Doohow's Random Sports Musings

I always found it comical how college football scheduling works. Big programs don't want to play each other because they want that impressive record to impress the polls. Small programs don't want to play big schools because they don't want to get their asses kicked 68-0 for the entire non-conference schedule. So what is the solution? Big schools pay the little schools to let them kick the shit out of them. Seriously, a school like Alabama will pay a school like Florida International a million bucks to let their football team tee off on them for 4 quarters. That tells me we need to re-organize the college football divisions.



Orlando Cabrera, still not the answer. I know a lot of people were excited when the Twins made a move at the trading deadline, but did anyone really think Orlando Cabrera was the final piece to the World Series puzzle? I certainly didn't. He's better than Brenden Harris and Nick Punto, but he is average at best. So as of this blog, the Twins still sit in 3rd place in the worst division in the American League. It's just not good enough Bill Smith. You can't afford to not buy players and make bad trades (Delmon Young).



I like the Viking signing of Favre, with the awareness that he could be a complete flop. What I like about Zygi and Chilly is that they realized that they were not going to win a Super Bowl with Sage or Tarvaris and they did something about it. Anyone who wants to argue with me that Trent Dilfer won a SB, my response is that was a fluke. You have to have at least an average QB to have a legitimate shot at a ring. Favre was the only guy out there that at least has a chance at having the talent necessary to go deep into the playoffs....and everyone in Wisconsin just lost their hero. That is worth the money in and of itself.



Back to college football, aparently the athletic board at the University of Stanford is livid that a private bathroom was built in the office of headfootball coach Jim Harbaugh. That is why Stanford will always be a mediocre football program. The University of Oklahoma would build Bob Stoops a toliet made of baby pandas if that is what he really wants to sit on when he takes a shit. In no realm of sports is a head coach more important that college football and it isn't even close. Stanford is complaining that they are building private bathrooms for the football coach while other programs like fencing are being cut out all together. Really Stanford? You can't tell the difference? The college football team brings in tens of thousands of fans every Saturday, not to mention the television, radio, internet, and god knows what other sources of revenue it brings in. For the fencing match, you get the student's moms....maybe.