The great debate is over.
OK, no it's not.
To vote for Cam or not to vote for Cam for the Heisman, that's the question.
Here's the first line from the Heisman Trust's mission statement, and it's causing a ruckus:
"The Heisman Memorial Trophy annually recognizes the outstanding college football player whose performance best exhibits the pursuit of excellence with integrity. Winners epitomize great ability combined with diligence, perseverance, and hard work. The Heisman Trophy Trust ensures the continuation and integrity of this award."
First, the NCAA is not connected with the Heisman. Period. Double period. They're as unconnected as reality TV is with reality.
Second, do you really, hand on Bible and staring into your child's eyes, believe that the Son had no earthly idea what the Father was doing? Just answer that question, no caveats.
And for Auburn folks, pretend it was Mark Ingram's dad doing the same thing. (Pause for mumbling at the confusion of logic). Thank you.
It's been pointed out that Newton hasn't been a poster child for such integrity, between computers and academics at Florida. We've heard and seen little or nothing about his time at Blinn Junior College or Auburn. so does that erase the past or do we expect another shoe to drop?
And yes, it's just about impossible to believe that he was unaware of the reason his dad was making his college decision. The phrase "massive ulterior motive" comes to mind. If it's not Cam's decision, why? There's a difference between consulting and between granting power.
Too, one gets an uneasy feeling about the honesty of the SEC and NCAA in this whole matter. Quietly ineligible one day, publicly eligible the next? What, these people gonna start running for office?
But we can rest assured that the junior will enter the NFL draft and get out of college football before something comes back and bites him on the tookus.
Then he can pay his dad $180,000 to get the hell away and let agents - the professional scumbags - try to screw him.
LOUGHDMOUTHINGS (free for all version) There are many reasons why Oregon-Auburn will be a better game than some - OK, blindly loyal SEC boosters - think.
Oregon played four bowl-eligible teams and two (8-5 Southern Cal and 6-6 Arizona State) that record-wise were eligible but NCAA-wise weren't (ASU played two FCS teams, so it needed seven wins). So on paper, six.
Auburn played eight, not counting South Carolina twice.
According to the Sagarin Ratings as of 11:30 a.m. on Dec. 7, Oregon had the No. 20 schedule and Auburn had the No. 16 schedule.
Auburn's opponents – counting Carolina only once – went 84-61, 57.6 percent, while Oregon's went 63-81, 43.8 percent.
Conversely, the Ducks pounded their .500-or-better opponents by 35, 11, 21, 21, 37 and 19. The Tiger escaped four by three points, one by seven, one by eight, didn't pull away from Arkansas and Georgia until the fourth quarter, and then dismantled USCE in the SEC championship game in the second half.
Oregon's a little better in turnover margin, and the Ducks are 18th in pass efficiency while the Tigers are 75th in pass efficiency defense. On the flip side, Auburn is No. 1 in that on offense and Oregon is sixth.
The non-SEC defense may be better than people – OK, blindly loyal SEC boosters - believe and could be a difference.
Auburn is, yes, fairly one-dimensional and Oregon has the edge on defense and speed, but the Ducks have to block some quality defenders.
Plus, remember this: Oregon's not in the Big 10/11/Dozen, so it should be a good title game. ...
Knuckle-draggers can move along to next item.
No matter the sport or level, winning almost 90 straight games is hard to fathom, but UConn’s women are doing it. And as in every sport, the competition is substantially harder than it was five years ago, and 10 years ago, and 30 years ago.
Anymore, you win five basketball games in a row and you do a dance. Why, UConn hasn’t lost a game since April 6, 2008, amid those Bush tax rates giving us just a rollickingly good long-term economy. …
Josh McDaniels should join Lane Kiffin's staff, although they look too much alike and too much like Tosh.O. ...
Random Unrelated Thought: Hey, Washington idiots, was it really that damn hard to come to the conclusion a few of us came to a long time ago on part of the tax deal?
No. One of us has suggested to leave the middle-class tax rates down, raise that $250,000 to $750,000 or a million and allow that rate to rise in the middle of what it was pre-Bush and what it's supposed to be.
That way, we increase the middle-class figure, make "rich" much closer to "rich" - I'm nowhere near $250,000, but I can see that it doesn't go as far as it did nearly 20 years ago when it was adopted – and don’t (I’ll type slow for the Repubs) aaaadd toooo the deffficit.
Democrats, be smarter. Republicans, show some integrity (Charlie Rangel is just about ready to switch parties to stay in office). ...
I really wanted some defensive guys to have better years and earn a trip to New York. But LSU whiffed just enough to drop Patrick Peterson out of the race.
Terrelle Pryor is nowhere near my top 10, and Denard Robinson would be in my top 10. But I'd put Peterson in the top five, and hope next year offers more defensive contenders. ...
Random Unrelated Thought: I missed the memo when Facebook changed its name to "My Personal Journal and Inner Thoughts". ...
For all yearly pre-bowl whining about bowls, let's note that as of 12 p.m. Dec. 7 on USA Today's odds page that the only bowls with a double-digit spread are New Mexico (BYU by 11.5 over UTEP), Las Vegas (Boise State by 16 over Utah), Hawaii (Hawaii by 12 over Tulsa), Capital One (Alabama by 10.5 over Michigan State), Fiesta (Oklahoma by 18 over Connecticut) and Holiday (Nebraska by 13 over Washington).
As usual, expect close games, wild finishes, remarkable individual performances, and ESPY nominees. The bowl season, God bless it, is loaded with "Did you see ... last night?" ...
The Heisman website asks for fans to vote, which is always a pretty idiotic idea.
Pryor is sixth, Matt Barkley got votes, as did Jake Locker and Jacory Harris. Nowhere to be found: Nevada's Colin Kaepernick, whose numbers compare to Newton.
But, yes, against substantially lesser competition. Still, he's better than 90 percent of the fans' list, and that's usually the case. About 90 percent of the results of any fan survey are laughable. ...
Random Unrelated Thought: I e-mailed Hershey's awhile back to check on a product - a hot chocolate that used white chocolate and had white chocolate marshmallows, and was awesome - that ceased being available around here.
Hershey's replied back that, uh, they couldn't tell me where they sent that product.
So a multi-billion dollar company, in today's technology age, can't check a computer and tell me within five minutes if that product is even in my state or what chains where carry it?
It's not the government, it's people in charge. ...
We'll always have a crapload of bowls for the extra month of practice, but these names are getting absurd.
We have R&L Carriers, Advocare V100, New Era Pinstripe, Franklin American Mortgage, Bridgepoint Education, Hyundai, Beef O'Brady, uDrove Humanitarian, Ticket City, GoDaddy.com, BBVA Compass and Kraft Fight Hunger.
Yikes. ...
Random Unrelated Thought: Good to see the change in philosophy with some lobbyists joining our new state government. Yeah, lobbyists have always been good for America. ...
And our finale is from Dwight Perry of the Seattle Times:
"Willie Nelson got arrested again for marijuana possession, this time by the U.S. Border Patrol in Texas.
“And in other startling news, the Clippers have the NBA's worst record and there was a lot of local interest in the Alabama-Auburn game."
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