One Game Suspension

Senior LSU forward Malcolm White served a one game suspension today against Ark for his flagrant foul on Anthony Davis. I’ve always liked LSU coach Trent Johnson and hoped he would make a point that playground antics shouldn’t be tolerated. Sadly he didn’t do anything more than issue the one game, violation of team rules type suspension.

Would a multi game suspension of White have gotten the point across to players and coaches? Of course not, but unless someone does it (you hear that NCAA) the sport will continue to deteriorate. Don’t think the deterioration is going to happen? Watch the game and society in general for the next few years and we can sit around some day, listen to crappy music and drink a few beers while you tell me I’m right.

OK I’m making a bigger deal of it than it deserves, but even Custer was forced to make a stand. Unlike Custer’s stand, Johnson’s stand wouldn’t have been his last stand and might even have started a trend where coaches stand up for something they aren’t paid to do.

How Do You Spell Spurrier?

Don’t you just love the way the mainstream press constantly takes a little dig at coach Calipari. In their minds he will always be remembered because one of his players at U Mass took improper benefits, read bling. Another took a test or did he and coach played him after the NCAA cleared him to play

Now South Carolina has basically admitted that 10 football players took improper benefits, playing played 4 ineligible players in 2009 and other assorted no no’s. Today they self imposed penalties on themselves before they visit the NCAA to discuss there fate. For playing ineligible players alone they should get games forfeited, if the NCAA is honest.
http://www.gogamecocks.com/2011/12/14/183812/ggf-usc-acknowledges-ncaa-violations.html

Just by looking at the numbers, 10 to 1, it seems like the old balls coach is 10 times dirtier than coach Calipari. It also looks like he was no more involved in what happened at South Carolina than coach Calipari was at U Mass and Memphis.

In the future when national media writers talk about Steve Spurrier, will they add a little comment about having had games forfeited, probably. Will they mean any thing by it, probably not. After all you can’t sully a honest mans name, unless its spelled Calipari. Now how do you spell Spurrier?

Down Goes Duke

How about the Lady Cats. They took down #5 puke 72-65 in front of a record crowd of 14,508 at Rupp. If you’re keeping track of the Lady Cats you know that’s two top 10 teams back to back. If you’re not keeping track of the Lady Cats you should. A’dia Mathies had 23 pts, Bria Goss had 19 pts and freshman Azia Bishop had 12 pts and 11 rebounds off the bench.

BBRules Week 1 SEC Rankings

Their has been enough play for me to see all the teams a few times. Here is week ones SEC Rankings.

1. Kentucky. No way the Cats drop from this spot all year.

2. Florida. Good guards but could use some depth around the rim.

3. Alabama. A tough, tough team that will be hard to beat at home.

4. Vanderbilt. Same old Vanderbilt. Looks to be a tad overrated.

5. Mississippi State. Their wheels are sure to fall off but for now might switch positions with Vandy soon.

6. Tennessee. If Pearl could only have gotten his teams to play this hard. Still not enough talent on the floor but it looks like Tenn got a good coach.

7. Mississippi. Not sure if they are better or just luckier than Georgia. One of those teams that will go up and down the bottom of the SEC rankings.

8. Georgia. They lost to much talent from last year. With Mark Fox as a coach expect them to improve but not win to much.

9. Arkansas. Lot of talent there but still looks like a Arkansas team.

10. Auburn. Might surprise some people when conference play starts.

11. LSU. Their offense smells like a fish market. Enough said.

12. South Carolina. Even beating Clemson can’t get them out of the cellar, only LSU can.

What A Great Day

I’m not sure its possible to have a better day, or a better couple of Sundays in a row. Talk about being wound to the max, that’s me. Beating Tennessee was down right awesome, then following it a week later with a beautiful, hard-fought, well coached win over a real good NC team is an unbeatable feeling. Thank you all you athletes who have given us a couple of Saturdays to remember for the rest of our lives.

To top this wonderful morning off, not one spammer tried to register last night. The fear of being blocked by Davis is working. He’s now our official spam blocker.

Is There A Curse?

Now that we are officially #1 we can turn our attention to other unimportant things till Wednesday.

We haven’t heard the name of former coach Tubby Smith here in a while. His best player Trevor Mbakwe is now out for the season or with luck might be back by the end of the year. It seems to be a annual thing up in gopher land since Tubby has been there. Every year the little gopher fans stick their heads up

and expect it to be the year Tubby takes them to the promised land. Every year something happens to them. A player is injured, kick off the team or thrown under the bus. Its a little early this year but the fans are checking their holes for a long winter.

Has Tubby been cursed to forever have problems? And better yet did the BBN do it? Naw Tubby did it himself.

The Streak Is Over

The streak is over. Did anyone besides me shedd a few tears? This has to be one of the better days in my life. Tennessee doesn’t go to a bowl, Dooley might get fired, Bray plays middle school football, Matt Roark becomes one of the most remembered Kentucky players ever, the defense plays the best game of the season and Tydlacka keeps Tenn pinned.

It was a total team effort from all the players, and they along with us will remember it all their lives.

The game revolved around Matt Roark and he played the game of his life. In the future when we talk about him he will be spoken about and remembered the same as Josh Harrellson.

It was a tough game to watch as the announcers seemed to spend an inordinate amount of time talking about how many of the Tenn players were going to be great down the line. As the game progressed you could see the Kentucky players start to sense they might win the game. The crowed was standing. Even the referees seemed to sense it.

It took the whole team to win the game but it took Matt Roark to dominate Tennessee. The team might have parted the sea but Matt led us across the sea bottom to victory.

Duke Finds Their ODU In Tennessee

Tennessee stayed right there with Puke till very near the end. Puke won by 10 I believe. The Blue Devils were susceptible to the dribble drive and Tennessee made it to the basket pretty much at will. Only thing is that Tennessee players, while very athletic, play like a bunch of street ballers. In other words, really sloppy stuff on their part. It was nip and tuck in the first half until two treys by Rivers and another by Curry put them up by 6 at the half. Tennessee came back a regained the lead briefly early in the second half and the score continued to flip flop by a point or two either direction till the last five minutes of the game or so. Duke went up by 8, then 10 pts. and it stayed that way the last couple of minutes as the game concluded.

No “real” Devils or Oranges were injured or put in any jeopardy during this contest.

In unrelated news, I fell asleep on the couch awaiting the next game from Maui and dreamed I came home and found a naked dwarf in my living room. I tried everything, including “caining” him with a pool cue to get him to leave but he wouldn’t go away. I finally had to call the police but woke up before they got there. It appears that watching two teams you hate play one another does strange thinks to the mind; especially having to root for Tennessee.

A better sports story than Tipton could write. The human interest factor was far more interesting too.

I’m sure if Freud were still alive he’d say, subconsciously, that naked dwarf was Coach K.

I borrowed and combined this from alpha and Boondog and jdog in the forums since I found it much more truthfull than what you could find on ESPN.

The LHL Goes Even Further (Revised)

After following up on some complaints I’m sure they received the LHL did the respectful thing about the post we talked about yesterday. They deleted the comments complaining about it and left the post up. I’d have to guess that it was a mistake but with all the negative and semi-negative things they have allowed Tipton to get away with who knows. Could it be possible as others have posted that it was really Jerry Tipton who posted it looking for nibbles to use in a story. Naw just kidding Jerry.

There must have been a glitch somewhere as the comments are back up. Sorry LHL. I was really beginning to enjoy myself at your expense.

The LHL Has Gone To Far

This was posted on the LHL board last Friday and is still up there over two days later. Allowing it to stay up shows that the LHL has crossed the line in their attempts to burn our program. Using the excuse that they didn’t post it is not an excuse for allowing people to attempt to harm a persons reputation.

Contact coach Cal at his website and ask him to take action. Also send it to anyone you can at the school and anything else you can think of to do.

This was posted by a user named catblackfever

Calipari touched a kid earlier this year by rubbing his hand, the NCAA had a problem with it… I wonder with all the child molesation stuff going on at Penn State and now at Syracuse I wonder if Calipari will be exposed… did Calipari rub anything else… wow… what a weird world this has turned out to be recently….

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