Somehow, The Second "C" Is Silent
Sorry about the lack of new material here; the combination of me not having a computer/May possibly being the most action packed month of my life kept me away. And May also included the original date for our Vegas trip.
This does not, however, mean I wasn't able to put together my second-annual football calendar. This time it's going online for all to reference. You'll have to wait a little while for me to get it online, so in the meantime let's talk Connecticut.
As I'm sure many of you have already heard, the governing body for high school athletics in Connecticut put in place a new rule this year for football. If a team wins by more than 50 points, the coach for the winning team is automatically suspended for the next game. I may come off as biased because of my affinity for absurd blowouts, but I think we can all agree that this is ridiculous.
My alma mater, Northwestern High, won a total of three (3) football games in my four years there. My senior year, our closest game was a 35-0 drubbing. If this rule was in effect, exactly half of our opponents would have to leave their coaches at home for the next game. If, by chance, a team had a bye-week after they played us and then played an opponent that just finished demolishing us the previous week, both teams would have assistants at the helm. In a game against a "rival" of ours, Kenton Ridge, we took our punishment to the tune of 60-7. Our crowd roared after we scored that lone touchdown in the final minutes. It meant it only took us four (4) games to score a single point, and we also knew it meant that the K.R. squad would be running laps in practice the next day. In Ohio, we teach our high schoolers to try their hardest, even if you're a third-stringer and your team's already put up a point-a-minute through three quarters. Coaches do need to be held responsible for these beatings, but not the coaches of the winning teams. We weren't playing state champs; we were playing conference opponents. I like Stuart Scott's quote: "I am not your defensive coordinator." You have a full week to teach; Friday night is when you let the kids show what they've learned. So, if after that week of teaching, one group of fifty high school boys can pound another group of fifty high school boys that badly in 48 minutes, we may be shaking our finger at the wrong sideline.
P.S. I was on the phone with Dave-O yesterday and got really excited when I realized that it's a virtual lock that the National Spelling Bee is going to end up with better ratings than the Stanley Cup Final. The NHL is only going to be broadcast for games 3-7*. To be fair, we'll only count the deciding game of the Finals so they can have equal coverage, since there's no way an average for the Finals beats out the Bee. Maybe then Dave will stop referring to the NHL as part of the "Big Four." (see Around The Horn) That's like calling Alabama, Auburn, and UAB the "Big Three" of college football in the state of Alabama. I guess technically UAB is the third biggest team there, but it's a pretty sizable dropoff.
*if necessary
First OK-Chicken in a long while: Anyone who makes a big deal about the winner of American Idol receiving more votes than any American President in history. First of all, it's just not accurate. More people voted for a winner, but not the winner. The votes for the final night of American Idol were around sixty million, which is forty-million fewer than the last American Presidential election. Unless the winner received virtually every vote, he wouldn't have topped the approximately 55 million votes Bush received. So stop it. Plus, we have the whole "you can vote as many times as you want, and you don't even have to get off you lazy butt to vote" thing. I know someone who still considers himself a man who said he was up until one in the morning voting. I think you can all guess who this "man" is. And if you can't, it was Buddy.
P.P.S. I "performed" a spell check on this before I posted it, and I misspelled, "Spelling." Thankfully, "speeling" is not a word and the mistake was caught. I'm not going to "pull" a spell check on this P.P.S., so let's see how it all turns out when I jump without a net.
This does not, however, mean I wasn't able to put together my second-annual football calendar. This time it's going online for all to reference. You'll have to wait a little while for me to get it online, so in the meantime let's talk Connecticut.
As I'm sure many of you have already heard, the governing body for high school athletics in Connecticut put in place a new rule this year for football. If a team wins by more than 50 points, the coach for the winning team is automatically suspended for the next game. I may come off as biased because of my affinity for absurd blowouts, but I think we can all agree that this is ridiculous.
My alma mater, Northwestern High, won a total of three (3) football games in my four years there. My senior year, our closest game was a 35-0 drubbing. If this rule was in effect, exactly half of our opponents would have to leave their coaches at home for the next game. If, by chance, a team had a bye-week after they played us and then played an opponent that just finished demolishing us the previous week, both teams would have assistants at the helm. In a game against a "rival" of ours, Kenton Ridge, we took our punishment to the tune of 60-7. Our crowd roared after we scored that lone touchdown in the final minutes. It meant it only took us four (4) games to score a single point, and we also knew it meant that the K.R. squad would be running laps in practice the next day. In Ohio, we teach our high schoolers to try their hardest, even if you're a third-stringer and your team's already put up a point-a-minute through three quarters. Coaches do need to be held responsible for these beatings, but not the coaches of the winning teams. We weren't playing state champs; we were playing conference opponents. I like Stuart Scott's quote: "I am not your defensive coordinator." You have a full week to teach; Friday night is when you let the kids show what they've learned. So, if after that week of teaching, one group of fifty high school boys can pound another group of fifty high school boys that badly in 48 minutes, we may be shaking our finger at the wrong sideline.
P.S. I was on the phone with Dave-O yesterday and got really excited when I realized that it's a virtual lock that the National Spelling Bee is going to end up with better ratings than the Stanley Cup Final. The NHL is only going to be broadcast for games 3-7*. To be fair, we'll only count the deciding game of the Finals so they can have equal coverage, since there's no way an average for the Finals beats out the Bee. Maybe then Dave will stop referring to the NHL as part of the "Big Four." (see Around The Horn) That's like calling Alabama, Auburn, and UAB the "Big Three" of college football in the state of Alabama. I guess technically UAB is the third biggest team there, but it's a pretty sizable dropoff.
*if necessary
First OK-Chicken in a long while: Anyone who makes a big deal about the winner of American Idol receiving more votes than any American President in history. First of all, it's just not accurate. More people voted for a winner, but not the winner. The votes for the final night of American Idol were around sixty million, which is forty-million fewer than the last American Presidential election. Unless the winner received virtually every vote, he wouldn't have topped the approximately 55 million votes Bush received. So stop it. Plus, we have the whole "you can vote as many times as you want, and you don't even have to get off you lazy butt to vote" thing. I know someone who still considers himself a man who said he was up until one in the morning voting. I think you can all guess who this "man" is. And if you can't, it was Buddy.
P.P.S. I "performed" a spell check on this before I posted it, and I misspelled, "Spelling." Thankfully, "speeling" is not a word and the mistake was caught. I'm not going to "pull" a spell check on this P.P.S., so let's see how it all turns out when I jump without a net.
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