…and Dufresne is a douche. The LA Times has been no fan of Iowa or the Big 10 forever (and frankly, I don’t know how he can write a college football column when he’s got Pete Carroll’s dick in his mouth the whole time.)

Fuck ‘em. We’ll keep winning and you can give us all the grand tour when we come out for our game in January.

the WWL is calling this “a down season” in college football. That there are not two teams that are so dominant they need not show up on Saturday and that there is not a Joe Montana, Barry Sanders and Hugh Greene playing for the same team and all wondering which who among them will receive the coveted Heisman, makes this season hardly worth covering. See link below for latest example.

These talking heads are an insult to the intelligence of the serious fan. You would think they would get tired of writing the same fucking article about the same coach and same team. I understand now why athletes hate sportswriters. They bash the guy when he spouts cliches and then destroy the guy when he doesn’t.

My favorite season in college football was when Kansas State made a run for the National Championship (yes, I know, we have ties) but it was awesome to see the Nebraskas and Oklahomas getting dusted by lowly K-State.

From Mark Schlabach, aka Sec Lacquey:
“With apologies to Boise State, Cincinnati, Iowa and TCU, the 2009 college football season has been a flop by most accounts.”

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/notebook?page=notebook/onthemark098

That right! College football as Hollywood Blockbuster. What a novel idea! A sports network should consider staging a more dramatic college season and just stop covering the real season, since the real season is so fucking boring.

They could cast Tom Cruise as the super, serious, intense, albeit midget coach from Big City State. Will Smith plays the smooth, hip, ever earnest agent who is forever calling to convince Shia Labeouf (look, macho is out in Hollywood so this is the best I could come up with) he should go pro after his sophomore year. Tom Hanks plays the father who is astonished by the greed and heartlessness of big time college athletics and is trying to find a way to keep his sons integrity intact. . And Michael Douglas plays the AD for Big City State, jockying behind the scenes to get his team ranked in the top spot. Nick Nolte plays the bookie. Nick Cage plays the gambleholic. Matt Damon plays the spy who is rebuilding his memory, during the season.

Ah…Fuck them all.

But in my 31 years of life on this planet, I’ve not seen very much luck come the way of the teams I cheer for; specifically Iowa and the Chicago Cubs. So, I’ll be damned if I’m going to apologize to anyone for having a few bounces go our way and for having a solid football team.

It’s all typical. USC/UF/Alabama/Texas win the way Iowa did on Saturday and the headlines are all about gritting out a tough win when they didn’t bring their “A” game. Iowa gets called lucky.

Fuck ‘em all. Keep winning and we’ll see what happens in January.

I’m not one to defend Dufrense, but as I mentioned on another thread yesterday, I heard Dufrense on the radio yesterday. The short of it was he said there was no true #1, any one of four teams could make the claim, including Iowa. And while Iowa might be “lucky”, that doesn’t rule them out. Again, he basically said that he hadn’t been sold on Iowa before, but they just keep winning and are as “worthy” as anyone else in the discussion.

on the Dan Patrick show yesterday and I thought he seemed ok with Iowa. Patrick essentially asked him “What about Iowa?”, and Dufresne basically answered “Why not Iowa?”. Paraphrasing a bit, I know, but that was the jist of the discussion.

With all due respect to Zulu, we up here in NorCal would have no problem with using a few nukes to create a no-fly DMZ between NorCal and SoCal.

But Iowa was. Bullshit. If Iowa got lucky at the end of that game, Michigan State got lucky just before the end of it. Fuckin’ asswad.

was calling a Pete Sampras match with Dick Enberg. Sampras hit the tape (top of the net) like 6 or 7 times and the ball trickled over each time. At some point Enberg announces something like, “Sampras with yet another lucky shot.” McEnroe went haywire on Enberg for the next four or five points.

In short he said those shots where not lucky for Sampras. They would be lucky for the 50th ranked asshole in the world, but for #1 Sampras it is not lucky in the slightest. His reasoning was that Sampras is highly skilled and is trying to get his ground strokes as close to the net as is possible without it hitting the net and falling backward. That is his edge, and thus his ball is forever teasing that net. But a guy who is 50th is hitting the ball much more conservatively—well over the net—because he does not trust his skill to be able to get it over more often than not. So if Mr. 50th in the World hits the net and the ball goes over, it’s a total fuck up…or, as McEnroe made clear, lucky.

If Iowa won only one close game this year, that would be lucky by McEnroe’s logic. But, at this point, this is their game. They play for this. In fact, Ferentz made that loud and clear when he eschewed a pass in the fourth quarter at MSU on 3rd and goal from the 10 or whatever. It was as if he was saying, we will play this bitch to net.