weekend preview

This should be a great weekend. Personally, Mt. Pleasant High school, where I am an assistant varsity boys basketball coach, have a big home game vs Flint Southwestern tonight, they are very athletic and very good, but if we take care of the ball and keep them off the glass, we have a chance, got to make them beat us from the outside. Hopefully we will play hard. Saturday, there are two of the NFL playoff games, as well as some good basketball match ups, louis-nova in the big east to name the one. Then on Sunday is the day I am waiting for. First off, MSU plays Kansas at 1pm, CMU plays Western at home in basketball at 6pm, and then of course my Giants also play at 1pm vs the Eagles. Plus if that wasn't enough, my favorite show, 24, is finally back with a two night 4 hr premiere. So it should be a great day. The nice thing is, even if my Giants and Chippewas don't get it done, but I am hoping and praying they will and I pick them both to win, I still have jack to fall back on. Who better to pick you up after a tough sports day then Jack Bauer.

This week a few more fun things happened in big ten basketball. MSU beat OSU, so the buckeyes are in trouble. Purdue lost again, be it without two of their best players, but they are in trouble now. They can not lose anymore home games, and are going to have to win some more on the road then they would have had to a week ago. They need to beat wis or msu on the road if they want to win the big ten IMO. MSU didn't play well against OSU, but they got the win and that is all that matters. I like them to beat Kansas and keep rolling.

Gonzaga beat Tenn, again, this time in OT on the road, ending Tenn win streak at 33, I believe. ND is at 38 now, I think, and should be in tack to set up a big game on the 24th when Uconn comes to town. Arkansas stepped up and got another big win, OK and Texas, wow. They may be the new favorite in the SEC, right now. I still think Tenn will be fine by years end, but they have some holes to fill right now.

Now that bowl season, and college football is done, lets look back quickly. Fl won the national title and because of the year they have they deserved it, I still think USC is the best team in the nation and would beat them, but that doesn't really matter. We will never know. The fact people try to say that USC's bowl win wasn't as good as FL, because USC was basically playing a home game in the rose bowl, I have one question. What is FL playing in Miami? Yeah, basically a home game. But they did show one thing, the big 12 south was so overrated it wasn't even funny. The big 12 offenses were good, but ok, ok state, Texas, Texas tech, and mizzu had great offenses, but they were not half as good as the big 12 defenses made them look. Just look at the bowls. Mizzu needed OT to beat Northwestern, who was the 4th or 5th best team in the "terrible" big ten. Texas tech got beat bad by ole miss, that Fl loss keeps looking better and better the way Ole Miss finished.. but they still lost at home, something no other one loss team did. Texas scored with 16 seconds left to beat OSU 24-21, and OSU is a bad team from the "terrible" big ten. Now we come to OK, who was average 59.9 a game in their last 7, and they score, 14. yeah, 14, FL defense is good, but they are not even the best defense in the nation. That's how bad the big 12 defenses are, they make those offenses look so good. I just love stupid people like Skip Bayles who said yesterday OK is the best college offense he has ever seen, that will ranked as one of the dumbest things I have ever heard. They were not even the best offense this year. Big 12 south was overrated, and really how they played in bowls, I know they were 1-4, but the big ten was underrated. MSU played a lot better then I thought they would against UGA, OSU almost beat the mighty longhorns, yeah PSU got rolled pretty good, but USC is sick, talent wise they are by far the best team in the nation, and you give them time to prepare for a bowl game, no one is beating them. Iowa beat south car, from the mighty SEC, and northwestern lost to Mizzu, from the mighty big 12 in OT. The Big ten wasn't good, but they must have been better then people thought, or just those other teams were not as good, besides USC, it's one or the other.

Anyway, now that college football is done, now we can turn our attention to a real sport, where the best teams are proven by playing each other, college basketball. This is going to be a great year. I'm right, you're wrong.