The First Game

Just read this little gem.

"On Wednesday, TCU head coach Gary Patterson suspended the best defensive player in the Big 12 for the first two games of the 2013 season because of a violation of team and university policy."

 

"Yes, it does stink he will miss the season opener Aug. 31 against LSU at Cowboys Stadium, but it could be worse. He could miss Big 12 games."

Now, in and of itself, a star player arrested and suspended isn't the biggest deal -  I mean, it sucks, but, it happens. 

Still, because I'm spiteful, I'm really hoping that something really specific happens:  I hope there is an ice storm/hurricane/act of God (that doesn't hurt anyone), but that delays the TCU/LSU game - the TCU season opener.  Just to see what happens.

The Cell Tower

Look, I'm sorry if it seems like I'm making fun of Darrin Moore.  But this article made me laugh. Darrin would have been better served by this article not existing, as it just comes off like awkward PR from a middle school newspaper.

**Alert.  The pizza in the cafeteria is now being cut into squares!**

I hope Moore can show he has what it takes at Cowboys mini-camp, though I can't say I wish being a Cowboy on anyone...

So many things about this article are perplexing, but here is the takeaway I gleaned from this article about Darrin Moore's draft day:

“Come to find out, one of the Sprint towers was down near my house,” Moore said, relating Saturday’s events. “I couldn’t receive calls or make any calls. Even if a team did call me, I wouldn’t have got it. That’s stressful if I missed out on a call.”

“I feel like I’m just as good as a lot of players who got drafted and players who signed free-agent deals,”

Hmmm...if only Texas Tech had someone in charge of making things ring... Wait, they do!  It's this guy!

It's not exactly a Sprint commercial, and I'm still not buying.

For some reason it made me think of Matt Leinart being interviewed after losing the BCS National Championship game to the Longhorns in 2006, and he insisted that USC was still the better football team that night.

Guns Up!

The #Rule

The NCAA has been working hard to solve all of college football’s biggest problems. Most recently? Banning #hashtags on fields and endzones at college stadiums. Rogers Redding, the national coordinator for college football officials explains the ruling by saying “If they have stuff on the sidelines, or on the walls around the stadium, it’s OK. The idea is to preserved the integrity of the field and not open it up to other kinds of advertising.


So, what they’re saying is that a college can’t #advertise its own program with a #hashtag on the field (as Mississippi State most prominently did in 2011 with #HAILSTATE) but the NCAA logo, conference logos and the names of commercial sponsors still get top billing on the turf?

The NCAA has just reinforced their #reputation that they don’t draw the line when it messes with #sponsormoney. I guess schools can get around this rule by creating new official logos, which are allowed on the field and incorporating their #hashtags. Though I hope it never comes to this.

Of all the rule changes over the years, I certainly don’t think this is the #dumbest. In fact I usually support the rules that outrage the masses.

For instance, in 2010, the NCAA banned messages and logos from appearing in players’ eye black. Reggie Bush would famously have 619 (native area code) scribbled into his eye black, but most people were outraged because Tim Tebow would no longer be allowed to put bible verses into his. The amount of people that called this rule discriminating really surprised me. There were tons of people outraged that it was “censorship” and what about “freedom of speech and expression.”

But let’s think about this people. If it’s okay for Bush to tout his area code, what about the satanist who displays “666” on his eye black. Think that would upset anyone?

Apparently this upset people:  http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/tebow/n13335/

Where do we draw the line? What stops a player from using that space to advertise? Or write profanity? The simple fact of the matter is, when you join an organized sport, you’re bound to a uniform, eye black an extension of that.

Hell, let’s just let players wear whatever they want on their jerseys. I can’t wait till a kid runs out with “PINK” written across his rear!

"I"m Expressing Myself!"