I confess that I really didn't watch as many of the bowl games this year as in the past. We had much going on at work when I came back and most of my free time has been spent shoveling the approximately 10 inches of snow that was in my driveway when I got back home. Hard to believe, but I saw more snow here than I did anywhere in Colorado or Utah at an elevation below 10,000 feet. Oh well, I knew that sooner or later we were going to pay for the mild winters and summers we've had for the past couple of years.
We got back to town on New Years eve, in time for the Missouri game vs the Naval Academy. After watching the first half, I confess I missed much of the 2nd. Missouri looked confused, uninspired and really left us no reason for optimism coming into next year. If I had one wish it would be for Coach Pinkel to send defensive coordinator Dave Steckel down to Tuscaloosa to spend a few weeks with his old buddy Nick Saban and his staff. A few days trips for OC Dave Yost might be in order also. Note: when they are dropping 9 into coverage coach, you might try running the ball a bit.
For the bowl season I finished 5-3 on my picks both straight up and vs the spread. For the year I was 93-33 straight up and managed to go 62-59 against the point spread. Not bad for me at all.
We'll also get an opportunity to listen to kansas fans touting their new coach, Turner Gill as he tries to turn around a program that absolutely collapsed the final 7 weeks of the season. TG has his hands full as his first job will be trying to decide what to do with offensive lineman Darius Parish who was arrested and charged with criminal threat.
And also, on a sad note, the conference is poorer, in my opinion at the loss of the pirate; Mike Leach from the Texas Tech Red Raiders. Seems Leach was mistreating the son of former SMU paid running back Craig James and Craig wasn't about to let that happen. At least the James family can now boast that they've helped run 2 programs into the ground.
thought you'd died
ReplyDeleteNo, wasn't even particularly close. Of course, I really didn't do much skiing over the holiday.
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