The Penn State Football Show

I'm going to sort of throw some things out there the way Pete did with things that have been bothering me for a while now.

We'll start with the state of college football. The BCS was obviously a step in the right direction but you will never truly satisfy the public. People will complain and look for a better system all the time and you will just get more arguing over conference strength and teams getting byes and such. I hear President-elect Obama calling for a playoff system and to that I say "F*** off!" This is not your world. There are bigger problems at hand than college football; none really come to mind but I'm sure they are out there. This needs to be decided among university presidents, athletic directors, and coaches with no influence given to sports writers or sponsors. The football will sell itself. If Gaylord Hotels wants to pull their sponsorship of a third rate bowl I say good riddance. Slingin Sammy Baugh never played in the AT&T Cotton Bowl Classic. And for that matter I'm sick of seeing athletes walk away with thousands of dollars worth of electronics just for showing up. This wondeful game is losing its direction very fast. I'm just happy Penn State is a "traditional" program. Eventhough I doubt 10% of the players or 15% of the student body and alums could tell you who was the head coach before Joe Paterno. If you are heading for the new tab button and the google search bar now shame on you. On to Penn State...

I see Larry Johnson is tabbed as a top candidate for defensive coordinator at Illinois. This is a direct result of Paterno staying on. Not only is Larry Johnson a phenomenal coach, he is perhaps our best recruiter. He has lead the recruit for Jelani Jenkins. These recruits are jittery as bunny rabbits and I imagine thats all he needed to hear to scratch Penn State off his list. I'm not asking Paterno to retire. I was actually somewhat happy with his re-signing. But I think we could do what so many universities are doing now with the "head coach in waiting" title. Name Bradley your next head coach to help recruiting and tell Johnson he will take over as defensive coordinator. Good guys will not stay position coaches for long. Brian Norwood left and we replaced him with Kermit Buggs, some guy, who to the best of my knowledge played sparingly in his time and had been pushing paper in the front office for a while, and our weakest spot this year was pass defense. Small wonder.

I'd like to finish by saying Utah is this year's national champion. Hands down bar none. If this were any other league or sport, they would go first to record: Utah wins, head to head: no matchup, common opponents: one- and Utah dispacthed of them way easier than Florida. This is an absolute shame. If they do stick with the BCS, the most immediate change that can take place to help is to take away the automatic bid for the big east and acc and give it to the mountain west and the WAC. Did anyone even watch Virgina Tech-Cinci besides Pete? I mean who cares?

So now all thats left is for Mel Kiper and Todd McShay to ruin so many young man's lives by using no information whatsoever to make up their big boards and mis-lead kids into thinking they'll be millionares. Hats off to you gentlemen, I hope you both die.