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Does it get any better than watching college athletes compete for and win the NCAA National Championship….ON THE FIELD OF PLAY?

 

No, it doesn’t!

It has been great fun watching the College World Series from Omaha over the past couple of weeks and if not for work commitments we would have had more than a couple of Coaches Hot Seat members in that fine city on the Missouri River watching all that great baseball.

If you add in several Coaches Hot Seat members getting together in the High Rockies on a beautiful Tuesday afternoon around a large flat screen TV with a tub of cold beer on ice, chicken wings on the grill, all watching the South Carolina Gamecocks beat the UCLA Bruins for the National Championship and that is American sports at its best.

 

Pitiful, yes…Pitiful is the word that comes to mind comparing the College World Series and the NCAA Basketball Tournament to the incredibly absurd BCS which is nothing more than a series of meaningless exhibition games followed by a Bogus title game. 

Yes, at the Great Rosenblatt Stadium on Tuesday night in the Grand city of Omaha, Nebraska the South Carolina baseball team hoisted the NCAA National Championship Trophy and congratulations to South Carolina for earning that Championship!

Meanwhile in Candy Ass Land…. 

Meanwhile, there are still a lot of Candy Asses out there in America that are stupid enough to support meaningless exhibition games over settling the college football national championship on the field of play.  One thing for sure, one can never underestimate the desire of Candy Asses to make things as Bogus as possible, but then when you have several generations of Americans now that haven’t done anything for their country beyond registering to vote we can confidently call this the Age of the Candy Asses.  No wonder the US Soccer team plays like a bunch of Candy Asses…Hell, they don’t know anything different!

For those folks in the Little 10…..

(Actually still called the Big 12….but as a friend of ours in Texas says, a better name for the Big 12 than our Little 10 is….

“Big Tex and the 9 Dwarfs”

 

 

Oh, that’s funny, but is Oklahoma a dwarf we ask?  Our Texas buddy says, “Anyone that is following around the University of Texas like a homesick hound dog is a DWARF!”

Oh, that’s very funny….

Getting back to the folks in the Little 10….we mean “Big Tex and the 9 Dwarfs” that didn’t already know it, the new Texas Tech head coach Tommy Tuberville is going to tell you exactly what is on his mind and to Hell with the Politically-Correct Bullshit!

 

On Rivals.com radio on Tuesday Tommy Tuberville said:

“I don’t think this conference will last long because there is too much disparity between all the teams,” Tuberville told host Bill King. “In the SEC, for instance, Vanderbilt makes as much money in the television contract as Florida. Everybody is good with it. Everybody is on the same page. Everyone gets the same votes.

“That doesn’t happen here in the Big 12. We have some teams that get a little bit more money and have a little bit more stroke than some of the other teams. And when that happens, you’re gonna have teams looking for better avenues to leave and reasons to leave.”

Amen to that Tommy, which is exactly what we said after the Candy Asses that popped their heads up a couple of weeks ago to “save” the dysfunctional Little 10……we mean “Big Tex and the 9 Dwarfs,” which was nothing more than a sham to protect “interests” that are actually some of the Biggest Candy Asses on Planet Earth today.  In case you don’t know who those folks are, they are the SOBs that like to crown beauty queens and organize parades instead of having Americans settle championships on the field of play.

Yes, the Little 10…..we mean “Big Tex and the 9 Dwarfs” is just a rolling disaster and shame on the large state schools that got down on their hands and knees and kissed the ass of “Big Tex!”  Not that anyone at those large state schools know anything but kissing the ass of Big Tex! 

Kudos to Tommy Tuberville for speaking his mind and to the folks that are running Texas Tech University we would like to say that over the past decade or so when we have visited Lubbock for football games we have always come away impressed with your institution and we can assure you that there are conferences out there that would be very interested in adding your school to their conference in the future…..

 

Calm down Bob Stoops! (what you and Saban talked about is Shhhhhhhhhh!)

 

Brian Kelly and Bob Stoops were on the Paul Finebaum Radio Networkon Tuesday and Kelly was his usual “We are going to put the Fight back in the Fighting Irish” self, but Bob Stoops made a little news when asked about a meeting he had with Nick Saban in the last offseason.

Link to audio of Brian Kelly and Bob Stoops on Finebaum Radio Network

Whoa Nelly…We Mean Bob Stoops!

Who knows what Bob Stoops and Nick Saban discussed when they got together in Tuscaloosa last summer, but we can imagine that two old defensive guys probably talked about how to defeat the spread offense.  Coach Stoops said in the above interview that everyone has the tape of everyone else so “we can see what they are doing,” but Bob that doesn’t mean you know what other defensive guys “are thinking” when they are trying to stop the spread!

We don’t know enough about the intricacies of how college defensives stop the spread offense, but Bo Pelini and his brother Carl are doing a lot of the right things on that front and everyone can sure get a tape of Nebraska playing against the spread if they want (Not that we are doubting that Bob and Bo have had many conversations about stuffing the Longhorns!)

From where we sit stopping the spread offense comes down to the same thing that stops most offenses, making the QB as uncomfortable as possible and “Popping Him in the Mouth” as many times as is feasible within the rules!  Yes, getting “Popped in the Mouth” or having defenses get after you on every play always gets the quarterback’s attention and look no further than the clamps that Ohio State put on Oregon QB Masoli in the Rose Bowl to prove that point.  Oh, that was some good defense…

And only if we could have seen Ohio State play Alabama and Iowa play Boise State and Penn State play Florida…. Yes, that is what would have happened if Men were running College Football, but unfortunately it is the Age of the Candy Asses!

Here’s a song for all the Candy Asses out there by the Great Kenny Rogers!

Buy Me a Rose

What about Kenny and Dolly?

Islands in the Stream

What was it the Great Johnny Carson said to Dolly Parton?

Oh, that’s funny!

Can you really ever go wrong with Don Rickles on the Johnny Carson show?  No…NEVER!

What about Don Rickles hosting The Tonight Show with Bob Hope, Bing Crosby and John Wayne dropping in unannounced?

Or Don Rickles hosting The Tonight Show in 1978….

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USA Soccer = Candy Asses?  Yes!

Is it just us or does the American soccer (No, not football, but soccer!) team play like a bunch of Candy Asses?  Thought you agreed with us!  Candy Asses!  Watching the American soccer team play in the last couple of weeks we cannot help but think that it is past time for the United States to take an entirely new approach when playing in international soccer matches like the World Cup.

We do know of what we talk about here at Coaches Hot Seat, because the CHS Flag Football Team has played a number of soccer games in the last few years against teams stocked with our Latino friends and we have brought our approach to the game of football (yes, the real game of football) to the soccer field (We show up to the soccer matches with a couple of cases of cold American beer, Anchor Steam, Sierra-Nevada, etc…, and we expect them to show up with Mexican cerveza when they come to play us in football!).  Very simply, Coaches Hot Seat attacks from the opening whistle until the game is over and our attacking style is based upon General Patton’s attack at the Battle of the Bulge….

Francis Ford Coppola on writing the script for Patton

 

….. and the Coaches Hot Seat Quote of the Day:

“The art of war is simple enough.  Find out where your enemy is.  Get at him as soon as you can.  Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.”  Ulysses S. Grant

The Coaches Hot Seat Flag Football team’s plan when playing the game of soccer is to take 5 Times as Many Shots on Goal as the opposing team and that means that we constantly push the ball down the field and take the attack to the opponent.  The problem with the United States soccer team is that they play like the Candy Asses in Europe instead of adopting the attacking playing style of our neighbors to the South, Argentina and Brazil, which is the best style of play against good opponents.

The best soccer teams that the CHS Flag Football Team has played against in the San Francisco are usually made up of Latinos from Central and South America and they play the game of soccer like an aggressive college football team and there is only one way to counter a team that plays like, and that is to match that intensity and even top it and to make sure that our lack of soccer ball skills is made-up for by taking a lot of shots on goal.  We mean A LOT OF SHOTS of goal with anyone getting any kind of opening to the goal from 30 yards in taking the shot while at the same time sending everyone else at the opposing team’s goalie in hopes of being able to take advantage of a mishandled ball. 

Instead of taking the attack to their opponents the United States soccer team plays like a bunch of Candy Asses that seems to be waiting around for the other team to do something and if the U.S. continues to play that wait they will keep failing on big stages like the World Cup.

There has been a news story making the rounds since the United States soccer team lost to Ghana about the U.S. head coach, Bradley’s future to be decided.  Please, if the USA soccer head coach Bob Bradley returns then the U.S can expect another mediocre and uninspired performance at the next big soccer tournament.  What the U.S. Soccer Federation needs to find in a head soccer coach is someone that takes the attack to the other teams and most of all has his team ready to play from the first whistle instead of waking up 15 minutes into the game.  Right now USA Soccer is made up of a bunch of Candy Asses that would have a tough time doing damage in a Paper Mache Store and until the United States hires someone who will first get the US Soccer team into shape (bring the US Soccer Team up to the Rocky Mountains and we will get them into shape!) and then will take the attack to the opponents nothing will change for the better.

The US Soccer Federation wants a stronger US Soccer Team?  Great, then get rid of the Candy Asses and the Candy Ass style of play!

We have watched very little of the World Cup here at Coaches Hot Seat, but of what we have seen ESPN has done a very good job with their studio shows and the actual game telecasts.  ESPN has not dumbed down the play-by-play and color commentator on the USA games for the American audience that has not played or watched much soccer in their lives so kudos to The Mothership for that decision.  As for the studio shows we here at Coaches Hot Seat cannot help but think that Chris Fowler must be watching these soccer matches and listening to the commentators on the set and be thinking to himself:  “How about let’s get these games moving already!  A few more offensive attacks and we might actually have a real sport here, but right now this seems more like an afternoon tea party at The Grove in Oxford rather than a major competition!”  Just our opinion of course, but certainly Fowler has some videotape of college football games on his laptop that he can watch back at his hotel room to remind him what a real sport looks and sounds like!

Here you go Chris, highlights from the 1986 Nebraska at FSU football game.  Sneak away to your hotel room and watch this YouTube.com clip (and the others around it) and compare it to some of the paint drying…..oh, we mean soccer games you have been watching over the past couple of weeks!

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Stanford University Athletics deserves hearty congratulations for winning their 16 th Consecutive Learfield Sports Directors’ Cup.  As detailed in a press release from Stanford Athletics:

 

“Stanford Athletics has claimed its unprecedented 16th consecutive Learfield Sports Directors’ Cup today, an award that is presented annually by the National Association of Collegiate Athletic Directors of America (NACDA), Learfield Sports and USA Today to the top intercollegiate athletic program in the nation.

Stanford finished with 1,508.50 points, outdistancing Florida (1,237.25) and Virginia (1,189.25) for the title.

After claiming national championships in the sports of men’s volleyball, women’s tennis and women’s lightweight crew-varsity eight, Stanford has won at least one NCAA team title for 34 consecutive years, an ongoing record.

Six other Stanford teams – women’s soccer, women’s basketball, women’s swimming, men’s gymnastics, women’s water polo and synchronized swimming — placed second in national championship competition.

Twenty of Stanford’s 35 intercollegiate programs finished their respective seasons ranked in the top-10 nationally, while nine teams were ranked first in the nation at some point during the year.

In addition, three Stanford student-athletes – Kelley O’Hara (women’s soccer), Kawika Shoji (men’s volleyball) and Julia Smit (women’s swimming and diving) – were named national players of the year in their respective sports.

Three Stanford coaches – Paul Ratcliffe (women’s soccer), John Kosty (men’s volleyball) and Al Acosta (women’s lightweight rowing) – were named national coaches of the year, while eight others earned conference/region coach of the year honors.

“Winning the Directors’ Cup for 16 consecutive years is a testament to many generations of excellent student-athletes and some of the top coaches in the nation who have been part of the fabric of Stanford Athletics for many years,” said Jaquish & Kenninger Director of Athletics Bob Bowlsby. “It’s an award that everyone associated with Stanford Athletics is very proud of and one that we won’t give up easily.”

The Learfield Sports Directors’ Cup was developed as a joint effort between the National Association of Collegiate Athletic Directors of America (NACDA) and the USA Today in 1993-94 in an effort to honor universities that strive for success in all of their sports programs. The program was expanded in 1995-96 to include Division II, III and the NAIA. Each institution is awarded points based on an institutions’ finish in 20 sports — 10 each for men and women.”

Wow!  That is about all we can say to Stanford’s run over the past 16 years with the Directors’ Cup and the job done by everyone in the Stanford Athletic Department starting with AD Bob Bowlsby.  Bob arrived at Stanford in July 2006 and he has enhanced the athletics department tremendously over the past few years and completed a series of major construction projects on the campus while making the Stanford athletic department and teams even better, if that was even possible!  A job well done Bob Bowlsby!  Now keep it up!

It’s too bad that everyone that follows sports in America cannot get to see the Stanford sports teams and student-athletes compete in events each year, because it truly is like watching Olympic-level athletes performing at incredibly high levels while at the same time meeting a standard in the classroom that is unmatched in Division I athletics.

The academics at Stanford University is what makes this 16 year run in the Directors Cup really remarkable, because Stanford is both an institution that has very high standards for admission into the school, but also a place where students have to perform once they get to the campus.  Looking at the US News & World Report’s most recent ranking of National Universities, Stanford checks in at a tie for No. 4 with only Harvard, Princeton and Yale ahead of them with the schools that are tied for 4 th: California Institute of Technology, MIT, Penn and Stanford.  We don’t want to make any wild accusations…..OK, we will make an accusation or two, but we rather doubt that in the vast majority of students in majors at the Harvard, Princeton and Yale are anywhere near as demanding of what is required of student at The Farm.  Throw in the demands and time required for student-athletes to be members of some of the top college sports teams in the country and you have the remarkable Stanford Athletic Department which has folks that will both “Pop You in the Nose” competitively and “Whip Your Ass in the Classroom as Well!”

Congratulations to Stanford Athletics – 16 Straight Directors Cups……Now let’s go for 17 In a Row!

2009 – 2010 Final Learfield Directors Cup Standings – Top 50 Schools

	Institution	Pts
1.	Stanford	1508.50
2.	Florida	1237.25
3.	Virginia	1189.25
4.	UCLA	1034.00
5.	Texas A&M	1020.75
6.	Ohio State	1015.50
7.	Florida State	1009.50
8.	California	988.50
9.	North Carolina	984.30
10.	Duke (N.C.)	982.75
11.	Penn State	971.30
12.	Southern California	906.50
13.	Tennessee	856.50
14.	Oklahoma	843.25
15.	Nebraska	830.75
16.	Oregon	828.50
17.	Georgia	822.80
18.	Wisconsin	811.00
19.	Louisiana State U.	799.00
20.	Texas	794.25
21.	Minnesota	774.25
22.	Washington	770.75
23.	Michigan	768.50
24.	Arizona State	719.25
25.	Alabama	716.00
26.	Notre Dame	711.00
27.	Maryland	710.30
28.	Kentucky	703.25
29.	Auburn	676.30
30.	Arizona	658.05
31.	Princeton (N.J.)	619.00
32.	Oklahoma State	618.75
33.	Iowa State	618.50
34.	Illinois	614.80
35.	Brigham Young (Utah)	612.30
36.	West Virginia	610.75
37.	Michigan State	593.30
38.	Baylor (Tex.)	583.00
39.	Indiana	560.25
40.	Texas Tech	551.25
41.	Virginia Tech	550.00
42.	Louisville	511.50
43.	Georgia Tech	498.25
44.	New Mexico	497.00
45.	Texas Christian U.	493.00
46.	Arkansas	475.75
47.	South Carolina	461.50
48.	Missouri	454.00
49.	Northwestern	423.50
50.	Villanova (Pa.)	419.50

 

 

The Firing of General McChrystal and the Damage Done to America by the Candy Asses that don’t hold people accountable

There has been a lot written about President Obama’s firing of General McChrystal in the last day or so, but an opinion piece that caught our attention here at Coaches Hot Seat was Tom Ricks’ in the New York Times:  Lose a General, Win a War.  Tom Ricks writes The Best Defense Blog/Column for Foreign Policy magazine which is one of the best chronicles of the United States policies and actions in a time of war, which we are most certainly in right now.

In Mr. Ricks Op-Ed in the New York Times he goes to the heart of the matter as it pertains to holding responsible and firing leaders in the US military, but also in our minds here at Coaches Hot Seat a disturbing trend in American society driven mainly by the rise of the Candy Asses and the folks that are Scared to Death of any change in our country.  Mr. Ricks writes:

“FOR most of our nation’s history, the armed services have had a strong and worthy tradition of firing generals who get out of line. So for most of our presidents there would have been no question about whether to oust Gen. Stanley McChrystal for making public his differences with the White House on policy in Afghanistan. If President Obama had not fired General McChrystal, it would have been like President Truman keeping on Douglas MacArthur after his insubordination during the Korean War.

Some analysts fret that losing General McChrystal will mean sacrificing the relationship he had developed with the Afghan president, Hamid Karzai. But the general’s dysfunctional relationship with the other senior American officials in Kabul, painfully laid out this week in Rolling Stone, is more significant. If President Obama is to be faulted, it is for leaving that group in position after it became apparent last fall that the men could not work well together.

No policy can be successful if those sent to put it in place undermine one another with snide comments to reporters and leaked memorandums like the cable disparaging Mr. Karzai written by Ambassador Karl Eikenberry last year. For this reason, the president should finish cleaning house and fire Ambassador Eikenberry and the special envoy, Richard Holbrooke.

Mr. Obama should then replace them with a team that has a single person clearly in control, with the power to hire and fire the others. And he should send that new group to Kabul with clear orders that they should get along, or expect to be relieved.

In the longer term, the Army has to return to its tradition of getting rid of leaders who are failing. The Navy has shown more fortitude; in the first two months of this year alone it fired six commanders of ships and installations. On Tuesday, it fired the skipper of the frigate John L. Hall, two months after it collided with a pier at a Black Sea port in Georgia. The Navy stated simply, as it usually does in such cases, that the officer’s superior had lost confidence in him. That is all that is needed.

The Marine Corps has also largely kept the tradition of relieving officers — most notably during the invasion of Iraq in 2003 when its top ground officer, Maj. Gen. James Mattis, fired the commander of the First Marine Regiment. During his tenure, Defense Secretary Robert Gates has fired secretaries of the Army and the Air Force and an Air Force chief of staff. “

Well written Mr. Ricks.  The very same thing could be written and said about American society in general where far too often mediocre and even failed performance is rewarded, and make no mistake about it keeping someone in a position of management or leadership when they should have been fired for not performing at high level is rewarding people that are not living up to a minimum set of standards.  Excellence and High Achievement have almost been stricken from the English language and American society in recent years as just doing one’s job is enough to keep one in that job and that attitude does tremendous damage to our Republic as the principles of our country that the best rise to the top and the mediocre find other things to do in life have been tossed to the curb.

The BCS is the “Idiocy of Mediocrity” on steroids as too many Americans, but a minority of Candy Asses, cling to something that undermines the basic principle of the American Republic that “All Americans Are Created Equal” and that everyone should have an equal opportunity in life and every team an equal chance to win a championship.  If you disagree with the idea that every team in Division I-A football should have an equal opportunity to play for and win the National Championship, then you are below a Candy Ass in our eyes, you are a Yellow Bellied Coward that takes our Declaration of Independence and US Constitution and throws them in garbage.

Of course, never underestimate how incredibly scared the Lovers of the BCS are about the idea that something might change in life and no doubt if the BCS Lovers had their way we would still have slaves in America and doctors would still be using leaches in the practice of medicine.  The BCS Lovers throw out words like “tradition” just like the defenders of slavery in the 1850s used the term “states rights” (in other words if we want to keep blacks as slaves that is a “states rights” issue) and then we end up with the absurd conclusions to college football seasons where there are multiple teams that have legitimate claims to have the right, the American right, to play, to earn and win the national title on the Field of Play.

Yes, the BCS Lovers are not different than the George C. Wallace’s of American history that are so in love with the idea of Americans being treated in different and unequal ways that they believe their right to treat Americans unequally is a fundamental right based upon history or “tradition” (Hey, slavery is a “tradition” so we should keep doing it the “states rights” crowd screamed in the 1850s!), but is in fact one of the things that undermines our Republic the most.  The BCS Lovers are frightened of change and they want to freeze the world as if the stopping or slowing down of change will allow their evil world to continue on for just a little longer, because most of all, folks that support and love the BCS are the people that get a great thrill of “Standing in the Schoolhouse” door and slowing down real progress in America.

Thank Goodness that most Americans have the intelligence to look forward and realize that it is “change” that is the fundamental concept that sets OUR country apart from the rest of the world, but there will always be incredibly evil people that will be working like Hell to stop the world from advancing forward. (Some of those very people that are incredibly frightened of change came together to save the dysfunctional Big 12 conference recently and those people also happen to be the same incredibly evil BCS Lovers that believe that All Americans and thus student-athletes are not created equal.)

Yes, Americans cross the Delaware River in the middle of the night to win a war, they invent the automobile, they take to the skies, they attack a beach at Normandy and Iwo Jima to unseat evil dictators, they dare to look to space and go to the Moon and they stand up against tyranny and destroy and “Evil Empire.”  That is how real Americans live their lives, but within our country we have incredibly evil people that believe that some Americans are not Equal to Others and they cling to the past, just like the “states rights crowd, because when you get right down to it people like the BCS Lovers are scared to death of change, they are scared to death of people actually being held accountable for their actions in their lives, they are scared to death of teams winning and losing on the field of play, but most of all these pitiful BCS Lovers are scared of life itself. 

Yes, Tom Ricks is right about the US military and our civilian leadership holding military leaders accountable for their actions in life, but Tom should extend that argument to the entire society writ large, because at the very heart of our biggest problems and with things like the Bogus BCS are very evil and incompetent people that when you get right down to it are frightened of change and even the living of life the way Americans have since a few very brave men put their names to the Declaration of Independence at the risk of their own lives.  That is how Americas live and then we have how the BCS Lovers live who are the folks pulling down our Republic in hopes of keeping things “the same” even if “the same” treats American in ways that go against the principles of our country. 

This is very simple:  Americans act in courageous and brave ways to go forward over the next hill to take on the challenges of life.

The Evil BCS Lovers work like Hell to pull down the country and don’t give a Damn if the things they support bring down the entire American Republic, because these very petty and frightened people are scared to death of change and scared to death of life itself.  The “BCS Lovers” crowd will always swap “keeping things the same” for a bright and promising future, because when you get right down to they lay awake at night scared to death that the “bogey” man might change something!

We are Americans at Coaches Hot Seat.  Are you an American or are you scared to death of change and of life?  Sadly, there are way too many people that are scared of life and even scared of their own shadow as they see it in the lights of the Rose Bowl!

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2011 Odds to Win the Bogus BCS National Title 
The Lake Tahoe contingent of Coaches Hot Seat dropped by the Hyatt Regency Lake Tahoe sports book yesterday before playing a few hands of blackjack (If you got the bucks the Hyatt Regency in Incline Village, Nevada/Lake Tahoe is the place to stay at the Lake)…

…. and picked up the Odds to Win 2011 BCS Championship and those odd numbers are very interesting indeed.  Let’s take a look:

Alabama   4/1
Ohio State   7/1
Oregon   9/1
Texas    10/1
Boise State   10/1
Nebraska    12/1
TCU    15/1
USC    15/1
Virginia Tech   16/1
Oklahoma   18/1
LSU    20/1
Georgia Tech  20/1
Florida   20/1
Georgia   25/1
Iowa    25/1
Arkansas   30/1
Pittsburgh   30/1
Auburn   30/1
Miami, FL   35/1
Oregon State  35/1
Wisconsin   40/1
Penn State   50/1
North Carolina  60/1
FSU    60/1
Cincinnati   60/1
Michigan   75/1
Notre Dame  75/1
Oklahoma State  80/1
West Virginia  80/1
California   80/1
Arizona   100/1
Mississippi   100/1
Missouri   100/1
Rutgers   100/1
Utah    100/1
Stanford   125/1
Clemson   125/1
South Carolina  125/1
South Florida  150/1
BYU    150/1
Washington  150/1
Tennessee   150/1
UCLA   150/1
Texas A&M   150/1
Michigan State  150/1
NC State   150/1
Fresno State  300/1
Nevada   300/1
UNLV   1000/1
Field (All Others)  100/1

Now those are some very interesting odds for the Winner of the 2011 Bogus BCS National Championship and looking back a year to what the same sports book had as the favorite we find in the Coaches Hot Seat Blog entry from August 11, 2010 we see the favorites then for the 2009-10 season were:

Florida 9/5
Oklahoma 5
Texas 5
USC 7
Ohio State 12
Notre Dame 12
Virginia Tech 15
Mississippi 18
Alabama 20
LSU 20
California 20
Florida State 30
Oregon 40
Penn State 40
Miami (Fl) 40
Nebraska 40
Oklahoma State 50
Georgia Tech 50
Clemson 50
Illinois 50

One thing the sports book has to take into account is the most absurd postseason championship system in any sport on the Earth today and it looks like these folks believe that both Alabama and Ohio State will get thru their conferences to play in the Bogus BCS title game.  It also looks like they have not bothered to change Oregon’s odds to win the Bogus BCS title (9/1) after the dismissal of Masoli, but then again, maybe they are thinking the Ducks run the table in the Pac-10 and end up the season undefeated! 

In 2009-10 it was Texas at 5/1 and Alabama at 20/1 that met for the title and as one looks over the odds for the 2010-11 season it seems to us that the teams down to the 50/1 area have at least an outside chance of getting onto a run and winding up in the Bogus BCS title game.

Speaking of the Bogus BCS, for those of you that claim to be Americans and also support this Evil and Bogus BCS, get a gander at this Harry Truman quote that we ran across over the last couple of days:

“You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from.  It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break.”

Well said President Truman, very well said!  As we have said here many times, it is impossible to believe in the principles of the American Republic and support the Bogus BCS at the same time and if you are both then you are a sorry excuse for an American.  Not that there haven’t been in the past and even today there are incredibly evil people in our country, and everyone one of the BCS folks are as evil as one can be because they actually stand for some Americans being “more equal” than others.

This is very simple if you are an American:

Equality of Opportunity, to get an education, to get a job, to decided what you want to do with your life and to win a championship.

Yes, in every other sport in the United States sports championships are earned and won on the Field of Play and we are proud to stand with Americans that believe in that fundamental principle, but then we all know that once a Candy Ass always a Candy Asses and we have no doubt that everyone of these BCS Boys would be hiding in the closet if our country ever got into another real shooting war because if they don’t have the guts or common sense to stand up for the principles and for what is right about our country there is no chance they would fight for our country. 

The General McChrystal Debacle

Anyone that gives a Damn about their country and who has been paying attention in recent days has seen the reports around the US General Stanley McChrystal and his negative comments about United States civilian leadership.  Politico.com is covering the McChrystal story very well.

We have written about Afghanistan a number of times here at Coaches Hot Seat Blog, including during the White House’s debate last fall about adding troops to the country to implement General McChrystal’s strategy to defeat the Taliban/Al Qaeda, Cold/Flu Strikes CHS Again – Pete Carroll, Oh Pete Carroll – You Don’t Beat the Spread By Playing Base Defense – The Real Problem at Georgia – Someone Tell the Folks at ESPN/ABC That Boise State Beat Oregon….THIS YEAR! – Universities or Carney Barkers? – What the BCS Has Wrought – CHS Post Week 9 Power Playoff Poll – 16 Teams Seeded – Meanwhile in the Real World: Iran and Afghanistan, and after reading McChrystal’s comments in the newest Rolling Stone if we were the President or if we were advising President Obama we would tell him to:

Fire McChrystal’s Sorry Ass.

As we have pointed out here in the past, maybe General McChrystal has forgotten the US Constitution or he doesn’t quite understand the chain of command, but we can tell anyone reading this Blog that if an Admiral or General or another military person in a position of leadership had said things like McChrystal and his staff said when we were in the US military they would have been thrown out on their ears! 

A few of us here at Coaches Hot Seat spent a considerable amount of time in the Persian Gulf region before, during and after Operation Desert Storm in 1991 and we are outraged that any US General/staff would make such outrageous comments and we would have already fired his worthless rear-end if we were in the White House. 

There are plenty of generals in the US military that can defeat the Taliban and Al Qaeda and win the war in Afghanistan and allowing McChrystal to stay in his current position would only make the Obama Administration look incredibly weak.

Besides, General McChrystal should have been tossed out of the military years ago after the Pat Tillman “friendly fire” lie and debacle that he was involved in, which in our opinion was done to gin up support for the war in Iraq. 

It is past time to get rid of this clown McChrystal….

President Obama:  Fire General McChrystal!

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Congratulations to Northern Ireland’s Graeme McDowell for Winning the 2010 US Open!

 

There are several of us here at Coaches Hot Seat that follow the game of golf fairly closely and when Graeme McDowell’s name popped up on the leaderboard at the US Open this week we all knew McDowell to be a very good golfer and great person to boot.  Several years ago a member of CHS played in a pro-am event with McDowell and when Graeme’s name has come up in the past when he has contended in major tournaments the phrase that our friend has always used is:

“McDowell can play the game of golf and he has a lot of class.”

Now everyone knows both of the above with McDowell gutting out a heroic US Open win on a very tough golf course in Pebble Beach with the top 3 players of this era, Els, Michelson and Woods bearing down on him. 

Congratulations to you Graeme McDowell for a championship well won!  (Any man sponsored by Ballantine’s Whiskies and is the Ballantine’s global brand ambassador has our undying respect!)

 

Or as the Coaches Hot Seat quote of the day by the Great Vince Lombardi once said:

“I firmly believe that any man’s finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle – victorious.”

Hard to beat the immortal words of the Great Vince Lombardi…

The flip-side of Graeme McDowell’s terrific performance at Pebble Beach was the very disappointing play of our best two American players, Phil Michelson and Tigers Woods, in the 4 th round of the US Open.  The 2010 US Open was there to be had for both Michelson and Woods and just a little better than average round and it could have been either man in possession of the US Open trophy today.  It matters little what Michelson and Woods have said or will say about Sunday’s round, because the fact of the matter is that both men played poorly and made some incredibly stupid shot decisions in the Final Round on Sunday.

Phil Michelson had every chance in the world to win the ’10 US Open but too much aggression at timse coupled with some shots that looked like a 10 handicapper was hitting them led to a final round 73 and yet another wasted opportunity at our National Championship for Phil.  Certainly, Phil Michelson will not be able to sleep on this night, or for many nights to come.

If anything, Tiger Woods should be kicking himself more than Michelson because right out of the shoot in the final round on Sunday Woods made a terrible error at the first by hitting his 2 nd shot to the Par 4 above the hole which left him with an incredibly fast putt which led to a 3 putt and a Bozo-like bogey on 1.  From then it was just one bad swing or decision after another including a tee shot on the Par 4 No. 3 hole that a 20 handicapper couldn’t repeat on the worst day of his life.  A terrible line off the tee with a 3-wood on the Par 5 Sixth hole led to a ball on the beach when any club from a 4-iron on up down the left hand side of the fairway could have allowed him to easily hit the ball on the green in 2.  After all that Woods arrived on the 7 th tee at 3 over par when he should have been 1 under at worst and 3 under at best and found himself behind an 8-ball that he never recovered from.  Oh, yes, Woods’ 2 nd shot to the Par 4 Tenth hole may have been one of the worst shots in Major Championship history by someone that has a clue that we have ever seen.  Aim the shot 20 feet to the left of the pin and Woods would have had a 15 to 10 foot putt for birdie, but a ball down the cliff after a shot that a 20 handicapper would have a hard time repeating led to yet another bogey.  Come on Tiger, you are hitting the ball OK, but geez you might as well have handed McDowell the US Open on a Silver Platter and let him take your jet home with him back to Northern Ireland to boot!

Actually, Michelson and Woods gave the US Open away, but Ernie Els may have been even worse as he did everything in his power to make sure that someone other than himself left Pebble Beach with the trophy.  Ernie, you are a great guy, but what the Hell man?

Even with the disappointing play of our Americans on Sunday it was a great US Open and a terrific week on the Monterey Peninsula.  Hard to beat the stunning beauty of the Monterey Peninsula, the US Open at Pebble Beach, Carmel-by-the-Sea, Pacific Grove, Monterey, Carmel Valley, Big Sur, great friends and the great people of the area and we can report that fun was had by all.  Now after a week on the Pacific Ocean it is back to the Sierra-Nevada, Cascade and Rocky Mountains for us and back to the grindstone of work! 

 

Pac-12 Conference, Divisions, Divisional Play and the Coaches Hot Seat solution to the conundrum now facing the conference

Since Colorado and Utah have been added to the Pac-10 (A great move for both of those very good schools and the Pac-10 in our opinion) there has been much written about how the new Pac-12 could divide itself into two divisions which would lead to conference championship game.  Most of what has been written on this subject has been negative, highlighting the fact that the teams in the northwest section of the US that are in the new Pac-12, Washington, Washington State, Oregon, Oregon State, do no want to lose the games against California foes because of all the recruits they get from the state.

Well, after several nights of discussing the subject over beers, fine wine, great steaks, shrimp and fish around the outdoor fire, or laying on the grass on the hill overlooking holes 9 and 10 at Pebble Beach at the US Open with cold beer in hands, Coaches Hot Seat has come up with what we believe to be a great solution to Larry Scott and the boys and girls in the conference office in Walnut Creek.

We call it the Coaches Hot Seat Pac-12 Divisional Solution for the Ages!

Here it is:

The Pac-12 would divide into two divisions for “Divisional Purposes” only (hint:  Not entirely for scheduling, but more on that in a moment…) and the Two Pac-12 Divisions would divide up as:

North

Colorado

Oregon

Oregon State

Utah

Washington

Washington State

South

Arizona

Arizona State

Cal

Stanford

UCLA

USC

The above are the two new Pac-12 Divisions but for “Divisional Purposes” only.  The winners of the above two Pac-12 Divisions, the teams with the best conference records, would meet in the Pac-12 Championship Game to be played in early December at a stadium to be named later (more on that in a minute also…).

Now that we have the Two Pac-12 Divisions set we move to Three Quad Scheduling Regional Divisions.  The three below “Quad Regional Divisions” would be used to determine the actual schedules of the Pac-12 schools each season.

Pac-12 – Three Quad Regional Divisions

Northwest

Oregon

Oregon State

Washington State

Washington

Desert-Mountain

Arizona

Arizona State

Utah

Colorado

California

Stanford

Cal

UCLA

USC

Here is how the Scheduling for the Pac-12 would work with the three above “Quad Regional Divisions”:

1.  Every Pac-12 school would play 9 conference games each season

2.  Each Pac-12 school will play every team in its Quad Regional Division, which would be 3 games for each team.

3.  Each Pac-12 school will then play 6 games from the other Two Quad Regional Divisions on a Round Robin basis over 3 to 5 years (why bother with all the details when we have cold beer to drink and Larry Scott has people on his staff that can work out the details) that would allow for every Pac-12 team to play a home-and-home series with every other Pac-12 school over that 3 to 5 year period.

The Pac-12 team with the best record over the 9 conference games in each division will win the division and advance to the Pac-12 Championship Game.

4.  Any tie for the top spot in a Division will be broken first by head-to-head competition, next by win/loss record in the division, next by final ranking in the AP poll (better than that Bogus BCS poll), etc….  Just don’t do what those Little 10 clowns did a couple of years ago with their tie-breaker between Texas, Oklahoma and Texas Tech!  Got Stupid?

The advantage of the Quad Regional Divisions is that it allows for the Regional Rivalries that have been built up over years to continue to be played and for all the Pac-12 conference schools to play a nice variety of schools each year and to rotate through and play every other Pac-12 school in every 3 to 5 years on a home-and-home basis.  Hell, a good scheduler could really make the schedule sing with the above format, but again, we have cold beer to drink!

Did everyone get that?

1.  The Pac-12 would be divided into Two Divisions:  North and South.  These two divisions will only be used to create Divisions while the….

2.  Quad Regional Divisions will be used to determine scheduling in the Pac-12.

Sound simple enough?  Thought so.

Memo to Larry Scott at the Pac-12:  Larry, you and the boys and girls there at the Pac-12 have permission to use the Coaches Hot Seat Pac-12 Divisional Solution for the Ages…..IF…..the Pac-12 conference makes a $10,000 dollar charitable contribution to Swords to Plowshares in San Francisco.

We have a lot of veterans coming home from Afghanistan and Iraq right now and these folks really need our help.

Pac-12 Site/Stadium Recommendations for Conference Championship Game

Getting back to Coaches Hot Seat figuring out the future for the Pac-12, here are our Site/Stadium recommendations for the Pac-12 Championship Game which we believe should be played on the same Saturday as the SEC, Big 12 (Oops, no Championship Game for the Little 10 Boys!), ACC and a future Big Ten title game.

What we would be looking for in a Site/Stadium for the Pac-12 Championship Game:

1.  A Nice Stadium

2.  A group of people in the community/city that could run the game along with the Pac-12

3.  A place/city that has good weather in early December

The Rose Bowl, Pasadena 

Yes, we give the Rose Bowl folks a hard time about the Bogus BCS, but they have proved they can run a postseason football game and that is why they should be first on the list to host the Pac-12 Championship Game (Yes, the Rose Bowl folks could also host a Quarter, Semi or National Championship Game as well if we got rid of the Bogus BCS and settled the National Championship on the Field of Play, which we all know is exactly what is going to happen in the future.  It is now only a matter if We are going to do this transition from the Bogus BCS to a Playoff in College Football the Easy Way…..or the Hard Way!  We would recommend the Easy Way to the BCS Boys!)

New San Francisco 49ers Stadium, Santa Clara

No, the new San Francisco 49ers Stadium in Santa Clara (about 40 miles south of San Francisco) will not be opened until 2014, but when it is it will be one of the best stadiums in the West.  Again, great weather!

Qualcomm Stadium, San Diego

Yes, Qualcomm Stadium is 40 Plus years old, but it is still a nice stadium and if the folks running it had a commitment for the Pac-12 Championship Game along with the San Diego Chargers and the San Diego State football team playing there, the people in San Diego might be able to get a new stadium built in the future.

Yes, there are people in the Northwest that will claim that Seattle’s Qwest Field….

….should be considered and no doubt Qwest is a magnificent stadium, but we believe that if the Pac-12 is looking to make the Pac-12 Championship Game truly a great event that will bring together fans from every conference school, college football fans in general and sports fan to the game, then weather must be a primary consideration and Seattle in December isn’t our idea of good weather!

There you have the 3 stadiums that we believe that the Pac-12 should consider for the Pac-12 Championship Game.  Don’t worry Larry (Scott), these recommendations are on the house!

Back to the Mountains of the Great American West and Back to Work!  Well, we will find some time to play some golf, get the horses out and cast a fly or two into the rivers….

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