Posts Tagged ‘texas’

BCS Is So Boring

Lets get a few things out of the way: 1.  I finally found my CubicleGM password after losing it for two weeks.  Actually thats not true, just the rumor being spread across the Internets.  I have spent my non-working hours a.) Journeying through The Wire for the second time -  its far better the second [...]

Three Thoughts and Two Ideas (Week 2)

I’ll leave the NFL to other writers at CubicleGM, and throw a few thoughts into the ring for Week 2 in the NCAA.  Since we’re only through the second week, I’ll treat these as data points.  By next week, however, we might just have a trend.  From last to first, or really, in the order that [...]

The Calm Before the Storm

On ESPN2 Baron Davis is watching Roger Federer toy with some Amadeusian Mozart looking guy in the US Open and dressed like a flasher, and I’m watching it. There’s an actual meaningful baseball game on ESPN; a game I wouldn’t care much about had I not just spent a long weekend in Florida, hanging out [...]

The Spread Offense: “All Your Base Are Belong To Us.”

It’s no secret that in college football over the past decade the spread offense has gone from obscurity to obsession. ESPN.com is reporting that 46 48 of the 120 teams in the FBS ran a spread-based offense or variation last season (at least 75% of the time), or plan to in 2009. Among them are [...]