A series of sneaks

My two-year old was trying to sing Book of Mormon Stories along ith my wife and I. As he imitated "righ---teous---lyyyyyy" he threw in a Michael Jacksonish "owwww." It added a lot of flair to the song, and it gives me great reason to believe that all the "mukik" I'm playing him is making him hipper. As the commercials say, kids learn the most between birth and three and I'm sure if you instill a kid with a sense of hipness and cool before they are three, then they will be light years ahead of their peers by 7th grade. Until the glasses and the braces and the acne and the shortness take over and they are not respected as human beings again until they are 21. Such was my fate, I see not why it shouldn't happen to my kids. Makes you tough, yet vulnerable, like any post-modern man wishes he could be.

So, Josh recommended that I post a play I wrote. I wish I knew how to do this. I thought that having a blog would allow me to post Word documents, but I do not believe this is the case. The same can be said for music files. I would like to post those. Maybe this is what myspace is for, but that place seems like a morass of scum and villainy and teenage hipsters (I know I know, virtually synonymous). So, maybe I'll serialize the play like a Dickensian novel in various posts. Wouldn't that be exciting?

The major problem with the BCS and college football does not arise from computer calculated formulas, it arises from two unquestionably stupid allowances. 1) The Preseason poll and 2) The scheduling of eight home games by dominant programs. Problem the first...So, Ohio State is the consensus preseason number one and Texas the preseason number 2...so, OSU makes Texas look pathetic, and Texas falls something like 6 or 7 spots in the polls. If Texas loses next week they will fall to probably the late teens/early 20s. Texas would have to lose three games in a row before they fall out of the top 25. Cal loses to Tennessee in their first game. Because Cal is ranked number 9, they fall to about number 20 the following week. Here's my rant...I don't care where you are ranked in the preseason, if you have lost a game in the first or second week, you do not deserve to be in the top 25. There are plenty of other undefeated teams that should be in the top 25 but aren't. Especially when the only reason that you were in the Top 25 was because of hype. The polls are a joke because they measure preseason hype. If you don't have good enough hype to start off the season, the chances of you finishing high in the polls is slim to none. TCU has the only outsider chance of finishing in the top 5, because they were ranked to start the season. Say a team like BYU wins the rest of their games (which would include impressive road victories over TCU and Boston College, both ranked teams). I would guess the first time they would sniff the top 25 would be when they were around 6-1. By the time they were 11-1 they wouldn't have had enough weeks to make a major climb in the polls. Because poll rank is factored in so highly for the BCS rankings, BYU would not qualify for a BCS, even if the computers liked them. Even more ludicrous about the polls are that teams that stunk last year (Oklahoma, Tennessee) get ranked over teams that did reasonably well last year (UCLA, Boston College). Clemson was also ranked this year. It's not like these teams ever have to prove anything. They never have to climb out of the unranked hole like other teams. Problem the second: Tennessee, in beating Cal, boasted that the victory "was for the South versus the West Coast, the SEC versus the Pac-10." Yeah, sure Tennessee. Maybe try playing on the West Coast every once in a while. Hey, yeah, that's a neat idea, let's make the SEC teams actually play road games against non-conference foes! Wow, what a shocking concept! Let's see Florida or Georgia travel to Boise State or Oregon and see how well they do! I'm sick of the supposedly powerful SEC teams scheduling 7 or 8 home games a year. If they do play a tough team, they invariably play them at home. And typically, they schedule horrible non-conference opponents. So, how do we kow that the SEC is such a great conference? We don't. They play middling non-conference competition at home, get high rankings and then play each other so they never really drop to much in the polls. You know Auburn and LSU will play, 3 and 6 respectivly. The loser won't fall far, while the winner gets the rep of beating atop ten team, when that top ten team has beatn such powerhouses as Washington State (maybe try playing them in Pullman some time) and Mississippi State or Lousiana Lafeyette and Arizona (it should be noted that these two Pac-10 teams stink). Maybe I don't know the schedule and next year all the SEC teams will play at the Pac-10. Even so, the NCAA should not allow this situation of 8 home gomes to perpetuate. Make them play 6 and 6. Actually let Lousian Lafeyette get some ticket revenue by having 6 home games instead of 4 or 5. I guarantee that if BCS conference teams have to play 6 road games, there will be more "upsets" and more non-BCS teams ranked. If Air Force and Troy almost get the upset in the heart of the enemy, imagine if the enemy has to play them at a mile high.