We don’t check on most college team forums, and with good reason: if we wanted to read page after page of self-reinforcing bullshit, insults, and look at photoshopped pictures of Kellen Winslow Jr…well, we’d read our own site, frankly.
But there is an exception, as much as it pains us to admit: Warchant, the Florida State forum where, believe it or not, football fans of all stripes engage in spicy but well-thought-out analysis. Don’t believe us? Regardez , and behold the wonders of the internet.
After three days of no posting, we’re back. Much thanks to Stranko for keeping the wire warm-we were busy trying to get Mrs. Swindle packed and ready to go do research in India, and getting her to fit her life in three bags proved to be very, very difficult. Add to that the requisite freakouts about nuclear war with Pakistan, rabies shots, and trying to remember how you wipe your ass without using toilet paper, and it proved to be 72 hours of solid, grueling work. Now with no one to make us clean up our Arby’s wrappers and gin bottles, we’ll happily be back on our regular, manic posting schedule.
Mrs. Swindle will be taking one of these to work. We’re not sure which one.
Texas isn’t backing down from an accusation that they gave players supplements loaded with amino acids in a non-bar-shaped form. Considering the NCAA’s inane bylaws on supplements, we’ve got to agree, since depriving a coach from the right to hand a player a bag of beef jerky or pinto beans as a reward for a good play would violate so many of the basic laws of the universe.
The AJC has Tony Barnhart in fabulous stream-o-vision making his early predictions on the season. Summary: Calvin Johnson is the best “ruh-cee-vah” in the nation, Mack Brown is “fahn” even if he doesn’t win a national championship, and Tony quotes his daddy. Seriously, what more do you need? (Page down and click the video link about halfway down.)
After failing to regain his elibility by sitting out of spring football and concentrating on his studies, Trojan Blue Chipper Manuel Wright has decided to take his game to the NFL… where there will be no more philosophy classes. USC has talent to spare, but the lingering question remains whether this is a sign of cracks forming on the potential dynastic reign of Pete Carroll.
So lets start the debating. The beauty of preseason top 25 lists like this one…. and the one we will do as well…. is that they are all going to be horribly wrong, but no one will really remember which pundits did a real good job of picking 1-25. Upon first glance, picking USC number 1 is the easy and obvious choice, but you will see some other picks bound to stir some controversy, such as picking Florida over Tennessee in the SEC and Florida State over Miami and Virginia Tech in the ACC. The one that really jumps out to me is puting Penn State in the top 25 when they’ve done nothing in the last few years to earn that respect…. especially when it means Boise State didn’t even make the cut. Athlon Sports, who is rolling out their predictions one at a time, obviously disagrees too. Well, that’s part of the fun of College Football.
Travis Parker, a fifth year senior defensive lineman, failed to qualify academically leaving the ramblin’ wreck from Georgia Tech without the three year starter next season.
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