Barry’s Blogasaurus

Much as I detest Texas Tech, ya gotta love Leach

When asked his opinion of the new clock rules in college football:

“I think simply stated that it’s the stupidest rule to come out in a significantly long time,” he said.

“I think this is such a great idea, maybe they should limit both teams to 20 plays, then we would really get them the games over quickly,” Leach said. “Then everybody go out and tailgate. The players and coaches can
mingle with the fans and really share in the whole game-day activity.”

Category: CollegeFeetsball

From The Tonya Harding school of football….

Just makes ya wonder what he might have done had they been at a real football school….

“Reserve punter arrested for allegedly stabbing rival in kicking leg”

GREELEY, Colo. (AP) — The University of Northern Colorado’s reserve punter was arrested Tuesday, accused of stabbing his rival in his kicking leg.

Mitch Cozad, a sophomore from Wheatland, Wyo., allegedly attacked starting punter Rafael Mendoza in a parking lot in Evans on Monday night, Evans police Lt. Gary Kessler said.

Mendoza, the Bears’ first-string punter from Thornton, was treated and released from the North Colorado Medical Center Monday night. Coach Scott Downing said Mendoza will not punt for UNC in Saturday’s
game at Texas State University.

“I don’t know how long he’ll be out because I haven’t talked to the doctor,” Downing said.

Cozad, Mendoza and freshman Zak Bigelow had been in a three-way race for the starting punter’s job in preseason training. Mendoza has averaged 37.6 yards-per-punt on nine punts in the two games so far
this season.

Cozad is facing second-degree assault charges and was scheduled to appear in court Wednesday for a bond hearing.

Category: CollegeFeetsball

Kudos to Fisher DeBerry.
That took some serious cajones….

Why did Mack Brown look like he got hit by a car after the Ohio State loss? I know he got bumped on the sideline and had a nick on his upper lip (or herpes), but the post game press conference was the most dishevelled-looking coach I’ve seen. Looked like he’d been on a three day bender….
Methinks he knows what’s coming in Austin.

OK, so maybe Notre Dame is better than I thought.
Ditto for Ohio State.
I think  LSU and Auburn are as good as I thought.

I love Martellus Bennett’s attitude and fun spirit, but honestly…
can you have a Legion with only 2 guys?

Heard several commentators complimenting Missouri.
Hope we don’t overlook that one…

Not a good weekend for the t-sips hee hee.
In addition to the Ohio St debacle
God Jr. (aka Vince Young) threw  his first INT for Tennessee
and Chris Simms and the Bucs got pasted by Baltimore
while he threw for only 133 yards and 3 more INTs….

Who else thought UTEP was going to keep giving Tech extra plays via penalties AFTER the game clock ran out
so they could keep trying hail mary bombs and long FGs, all to no avail….

Then Tech tries to give it back in OT with a penalty that negated the winning TD and two penalties that
pushed them back 30 yards and almost out of FG range.

Then they hit a long pass to set up the winning 40 yard FG which of course hit the upright and bounced thru.
Wild wacky stuff.

Who does Duke need to payoff to actually win a  game?
That was a brutal way to lose a game.

How does Chuck Amato still have a job?

How did the person who designed the Syracuse uniforms
EVER get a job?

Syracuse doesn’t deserve to win a game.
7 count ‘em SEVEN plays from inside the 2 yard line and zero points.
In Overtime.
They deserve those uni’s…

The Big 10 (11?) is really
1 Big 1
1 Large 1 tbd in Michigan
and 9 others who suck.
Hey to Penn State getting bombed,
Illinois getting bombed by Rutgers
Minnesota getting bombed by Cal (who got bombed by Tenn)
Northwestern getting humiliated by 1AA New Hampshire
Indiana barely escaping Ball State thanks to a missed PAT
Purdue escaping MACs Miami of OH in OT
Iowa, albeit missing their starting QB, barely escaping a BAD Syracuse team,
and Wisc and Mich State beating weak teams as they should have.
Ohio State is clearly the man amongst the boys.
So I wonder who they’re going to screw it up against….

Category: CollegeFeetsball

I’ve realized that for things that I don’t thoroughly understand, or things that I have had to learn how to do, I really HATE CHANGE. Specifically with software that works fine, but when the “engineers” decide to improve it, they change the user interface and suddenly I no longer know how to use it. I must be getting old.

Category: Random Thoughts

5. Miami’s defense is very very good. Florida State is better.
4. Tennessee is better than advertised. Cal is not.
3. Louisville is pretty good too, even without Bush.
2. Notre Dame isn’t that good.
1. Really glad that my Texas A&M Aggies don’t have to go to Florida State in two weeks.
And next year’s trip to play Miamia in the Orange Bowl will be interesting. But I’ll be there.

Category: Sports

Wins the World Golf Championship after winning the PGA, which makes it 4 in a row and 6 this year out of 13 played. 10 years on tour, 12 majors, second all time. 52 tournament wins, tied for 5th ALL TIME. After only 10 years. Holds the scoring record for all 4 majors. And he’s WON 26% of the PGA tournaments he’s started. That’s insane.

Category: Other Stuff

my daughter just started school today. Suddenly she’s 6 and we’ve been in Vermont 7+ years.

Category: Other Stuff, Random Thoughts

It still escapes me how Sportsnight didn’t do better during it’s two year run on network tv. Great stuff. Currently in reruns on Comedy Central. Check it out.

Category: Barry's Favorites, Sports, Top10-Movies

If you’re not smart enough to figure out row numbers
and that A is the window seat and C is the aisle seat,
then you’re not smart enough to be travelling by airplane.

When they say preboarding, it means preboarding. Group 1 means Group 1.
Anyone boarding out of order / cutting WILL be bumped to the next flight.
And anyone pretending they don’t speak English and don’t understand when they were clearly speaking English to someone else a few minutes ago will also be bumped.

I understand competition, supply and demand. But it’s just wrong that it costs me $100 more to fly to my in-laws in Austin Texas than it would to fly to Bermuda or the Bahamas….

And while I’m not a HUGE numbers guy, I do know that when you are selling every single seat on the vast majority of your flights and all your customers are crammed in like sardines and miserable, yet your airline is still losing money…then YOU’RE DOING SOMETHING WRONG.

Kudos to my new friends at JetBlue. Fantastic customer service, friendly flight attendants and gate personnel, enough legroom on the planes, and individual tv monitors at each seat. Nice to see a company that is at least trying to improve air travel.

Category: King of the World

I Killed The Prom Queen
Lez Zeppelin (all girl Zeppelin tribute band)
Half Shaved Yak

Category: Other Stuff