Let’s Waste More Taxpayer Dollars on Sports

Are you fucking kidding me? We’re doing it again? It started with Arlen Specter (all-American fag by the way) wasting tax-payer dollars on the possibility of the New England Patriots stealing defensive signals.

We then take it one step further. The Mountain West Conference, home to powerhouses such as San Diego State, Wyoming, New Mexico, Air Force and UNLV have hired a Washington firm to lobby Congress.

OK, so let’s get this straight. First, we’re wasting tax payer dollars by allowing Congress to even hear this. Secondly, the poor parents of students who go to any of those 9 schooles are wasting tuition money (it ultimately goes there) hiring asshats from Washington to lobby.

OK, let’s get this straight. The Mountain West Conference does not have an automatic bid for a reason. It is a conference with 6 pushovers. The remaining three have 6 automatic wins a year, followed by up to three additional non-conference games that they get to choose. Lets not foget people: Undefeated, and probably best football team ever assembled, Utah’s best win was against Michigan, who they barely beat. How did Michigan finish by the way?

Sure, they beat BYU, who’s best win was probably against Air Force! Wait a second, they also beat TCU who’s best win was WAC powerhouse (forgive my sarcasm) Boise State. Hold the fucking phone. Let’s go back and replay the National Championship game, there was a CLEAR number one in the country. Give me a fucking break.

But I digress.

I must point the reader to an article I wrote a few months ago backing up the current BCS system. The just of the article is that I can better tell who the good teams are by having them play 10-12 games, rather than playing three.

When approaching playoffs, we often look at “who’s hot”, rather than “who’s better”. The same principle applies. I don’t want the National Champion to be the hottest team at the end of the year, I want it to be the best. By choosing the two teams from a pool of 119 teams over the course of playing 12 grueling games, I can get a much better indicator of worth than simply having to win to games to get in.

Think about who we would be giving the chance to. Before the bowls last season, Oklahoma, with the most prolific offense ever (statically) was number 1; Penn State was 8. Penn State had a good team, but shouldn’t even been mentioned in the same breath as Oklahoma. However, had Penn State gotten hot, they could have won the Championship simply by playing a weak Big 10 schedule, and getting hot.

Either way, Mountain West conference, be careful what you wish for. Right now you have a few teams who get to roll a bunch of cupcakes and then bitch because they can’t play the big dogs. I’d love to let TCU play in the Big 12 with the rest of the Texas teams for just one season. Oh what a great season that would be.

For me…not TCU.

Yes, I will be writing my congresswoman Marcy Kaptur showing my displeasure that she and the rest of our elected officials are wasting their time on such a meaningless endeavor. As I ramble on, I remember that in an effort to show he’s part of “Main Street (God I fucking hate that phrase), all-knowing Messiah Pres. Obama said he would favor a playoff system. That means all the dems would vote for it, and the history and tradition of America’s greatest sport would be ruined forever….

along with our fucking economy.

BCS – What a Great System We Have…Seriously

What a way to finish the bowl season. We seen two of the very best football games to close out the season with Texas winning a nail biter in Glendale, and finishing off with a thoroughly interesting national championship game.

Questions are being asked as to whom the national championship should belong to. Is it undefeated Utah, perhaps one-loss Texas or USC who didn’t get a chance to play in the big game. Let me be the first to say that we had the game we needed, and its all thanks to the wonderful BCS system.

First of all, let me abolish any thoughts that Kyle Wittingham’s Utah team deserves anything. Jeff Sagarin has the Mountain West conference ranked just slightly above the MAC; and below the service school filled Independents. Proponents say that they beat four ranked teams. Let’s not forget that their sole victory against a non-conference ranked oppenent was week 1, a 2-point win against Michigan. Their schedule strength puts them in the bottom 40% toughest in the nation. Their other two ranked wins, both in conference games against TCU and BYU.

Sure they played a great game against a Alabama team with nothing left to play for. Get over it, you’re not as good as everyone else. In fact, all-world brain-guy Jeff Sagarin has Utah ranked 10th in his predictor rating, the best rating scale for predicting an actual game. Yes, that’s behind Ohio State. To more important things.

If I flip a coin 3 times, there is a 12.5% chance it will land heads each time. If that happens, does it mean that heads is the most likely results of a coin flip? Of course not, but it happens. The point I’m trying to make is in reference to a possible playoff system.

The NCAA basketball system works for one simple reason: the shear amount of wins needed. In order to win the college basketball championship, a team needs 6 consecutive wins. The chances of flipping a coin heads 6 times in a row? 1.56%, significantly smaller.However, having a six-week football playoff is completely outrageous. People talk about 8 team playoffs, or a +1 system, which is essentially a 4 team playoff. This takes us back to the coin flip.

With such a small playoff, the odds increase that weaker team can upset and win the tournament. Does that mean that they’re better? Do we really think Utah is better than Alabama? Is Texas really only that much better than Ohio State? With the Mountain West and Western Athletic Conferences receiving annual bids to BCS games, we have a situation where at all times a mid-major is only two games away from being crowned the best in the nation. This is scary when we consider the seemingly random upsets that occur during the bowl season. Was Boise State really better than Oklahoma a few years back?

The best solution is to have all the teams play a full schedule and then try and guess who the best teams are. Typically it works well. This year there was controversy because Utah rolled some cupcakes, and there were three teams who all beat each other. However both the subjectivity and objectivity of humans and computers both decided that there are two and only two teams worthy of playing for it all.

Football Season Already Half Over

OK, I haven’t posted anything in a while. I had a few videos chronicling my election day, but due to extreme disappointment in the voting public, I’ve decided not to post them. Anyways, football season is halfway over. Right now I’ll go over my previous spur-of-the-moment picks, say where I went bad, where I got it right, and make second half predictions. Let’s start with the NFL.

AFC: I still like half of my picks, I think the Pats will come through with the division and Denver will crumble under a horrific defense. Who could have thought that Tennessee would be undeafeated, the Colts would be .500, and that the AFC East is sitting with three teams in the playoffs?!?!?

I like the Titans and the Steelers to finish out the division, with the Colts taking the high Wild Card. I think that Baltimore’s schedule is too tough from here, and Buffalo will squeak in with a very easy remaining schedule.

NFC: First of all, who called the Redskins that early? Me, that’s who. With the Giants having a brutal remaining schedule, I like the ‘Skins to win the East. The Bears can’t last, and I still like the Packers in the Central. The South is extremely close, and the Saints still have a great chance to win with one of the most prolific offenses in the league.

I was wrong about the Giants (there I said it), but I do still think Eli is way over-rated. The wildcard race will be very close with the Eagles, Giants/Redskins, Buccaneers (really?), and the Vikings still have a chance. All in all, I still feel pretty good about the NFC, just swap the Giants and the Cowboys. Oh yea, someone will have to come out of the West, but who gives a fuck?

Now onto the better half, college. It’s been a really fucking awesome season so far, but mostly, I feel horrible for Georgia. They have a great team, but an absolute devastating schedule has left them with two losses. I picked Auburn in the West, but it’s OK cause hopefully Tommy Tub. will be gone after this year. Alabama defintely took us by surprise with their demolishing of Georgia early in the season.

The Big-10 is shaping up close to expected. Wisconsin, we’re sorry. What a bitch 4 game streak. You never win to Michigan, then Ohio State and Penn State? Ouch. Gone, too bad. Penn State looks great, but I don’t think they belong in the hunt with the likes of Florida, USC, and half of the Big-12.

Speaking of which is great football week in-week out. Who knows comes out of that on top. Missouri will of course come out of the North, then subsequently lose to whomever comes out ‘da South. Texas of course wins out, giving them only one loss, to Texas Tech. Texas Tech loses at least once in the next two weeks. Oklahoma has only one loss, to Texas. Oklahoma State looks great, but I think will fall to Oklahoma. So, we’ll have four teams at the top, all with one loss, each to each other. What the duece? What’s the tie-break?

Well we at Cockflavored have it. First:

If it’s two teams, its the winner if they played, but we have possibly 4. Then, essentially, you take all the teams, and put their records between each other into a round-robin type format. Whoever has the best record wins. Let’s guess:
Texas – 1 over Oklahoma
Texas Tech – 2 over Texas and either Oklahoma or Ok. St.
Oklahoma – 1 or 2 over Oklahoma St and Maybe Texas Tech
Oklahoma St – 1 Texas Tech OR Oklahoma

So of course, if Texas Tech wins out, they more than likely win the Big 12. IF Oklahoma wins out vs Ok St. AND beats Texas Tech, then they will both have 2 wins in the “Round Robin.”

The next tiebreaker is wins in the division. Texas Tech will have 4: Texas A&M, Texas, Oklahoma State, and Baylor. Oklahoma will have 4 as well: Baylor, Texas A&M, Texas Tech, and Oklahoma State.

However, at this point, when the tiebreakers come down to two teams, head-to-head will come back into play, of which of course Oklahoma, we assumed, won. So, Texas is pretty much out of it. Unless Oklahoma and Texas Tech both lose a couple of games, they can’t win the South. Ok. St is a really good team, but with Texas Tech and Oklahoma left, I don’t think they can win both. This leaves Texas Tech and Oklahoma. I like Oklahoma’s more balanced attack to win and keep my preseason prediction

So to sum up:

BCS National Championship: Florida over Oklahoma
Rose Bowl: USC over Penn St.
Fiesta Bowl: Texas over Ohio State
Sugar Bowl: Alabama over West Virginia
Orange Bowl: Utah over Miami/Georgia Tech in the worst Orange Bowl EVER

Sorry for the long post, just sitting here rambling watching Brady Quinn be the worst QB ever.

Terrell Pryor – Part I

Here is Terrell Pryor 20 yards behind the line of scrimmage right next to the sideline.

Tressel – Throw the goddamm ball away you fucking idiot.

Pryor – No coach, I can get out of this. Remember, I was the top rated prospect outta high school.

Tressel – …and your sacked you douchebag. Now it’s 2nd and 35 and I have to let you try and pass it again. Jesus fucking Christ if Boeckman didn’t blow so much balls I’d blow your fucking brains out. Mother fucker.

Arlen Specter – All American Fag – Update

UPDATE – Toledo Blade sports columnist put it very well when he said:

An aside, if you will. Specter is hinting at a congressional investigation. Last time I checked, our lawmakers are dealing with an economic bail-out to prevent us falling further into recession and to try and quell the mortgage crisis in the banking and housing industries. For a supposedly enlightened society, we face astounding challenges in health care and education. And, then, there’s that little dust-up over in Iraq. Our lawmakers might want to keep their priorities straight. Belichick and the Patriots didn’t violate any laws, just the NFL’s rules. So, Senator, get lost.

My quote is not so classy.

Arlen Specter is a Pennsylvanian Republican senator who is being a major fucking douchebag. He wants to know why NFL commissioner Roger Goodell destroyed the infamous “Spygate” videos. This vaginal secretion says:

The American people are entitled to be sure about the integrity of the game. It’s analogous to the CIA destruction of tapes, or any time you have records destroyed.

WHAT?!?! Analogous to the CIA destroying tapes? Are you out of your mind. Is your mind as fucked as your face is looking?

OK, down to business. You’re in the congress, and I right? Why are you even thinking about football?? We don’t fucking pay you to worry about goddamn football. Go worry about why your constituents can’t find jobs, breath polluted air, drive on broken highways. Worry about the fucking crime. Worry about education.

DON’T FUCKING WORRY ABOUT SHIT THAT ISN’T YOURS TO DEAL WITH JUST SO YOU CAN GET YOUR FUCKED UP, SCRAGGLY-LOOKING, BIG-ASS NOSED, DUMBO-SIZED EARED, AIRPORT TARMAC FOREHEADED, BRITISH-TOOTHED, RAT-NEST HAIRED FUCKING HEAD ON TV.

You are the HEAD of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and this is the best that you can do. No wonder we have no faith in our governement.

ASSHOLE.

Oh yea, Goodell saying that he wanted them destroyed so they could never be used again wasn’t enough. This dickhead is calling him in so the entire fucking Judiciary Committee can hear Goodell testify. Holy fucking tax dollars that you don’t give a shit about.

The Last Tailgate

So it’s over, the legacy, the dynasty. What was once a weekly event, is now officially over. This last Saturday marked the final hurrah of one Buddy B as he gets married this coming Saturday. As such, this last week was the last in a historical chain of stupidly-drunk tailgate parties; UT vs Ohio was no exception.

I won’t go into the entire night, because who really knows? Here’s number 4 for the few of us:

Buddy is the tall drink-o-water in the middle. That guy who sleeps with ladies shoes is on the left, and the shortest girl I’ve ever seen is on the right.

So the game was fun as usual. Unfortunately the blind love for the Indians made us leave late in the 1st half.  Luckily we cashed a couple of these fellas:

Before we left. Call us pussies for drinking schnapps, but that shit is 100 proof. When it’s cold outside, it’s always been there for us. So, maybe the most eventful thing remembered was this asshat. He had one of the most memorable quotes I might have ever heard.

 Weird Dude: “Wait a minute, who do you like?”

Me: “uh…the Lions.”

Weird Dude:”Fuck the Lions, goooooooooo Indians!!!! Wooo!!”

Me: [speechless]

Anyways, the night ended with Buddy calling a couple of engineering students terrorists..that was sweet. All in all, tailgate parties, you will be missed. May you have brought us immeasurable joy and satisfaction.

We will always remember Halloween when everyone rallied behind Jesus, and told the security guards that they can’t throw the savior out (even though Joe was booted). We will always remember Tony bringing his parents RV, then nailing an asian chick inside while we drink outside. We will always remember pissing off people in BG, because we had a generator powered full PA system, blaring the UT fight song every 5 minutes. Of course, we will always remember the Tailgatapaloozas, may those days live on forever.

Thoughts on Tonight’s Game

OK, I said that USF would cover the spread, but I also said it would be close. Honestly, I stand firmly behind my decision, and it very easily could have gone either way.

Two plays come to my mind. The first being that first long third down right at the end of the game. Grothe threw up a very well placed ball, and the receiver made the proper adjustment and came down with it. They called offensive pass interference which I think is a crappy call, which USF was victimized of all night long. Yes, his arm was extended, and it did look like he pushed, but the fact is just that the defender didn’t make the adjustment. It was a well thrown ball, the WR didn’t need to make that contact, it should have been 1st and 10 with like what, 40sec to go.

The last play was about 2min before halftime, you know what I’m talking about. That fucking blocked field goal. For the refs to call that back is a testament to all of the bad things about instant replay. Rightfully they allowed the first “forward pass.” That was simply a player not being able to pick up a fumble. It’s a hard thing to do, players fuck it up all the time.

The second “forward pass” was called illegal. Anyone can see from the slow-mo that it was not intentional. As the player picks up the ball, he’s hit from behind. The ball leaves his hands, and for a moment, he is completely without possession. He tries to grab the ball with his right hand and accidentally hits it. Complete accident, and for Craig James (I think it was) to say that USF had actually practiced that blew me away.

That, in my humble opinion lost USF the game. Rather than being up 24-10, they go down 17-14 at the half, and never regained momentum (maybe until late in the 4th).

To be completely honest, I’m not entirely sad about this game though; this was a win-win for this guy. You see, if Rutgers loses, shit yea, I really don’t like THE Rutgers. If South Florida loses, then it regains some proper order to the rankings. Unfortunately the side effect of this is that Boston College moves up to 2. They have a bye this week, and they better get ready, because next Thursday, they go to Blacksburg in a game that will leave the voters embarrassed that they ever put them that high.

Week 8 Predictions

For shits, I’ve decided to show you all my college football prowess and pick some big games coming up.

South Florida over the Rutgers in a close game. I think USF is over-rated, but the Scarlet Knights have blown donkey nuts for years (yes they have don’t even try to say they haven’t).

I like Texas Tech over Missouri. Missouri is coming off a close loss to Oklahoma last week, but I still like the high powered offense of Tech with my boy Graham leading the way.

LSU in a big win over Auburn. I wouldn’t want to play LSU after a loss.

Florida in a big win over Kentucky. They’re pissed.

My upset special, Colorado over Kansas.

Also, to show how much I think they suck, I’m taking Division I-AA North Dakota State over Minnesota.

Boston College has a bye week, which means they’ll probably move up to #1 in the polls.

Are you a gambler? I have some picks for you. Pick West Virginia to NOT cover a 23pt spread over Mississippi St. Look for Anthony Dixon to run run run the ball against an undersized WV defense. He is fifth in the SEC with 99.1 ypg after only carrying the ball a dozen times for 30yds week 1 vs LSU.

Also, some fucking how South Florida only has a 2.5 pt spread to cover. They’ll make it.

Again, Missouri is a 3.5pt favorite over Tech, I think Tech is going to whomp em.

Anyways, that’s about all. Take it for what it’s worth. I probably pressed enter a few too many times, oh well.

Comments on the NCAA Football Season So Far

OK, so maybe these are comments on play, or who I think is good, rather on the AP (and coaches for that matter) poll. The problem I have is with the volatility of the polls. Someone loses, and they drop 20 spots. For this reason we have teams in the top 25, or even 10 for that matter that don’t really belong.

Soon I will have a spreadsheet to explain my findings, but for now, here are some examples.

Boston College
After they beat Wake Forest in week 1, they move up to 26. They beat another unranked team in NC State, and move up another 5. They beat Georgia Tech, who is not as good as we thought, and move up another 7. Big win over Army gets them another two spots. The horrible week 5, they beat UMass (that’s right) and move up 5 spots to 7! They beat BGSU, and move up another 3 spots to 4?!?! Are you fucking kidding me?

Meanwhile a team like West Virginia is behind them, who’s only loss is to 5 ranked South Florida. You have USC behind them, Florida behind them.

Another team is Missouri who is knocking on the door to the top 10 sitting right now at 11. Now, I love Missouri, and have preaching honestly for two years that Chase Daniel is going to be a great quarterback (ask my friends). But they have not had many quality wins.

They start the season without a single vote, and move up to 27 after squeaking by Illinois in week 1 (are they for real?). Then they play Ole Miss, Western Michigan and Illinois State, not a single vote among them. Add a bye week in there, and they shoot up 10 ranks to 17. They then beat Nebraska, who should have lost to Ball State, and you have an 11th ranked team.

You then have the Big East Teams, I’m thinking Cincinnati in particular. I really do love what Mark Dantonio has done down there. I do like watching their defense play, as they are just like rabid wolves. However, until the Big East starts beating teams outside their own conference, I cannot respect any of them.

Wait, who said what about last year’s bowl games? Look at who they played to get that record. You’ll see..

All I’m trying to say is that settle down on the drastic change in your voting based on one game. Look at Florida. They dominated for 4 weeks. Then they lost to a Tommy Tuberville team which just seems to have their number. Then they lose to the consensus number 1 team in the nation by only 4 points. Now they sit at 13, with hopes of a BCS bowl game quite out of reach.

13 – Florida. 14 – Arizona State. That’s what you people voted for??? You sat their with your weekly ballot, and wrote Florida, then wrote Arizona State. You wrote down that you think Arizona State is almost just as good as Florida.

Arizona State is another one by the way. Fuck, I keep track of any team that gets at least one top 25 vote. Arizona State has not played a single team even thinking of breaking into the top 25, and you put them just behind Florida…the reigning national champs.

Fuck you AP. Fuck you, you’re ruining my season.

Told You He Was Over Rated

I speak of course of former Heisman hopeful, Andre Woodson. I’ve been saying all season that the games that I was able to watch, I was not impressed. It’s really a similar situation some years back when I watched Ben Roethlisberger. That dickface got so much hype, when it was his receivers putting up the big numbers.

Anyways, so after watching tonight’s Kentucky vs South Carolina game, I firmly stand by my position that he is one of the most overrated quarterbacks, if not players in the nation. It’s sad that an offensive scheme can be confused with talent. Let me just say that yes, the guy is decent. Above all I am astounded by his 300+ pass attempts w/o an interception. However, to say that he’s Heisman caliber is ludicrous.

The big time players will make big time plays in big time games, that’s all there is to it. Andre Woodson made some of the most boneheaded moves I’ve seen in a while, especially from a Heisman front-runner. Sure, the fumble at the beginning might not have been totally his fault, but it led to 7 points. Next was probably the biggest dumb ass decision of the game. You know, the interception he threw in the red zone. There are those unwritten rules in football. Things you really don’t try to do. One might be leaving your feet; your asking to get flipped upside down. Another is taking a kickoff 5+ yards deep into the end zone. For a quarterback, the first commandment is throwing back across your body to the middle of the field.

Sure, it might not have been the “middle” of the field, but with plays like that, either it’s there, or its not. When you start rolling to a side, the defense can follow you. What was once 7 defensive backs covering 50 yards of field is now 7 defensive backs covering 20-30 yards. Compound the fact that your in the red zone, so there’s no vertical space to throw the ball.

As a senior quarterback, in one of the biggest (unexpectedly certainly) games of the season so far, that is something that really hurt his team. Lastly was that stupid ass dump off pass that ended up a lateral, which got taken to the house.

So who are the Heisman picks then? Well, my first pick right now is Mike Hart. The Heisman is not for necessarily the best player in the nation, that’s supposedly the Maxwell award (although if the best player does get the Heisman they usually give it to something else, Brady Quinn…ass sniffer).  Not only is he an outstanding running back, but he is literally carrying his team right now. Two weeks ago against Penn State, I think he carried the ball like 44 times!! Last week against Northwestern, another 30 carries.

Who else? Well I love DMac, Darren McFadden, but the lack of a winning program this year is killing him. It’s like on Independence Day when they finally learn how to destroy those big ass ships. Last bowl season when Wisconsin beat Arkansas, in a huge upset by the way, they sent out the message to all the other teams on how to step the Wildcat offense (now Wildhog I think…maybe, who really cares).

DeSean Jackson perhaps? Fuck him, I hate his first name and anytime he’s in the highlights, its for kick returns. Sure he’s brought a couple back, but other than being a good receiver, he doesn’t bring a whole lot to the table.

Colt Brennan should be in the talks, simply because of his STUPID numbers. Through 5 games, he’s already put up 15 TDs. The number is more effective realizing that he didn’t play against Charleston Southern, a game that he probably could have put up another 7. So the question arises: does putting up huge numbers against cupcake teams warrant one to be considered for possibly the greatest individual award in the world? Not really, but considering he does play for Hawai’i (I think it’s posh to add the apostrophe now a days in that word) he should. Hawai’i is not a great team, so it’s not like he’s Boise State (now a perennial good team) playing teams like Louisiana Tech, Utah State, Idaho (seriously, Idaho??), and Wyoming. He is on a mediocre (I KNOW THEY ARE RANKED 16th, I WONT EVEN BEGIN TO TALK ABOUT THE FUCKING POLLS RIGHT NOW) team, who plays other mediocre teams. I really do wish he played for another team, so we could compare.

Pat White/Steve Slaton…well who to give it to? I really think the Heisman will come down to just those few people. A lot of people are having great seasons, but these are the players who are not only putting up great numbers, but are indispensable to their teams. And that, is what the Heisman is all about.

Oh yea, Andre Woodson isn’t deserving enough of it…just to be clear.