a win over 1 AA Northern Iowa. The U of Myhammy Hurricanes blew down the birds from BC in a competitive match in Chestnut Hill. The purple people eaters from Northwestern squeezed out a nail biter 42 – 41 against the Orange in the Carrier Dome. In the battle of the great state of Colorado, the Buffs got rammed by Colorado State. And finally, the Monday night match up turned into one of the week’s best games with VT BTing GT in OT!
Heisman Watch – week 1 – front runner performance of the week goes to Matt Barkley, USC. I am pretty sure Matt Barkley is Pete Carroll’s son. We have now located crackle and Pop, if we could only find snap then we would be all set.
Gripe of the week – this one was easy, abuse of power by jack booted thugs AKA Campus Cops. At the CMU tailgate we watched student after student getting busted for being underage and drinking at their rally. These “Wannabe Feds” took great pride in making these well behaved kids miserable even bringing several of them to tears! Clearly these baton wielding bullies were getting back at society for not getting into college in the first place or perhaps they were always on the outside of the social circles and were never invited to these kind of soirees’. They were clearly in control, and dammit they were going to make sure those kids knew it. And to think, those cops are back in their parents basement during the week playing X Box, eating Lucky Charms and experimenting with cannabis.
Miscellaneous – Hey, I need advertisers, let me know if your company or business is interested. I will cut you a real special deal! Special shout out to my buddy G Money, our #1 USC Tailgater fan who’s mother passed away this past week. Prayers are with you Money!
Welcome back loyal Tailgaters! Hope everyone had as eventful an off season as Mitt and Barry, and Joe and Paul, or not. I settled back in to my globetrotting routine with no football to be watched but new brews, chews and tailgate games were sampled. I even visited a few dormant stadiums. I have some new good ideas for this fall’s menu and activities. Santa even brought me a beer pong table that has been tested out effectively. With all the controversy, Sadness and Scandal that dominated the offseason, one profound event stands atop all others in the eyes of true Tailgaters. No it was not Bobby Petrino’s Sleazy Rider impersonation, or the untimely death of ex Mountaineer Coach Bill Stewart, not the 4 team playoff announcement, or dozens of players running up local tax dollars via incarceration caused by insipid moronocy (Is that a word?), nor was it the travesty that is conference realignment, nope, not even the continual sinking ships of the U and THEEEEE Ohio State University, wasn’t even the coaching carousel that hit an all time high this off season (see below), one might think that Honey Badger should have cared more, but that is not it. You probably have guessed what I am going to mention. It is so disturbing that it is very hard and emotional to get these words out but it was so life altering I now no longer have a reason to rise at 6 AM Pacific and watch ESPN College Gameday. You guessed right, Erin Andrews has left ESPN for greener pastures over on Fox Sports, aptly named now if I must say so. There has never been such a woman who has combined knowledge of the game, interview skills, personality, gravitas and oh yeah and she's not too hard on the eyes. Sorry Lee and Kirk, you two cowboys just don’t cut it for me without EA. I hope you all didn’t think I was going to mention something else? I may go back to watching Scooby Doo on Saturday mornings or and eating my count chocula 13 grain cereal.
2011-12 FBS head coaching changes
Out IN Akron Rob Ianello Terry Bowden Arizona Mike Stoops Rich Rodriguez Arizona State Dennis Erickson Todd Graham Arkansas State Hugh Freeze Gus Malzahn Colorado State Steve Fairchild Jim McElwain Florida Atlantic Howard Schnellenberger Carl Pelini Fresno State Pat Hill Tim DeRuyter Hawaii Greg McMackin Norm Chow Houston Kevin Sumlin Tony Levine Illinois Ron Zook Tim Beckman Kansas Turner Gill Charlie Weis Memphis Larry Porter Justin Fuente New Mexico Mike Locksley Bob Davie North Carolina Everett Withers Larry Fedora Ohio State Luke Fickell Urban Meyer Ole Miss Houston Nutt Hugh Freeze Penn State Joe Paterno Bill O'Brien Pittsburgh Todd Graham Paul Chryst Rutgers Greg Schiano Kyle Flood Southern Miss Larry Fedora Ellis Johnson Texas A&M Mike Sherman Kevin Sumlin Toledo Tim Beckman Matt Campbell Tulane Bob Toledo Curtis Johnson UAB Neil Callaway Garrick McGee UCLA Rick Neuheisel Jim L. Mora Washington State Paul Wulff Mike Leach Last season had so many twists and turns that we can’t possibly cover them now. Let’s focus on the upcoming season: Will the SEC continue to dominate or do we see traditional power schools like SC, ND, Michigan or a new dark horse rise from the ashes and snatch the crystal? Who will the early season Heisman contenders be? Who will be the next Luck or RG III? What new Frosh will be the next Herschel, Marcus or Bo? What schools will violate more rules and wind up on the wrong side of Sheriff Joe Arpaio? How long will Uncle Jerry the sand man last in State Penn before he becomes the object of Bubba’s desire? What coaches will find their booster butts on the hot seat? Too much intrigue for me to think about. Most importantly, who will find themselves in the tailgate fishbowl? In years past we had Cheaty Carroll, Lame Kiffin, Mark May, Craig James, Front Butt Weiss, Scam Newton, Nontaze Burfict, Rich Rod, Slimedusky and many more. Can’t wait for the first podiatry - orthodontia combination to come out of some scholar athlete or coaches pie hole. We have also had heroes like Big Smoe, Dupree, Carl from Caddyshack and many more. Will we get a new hero this year? Okay, so here is what I need this year from my longtime loyal followers: Please send my blog out to all your friends. I want to hit over 1,000 weekly readers this year. Post my link on Facebook or Twitter. Vote on the weekly polls, send me good tailgate pictures and stories, make 1 comment a week at a minimum under my by line, we need more opinion and smack. Send me your tailgate menus, games and traditions. Click on the ad’s each time you go to the website, also click on the amazon.com link from my site if you buy from there. If your company wants to advertise on here, let me know. I plan on retiring before I am 90 so this little fun blog can help me get there! Last season we more than doubled our viewership and I want to do that again this year. I am so excited for the start of the season I can’t stand it! The Tailgate has laid out a very ambitious schedule for 2012. If all goes as planned, the Tailgate will attend 11 D-1 games at 11 different locations of which 7 will be first time venues for the Tailgate. I will also be traveling back to my Alma Matter for the homecoming game to watch the mighty Bobcats of Frostburg State University. Funny thing is, when I was there I was usually playing Rugby on Saturday and attended less than a handful of games during my decade of matriculation.
Here is the 2012 live Tailgate lineup:
8/30 – SE Missouri State @ Central Michigan University
8/31 – Boise State @ Michigan State 9/8 – Wisconsin at Oregon State 10/6 – Boston College @ Army 10/11 – Arizona State @ Colorado 10/13 – Utah State @ San Jose State 10/20 - Buffalo State @ Frostburg State 10/27 –Mississippi State @ Alabama 11/3 – San Diego State @ Boise State 11/10 – Oregon @ Cal 11/24 – Notre Dame @ USC 12/8 – Army – Navy in Philadelphia
Let me know if any of you will be at these games and stop by and have a cool one Clark! Gripe of the week: Congratulations to fellow Danvillian (my hometown of Danville) and acquaintance Pac 12 Commissioner Larry Scott on launching the PAC 12 network last week. Larry has been responsible for a number of things since he took over including expanding to 12 teams adding new markets which really changed the makeup of the conference. My gripe is that I live right in the heart of the PAC 12 nation and I can’t get the channel. AT&T is my provider and they have chosen not to carry the PAC 12network. I went through this last year not getting the Mountain West Conference channel missing several Boise games. I watch the Big 12 Network which they carry and it is pretty darn good. I have been in the cable television business for 23 years and even helped launched a new network back in the 90’s as well as a number of new products. I know exactly what AT&T is doing by choosing not to carry the network. They claim they have no channel space (pure BS, I know how their system is architected and they have more room than a Roseanne Barr poodle skirt). And they are probably asking the PAC 12 Network to give them the channel free for the first 5 years or so (not sharing the per channel subscriber revenue that they charge us as customers) and they probably want more of the advertising revenue than they actually need. Anyway, if you are an AT&T U-Verse customer, give Ma Bell a call and let em hear it. Threaten to disconnect and state you are switching to your local cable company or Direct TV! I plan on calling daily and e-mailing. I’ve done this before and it is very effective. Happy Tailgating!
Baylor - Washington game – I predicted there would be defensive coordinators looking for a job very shortly after a bowl record on total yards was achieved and second the second most combined points allowed. Once again, Nostrildanus was somewhat correct as Coach Holt from Washington was given the boot in Puget Sound. Notre Dame – Florida State game – Just a bad performance by the Irish and the inept Tommy Reese. We hope the Irish locate a new QB for next season.
On January 2nd live from Tailgate HQ - Rose Bowl – Was there any defense? Tailgate Tom was in attendance for the second year in a row only to see his mighty Badgers get quacked in the face again. Do these Badgers care? The Honey Badger wouldn’t care. Tom was so mad he has left the State of California for good in search of greener pastures in Iowa? Houston and Keenum make their Case against State Penn. Hopefully Perv Slimedusky does not have TV in his prison cell and did not get to see the beat down. Who cared about the mediocrity Bowl, AKA the Gator Bowl with two teams with 6-6 records? Perhaps Urban Meyer had a rooting interest…or two. Michigan State proved to be the New Year’s day hero for the Big 10 garnering their only victory… wow hopefully Urban and Brady shake things up again and restore things to the natural order of the CFB world again. Donald Rumsfeld & Leon Panetta would have thrown the yellow flag for the lack of defense in the Fiesta and Orange Bowls as well. Maybe congress cut each team’s defense spending prior to the games? When Stanford’s kicker pulled a “Brotzman” three times to allow OK State to secure the victory, we did the Two Step and Cotton Eyed Joe all around the Tailgate HQ. Mrs. Tailgate broke out the mason jars of moonshine and insisted on reveling into the wee hours of the morning! I guess Andrew ran out of luck against the Cow Pokes! Dabo was for once speechless after being climbed all over by a fired up Mountaineer squad in the Orange Bowl. Wow the Orange was squeezed right out of the Tiger’s jerseys. The Tailgate boycotted the Shamgar Bowl so we will not report on it and you should not care either.
In the only game that mattered according to the BCS Mafia…Field goals ruled supreme as Alabama’s defense put the cage around the Tigers and rendered their offense useless. Jordan “movin on up” Jefferson managed to cross the 50 yard line one time all night for the Bayou Bengals doing his best Jamarcus Russell impersonation. Perhaps he “got his drank on” the night before on Bourbon street? Hey Les…Yo Mad hatter…I am talking to you! How did the grass taste in the dome?Not good, “cuz it aint real" just like your offense! And Honey Badger, I knew you didn’t care, but were you hanging with Jamarcuz the night before too? I mean a real Honey badger would have played with reckless abandon like your name sake here:
The Army Navy special on Showtime “Game of Honor” follows the two teams during the 2011 season.It is an insight into academy life for football players.You will have more respect for these outstanding young men.I highly recommend you watch it if you truly love college football.
Next year’s tentative schedule for the Tailgate (does not include impromptu stops):
Labor Day Weekend – Either Boise at Michigan State or Notre Dame at Navy in Dublin, Ireland.
9/15 – Colorado State at San Jose State (Men of Laurelglen annual Tailgate)
9/22 – BYU at Boise – Parents of Boise student’s annual tailgate
9/29 – Ole Miss at Alabama – High School gang tailgate with Alabama Al
10/20 – Frostburg State Homecoming
11/2 – Washington at Cal – (Tailgate with the Kenny Cal Clan)
11/10 – Purdue at Iowa – Reunion with Tailgate Tom Byom in his new domain)
12/10 – Army – Navy in Philadelphia
Heroes & Villains of the year at the Tailgate
Villains:
Gordon Gee (Ohio State Regent)
Pittbull
Nevin Shapiro
Lame Kitten
Mark May
Stankey from the SEC
Slimedusky
Paterno
Craig James
Sugar Bowl Hoolihan
The BCS
Heroes
Coach Bennett Coastal Carolina
Dana Holgreson
Dabo Swinney
Coach BK
The Honey badger
RG III
Russell Wilson
Kellen Moore
D-1 Stadiums that don’t matter (Because they are pro stadiums, domes or nowhere near campus)
Pittsburg
South Florida
Miami
Tulane (Triple whammy)
Temple
San Diego
Syracuse
Idaho
Hawaii
Gripe of the week – The season is over and I have nothing to do for the next 8 months! This is the last blog write up of the year.I want to thank you all for your loyal following of this blog.We had a big increase in page views this year over last year. Keep spreading the word.
Have a great off season and I will talk to you all again in August!
