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This Weekend….

This New Year’s Eve Weekend with Saturday in particular should be a GLORIOUS day for Major College Football in the United States of America…

BUT

…instead of This Weekend, This Saturday, December 31, 2011 being the…

FINAL FOUR

FOUR TEAMS

TWO GAMES

That would determine the two teams that would play for a Legitimate NCAA National Championship in I-A (FBS) Football using the same system used by EVERY other sport in Intercollegiate Athletics in America, A Postseason Playoff Tournament, the college football world is facing a “series” of Meaningless Exhibition Games that Mean Nothing at all and the kicker….

These “Series” of Meaningless Exhibition Games that Mean Nothing At All will cost OUR college football programs and OUR schools…

Hundreds of Millions of Dollars THIS YEAR!

If one just made up the Bogus BCS no one would believe the Stupidity, the Idiocy and how Completely Un-American it is for any athletics in America to be playing Meaningless Exhibition Games that Mean Nothing At All instead of winning and earning the National Championship on the Field of Play….

BUT then now

….have you ever looked into the BIG Candy Asses the people behind the Bogus and Un-American really are?

If you have then you know why the Bogus and Un-American BCS exists then….

Don’t you?

Yes, this should be FINAL FOUR Saturday with the TWO National Semi-Final Games being played on….

SATURDAY

…when college football games should be played with the TWO winning teams advancing to play in the….

NCAA I-A (FBS) National Championship Game

…next Saturday….yes…..SATURDAY….January 7, 2012.

If one uses the Coaches Hot Seat Postseason Playoff Tournament Format and our predictions for the First and Second Round Games then America would wake-up to this….

SATURDAY

…to…

The FINAL FOUR in I-A (FBS) Football with TWO Games involving (Assuming there were no upsets in the Postseason Tournament which no one should assume since the top 30 or so teams in college football could beat each other on any given Saturday which is why the Major College Football should play the games because it is Very Damn Important to Play the Games to determine the TRUE  and NCAA Champion)….

Wisconsin vs. LSU

Alabama vs. Oklahoma State

Now those would be two GREAT FOOTBALL GAMES that….

Actually MEAN SOMETHING!

And are actually….American.

Yes, enjoy those Meaningless Exhibition Games today but don’t let your mind forget that if Major College Football wasn’t controlled by some of the Biggest Candy Asses in America combined with some of the Greediest Bastards in America and tossed in with a few of the Sorriest SOBs in America today would be a Grand Day to be an American and a College Football Fan.

Wisconsin vs. LSU in first National Semi-Final Game

Alabama vs. Oklahoma State in the second National Semi-Final Game

With the two winners of the above games playing next SATURDAY for the…

NCAA National Championship in I-A (FBS) Football

And the above would add an additional $500 Million Dollars in the coffers of our college football programs and college athletic departments….THIS YEAR!

Yes, it takes some Very Stupid People to support the Bogus and Un-American BCS and that is exactly what we have here folks!

 

The Real OUTRAGE with the Gordon Gee being happy that Jim Tressel didn’t fire him

As was pointed out by a Coaches Hot Seat member at dinner on Friday night we failed to mention in our blog post yesterday the real OUTRAGE of Ohio State president Gordon Gee saying on March 8, 2011 that….

Gordon Gee: “I just hope the coach doesn’t dismiss me.”

….and that OUTRAGE is that the supposed leadership of the Ohio State University found out in January 2011 that Jim Tressel had received emails that alerted him to activities by OSU football players in the spring of 2010 that would have made those OSU football players ineligible for the 2010 football season and for any postseason game, BUT Jim Tressel did not tell anyone at Ohio State about those emails (at least that is Ohio State’s story) either before the season or before the Sugar Bowl and it was actually only a leak to the media that forced the March 8, 2011 press conference where Ohio State University had to admit that it had learned in January that Jim Tressel had LIED to the people at Ohio State and had LIED to the NCAA investigators and had pretty much LIED to anyone that entered his field of vision about what and when he knew about some of his OSU players, including Terrelle Pryor, being ineligible to play football.

Ohio State and the OSU president Gordon Gee learned in JANUARY that Jim Tressel was BIG FAT LIAR and on….

Jim Tressel knew of gear scheme last April, Charles Robinson and Dan Wetzel, Yahoo! Sports, March 7, 2011

On March 8, 2011 when Gordon Gee said…

“I just hope the coach doesn’t dismiss me.”

…Gee knew that the head football coach at Ohio State had LIED on multiple occasions to people at Ohio State and to the NCAA and that Moron Gordon Gee still believed that Jim Tressel should keep his job and that he was just happy that….

“….the coach doesn’t dismiss me.”

We have a news flash for that Moron Gordon Gee and everyone else at Ohio State that if the head football coach or any coach at Stanford LIES or doesn’t forward an email to the administration at Stanford about the illicit activities of Stanford athletes that will or even might make them ineligible to play on their team and then LIES again so they can play in a postseason football game then within moments that the Stanford University administration found out about those LIES they better either suspend the coach without pay or fire his/her sorry ass because that is what you do when you have a coach that is supposed to be leading our young people LIES to the people he/she works for.

Evidently at The Ohio State University they don’t think that a head coach LYING to his bosses about the illicit activities of his players is that bad of a thing because when the President of The Ohio State University learned that his head coach was a BIG FAT LIAR (unless Jim Tressel has been a sacrificial lamb for other people at Ohio State and if that is true then Tressel should tell the TRUTH pretty soon or Tressel will go down in history as a BIG FAT LIAR) Gordon Gee was just relieved that Jim Tressel didn’t fire him!

Yes, be proud Ohio State alumni because you must be Very Damn Proud of YOUR school president!

The Real Question is: What kind of MORONS are on the Ohio State University Board of Trustees that would keep an IDIOT and a defender of a BIG FAT LIAR (Jim Tressel) like E. Gordon Gee as the president at OSU?

BIG TIME MORONS is the answer to that question.

Be proud alums and fans of Ohio State University and no doubt Gordon Gee is hoping right now that Urban Meyer doesn’t fire his ass in the coming year!

 

Bravo for the Big Ten – Pac 12 Alliance

Commissioners Jim Delany and Larry Scott deserve credit for coming up with their Big Ten – Pac-12 Alliance (along with former Illinois AD Ron Guenther) which will create some great football games in the coming years between the two conferences’ schools and some terrific matchups in lots of other sports as well.

Big Ten – Pac-12 alliance helpful on many fronts, Herb Gould, Chicago Sun-Times

The Big Ten and Pac 12 have an amazing collection of schools and athletic programs and from where we sit the more competition between the schools in both conferences the better which means for many sports there will be one opponent (in football) or several more quality opponents on the schedule each year which will be thrilled to attend and no doubt will also garner lots of interest from television viewers.

We do have ONE BIG problem with Big Ten commish Jim Delany, his support for the Bogus and Un-American BCS, but on the other important issues of the day in Intercollegiate Athletics….

The importance of conference play

The importance of amateurism and student-athletes

The importance of strong conferences

The importance of strong athletic departments that benefit their schools

The importance of coming up with new ways to promote intercollegiate athletics, like the Big Ten Network, Big Ten Championship Game and this Big Ten – Pac-12 Alliance

With ALL of the above leading to strong institutions of higher learning in America which will hopefully continue to grow and get stronger in the coming years as they educate and train our young people and most importantly teach them how to…THINK

….we are almost in complete agreement with Jim Delany on and in a lot of ways that Delany doesn’t know about we work in the background and behind the scenes to promote the many things that Delany is also working on in quiet ways far from public view. Yes, there are a lot of very bad things going on in and around Intercollegiate Athletics right now that need to be cleared-out, cleaned-up and done away with, but there are also lots of very strong and positive stories about the 99 percent of student-athletes that work hard in the classroom and on the playing field and do the right things in the community and once the muck, scum and sorry Bastards have been removed, warned sufficiently and/or put in their place the average sports fan and American People will start to realize what a treasure our young student-athletes are and how much they add to the life of OUR nation.

That we agree completely with the Big Ten – Pac-12 Alliance does not mean we are against the recent conference expansion though because we believe that the Big Ten adding Nebraska, the ACC adding Pitt and Syracuse and the SEC adding Texas A&M and Missouri were great moves made by commissioners that were looking with their college presidents and athletic directors into the future to try and solidify their conferences and schools as much as possible for the long-term which is exactly what those commissioners, college presidents and athletic directors should be doing in their jobs.

One thing we do believe in here at Coaches Hot Seat is supporting OUR schools, athletic departments and sports teams as much as possible either through direct monetary donations or by attending games/sporting events in person which can often be a big of a shot in the arm as anything for the coaches and players that work so hard during practice to field winning and championship teams. We can tell everyone from personal experience there is nothing like coming out onto a playing field in college and seeing a big crowd that has turned out to support and what their team play and fans of college sports teams whether they are graduated from the school or not should proudly support and turn-out for that school’s sporting events and make sure the coaches and student-athletes know they have support for the good work they are doing in their lives.

We have thought that since Larry Scott arrived to takeover that Pac-12 that the future looked bright and this Big Ten – Pac-12 Alliance only adds to that bright future which we can see setting up lots of football, basketball, baseball, golf, tennis, etc. games/matches/sporting events in the near future that will be chomping at the bit to attend and watch on television.

 

The SEC Conference’s 2012 Football Schedule and Beyond…

The SEC Conference announced the football schedule for 2012 and it was fascinating and great to look down the SEC games for each team and see Texas A&M and Missouri playing SEC games in 2012:

SEC Releases 2012 Conference Football Schedule

2012 SEC Football Schedule (Conference Games Only)
Team-By-Team

ALABAMA
Sept. 15: at Arkansas
Sept. 29: OLE MISS
Oct. 13: at Missouri
Oct. 20: at Tennessee
Oct. 27: MISSISSIPPI STATE
Nov. 3: at LSU
Nov. 10: TEXAS A&M
Nov. 24: AUBURN

ARKANSAS
Sept. 15: ALABAMA
Sept. 29: vs. Texas A&M
Oct. 6: at Auburn
Oct. 13: KENTUCKY
Oct. 27: OLE MISS
Nov. 10: at South Carolina
Nov. 17: at Mississippi State
Nov. 24: LSU

AUBURN
Sept. 8: at Mississippi State
Sept. 22: LSU
Oct. 6: ARKANSAS
Oct. 13: at Ole Miss
Oct. 20: at Vanderbilt
Oct. 27: TEXAS A&M
Nov. 10: GEORGIA
Nov. 24: at Alabama

FLORIDA
Sept. 8: at Texas A&M
Sept. 15: at Tennessee
Sept. 22: KENTUCKY
Oct. 6: LSU
Oct. 13: at Vanderbilt
Oct. 20: SOUTH CAROLINA
Oct. 27: vs. Georgia (Jacksonville)
Nov. 3: MISSOURI

GEORGIA
Sept. 8: at Missouri
Sept. 22: VANDERBILT
Sept. 29: TENNESSEE
Oct. 6: at South Carolina
Oct. 20: at Kentucky
Oct. 27: vs. Florida (Jacksonville)
Nov. 3: OLE MISS
Nov. 10: at Auburn

KENTUCKY
Sept. 22: at Florida
Sept. 29: SOUTH CAROLINA
Oct. 6: MISSISSIPPI STATE
Oct. 13: at Arkansas
Oct. 20: GEORGIA
Oct. 27: at Missouri
Nov. 3: VANDERBILT
Nov. 24: at Tennessee

LSU
Sept. 22: at Auburn
Oct. 6: at Florida
Oct. 13: SOUTH CAROLINA
Oct. 20: at Texas A&M
Nov. 3: ALABAMA
Nov. 10: MISSISSIPPI STATE
Nov. 17: OLE MISS
Nov. 24: at Arkansas

OLE MISS
Sept. 29: at Alabama
Oct. 6: TEXAS A&M
Oct. 13: AUBURN
Oct. 27: at Arkansas
Nov. 3: at Georgia
Nov. 10: VANDERBILT
Nov. 17: at LSU
Nov. 24: MISSISSIPPI STATE

MISSISSIPPI STATE
Sept. 8: AUBURN
Oct. 6: at Kentucky
Oct. 13: TENNESSEE
Oct. 27: at Alabama
Nov. 3: TEXAS A&M
Nov. 10: at LSU
Nov. 17: ARKANSAS
Nov. 24: at Ole Miss

MISSOURI
Sept. 8: GEORGIA
Sept. 22: at South Carolina
Oct. 6: VANDERBILT
Oct. 13: ALABAMA
Oct. 27: KENTUCKY
Nov. 3: at Florida
Nov. 10: at Tennessee
Nov. 24: at Texas A&M

SOUTH CAROLINA
Aug. 30: at Vanderbilt
Sept. 22: MISSOURI
Sept. 29: at Kentucky
Oct. 6: GEORGIA
Oct. 13: at LSU
Oct. 20: at Florida
Oct. 27: TENNESSEE
Nov. 10: ARKANSAS

TENNESSEE
Sept. 15: FLORIDA
Sept. 29: at Georgia
Oct. 13: at Mississippi State
Oct. 20: ALABAMA
Oct. 27: at South Carolina
Nov. 10: MISSOURI
Nov. 17: at Vanderbilt
Nov. 24: KENTUCKY

TEXAS A&M
Sept. 8: FLORIDA
Sept. 29: vs. Arkansas
Oct. 6: at Ole Miss
Oct. 20: LSU
Oct. 27: at Auburn
Nov. 3: at Mississippi State
Nov. 10: at Alabama
Nov. 24: MISSOURI

VANDERBILT
Aug. 30: SOUTH CAROLINA
Sept. 22: at Georgia
Oct. 6: at Missouri
Oct. 13: FLORIDA
Oct. 20: AUBURN
Nov. 3: at Kentucky
Nov. 10: at Ole Miss
Nov. 17: TENNESSEE

Clearly, one of the issues that had to be discussed when the above schedules were being drawn up was the idea of the SEC Conference moving to 9 conference games instead of the 8 conferences games the schools now play and no doubt there were lots of athletic directors (and the head football coaches crying over the phone) that were objecting to the idea of playing 9 conference games that would lead to…

5 home conference games
4 away conference games

ONE YEAR

And then the NEXT YEAR playing

4 home conference games
5 away conference games

…which the athletic directors will no doubt claim will cost their schools $3 or $4 million dollars in ticket sales by replacing an away conference game with a home game against a non-conference foe (usually a Cupcake team that SEC teams have no business playing like Alabama playing I-AA Western Carolina in Tuscaloosa in 2012), but what those athletic directors need to understand is that delivering…

5 SEC conference opponents at home EVERY OTHER YEAR

And

5 SEC conference road games EVERY OTHER YEAR

…is much better than playing some of these pitiful teams that are now on some of these SEC football teams’ schedule like the Complete Idiocy of the University of Alabama playing I-AA Western Carolina in Bryant-Denny Stadium next season.

That is Beyond Stupid!

Besides, that $3 to $4 million dollars that the schools would lose by playing 5 conference games on the road EVERY OTHER YEAR will easily be made up with what the SEC Conference will make in more Dollars in the coming years from the renegotiation of its TV contracts with ESPN and CBS.

If we were a SEC Conference athletic director right now we would tell our head football coach to quit crying, Buck-Up and start acting like a REAL man and recommend a move to playing 9 SEC conference football games that would have….

5 home conference games
4 away conference games

ONE YEAR

And then the NEXT YEAR playing

4 home conference games
5 away conference games

…which would make their fans and ticket buyers Very Damn Happy and college football fans around the country also Very Damn Happy because we would get to see every SEC team play ONE more SEC game each season!

Oh, that would be GREAT!

Come on SEC Conference (and Big Ten for that matter)…

Play 9 Conference Games!

The Pac-12 was playing 9 Conference Games before they expanded to 12 teams and they are playing 9 Conference Games right now and it is exciting as Hell to play….

9 Pac-12 Conference Games

3 Out-of-Conference Games

…and playing 9 Conference Games just makes the Pac-12 teams and players that much stronger, tougher and that much more ready for the challenges that come both during and after their college playing days.

Memo to SEC commish Mike Slive, the SEC presidents and ADs: Play 9 SEC Conference Games each year and watch the SEC get even stronger.

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Coaches Hot Seat Quotes of the Day – Saturday, December 31, 2011 – Carl Sagan

“All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.”

And

“But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.”

And

“For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.”

And

“For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.”

And

“I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.”

And

“I can find in my undergraduate classes, bright students who do not know that the stars rise and set at night, or even that the Sun is a star.”

And

“If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits?”

And

“If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.”

And

“Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.”

And

“Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.”

And

“Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.”

And

“Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.”

And

“Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.”

And

“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”

And

“The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.”

And

“The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.”

And

“The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.”

And

“We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.”

and

“We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.”

And

“Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.”

And

“The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what’s true. We have a method, and that method helps us to reach not absolute truth, only asymptotic approaches to the truth — never there, just closer and closer, always finding vast new oceans of undiscovered possibilities. Cleverly designed experiments are the key.”

And

“Who is more humble? The scientist who looks at the universe with an open mind and accepts whatever it has to teach us, or somebody who says everything in this book must be considered the literal truth and never mind the fallibility of all the human beings involved?”

And

“The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion and politics, but it is not the path to knowledge; it has no place in the endeavor of science.”

And

“Matter is composed chiefly of nothing.”

And

“Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.”

And

“Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.”

And

“Humans are very good at dreaming, although you’d never know it from your television.”

And

“In the fabric of space and in the nature of matter, as in a great work of art, there is, written small, the artist’s signature.”

And

“We on Earth have just awakened to the great oceans of space and time from which we have emerged. We are the legacy of 15 billion years of cosmic evolution. We have a choice: We can enhance life and come to know the universe that made us, or we can squander our 15 billion-year heritage in meaningless self-destruction. What happens in the first second of the next cosmic year depends on what we do, here and now, with our intelligence and our knowledge of the cosmos.”

And

“As a boy Kepler had been captured by a vision of cosmic splendour, a harmony of the worlds which he sought so tirelessly all his life. Harmony in this world eluded him. His three laws of planetary motion represent, we now know, a real harmony of the worlds, but to Kepler they were only incidental to his quest for a cosmic system based on the Perfect Solids, a system which, it turns out, existed only in his mind. Yet from his work, we have found that scientific laws pervade all of nature, that the same rules apply on Earth as in the skies, that we can find a resonance, a harmony, between the way we think and the way the world works. When he found that his long cherished beliefs did not agree with the most precise observations, he accepted the uncomfortable facts, he preferred the hard truth to his dearest illusions. That is the heart of science.”

And

“Consider again that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every “superstar”, every “supreme leader”, every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds.

Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.

The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.

It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we’ve ever known.”

And

“A scientific colleague tells me about a recent trip to the New Guinea highlands where she visited a stone age culture hardly contacted by Western civilization. They were ignorant of wristwatches, soft drinks, and frozen food. But they knew about Apollo 11. They knew that humans had walked on the Moon. They knew the names of Armstrong and Aldrin and Collins. They wanted to know who was visiting the Moon these days.”

And

“Education on the value of free speech and the other freedoms reserved by the Bill of Rights, about what happens when you don’t have them, and about how to exercise and protect them, should be an essential prerequisite for being an American citizen — or indeed a citizen of any nation, the more so to the degree that such rights remain unprotected. If we can’t think for ourselves, if we’re unwilling to question authority, then we’re just putty in the hands of those in power. But if the citizens are educated and form their own opinions, then those in power work for us. In every country, we should be teaching our children the scientific method and the reasons for a Bill of Rights. With it comes a certain decency, humility and community spirit. In the demon-haunted world that we inhabit by virtue of being human, this may be all that stands between us and the enveloping darkness.”

And

“When we consider the founders of our nation: Jefferson, Washington, Samuel and John Adams, Madison and Monroe, Benjamin Franklin, Tom Paine and many others; we have before us a list of at least ten and maybe even dozens of great political leaders. They were well educated. Products of the European Enlightenment, they were students of history. They knew human fallibility and weakness and corruptibility. They were fluent in the English language. They wrote their own speeches. They were realistic and practical, and at the same time motivated by high principles. They were not checking the pollsters on what to think this week. They knew what to think. They were comfortable with long-term thinking, planning even further ahead than the next election. They were self-sufficient, not requiring careers as politicians or lobbyists to make a living. They were able to bring out the best in us. They were interested in and, at least two of them, fluent in science. They attempted to set a course for the United States into the far future — not so much by establishing laws as by setting limits on what kinds of laws could be passed. The Constitution and its Bill of Rights have done remarkably well, constituting, despite human weaknesses, a machine able, more often than not, to correct its own trajectory. At that time, there were only about two and a half million citizens of the United States. Today there are about a hundred times more. So if there were ten people of the caliber of Thomas Jefferson then, there ought to be 10 x 100 = 1,000 Thomas Jefferson’s today. Where are they?”

Wikipedia:  Carl Sagan

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A running question here at Coaches Hot Seat for a few years now has been….
Is ESPN’s Ivan Maisel intentionally trying to REALLY piss us off?

Oh, Ivan Maisel has REALLY pissed us off in this past week and it began with this paragraph from his December 27 3-point stance: Christmas break:

“2. USC performed masterfully in staging junior quarterback Matt Barkley’s decision to return to the Trojans in 2012. The press conference with a marching band couldn’t have been more different than the lack of hubbub at Stanford a year ago when Andrew Luck spurned the NFL. Stanford is not USC — the schools take pride in their differences — but it seems to me, in a season when the 11-1, No. 4 Cardinal fell short in beauty contests for the BCS and the Heisman, that the Farm could use a little more Troy.”

No, Ivan, the Farm could not use ANY Damn Troy and just because the boys and girls in La-La Land want to celebrate a student-athlete deciding to come back to school to be a…..student-athlete….for another year does not warrant Stanford throwing some kind of Ra-Ra Party for Andrew Luck last fall when Luck came back for another season because people with class, honor and integrity don’t go around calling attention to themselves and popping off about how they are going to win the Heisman Trophy as if they are God’s gift to Planet Earth.

Andrew Luck has acted with complete class during his entire time at Stanford and Stanford the institution and the Stanford football team have rightly kept the focus on the academic side of the school and winning football games as a FOOTBALL team.

If Stanford was a no-class outfit that cared about impressing a boxing announcer and his flunky friends at a sports network in Connecticut that rather enjoy putting on a lot of exhibition football games that do little but line the pockets of a large multi-national company headquartered in Burbank and that company’s shareholders then instead of Andrew Luck putting up the following numbers in 2011…

Completions – 261
Attempts – 373
Yards – 3,170
Percentage – 70.0%
TDs – 35
Interceptions – 9
Rating – 167.5

….Luck could have doubled those numbers if Stanford wasn’t playing football as a FOOTBALL TEAM to WIN FOOTBALL GAMES which is what the game of FOOTBALL is all about.

Stanford head coach David Shaw coached the Cardinal in 2011 to WIN football games not win individual trophies and since Stanford doesn’t give a Damn about impressing a boxing announcer and his flunky friends Andrew Luck was not throwing the ball all over the field this past season but instead Stanford football was playing FOOTBALL and running a balanced offense that averaged…

208 yards on the ground per game
273 yards of passing per game

….for…

480 total offensive yards per game.

That is FOOTBALL. What the people were watching last night in the Alamo Bowl was not FOOTBALL but rather two football teams in Baylor and Washington that play…

NO DAMN DEFENSE

…and since Oklahoma and Texas have quit playing REAL defense of course Robert Griffin III was able to hang lots of points and yards on Oklahoma, Texas and Washington to end the season since none of those teams play REAL defense anymore and please don’t try to tell us that Texas stopping the pitiful Cal Bears means anything since Cal has one of the most anemic offenses going these days in major college football. (Is Jeff Tedford going to start coaching at Cal sometime in the near future or are the Cal Bears just going to fall off the edge of the college football world?)

Hey, it’s great that Matt Barkley is coming back for the 2012 season because Barkley is a good quarterback and an even better kid but USC is USC and Stanford is Stanford and at Stanford holding a flashy news conference to announce something that should be a one line press release is just not….Stanford…and one would think Ivan Maisel would know that but then Ivan has been hanging around the boxing announcer a good bit lately!

The second thing that REALLY pissed us off that Ivan Maisel has written just in this past week was his 3-point stance: Revenge of the Bureaucrats on December 28:

“1. The newest NCAA blockbuster is “Revenge of the Bureaucrats!” At the urging of NCAA president Mark Emmert, university presidents in August adopted legislation to allow schools to pay a $2,000 cost-of-attendance stipend to their student-athletes. Another new rule implemented multi-year athletic scholarships. Since then, at least 75 schools have asked that each reform be overridden at the NCAA Convention. Reform means you don’t do it the way you’ve always done it. Change is scary. But the NCAA needs to change.”

Hello…EARTH TO IVAN MAISEL…one would think that that Ivan would explain why 75 schools oppose the $2,000 cost-of-attendance stipend and that is because they DO NOT HAVE THE MONEY to give $2,000 to their student-athletes which Dave O’Brien of College Sports Business News points out is a HUGE issue for the smaller schools that play at the I-A level:

Cost of Attendance Controversy Reveals Seismic-Size Competitive Equity Problem, College Sports Business News

“Of the 346 Division I schools, 125 signed on for the override measure, which guaranteed the suspension of the rule. The issue will be reconsidered at the Board of Directors meetings in January. “Based on conversations I have had, I am confident that there remains a very high level of support for this permissive legislation to provide better support for our student athletes,” NCAA President Mark Emmert told the NCAA News.

To the NCAA’s credit, the idea of the stipend was to help prevent the modern student-athlete from having to reach outside to boosters to pay for extra expenses such as travel, food, and clothing. Considering many prominent schools have been immersed with issues involving agents or boosters providing players with extra income, the NCAA was trying to provide a solution. Additionally, student-athlete welfare and simple economic justice led to the new proposal.

Former Penn State President Graham Spanier chaired the working group established to examine student-athlete well-being issues. “We understand the situation of our student-athletes. This isn’t about paying student-athletes, but it is about being fair and recognizing that in Division I it ought to be important to meet this need,” Spanier said.

While the stipend is voluntary it is very clear that any schools that don’t provide the extra money to athletes will be at an instant recruiting disadvantage.”

Hello….EARTH TO IVAN MAISEL…of course the schools that don’t provide the extra money to athletes will be at an instant recruiting disadvantage, but then when your ass is sitting at a place that is costing Intercollegiate Athletics Billions of Dollars while it is making FOUR TIMES what the schools are making on the current college football postseason (more on that in a moment) then of course let’s give these student-athletes $2,000 Bucks because it’s no big deal to so….right?

It is a Very Damn Big Deal for the 70 percent of schools playing I-A (FBS) football that are LOSING MONEY EACH YEAR even with the Millions of Dollars they are getting from student fees for athletics that are now often the regular course of business for most schools which is another subsidization of college athletics programs (really the US Taxpayer subsidizing college athletic programs since so much Federal aid flows to students who then use that Federal aid to pay for fees like college athletic department fees at their school) and Ivan Maisel really wonders why a school would oppose giving $2K to student-athletes?

Geez, they DON’T HAVE THE MONEY IVAN to give that extra $2K to their student athletes because 70 percent of I-A athletics programs are…

LOSING MONEY!

Speaking of why so many college athletic programs are losing money there have been a dozen or so stories out this fall about how college athletic departments are going to lose lots of money on their bowl trips and earlier this week following on our post about how much money ESPN is making off of the current college football postseason a friend of ours that works in Intercollegiate Athletics contacted us and said that our estimates of what the schools are actually making off of the college football postseason was too high.

What the Hell?

Evidently, instead of the school netting around $140 Million after expenses from the current college football postseason they are really only making around $100 million dollars after deducing ALL of the expenses which is beyond pitiful when one realizes that there are 120 I-A football schools!

Here’s the real OUTRAGE though, because the schools that are providing the players, the coaches, the fans and the TV viewers for ESPN and the bowl games are actually making THE LEAST AMOUNT OF MONEY! Yes, prepare to be OUTRAGED if you are fan of college football because OUR college football teams and schools are getting ROYALLY Ripped Off:

Where the Current College Football Postseason Money Goes:

ESPN and other TV Networks – $400 Million
The Bowl Games and Cities/Communities – $300 Million
The College Football Teams and Schools – $100 Million (after expenses)

What the Hell?

The Current College Football Postseason, not a Playoff Tournament that would generate significantly more money, but the Current College Football Postseason makes a Lot of Damn Money for ESPN, the bowls, the bowl cities/communities and then coming in last even though they are providing the product, the players, the coaches, the fans and the TV viewers are the College Football Teams and Schools!

What kind of Moron dreamed up this Idiocy?

Oh, we all know what kind of Morons dreamed up this Idiocy that has OUR college football teams and schools getting ROYALLY Ripped-Off and ROYALLY Screwed and that would be the Morons that would trade a week in Los Angeles or some other warm environment in early January for Billions of Dollars for OUR college football teams, college athletic departments and student-athletes and of course circling back around to Ivan Maisel throwing his pithy comments from the peanut gallery down to the boxing announcer (who no doubt is right now working on a poll that will be announced at the halftime of one of these Bogus BCS Games that will say Matt Barkley will win the 2012 Heisman Trophy!) while both of them are working for a company that has taken the conference commissioners, college presidents and athletic directors to the cleaners and since this is “a good con” these Morons with the schools think they are making out big time but they are actually getting RIPPED OFF…

BIG TIME!

So OUR schools are making about $100 Million on the current bowl postseason while ESPN and the bowls themselves are making boatloads of money and of course let’s not forget the kind of money that could be generated by a College Football Postseason Tournament…the same Postseason Tournament used by EVERY other sport on EVERY college campus in America:

Conference – $ Millions of Dollars

SEC Conference – $180 Million
Big 12 Conference – $125 Million
Big Ten Conference – $120 Million
Pac-12 Conference – $90 Million
ACC Conference – $75 Million
MWC Conference – $60 Million
C-USA Conference – $40 Million
MAC Conference – $37.5 Million
Big East Conference – $30 Million
WAC Conference – $30 Million
Sun Belt Conference – $27.5 Million
Independents – $10 Million (BYU, Notre Dame, Army, Navy)

Yes, it has been confirmed once again…

Very Stupid People are allowing OUR schools to get RIPPED OFF….BIG TIME and all in exchange for what exactly……

Oh, that’s right.

So a few bowl executives blow some blue smoke up the asses of a few college presidents, conference commissioners and athletic directors (and more importantly their wives) and in exchange for getting blue smoke blown up their asses these MORONS are willing to give up Hundreds of Millions Dollars with the current bowl system just this year and Billions of Dollars if we settled the National Championship in Major College Football like…

Real Americans

…instead of like Candy Asses.

A Great Time of the Year

We love the time from Christmas until we go back to work right after the New Year….

Yes, we will be at work the day after the New Year unlike the folks that are running these Bogus BCS bowls which think hard working Americans can take off time during the middle of the work week to go to bowl games that are nothing more than exhibition games that mean NOTHING AT ALL

….because we get to see lots of our old friends and acquaintances in very relaxed settings often by a fire while drinking a cold beer or downing some hot chocolate with some warm brandy of course.

One interesting comment this past week by a Stanford alum who is not in our Coaches Hot Seat group but someone that follows college football very closely who said the following about Ohio State president Gordon Gee’s comments on Jim Tressel earlier this year:

“If John (as in John Hennessy the Stanford University president) ever made a comment to the effect that he hoped that the head football coach at Stanford didn’t fire him then John could go ahead and get his stuff packed up because he would be fired within 24 hours. Not that anything like that would ever cross John’s mind or hopefully any Stanford president’s mind because the day that football gets bigger than the school is the day that Stanford would need to refocus its’ priorities.”

Amen to that.

By the way, here is what the Idiot Gordon Gee said earlier this year about Jim Tressel possibly firing him which was said on March 8, 2011:

Gordon Gee: “I just hope the coach doesn’t dismiss me.”

Memo to Gordon Gee: You are a MORON.

Memo to the Ohio State University Trustees: If you keep Gordon Gee on as president of Ohio State you folks are IDIOTS!

What is really pitiful is that several of us here at Coaches Hot Seat were in Washington DC a few weeks back and OUR nation’s capital is filled with MORONS like Gordon Gee that have risen up through government, politics, lobbying, etc., and now are in positions of power which is one of the reasons we often refer to this time in American history as the…

Age of the Candy Asses

….because we have had for the most part 60 years of peace that kept about 98 percent of Americans out of US military service and out of war and thus most of the Candy Asses that do little more than play stupid political games and shuffle paper really well have risen in many organizations and that leads to what we now have representing all of us in Washington DC and MORONS like Gordon Gee as the president of a major university thanking the head football coach for not firing him!

Yes, once you understand Candy Asses like Gordon Gee you might…and we say might….have the chance to understand how such a Candy Ass, Bogus and Un-American thing like the BCS could come to exist which has already cost Intercollegiate Athletics Billions of Dollars and will cost Intercollegiate Athletics Hundreds of Millions of Dollars just….

THIS YEAR!

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Coaches Hot Seat Quotes of the Day – Friday, December 30, 2011 – Martin Luther King, Jr.

“A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.”

And

“A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.”

And

“Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.”

And

“If a man hasn’t discovered something that he will die for, he isn’t fit to live.”

And

“There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.”

And

“Whatever your life’s work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.”

And

“The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education.”

And

“Men often hate each other because they fear each other; they fear each other because they don’t know each other; they don’t know each other because they can not communicate; they can not communicate because they are separated.”

And

“We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools.”

And

“On some positions, Cowardice asks the question, “Is it safe?” Expediency asks the question, “Is it politic?” And Vanity comes along and asks the question, “Is it popular?” But Conscience asks the question “Is it right?” And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must do it because Conscience tells him it is right.”

And

“I say to you that our goal is freedom, and I believe we are going to get there because however much she strays away from it, the goal of America is freedom.”

And

“Peace for Israel means security, and we must stand with all our might to protect its right to exist, its territorial integrity. I see Israel as one of the great outposts of democracy in the world, and a marvelous example of what can be done, how desert land can be transformed into an oasis of brotherhood and democracy. Peace for Israel means security and that security must be a reality.”

And

“The tough mind is sharp and penetrating, breaking through the crust of legends and myths and sifting the true from the false. The tough-minded individual is astute and discerning. He has a strong austere quality that makes for firmness of purpose and solidness of commitment. Who doubts that this toughness is one of man’s greatest needs? Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.”

And

“Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”

And

“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.”

And

“We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.”

And

“Let us not wallow in the valley of despair. I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: “We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal.” I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slaveowners will be able to sit down together at a table of brotherhood. I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state, sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice. I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream today.”

“I have a dream that one day the state of Alabama, whose governor’s lips are presently dripping with the words of interposition and nullification, will be transformed into a situation where little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls and walk together as sisters and brothers. I have a dream today. I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight, and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together. This is our hope. This is the faith with which I return to the South. With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.”

“This will be the day when all of God’s children will be able to sing with a new meaning, “My country, ’tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrim’s pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring.” And if America is to be a great nation, this must become true. So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire. Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York. Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania! Let freedom ring from the snowcapped Rockies of Colorado! Let freedom ring from the curvaceous peaks of California! But not only that; let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia! Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee! Let freedom ring from every hill and every molehill of Mississippi. From every mountainside, let freedom ring.

“When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God’s children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, “Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!”

And

“The time is always right to do what’s right.”

And

“Each of us lives in two realms, the “within” and the “without.” The within of our lives is somehow found in the realm of ends, the without in the realm of means. The within of our [lives], the bottom — that realm of spiritual ends expressed in art, literature, morals, and religion for which at best we live. The without of our lives is that realm of instrumentalities, techniques, mechanisms by which we live. Now the great temptation of life and the great tragedy of life is that so often we allow the without of our lives to absorb the within of our lives. The great tragedy of life is that too often we allow the means by which we live to outdistance the ends for which we live.”

And

“Yes, if you want to say that I was a drum major, say that I was a drum major for justice; say that I was a drum major for peace; I was a drum major for righteousness. And all of the other shallow things will not matter. I won’t have any money to leave behind. I won’t have the fine and luxurious things of life to leave behind. But I just want to leave a committed life behind. And that’s all I want to say.”

“We all have the drum major instinct. We all want to be important, to surpass others, to achieve distinction, to lead the parade. … And the great issue of life is to harness the drum major instinct. It is a good instinct if you don’t distort it and pervert it. Don’t give it up. Keep feeling the need for being important. Keep feeling the need for being first. But I want you to be the first in love. I want you to be the first in moral excellence. I want you to be the first in generosity.”

And

“Well, I don’t know what will happen now. We’ve got some difficult days ahead. But it doesn’t matter with me now. Because I’ve been to the mountaintop. And I don’t mind. Like any man, I would like to live a long life. Longevity has its place. But I’m not concerned about that now. I just want to do God’s will. And He’s allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I’ve looked over. And I’ve seen the promised land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people will get to the promised land. And I’m happy, tonight. I’m not worried about anything. I’m not fearing any man. Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord.”

Wikipedia:  Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Coaches Hot Seat Quotes of the Day – Thursday, December 29, 2011 – Davy Crockett

“I leave this rule for others when I’m dead – Be always sure you’re right — THEN GO AHEAD!”

And

“Fame is like a shaved pig with a greased tail, and it is only after it has slipped through the hands of some thousands, that some fellow, by mere chance, holds on to it!”

And

“I would rather be beaten and be a man than to be elected and be a little puppy dog. I have always supported measures and principles and not men. I have acted fearless[ly] and independent and I never will regret my course. I would rather be politically buried than to be hypocritically immortalized.”

And

“I have suffered my self to be politically sacrificed to save my country from ruin and disgrace and if I am never a gain elected I will have the gratification to know that I have done my duty.”

And

“If one man in the country could take all the money, what was the use of passing any bills about it?”

And

“It was expected of me that I was to bow to the name of Andrew Jackson… even at the expense of my conscience and judgement. such a thing was new to me, and a total stranger to my principles.”

And

“Let your tongue speak what your heart thinks.”

And

“Throughout the day no time for memorandums now. Go ahead! Liberty and independence forever.”

And

“We have the right as individuals to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity; but as members of Congress we have no right to appropriate a dollar of the public money.”

And

“You may all go to Hell, and I will go to Texas.”

And

“I am at liberty to vote as my conscience and judgement dictates to be right, without the yoke of any party on me… Look at my arms, you will find no party hand-cuff on them!”

And

“I must say as to what I have seen of Texas, it is the garden spot of the world. The best land & best prospects for health I ever saw is here, and I do believe it is a fortune to any man to come here. There is a world of country to settle”

And

“I know not whether, in the eyes of the world, a brilliant death is not preferred to an obscure life of rectitude. Most men are remembered as they died, and not as they lived. We gaze with admiration upon the glories of the setting sun, yet scarcely bestow a passing glance upon its noonday splendor.”

And

“Money with them is nothing but trash when it is to come out of the people. But it is the one great thing for which most of them are striving, and many of them sacrifice honor, integrity, and justice to obtain it.”
Comment to a friend about the US Congress, as quoted in The Life of Colonel David Crockett

And

“Born on a mountain top in Tennessee
The greenest state in the land of the free
Raised in the woods so’s he knew ev’ry tree
Kilt him a b’ar when he was only three
Davy, Davy Crockett, king of the wild frontier
Fought single-handed through many a war
Till the enemy was whipped and peace was in store
And while he was handlin’ this risky chore
He made himself a legend forever more
Davy, Davy Crockett, the man who knew no fear.”

Wikipedia:   Davy Crockett

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