The Death of the 2007 Season

The 2007 College Football Season died in Los Angeles around 6:30 PM Saturday afternoon. All that is left is some meaningful games against conference opponents and USC repaying the past eleven months from that 13-9 aberration. I loved every moment but payback is the ultimate biatch and we look prime for the spit.

Pete Carroll is still the best coach in the Pac-10 and probably the country. He works harder, recruits better, takes his lumps and deals with demanding alumni with candor and purpose. I can only hope that he has a Birkenstock moment and decides to work for UCLA for half of what he is now getting, actually maybe 35%. Pedro, we are a little closer to your home and you could go 8-3 every year and be a hero in Westwood.

Karl Dorrell has reached the pinnacle of his coaching career and I am glad we were all here to see an alumni come back and lead his alma mater back from the abyss to comfortable mediocrity. Karl needs to be a receiver’s coach somewhere, not the head coach at UCLA. Dan Guerrero had no choice, he fired Toledo and Lavin, and our debt ridden, fire ravaged state could only afford so much state budget for head football coaches. I hope everyone feels sorry for us. We did hire Ben Howland and now he is the highest paid state employee.

College football is all about the quarterback. There are not any great teams with a bad quarterback. Kids are better trained, coached and developed than twenty years ago. More great QB’s are playing at more schools. The guy that used to be 4th string at USC is now helping Appalachian State beat Michigan. The guy that used to be 2nd string at UCLA is now helping Utah State beat UCLA.

There is a correlation on why USC has played for National Championships and won a few. They have two Heisman trophy winning quarterbacks among the elite in the NFL. The only QB the Bruins have in the NFL, is playing wide receiver for the 0-8 St. Louis Rams. BTW: Is Georgia Frontiere negotiating with Anaheim to bring the Rams back now that they suck and no one goes to the games? She married well seven times and she taught Carroll Rosenbloom how to swim in the Carolina surf. She is worth $400 million and she goes by the name of the derelict dancer, ticket scalper that she married after Carroll drowned in the ocean while she slapped on SPF 30 a hundred feet away…You go, girl!

There is parity in college and it is messing with the BCS. This could be the year where it does not all fall into place on December 2. I can not remember a season where so many higher ranked teams were underdogs to their opponents. 85 scholarships helps with parity but it is also about 18-22 year olds making tough decisions while throwing into Cover 2 on the road while rushed by a 275 pound Biology major who has 4.3 speed. And it is all documented on ESPN, ESPN2, Fox, and the Ocho. I made some bad decisions in college and I do not recall any of them costing the Bruins a bowl bid. My parents did get to meet some rather hostile Glendale Police officers but I think we expunged ….ah..er.. we worked that out.


Do we really care about the steroid controversy in baseball? It is not my body and lord knows…well that is another story about College in the 70’s but I want to see 450 ft. home runs when I go to the game. I appreciate a 2-1 game but nothing says HGH, like a bomb into the parking lot.

The masses went to see Mark McGuire hit 70 home runs, Sammy hit 66 and Barry hit 75. If their liver is going to explode and their balls fall off, that would be terrible, but do that in the privacy of your doctor’s office. I want you to bang it out of the yard.

We all knew something was in the flax seed oil but WTF, it was fun. Bud Selig knew, every owner did Bud while you owned the Milwaukee Brewers, you made an absolute ton of money through revenue sharing, the Fox TV contract, and that surreal Sausage Race. I am sure that you crafted at least the Sausage Race, Bud? You seem so fun and creative. I digress, Budster, you did the wave all along with the hoopla and excitement in baseball with circus freaks hitting 625 foot homeruns bringing the fans back to the park after a horrific strike. And then you leveraged that into becoming the commissioner of baseball. And then Pope Bud, you quietly sold the team for a fortune and now you are morally outraged about what went on while you were an owner?

I am not sure any of us wanted to see Barry hit more home runs than Hank but we were happy to watch. You would invite Hank Aaron to speak to your children. You would encourage your children not to behave like Barry Bonds.

I think the penalty for steroid use in baseball should be that your ex-girlfriend strips in Playboy and tells the world that you suck in bed and your testicles have shrunk because you took steroids. Oh wait, Kim Bell just did that to Barry. He will be found guilty of perjury and tax evasion not illegal steroid use. Regardless, his ex-mistress says he has small balls. Keep your $17 million but I walk tall in the locker room, Barroid!