If given a choice of owning the replica car from ‘Knight Rider’ or ‘Magnum P.I.’, I’d probably have to go with the car from ‘Magnum P.I.’.
While listening to a podcast, I learned that when most people enter the Graceland tour and walk into the house, most everyone is unaware that right above their head is where Elvis died. The bathroom where he died is immediately above the front entryway.
The College Football Playoff Committee couldn’t have made a better decision. Despite the Big XII’s slogan of “One True Champion”, there wasn’t and it makes the conference look weak and hypocritical. The argument to include both TCU and Baylor in playoff without a Big XII championship game is a tossup for which team is better, and if both can’t get in, then both shouldn’t get in. I would like to see a rematch of those two on a neutral field. In the future, I’d like to see both Big XII teams with the best conference records overall, not from each division, play in a championship game at Shelton Stadium on the Hardin-Simmons campus in Abilene. Yeah, that last part is a stretch.
It’s quite easy and reasonable to argue for the Baylor win in the head-to-head matchup against TCU, and it’s just as easy to reasonable argue against Baylor’s win over TCU.
If there is one problem I do have with their selection, it’s hard for me to understand how TCU can be ranked third and drop out of the top four a week later despite a strong win on Sunday. That tells me they shouldn’t have been ranked that high to begin with.
Baylor won the head-to-head over TCU (with a great comback despite behind outmatched most of the game), but the odd and frustrating thing with college football is voters and committee members only like to look at the now, not what happened a week or few weeks earlier or the entire portfolio, for the most part. Baylor got solidly beat by West Virginia, and TCU beat West Virginia. Baylor squeaked by Texas Tech 48-46 on a neutral field, and TCU annihilated Tech 27-82. This leads me to think that all sports talk personalities should send a percentage of their income to this College Playoff Committee because it’s given them a plethora to talk about and energized fand to be a part of it all.
I’m amazed how many people still credit Ann Richards for Baylor’s involvement into the Big XII when it was really Bob Bullock doing all the behind the scene work.
It is kind of interesting how the College Football Selection Committee made their decision just outside of Fort Worth and chose to exclude the Frogs.
I feel like most of DFW is pro-Baylor than pro-TCU, even with TCU being part of the actual area.
Last year I saw a Baylor fan hold up “We Want Bama” sign and I saw the same thing this year. My suggestion to the the Baylor administration, get rid of those games against teams like Buffalo and Incarnate Word, and try to schedule legit talent like Bama, and then your play on the field will definitely do all the speaking. That’s not me being mean, but some actual constructive advice that would better the program.
For TCU, all they had to do was finish strong at Baylor. Patterson has made some of his worst coaching decisions against Baylor.
I haven’t watched a lot of Kansas State football games, but when a player is injured on the field, it seems like head coach Bill Snyder always goes to that player to check on things. It’s crazy what a rarity that is, for a coach to actually check on a player that is injured.
Congrats to my Oklahoma State Cowboy readers on their victory over OU. That’s basically just a shout out to you, Brett.
Mark Wahlberg is asking for a pardon for his past crimes. I believe he’s a changed man and has done a lot of things to help the community and influence others for the better, but it’s always bugged me he never personally apologized to his victims.
WifeGeeding found an article that lists the Top Snobbiest Places in Texas. I think the list is a bunch of crap because Southlake isn’t even listed in the top 50. Heck. Lewisville and Bedford even makes the top 50. Number one on the list our neighboring city, Coppell, which it states has more college grads than any other Texas city (63.36 percent of residents had a college degree).
We did attend the Coppell Christmas parade on Saturday. To my surprise, they don’t throw candy but hand them out to each child. I’m guessing they didn’t do that because it was dark and people could get hit in the face, and it keeps candy from being left on the streets which won’t attract squirrels and whatnot from eating it.
For numerous reasons, I put my SUV up for sale on Craig’s List back in October, and after it didn’t sell for about ten days we decided to keep it. I forgot to take the listing down and was contacted about it last week and I ended up selling it on Saturday for a price I’m pretty happy with. It’s weird, but I tend to get attached or sentimental about inanimate objects. I think it was my favorite of all my vehicles. I always wanted a 4Runner and I finally owned one, and I can’t recall ever having a problem with it. Heck, I brought both my children home in that thing from the hospital. We bought it the first week we moved into GeedingManor. The toilet in the master bath broke and I couldn’t fit a new toilet from Lowe’s in either of our Honda’s, so on a whim we bought the 4Runner.
Buzzfeed has a post about a chubby “ugly duckling” girl who was bullied when she was twelve-years-old by a boy over her looks, and she used that as motivation over the next ten years to lose weight and work on her appearance. She ran into that guy at an event who asked her out on a date. She agreed, but stood him up; however, she asked the waiter to give him a note she wrote about his bullying with a picture of her twelve-year-old self attached. The Buzzfeed post is applauding her actions like some kind of Taylor Swift song of feminine justice, but I think it’s pretty petty to judge someone by their actions ten years ago. Heck, the boy wasn’t even in his teens yet. But at the same time, most twenty-two-year-old men and women aren’t as mature as the think they are. At least the guy took it well and took the high road.
You can find more pics of that burning Santa here.
Thoughts on the NFL Network’s ‘A Football Life’ on Roger Staubach:
He wasn’t suppose to pass an eye test relating to seeing color while at the Naval Academy, but the person overlooking the test missed something and Staubach was admitted. He wonders what his life would have been like he that person actually failed him on that eye test.
While at Navy, Bill Belichick’s father was on the coaching staff and a the youngster use to play catch with Staubach often.
When he won the Heisman, he stated he wanted to break the trophy up in 44 pieces to share with is teammates since he considered it a team award. His teammates still ask him for their piece of the trophy today. There were also a lot of pictures if his children riding the trophy like a horse.
Local folks know that on Thanksgiving morning he plays a game of touch or flag football with friends and family, playfully calling it the turkey bowl. It use to be played in a park, but you see int his episode that they now play in Cowboys/AT&T Stadium before the bi game.
They showed the 72-year-old working out, and it’s impressive the shape he’s still in. Heck, the spirals and accuracy of this throws in the clips of this year’s turkey bowl were impressive. They also showed him shooting free throws in a sleeveless shirt, and he’s got the most impressive guns for a 72-year-old I’ve ever seen.
When he was in Vietnam, Gil Brant use to send him lots of footballs to practice, but he sometimes had to request more because the place where he stored the footballs was bombed.
I forgot that he used his two weeks of leave while in active duty was spent at Cowboys training camp. Gosh, you gotta love that determination.
Surprisingly, Clint Longley was interviewed. Morton’s last act before leaving the Cowboys was sucker punching Staubach and driving off.
When he won the Super Bowl MVP he was awarded a Dodge Charger, but asked if he could exchange it for a station wagon since he had three or four kids at the time.
NJ Gov Chris Christi was interviewed and stated he has a signed football of Staubach in his office much to the dislike of Giants ownership. It’s because of Staubach he’s still a fan of the team today.
There was a picture of a very young John Elway getting an autograph from Staubach.
I still get a kick out of Steve Young telling the story of him meeting Staubach for the first time, his childhood idol, in the NFC Championship game and how he said it actually phased him a bit.
Tommy ‘Hollywood’ Henderson and Charlie Waters talked about how Staubach saved their lives when they were at their lowest of lows. For instance, Waters son died and Staubach offered him a job with and office and salary, and told him he didn’t even have to come in until he felt he was ready.
A lot of folks talked about how he should have run for political office. I remember when George W. Bush was first elected there was a lot of talk about Staubach becoming the Secretary of the Navy, which would have been cool.
That Buzzfeed post is interesting. I agree with you – the boy was, at the time of the bullying, truly a boy. He's now a man (as much as a 22-yr-old can be), and he did the right thing. Her response to the situation makes her seem to be the immature one now. She would be a more sympathetic figure had she simply followed through with her plan and then accepted his apology, and not decided to broadcast what she had done to the Internet – that just makes her seem spiteful and vindictive. But we live in the Internet Age – where you get fake fame for doing something that people will talk about. I hope she is able to learn to effectively deal with her issues. It seems one of these parties has matured, while the other is still working on it.
– Bill Snyder is a class act.
– Patterson handled being snubbed pretty well. He correctly pointed out that if you lose one game, it's out of your hands and that the only guarantee is to win them all.
– Art Briles predictably threw a temper tantrum.
" The College Football Playoff Committee"
The radio and print sports journalist absolutely love the controversy this system has created and feed the beast by arguing about the selection process endlessly. And these same journalists argued for this system over the old BCS system. If it morphs into an eight team field, fewer coaches will complain about not getting in AND it will be a much more boring college football season.
After reading your anecdote about how you were badgered by Art Briles when you were middle school, I decided I hope an Art Briles team ever gets in.
None of the Big 12 coaches voted for Baylor except Art Briles.
Hiring a lobbyist should disqualify a team.
Briles said yesterday that there was a prejudice against the South by the selection committee. Huh?
"Baylor won the head-to-head over TCU (with a great comback despite behind outmatched most of the game),"
I don't know about outmatched. They were losing, but not really outmatched. TCU is a great team. If they collapse at the end (as does Baylor on a regular basis), then that should be taken into account.
"but the odd and frustrating thing with college football is voters and committee members only like to look at the now, not what happened a week or few weeks earlier or the entire portfolio,"
Here's my biggest disagreement with you. Baylor was kept out of the top 4 for weeks based on strength of schedule alone–and TCU was let in because of a single team on their pre-conference schedule being stronger than anyone Baylor played in pre-conference. It was the pre-conference schedule from weeks ago that the committee used to justify TCU jumping Baylor in the rankings, despite having lost to them.
"That tells me they shouldn’t have been ranked that high to begin with."
This is 100% correct. I'm not saying Baylor should have been, but TCU shouldn't have been.
"My suggestion to the the Baylor administration, get rid of those games against teams like Buffalo and Incarnate Word, and try to schedule legit talent like Bama, and then your play on the field will definitely do all the speaking. That’s not me being mean, but some actual constructive advice that would better the program."
This is what everybody has been saying for years. They tried it for a bit back when Lou Holtz's flunkie was coaching. We'd play Michigan and Tennessee, and not do too badly. Then we'd come home and lose to Rice. We'd do better today, but Baylor will still be scheduling warm-up teams to keep the overall stats up. They might start scheduling some slightly better teams, but Bama wouldn't schedule Baylor for any reason in the world. There's just not enough money in it for them.
" don't know about outmatched. They were losing, but not really outmatched." – You're right, outmatched was too strong of a word to use, my intent was to state that a 21 point lead in the fourth quarter showed how strong badly TCU was beating them, but all that matters is the final score, so bravo, Baylor. (Unless you are from TCU and bitter from the loss and want to point out two horrible calls.)
"Baylor was kept out of the top 4 for weeks based on strength of schedule alone" – I disagree, Baylor lost to West Virginia 41-27 and I'm sure that was taken into consideration.
"and TCU was let in because of a single team on their pre-conference schedule being stronger than anyone Baylor played in pre-conference." TCU did benefit with Minnesota turning out better than expected, but they were willing to schedule a team in which people knew had a football program and at least from respectable conference like the Big 10. Most people can't tell you the school colors of Buffalo or Incarnate Word. I'm not saying Baylor needs to schedule Bama, but of schools from New York State Conference (Buffalo) and the Southland Conference (Incarnate Word) at least consider somebody from the Mountain West. I also think Baylor was kept out of the top four because of they way they played Tech.
Ah, sports talk can be fun, and even civilized, who knew?
On ESPN this morning they noted that Baylor's strength of schedule ranked 128th.
Also, I thought I heard ESPN say that for a conference to run a Championship game the conference has to have more than 10 teams. Yes/no? For that reason, the Big 12 doesn't have enough teams to authorize a championship game, they can only name a champion if there is not a clear cut champion. Perhaps they didn't want to do that because it appeared the selection committee was leaning toward TCU.
"Surprisingly, Clint Longley was interviewed. Morton’s last act before leaving the Cowboys was sucker punching Staubach and driving off.
Longley was not interviewed. Morton was interviewed; you have the two mixed up.
TCU played a stronger schedule than Baylor, period. Baylor needs to stop scheduling Creampuff State and play some worthy opponents if they want to be in the playoffs. TCU was just plain robbed. You don't drop from 3 to 6 if you win with "style points" which is what the committee was complaining about TCU lacking in previous weeks.
I think a Big 12 championship game (as proposed, between the 2 best records, not a North/South game) would go a long way to making the winner a near-virtual lock to the playoff. I don't understand why this isn't in place.
The selection committee used a number of criteria to choose the teams. One of those was Conference Championships Won. They couldn't consider that until this week because no one had won a conference championship yet.
The other teams all won conference championships, thus strengthening their positions. Baylor/TCU didn't get credit for a conference championship because two champions = no champions.
btw, I'm a Georgia Tech fan and they lost. I dislike OSU, FSU and Alabama, but I think they all earned their spots. I'll probably be cheering for Oregon because I have no reason to dislike them and they have cool uniforms.
That Buzzfeed post is interesting. I agree with you – the boy was, at the time of the bullying, truly a boy. He's now a man (as much as a 22-yr-old can be), and he did the right thing. Her response to the situation makes her seem to be the immature one now. She would be a more sympathetic figure had she simply followed through with her plan and then accepted his apology, and not decided to broadcast what she had done to the Internet – that just makes her seem spiteful and vindictive. But we live in the Internet Age – where you get fake fame for doing something that people will talk about. I hope she is able to learn to effectively deal with her issues. It seems one of these parties has matured, while the other is still working on it.
– Bill Snyder is a class act.
– Patterson handled being snubbed pretty well. He correctly pointed out that if you lose one game, it's out of your hands and that the only guarantee is to win them all.
– Art Briles predictably threw a temper tantrum.
Mark Wahlberg is looking for a pardon so that he can get a liquor license for his restaurants.
" The College Football Playoff Committee"
The radio and print sports journalist absolutely love the controversy this system has created and feed the beast by arguing about the selection process endlessly. And these same journalists argued for this system over the old BCS system. If it morphs into an eight team field, fewer coaches will complain about not getting in AND it will be a much more boring college football season.
After reading your anecdote about how you were badgered by Art Briles when you were middle school, I decided I hope an Art Briles team ever gets in.
None of the Big 12 coaches voted for Baylor except Art Briles.
Hiring a lobbyist should disqualify a team.
Briles said yesterday that there was a prejudice against the South by the selection committee. Huh?
I think you should tell the broken toilet story tomorrow.
"Baylor won the head-to-head over TCU (with a great comback despite behind outmatched most of the game),"
I don't know about outmatched. They were losing, but not really outmatched. TCU is a great team. If they collapse at the end (as does Baylor on a regular basis), then that should be taken into account.
"but the odd and frustrating thing with college football is voters and committee members only like to look at the now, not what happened a week or few weeks earlier or the entire portfolio,"
Here's my biggest disagreement with you. Baylor was kept out of the top 4 for weeks based on strength of schedule alone–and TCU was let in because of a single team on their pre-conference schedule being stronger than anyone Baylor played in pre-conference. It was the pre-conference schedule from weeks ago that the committee used to justify TCU jumping Baylor in the rankings, despite having lost to them.
"That tells me they shouldn’t have been ranked that high to begin with."
This is 100% correct. I'm not saying Baylor should have been, but TCU shouldn't have been.
"My suggestion to the the Baylor administration, get rid of those games against teams like Buffalo and Incarnate Word, and try to schedule legit talent like Bama, and then your play on the field will definitely do all the speaking. That’s not me being mean, but some actual constructive advice that would better the program."
This is what everybody has been saying for years. They tried it for a bit back when Lou Holtz's flunkie was coaching. We'd play Michigan and Tennessee, and not do too badly. Then we'd come home and lose to Rice. We'd do better today, but Baylor will still be scheduling warm-up teams to keep the overall stats up. They might start scheduling some slightly better teams, but Bama wouldn't schedule Baylor for any reason in the world. There's just not enough money in it for them.
I liked 93.3 when it was The Zone.
" don't know about outmatched. They were losing, but not really outmatched." – You're right, outmatched was too strong of a word to use, my intent was to state that a 21 point lead in the fourth quarter showed how strong badly TCU was beating them, but all that matters is the final score, so bravo, Baylor. (Unless you are from TCU and bitter from the loss and want to point out two horrible calls.)
"Baylor was kept out of the top 4 for weeks based on strength of schedule alone" – I disagree, Baylor lost to West Virginia 41-27 and I'm sure that was taken into consideration.
"and TCU was let in because of a single team on their pre-conference schedule being stronger than anyone Baylor played in pre-conference." TCU did benefit with Minnesota turning out better than expected, but they were willing to schedule a team in which people knew had a football program and at least from respectable conference like the Big 10. Most people can't tell you the school colors of Buffalo or Incarnate Word. I'm not saying Baylor needs to schedule Bama, but of schools from New York State Conference (Buffalo) and the Southland Conference (Incarnate Word) at least consider somebody from the Mountain West. I also think Baylor was kept out of the top four because of they way they played Tech.
Ah, sports talk can be fun, and even civilized, who knew?
On ESPN this morning they noted that Baylor's strength of schedule ranked 128th.
Also, I thought I heard ESPN say that for a conference to run a Championship game the conference has to have more than 10 teams. Yes/no? For that reason, the Big 12 doesn't have enough teams to authorize a championship game, they can only name a champion if there is not a clear cut champion. Perhaps they didn't want to do that because it appeared the selection committee was leaning toward TCU.
Their* in the Elvis post. Hope you can change that before people try to burn you 😉
"Surprisingly, Clint Longley was interviewed. Morton’s last act before leaving the Cowboys was sucker punching Staubach and driving off.
Longley was not interviewed. Morton was interviewed; you have the two mixed up.
Yup, you are correct, my bad.
Thank you. It was a bittersweet weekend in my TCU/Oklahoma State household.
TCU played a stronger schedule than Baylor, period. Baylor needs to stop scheduling Creampuff State and play some worthy opponents if they want to be in the playoffs. TCU was just plain robbed. You don't drop from 3 to 6 if you win with "style points" which is what the committee was complaining about TCU lacking in previous weeks.
The Big 12 needs a championship game.
I think a Big 12 championship game (as proposed, between the 2 best records, not a North/South game) would go a long way to making the winner a near-virtual lock to the playoff. I don't understand why this isn't in place.
The selection committee used a number of criteria to choose the teams. One of those was Conference Championships Won. They couldn't consider that until this week because no one had won a conference championship yet.
The other teams all won conference championships, thus strengthening their positions. Baylor/TCU didn't get credit for a conference championship because two champions = no champions.
btw, I'm a Georgia Tech fan and they lost. I dislike OSU, FSU and Alabama, but I think they all earned their spots. I'll probably be cheering for Oregon because I have no reason to dislike them and they have cool uniforms.