Joker Under Paid?

Just kidding. This is old news but sometimes you need to turn up the heat when cooking up a pot of football. How anyone can ask or expect a top name coach to come to Kentucky when we pay our head coach the least money of any school in the SEC is beyond any rational explanation. Vandy is a private school and doesn’t release their coaches pay but what ever they are paying their coach they are getting their moneys worth and will probably give him a contract extension and a pay raise after this season. Apparently we to are getting our moneys worth since Bottom Pay=Bottom Coach=Bottom dweller according to my football 101 class.

Heck even renown coach Pete Carroll mentions it in his football primer in chapter two, The Administration Doesn’t Care.

BBR top-25

Season is coming to a end, and if you are a UK Football Fan it can not happen fast enough.
1 LSU
2 Oklahoma St
3 Alabama
4 Arkansas
5 Oregon
6 Oklahoma
7 Clemson
8 Houston
9 Va Tech
10 Stanford
11 Georgia
12 Boise St
13 South Carolina
14 Michigan St
15 Wisconsin
16 Nebraska
17 kansas St
18 TCU
19 Southern Cal
20 Southern Miss
21 Michigan
22 Florida St
23 Notre Dame
24 Baylor
25 West Virginia.

This has been a very fast season, But I am ready for some Basketball

Out Of Sight Out Of Mind

Should the NCAA give Penn St the death penalty for covering up for former defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky? It may not violate NCAA rules since it didn’t involve recruiting and I’m pretty sure that child sex isn’t covered in the NCAA rule book.

Considering that the president Graham Spanier, athletic director Tim Curley, vice president for finance and business Gary Schultz, football coach Joe Paterno and graduate assistant Mike McQueary — fail to turn this over to authorities it seems that there should be some sort of punishment handed out.

Joe Pa has been cleared because he passed it along to the AD but in reality he is as guilty as anyone for not speaking out when nothing happened.

I don’t think that the NCAA has any choice but to hammer Penn St hard for this. Other wise the out of sight out of mind mindset will continue in college sports.

Way to go Joker!

I guess I should title the post way to go Joker, because of all the heat he has been taking and some of it by me.

Of course the game yesterday wasn’t about a national championship or such, but the game was about ‘who are we going to be going forward’! I believe that sometimes fate makes you make decisions that you are unable to make given your personality or your habits. In this instance I am talking about both of those attributes in Joker Phillips. I want all to understand that I am a huge admirer of Joker because of not only all he has accomplished as a football player and coach from and at UK, but because of his character.  Having said that, I feel that Joker wouldn’t have changed his “style” of play without being forced to do so.

That game against Ole’ Miss was much more than a casual yearly meeting between the two teams, because the losing coach of the game stood a good chance of losing their job as coach of their respective team (from what I have read Houston Nutt may have lost his job after the loss) and that is sad commentary for how we are and what is expected of a coach.  If Ole’ Miss had won Joker’s hot seat would have been hotter.

One thing happened on the way to a victory yesterday and that was the game was more exciting and became more winnable because of opening up the game a little and taking chances with play calling they wouldn’t have in the past. Those are two things we fans have been screaming about and for a long time.

Max Smith now has a following and Joker has a problem on his hands.  He has said Smith is the starter for next week, but Joker unless something happens to Smith this fan says he needs to be the starting quarterback the rest of the year no matter what.  The more open play calling and going for broke was exciting, but he made the connection with the receivers and (very importantly) the fans. The crowd was loud (I had to listen to the game via the radio) and I listened the entire game without getting disgusted and changing to classical music.  Also, Joker, this article says it will buy you more time with the fans.  It will buy you time for another year to let us see how good those other young guns you have been talking about really are.  I want that to happen.

Realistically, we can’t expect to win the rest of the games, but make them exciting and who knows what could happen on the way to having some fun.  Just saying!

 

Missouri To The SEC

Its official now. The SEC released a statement saying the conference’s presidents and chancellors acted unanimously, and Missouri will join the league effective July 1, 2012.

After thinking about it I decided to issue a official BBR statement about it. Who gives a hoot, it’s basketball season!!!!!!!!!!!

Stay tuned for more come April.

BBR Top-25 Week 10

After 9 full weeks of Football we still have a handful of undefeated teams, With 3 more games plus Conference Play-off games, just how many teams will remain unbeaten?

1. LSU 9-0
2 Oklahoma St 9-0
3 Stanford 9-0
4 Alabama 8-1
5 Boise St 8-0
6 Arkansas 8-1
7 Oklahoma 8-1
8 Oregon 8-1
9 Houston 9-0
10 Clemson 8-1
11 Va Tech 8-1
12 Georgia 7-2
13 So. Carolina 7-2
14 Cincinnati
15 Texas
16 Penn St
17 Kansas St
18 Wisconsin
19 Georgia Tech
20 Southern Mississippi
21 Michigan St
22 Michigan
23 Auburn
24 Southern Cal
25 Nebraska

Things are winding fast how they will end up, does anyone know?

« Previous Page