If you are a cheerleader for Mitt Romney and you post it on your FB page? Good for you. If I counter your post with the truth, and make you feel bad because I don't agree with you? I am NOT a bully. I'm the guy reading the truth while you're watching Faux News.
If you think that everyone who works for a living and belongs to a Union is some how a leech on society, and taking money from you free market folks who hate government regulation? And I think you're wrong, and I point it out to you right back at you on your page? I'm not a bully. I'm telling the truth and you're full of shit.
If you go to the effort to posting a long, impassioned response to something I put in my blog (which means you READ it) and then say, "I don't give a damn about your Liberal bullshit"? Do I really need to spell this out? YOU DO, or you WOULDN'T HAVE! So you're a liar. And I'm NOT the bully.
Look, if you post stuff on FB, and you really, truly believe it? That's great. But when someone doesn't agree with you, or posts a link to something that proves your point to be totally bogus? You don't get to call them a bully! Or an asshole, or moron or any other name! If you're wrong, and you can't prove you're NOT wrong? You need to shut the fuck up!
I've been called rude, a bully, mean, lacking in social skills and tons of other things in a post on a, "friends" wall this week. Yet, I'm right, and none of them will defend themselves with facts. They just blame me for THEM being wrong. It's laughable. The dumb never know when to stop.
Yes, I just called all of you folks on Peggy Sue Hickman's WALL dumb! If the shoe fits.
So, just block me, defriend me, don't read my blog, whatever. Just stay in your idiot world.
But you can't brand me. You just show your own idiocy. Calling me the bully or a moron when I'm smarter than you? You are way out of line. But you are a PERFECT REPUBLICAN!
You don't make any money, you don't have any education but you still believe in, "trickle down economics" saving the country. Moron. Yes, I called you a name again. If the shoe fits.
Now, this is going to be interesting. I can't wait to see how many of Peggy Sue's friends, who claim they don't give a shit about my opinion, can't resist, making a comment about MY OPINION! This should be priceless.
Let the game begin.
Saturday, September 29, 2012
Tuesday, September 25, 2012
Daytime TV Sucks. But Ridgemont High Stands The Test Of Time
I usually prefer to go do something during the day. And if the weather's nice, I'll take the satellite radio out on my patio (my back yard is my favorite room in the house) and read. Or even just watch the birds at the feeders.
But lately, we've had some problems. Our washing machine has been haunted by gremlins, and the repair guys have now been here four times. Hopefully they got it fixed. And I need some work done on the house, so I called my friend, Ralph (R. Clegg Construction 801-550-8596 I've known him for 35 years and he's the best if you need a contractor) and I've had to be in the house where I can hear the doorbell to let people in. I was bored, so I turned on the TV.
Daytime TV sucks. Well, unless you like reruns of, COPS and shows about jails. Then, you got something on all the time. All the movie channels don't show good stuff, or new stuff during the day. I even tried to watch GAC (CMT a long time ago fell off the table. It's not a music channel any more, it's all reruns of shitty shows the company that owns them already paid for) and I don't LIKE MAINSTREAM country music. But the girls are usually pretty and your attention span only has to last three minutes. Then you can go get some more iced tea.
It was so awful after a couple of songs, I couldn't take it. The formula seems to be, put in a pretty girl, talk about a pickup truck, mention Jesus SOMEHOW, and show an American flag, and the lyrics be damned. Some idiot will buy it.
As Todd Snyder said, "As long as there's a moron market, and a faggot in a hat to sign..." I apologize for using, "faggot". But that's what he wrote, and I want to be accurate.
I prefer Jackson Taylor's take on it in his, Country Song. The first line is, "This ain't no country song, about your fucking pickup truck, or your grandpappy's farm..." I will be eternally grateful for Laurie Dyson for turning me on to this guys music.
But I digress.
I finally gave up and was going to go read a book and listen to the satellite radio, which takes a little patience to make work in the house. When I stumbled on an old movie. I can't remember the last time I watched, Fast Times At Ridgemont High. But I still remember some of the lines like it was yesterday. "Learnin' about Cuba, havein' some food". "Danger is my business". "My dad is a TV repairman, he's got this ultimate set of tools. We can fix it!"
I have come to the conclusion that you don't have to be in your early 20's, sitting in the theater with your drunken friends, on a Friday night in 1982, for this movie to be funny.
My son was walking back and forth behind the couch, trying to put his work uniform together between the parts in his room, and the parts in the laundry room, and I would hear him stop so he could watch for a minute, and laugh at something.
Him: "What is this?"
Me: "An old movie called, Fast Times At Ridgemont High"
"Did you record this?"
"No."
So, I'm pretty sure he's going to be looking for this. And when he watches it, he's going to have some questions. He won't understand the, "Mall Culture". When he and his friends go to the mall, it's not to hang out, it's to actually buy stuff. He won't know what a video arcade is. He's going to wonder why no one has a cell phone, or computer and he won't understand the concept of a pay phone. I'm going to have to explain Demone's ticket scalping to him. You want tickets? You buy them on line. And when, Stacie takes, Rat into her room after their first date to look at pictures in a photo album? That will not compute. You keep pictures on your PHONE!
This will be as foreign a concept to him as black and white TV.
I hope he will sit down and watch it with me. After seeing it again, I'd watch it one more time just to explain what it was like in, "Dark Ages" before computers, email, cell phones, and video games that actually came home with you and didn't take all your quarters.
And Phoebe Cates and Jennifer Jason Leigh were awesome. THAT is what beautiful looked like in 1982.
It was a nice trip down memory lane.
Maybe tomorrow, I'll wait for Ralph while watching a DVD of, Dazed And Confused.
But lately, we've had some problems. Our washing machine has been haunted by gremlins, and the repair guys have now been here four times. Hopefully they got it fixed. And I need some work done on the house, so I called my friend, Ralph (R. Clegg Construction 801-550-8596 I've known him for 35 years and he's the best if you need a contractor) and I've had to be in the house where I can hear the doorbell to let people in. I was bored, so I turned on the TV.
Daytime TV sucks. Well, unless you like reruns of, COPS and shows about jails. Then, you got something on all the time. All the movie channels don't show good stuff, or new stuff during the day. I even tried to watch GAC (CMT a long time ago fell off the table. It's not a music channel any more, it's all reruns of shitty shows the company that owns them already paid for) and I don't LIKE MAINSTREAM country music. But the girls are usually pretty and your attention span only has to last three minutes. Then you can go get some more iced tea.
It was so awful after a couple of songs, I couldn't take it. The formula seems to be, put in a pretty girl, talk about a pickup truck, mention Jesus SOMEHOW, and show an American flag, and the lyrics be damned. Some idiot will buy it.
As Todd Snyder said, "As long as there's a moron market, and a faggot in a hat to sign..." I apologize for using, "faggot". But that's what he wrote, and I want to be accurate.
I prefer Jackson Taylor's take on it in his, Country Song. The first line is, "This ain't no country song, about your fucking pickup truck, or your grandpappy's farm..." I will be eternally grateful for Laurie Dyson for turning me on to this guys music.
But I digress.
I finally gave up and was going to go read a book and listen to the satellite radio, which takes a little patience to make work in the house. When I stumbled on an old movie. I can't remember the last time I watched, Fast Times At Ridgemont High. But I still remember some of the lines like it was yesterday. "Learnin' about Cuba, havein' some food". "Danger is my business". "My dad is a TV repairman, he's got this ultimate set of tools. We can fix it!"
I have come to the conclusion that you don't have to be in your early 20's, sitting in the theater with your drunken friends, on a Friday night in 1982, for this movie to be funny.
My son was walking back and forth behind the couch, trying to put his work uniform together between the parts in his room, and the parts in the laundry room, and I would hear him stop so he could watch for a minute, and laugh at something.
Him: "What is this?"
Me: "An old movie called, Fast Times At Ridgemont High"
"Did you record this?"
"No."
So, I'm pretty sure he's going to be looking for this. And when he watches it, he's going to have some questions. He won't understand the, "Mall Culture". When he and his friends go to the mall, it's not to hang out, it's to actually buy stuff. He won't know what a video arcade is. He's going to wonder why no one has a cell phone, or computer and he won't understand the concept of a pay phone. I'm going to have to explain Demone's ticket scalping to him. You want tickets? You buy them on line. And when, Stacie takes, Rat into her room after their first date to look at pictures in a photo album? That will not compute. You keep pictures on your PHONE!
This will be as foreign a concept to him as black and white TV.
I hope he will sit down and watch it with me. After seeing it again, I'd watch it one more time just to explain what it was like in, "Dark Ages" before computers, email, cell phones, and video games that actually came home with you and didn't take all your quarters.
And Phoebe Cates and Jennifer Jason Leigh were awesome. THAT is what beautiful looked like in 1982.
It was a nice trip down memory lane.
Maybe tomorrow, I'll wait for Ralph while watching a DVD of, Dazed And Confused.
Monday, September 24, 2012
Reallly? Airplane Windows Should Roll Down? REALLY?
OK, I thought this was a joke. I thought it had to be something from, "The Onion". Mitt Romney wondered, out loud, why his wife couldn't roll down her airplane window when her plane had to make an emergency landing. After all, there was NO OTHER SOURCE OF OXYGEN in the cabin.
Except for the, pressurization, that keeps OXYGEN in the cabin.
I found three different sources for this story, but I still hope it's wrong or a hoax. Because I can't believe that someone who is running for President of this country, as the candidate of one of the two major parties, and went to school at Stanford, could actually say this.
I'm not an engineer. And I'm no scientist. But I've been flying on airplanes since I was about three years old. And my father? Well, when someones not smart, they say, "He's no rocket scientist". He WAS a rocket scientist. So I could pretty much ask him anything, and get a good answer.
You put a hole, even a little one, in the outside of an airliner at 36K feet in the air, and pretty soon? You have a, "fart tube" that collapses like a submarine when it goes too deep. Don't worry about the fall killing you. The -60 degree temperature and lack of oxygen will do you in LONG before you hit the ground.
This is why you have to take an FAA approved class to do extraditions, and carry your handgun on an airplane. Even an Air Marshall knows that actually USING a handgun on an airplane, while it's in the air? Is the absolute, last resort to keeping it from being hijacked.
Hell, if they want to hijack it and LAND it somewhere? Let em do it. Shoot em when you're on the ground. But you can't always be sure of that, I know.
If the man who wants to be the leader of the free world, doesn't understand why there is no crank on his airplane window? He is not smart enough to be the leader of the free world. End of story.
Except for the, pressurization, that keeps OXYGEN in the cabin.
I found three different sources for this story, but I still hope it's wrong or a hoax. Because I can't believe that someone who is running for President of this country, as the candidate of one of the two major parties, and went to school at Stanford, could actually say this.
I'm not an engineer. And I'm no scientist. But I've been flying on airplanes since I was about three years old. And my father? Well, when someones not smart, they say, "He's no rocket scientist". He WAS a rocket scientist. So I could pretty much ask him anything, and get a good answer.
You put a hole, even a little one, in the outside of an airliner at 36K feet in the air, and pretty soon? You have a, "fart tube" that collapses like a submarine when it goes too deep. Don't worry about the fall killing you. The -60 degree temperature and lack of oxygen will do you in LONG before you hit the ground.
This is why you have to take an FAA approved class to do extraditions, and carry your handgun on an airplane. Even an Air Marshall knows that actually USING a handgun on an airplane, while it's in the air? Is the absolute, last resort to keeping it from being hijacked.
Hell, if they want to hijack it and LAND it somewhere? Let em do it. Shoot em when you're on the ground. But you can't always be sure of that, I know.
If the man who wants to be the leader of the free world, doesn't understand why there is no crank on his airplane window? He is not smart enough to be the leader of the free world. End of story.
Friday, September 21, 2012
I'm Going To Jail On Sunday.
For 20+ years, I was in and out of jails all over the country. I never used the front door.
I was always coming in the back. In a Cop car. Gun on hip, badge in pocket. It was always pick up or delivery with me. Mostly delivery. Put the gun in the trunk, take the, "bandit" inside, drop him off, head back out to the streets.
But I picked up, too. I used to take any extradition that no one else wanted in the office. I had my caseload up to date, I could leave for a day or two or three and still not get behind. I would travel with my friends, while getting paid for 12 hour days, mostly spent on airplanes. And when we got where we were going, have a great meal, stay in a nice hotel and I got to keep the Delta Skymiles. The state always booked us on Delta.
I picked up bandits in Gainsville, Florida; Charlivoux, Michigan; Phoenix; San Francisco; Southern Illinois (don't even remember the name of the little town); St. Louis; Reno; Sacramento; Las Vegas (MANY times); Elko; Evanston, Wyoming; Gunnison, Colorado; Chicago; and, believe it or not, Buffalo, Wyoming. It's 112 miles north of Casper, Wyoming.
My parolee said it was the best jail he'd ever been in. The Sheriff's wife did all the cooking for the 12 inmates, and the food was awesome. And on top of that? He got a pack of cigarettes and a role of toilet paper, every other day.
THAT is Parolee Heaven!
All jails smell the same (it's NOT pleasant) and look, pretty much the same, too. And I always went in the back door. And out the back door.
Not on Sunday. I am going to walk in the front door of the Salt Lake County Adult Detention Center to tell my wife's nephew that his grandmother is dead. And it's not going to be a pleasant experience.
They need us to arrive 45 minutes early. They will check our IDs, run us for warrants, search us for weapons and then let us in for a 30 minute visit. I hope it's face to face and not through the glass. For my nephew's sake. He's always been close to his Aunt Debbie.
Not me so much, but he has done me some favors. I won't tell you his name or what favors. I don't want him to get shanked if he ends up back inside again.
So this is going to be an experience I've never had before. I'm going into a jail as a civilian. At least I'm not going in the back door as a bandit.
I was always coming in the back. In a Cop car. Gun on hip, badge in pocket. It was always pick up or delivery with me. Mostly delivery. Put the gun in the trunk, take the, "bandit" inside, drop him off, head back out to the streets.
But I picked up, too. I used to take any extradition that no one else wanted in the office. I had my caseload up to date, I could leave for a day or two or three and still not get behind. I would travel with my friends, while getting paid for 12 hour days, mostly spent on airplanes. And when we got where we were going, have a great meal, stay in a nice hotel and I got to keep the Delta Skymiles. The state always booked us on Delta.
I picked up bandits in Gainsville, Florida; Charlivoux, Michigan; Phoenix; San Francisco; Southern Illinois (don't even remember the name of the little town); St. Louis; Reno; Sacramento; Las Vegas (MANY times); Elko; Evanston, Wyoming; Gunnison, Colorado; Chicago; and, believe it or not, Buffalo, Wyoming. It's 112 miles north of Casper, Wyoming.
My parolee said it was the best jail he'd ever been in. The Sheriff's wife did all the cooking for the 12 inmates, and the food was awesome. And on top of that? He got a pack of cigarettes and a role of toilet paper, every other day.
THAT is Parolee Heaven!
All jails smell the same (it's NOT pleasant) and look, pretty much the same, too. And I always went in the back door. And out the back door.
Not on Sunday. I am going to walk in the front door of the Salt Lake County Adult Detention Center to tell my wife's nephew that his grandmother is dead. And it's not going to be a pleasant experience.
They need us to arrive 45 minutes early. They will check our IDs, run us for warrants, search us for weapons and then let us in for a 30 minute visit. I hope it's face to face and not through the glass. For my nephew's sake. He's always been close to his Aunt Debbie.
Not me so much, but he has done me some favors. I won't tell you his name or what favors. I don't want him to get shanked if he ends up back inside again.
So this is going to be an experience I've never had before. I'm going into a jail as a civilian. At least I'm not going in the back door as a bandit.
Thursday, September 20, 2012
Hypocrisy And Republicans
The Utah Legislature, both houses, controlled by Republicans have in the last few years, tried to take, "back" all the Federal Land in Utah. That they never owned in the first place. Declared that they would NOT honor, Obamacare in the state. Tried to pass unconstitutional, antiabortion laws. Decided that they didn't want to honor Federal education laws, including the No Child Left Behind mess that was pushed by George W. Bush. Tried to exempt themselves form Federal gun laws. Fought the EPA and the endangered species act. They HATE Federal intervention into anything they want to do as a state.
They have stated many, many times that the Federal Government has overstepped it's authority in Utah, and they need to back off. We don't need the Fed's telling us what to do!
And yet, time and time again, Governor Gary Herbert has asked for Federal Funding for disaster relief! In Cache County, In Washington County and just today, in Washington County AGAIN!
With the corruption that has come to light in his administration in the Department of Corrections, DABC, UTA, UDOT how does this ass clown expect to get re-elected? He's a total failure as a Governor. He's totally dropped the ball. He's an IDIOT!
Oh, I forgot. He's a Mormon, without a college degree, and he runs as a Republican. He's a shoe in in this dumb ass state. He can't lose. Even though he's a moron.
$13 Million pay off for giving his buddy a contract in the UDOT scandal? How is he still in charge?
But, if things get ugly? We WILL take the Federal money.
Hypocrite.
You folks who are not rich and want to vote for Mitt Romney? This is the kind of Government you will get, on a nation wide level if you do. It will be the end of the country we love.
They have stated many, many times that the Federal Government has overstepped it's authority in Utah, and they need to back off. We don't need the Fed's telling us what to do!
And yet, time and time again, Governor Gary Herbert has asked for Federal Funding for disaster relief! In Cache County, In Washington County and just today, in Washington County AGAIN!
With the corruption that has come to light in his administration in the Department of Corrections, DABC, UTA, UDOT how does this ass clown expect to get re-elected? He's a total failure as a Governor. He's totally dropped the ball. He's an IDIOT!
Oh, I forgot. He's a Mormon, without a college degree, and he runs as a Republican. He's a shoe in in this dumb ass state. He can't lose. Even though he's a moron.
$13 Million pay off for giving his buddy a contract in the UDOT scandal? How is he still in charge?
But, if things get ugly? We WILL take the Federal money.
Hypocrite.
You folks who are not rich and want to vote for Mitt Romney? This is the kind of Government you will get, on a nation wide level if you do. It will be the end of the country we love.
Tuesday, September 18, 2012
I'm The 47%. And I'm Richer Than YOU! Pay Attention.
More than 30 years ago, my wife and I both took jobs with the State of Utah. We took them because they promised a living, not a great one, but a good one. And if we worked for the good people of the State of Utah for, at the time, 30 years, we would get 60% or our income in a pension every month, and lifetime health insurance. PEHP, Public Employees Health Plan.
Well, turns out the State of Utah lied to us. In 2006, Governor John Huntsman signed into law HB213 that took AWAY my retirement health care. After all, you have to run government like a business, don't you?
No. It's totally different. But you have to work in it to understand that.
But, like in business? They kept that health care for anyone who had served in the Legislature for 10 years. For life. I spent 23 years in the states trailer parks, jails, prisons, and meth labs, and I got FIVE YEARS of paid health insurance.
The time in the meth labs? Gave me bladder cancer. But not insurance to cover it.
In the thirty years my wife and I worked for the State of Utah, we found out my wife has RP and is losing her sight. She had to go on disability in 1995. So she is on Social Security and Medicare. We had a daughter who is Autistic. She can't work. She is on Social Security Disability and Medicare, cause other wise, with out my promised, but later taken away medical insurance, no one would cover her.
So, I have a GOVERNMENT pension. My wife has one too. And Social Security disability. As does my daughter. And my son gets some money too, since his mom is disabled.
This is a pretty good country that pays you for working FOR it even when working for it fucks you up. Would you have it any other way? Would you like everyone who has a hard luck story to just have to stand at the exit to Walmart and BEG to be taken care of?
Mitt Romney does. I might be one of the 47% who takes money from the government. But he's part of the 1% that doesn't want to pay taxes to support the government he benefits from!
This guy is a total prick! And if you work for, and receive a pay check? And you vote for HIM? You're nuts.
My friend, Barb Guy who Deb and I met on our first trip to Cuba posted a quote from, Politico tonight, and I think it's right. "Mitt Romney's campaign is SO dead, the Mormons have already baptised it."
I hope she's right.
Well, turns out the State of Utah lied to us. In 2006, Governor John Huntsman signed into law HB213 that took AWAY my retirement health care. After all, you have to run government like a business, don't you?
No. It's totally different. But you have to work in it to understand that.
But, like in business? They kept that health care for anyone who had served in the Legislature for 10 years. For life. I spent 23 years in the states trailer parks, jails, prisons, and meth labs, and I got FIVE YEARS of paid health insurance.
The time in the meth labs? Gave me bladder cancer. But not insurance to cover it.
In the thirty years my wife and I worked for the State of Utah, we found out my wife has RP and is losing her sight. She had to go on disability in 1995. So she is on Social Security and Medicare. We had a daughter who is Autistic. She can't work. She is on Social Security Disability and Medicare, cause other wise, with out my promised, but later taken away medical insurance, no one would cover her.
So, I have a GOVERNMENT pension. My wife has one too. And Social Security disability. As does my daughter. And my son gets some money too, since his mom is disabled.
This is a pretty good country that pays you for working FOR it even when working for it fucks you up. Would you have it any other way? Would you like everyone who has a hard luck story to just have to stand at the exit to Walmart and BEG to be taken care of?
Mitt Romney does. I might be one of the 47% who takes money from the government. But he's part of the 1% that doesn't want to pay taxes to support the government he benefits from!
This guy is a total prick! And if you work for, and receive a pay check? And you vote for HIM? You're nuts.
My friend, Barb Guy who Deb and I met on our first trip to Cuba posted a quote from, Politico tonight, and I think it's right. "Mitt Romney's campaign is SO dead, the Mormons have already baptised it."
I hope she's right.
Friday, September 14, 2012
The Big East. Oh, The Horror...
Watching he Big East Commissioner try to argue that they were still a viable league tonight on the, "shit storm" that was the Rutgers v. South Florida football game was pitiful. I felt sorry for the guy. But only for a second.
That league has SUCKED for SO long, that I feel no remorse at their eminent demise. And they, because of the TVs they commanded, kept their BCS automatic qualification for so many years when the only teams that had a prayer of playing for a mythical National Championship were West Virginia and Pitt. And Pitt sucks so bad this year they lost to Youngstown State! Hell they sucked the year the Utes clobbered them in the Fiesta Bowl.
So, here's how I see things breaking down in the next few years.
Notre Dame goes to the ACC, full time. Yes, in football too. It won't take them long to figure out that winning the ACC, which is not a very tough football conference (Duke? Wake Forrest? North Carolina? Maryland?) and getting into a BCS Bowl Game is a LOT easier than playing the, Murderer's Row of a schedule they play now, which this year includes, Michigan State, Michigan, Miami, Stanford and USC, and having to do well enough to finish 6th or higher in the polls at the end of the season.
Let's face it, once you get past Florida State and Clemson, there is not ONE school in that whole conference who's a threat every year, after year, after year, to get a shot at a national championship.
I'm talking to you, Georgia Tech. You got, "Bitch Slapped" by Utah in two Bowl Games in the last six years.
The Big East is about to implode. They are picking up Memphis, Houston, SMU, Navy and UFC for crying out loud! When you read this, how many of you know what city in Florida, the University of Central Florida is in? There are football fans IN Florida who don't.
And they are taking Boise State and San Diego State for football only. And I think BYU needs to make a move RIGHT now to get in on this. Trust me, Zoobies, this is your only hope.
You have to throw your rope to the Big East, for football only like the other western schools. After all you already have a conference affiliation for all your other sports with those high school gym sized schools in, what is it called? The Jesus Conference?
And hope they take you, just cause they are in such bad shape right now, that they will take anyone with a stadium, and TV market bigger than a school from the MAC! Oh, wait. They took, Temple back after kicking them out years ago. So I might be wrong.
You might get passed over for Central Michigan. They have the Saginaw/Bay City/Midland tri-city TV market. Just sayin... All you REALLY have is Provo and South Jordan.
But you gotta remember that you have to give up your revenue from that lucrative, BYUTV thing. After all, I know you're getting rich with all those food storage ads, but still. The rest of the league isn't going to let you keep THAT without sharing.
And for the few years this league stays in operation, very few, you better win it a couple of times. Because when it dies, and it will, you better hope you're in a place to get invited to a BCS AQ conference.
But you won't be. You will be cast adrift in the college football world, because no one wants a cranky, self indulgent, self important, religious school. The Big 12 already has one in Baylor. And if DEMOCRAT, Ann Richards hadn't threatened to kill the deal when she was Governor of Texas and the SWC broke up? Baylor wouldn't be in.
She went to Baylor. The Southern Baptist "University".
You might have to beg to get back into the Mountain West Conference. But I don't think they will have you. You might get a shot at Conference USA. They HAD religious schools, but TCU went to the Big 12, and SMU is going to the Big East.
I think they are the ones to get the automatic qualifier to the BCS when the Big East falls apart. But if they do? They will be the lowest rated conference with AQ. So you will be playing the guys you wish you were for the last ten years.
The BCS Busters. Good luck with that.
That league has SUCKED for SO long, that I feel no remorse at their eminent demise. And they, because of the TVs they commanded, kept their BCS automatic qualification for so many years when the only teams that had a prayer of playing for a mythical National Championship were West Virginia and Pitt. And Pitt sucks so bad this year they lost to Youngstown State! Hell they sucked the year the Utes clobbered them in the Fiesta Bowl.
So, here's how I see things breaking down in the next few years.
Notre Dame goes to the ACC, full time. Yes, in football too. It won't take them long to figure out that winning the ACC, which is not a very tough football conference (Duke? Wake Forrest? North Carolina? Maryland?) and getting into a BCS Bowl Game is a LOT easier than playing the, Murderer's Row of a schedule they play now, which this year includes, Michigan State, Michigan, Miami, Stanford and USC, and having to do well enough to finish 6th or higher in the polls at the end of the season.
Let's face it, once you get past Florida State and Clemson, there is not ONE school in that whole conference who's a threat every year, after year, after year, to get a shot at a national championship.
I'm talking to you, Georgia Tech. You got, "Bitch Slapped" by Utah in two Bowl Games in the last six years.
The Big East is about to implode. They are picking up Memphis, Houston, SMU, Navy and UFC for crying out loud! When you read this, how many of you know what city in Florida, the University of Central Florida is in? There are football fans IN Florida who don't.
And they are taking Boise State and San Diego State for football only. And I think BYU needs to make a move RIGHT now to get in on this. Trust me, Zoobies, this is your only hope.
You have to throw your rope to the Big East, for football only like the other western schools. After all you already have a conference affiliation for all your other sports with those high school gym sized schools in, what is it called? The Jesus Conference?
And hope they take you, just cause they are in such bad shape right now, that they will take anyone with a stadium, and TV market bigger than a school from the MAC! Oh, wait. They took, Temple back after kicking them out years ago. So I might be wrong.
You might get passed over for Central Michigan. They have the Saginaw/Bay City/Midland tri-city TV market. Just sayin... All you REALLY have is Provo and South Jordan.
But you gotta remember that you have to give up your revenue from that lucrative, BYUTV thing. After all, I know you're getting rich with all those food storage ads, but still. The rest of the league isn't going to let you keep THAT without sharing.
And for the few years this league stays in operation, very few, you better win it a couple of times. Because when it dies, and it will, you better hope you're in a place to get invited to a BCS AQ conference.
But you won't be. You will be cast adrift in the college football world, because no one wants a cranky, self indulgent, self important, religious school. The Big 12 already has one in Baylor. And if DEMOCRAT, Ann Richards hadn't threatened to kill the deal when she was Governor of Texas and the SWC broke up? Baylor wouldn't be in.
She went to Baylor. The Southern Baptist "University".
You might have to beg to get back into the Mountain West Conference. But I don't think they will have you. You might get a shot at Conference USA. They HAD religious schools, but TCU went to the Big 12, and SMU is going to the Big East.
I think they are the ones to get the automatic qualifier to the BCS when the Big East falls apart. But if they do? They will be the lowest rated conference with AQ. So you will be playing the guys you wish you were for the last ten years.
The BCS Busters. Good luck with that.
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