Happy New Year Bitchiz! May 2012 bring an end to high unemployment rates, a return home for all those soldiers still overseas, and a big fat national title for the Canes (OK, we’ll take an ACC title….Coastal?…eh, we’ll take 7-5).January means recruiting season, but I for one will not be getting caught up in the Signing Day hoopla. From 2002-2010, Miami averaged the 10th best recruiting class in the nation. Virginia Tech? 28th. Meanwhile, Virginia Tech has gotten at least 10 wins for 8 consecutive years. Miami? 0.
So I’m done listening to 17 year old kids’ press conferences. I won’t wait with baited breath while some teenager plays musical chairs with the hats on the table in front of him. And I won’t be cursing out loud when the nation’s # 1 running back recruit renegs on Miami and we’re ‘stuck’ with some kid named Lamar Miller. It doesn’t matter.
Coaching matters. Stability matters. And we are finally headed in the right direction in that department. So, bring on Duke Johnson and Angelo Jean-Louis, but if they decide to switch at the last minute to FSU, I won’t be losing any sleep.
Quick Hits:
- Mark Richt’s decision to play it safe and kick a 42 yard field goal in OT on 3rd down (?!) is puzzling. Why not run a play up the middle for a few yards? 40+ yarders are no gimmes in college. Then again, this was the same dude who called for play action right before the half of Wide Right III when FSU had no timeouts left. Easy drop back into coverage and pick for Dan Morgan.
- I’m no Les Miles fan, but I do not want Alabama winning the national title. As a Dolphin fan and a fan of non-pricks, I abhor Nick Saban. Unfortunately, I think Bama probably wins.
- So the Phins flip a coin with Carolina for the 8th/9th pick. No Luck, no Griffin, and probably no Blackmon (which is who I want them to take). Please trade down. I can’t stomach another offensive lineman in the first round. Or trade up and get Luck somehow. Ugh. The Phins. They make the Canes look like title contenders. As a Phins and Canes fan, I have years of agonizing season ahead of me (that’s plural).
- If you haven’t seen it, rent ‘Forks Over Knives.’ If you’re one of those meat lovers that thinks eating less meat is unmanly, you’re a dipshit. Science clearly shows that eating more plant foods and less animal protein reduces your chances of getting cancer and heart disease immensely. I’m no vegetarian, but the best thing you can do for your health and the health of the planet is to eat less meat. You don’t have to eliminate it, just reduce it.
- 10 years ago today, I was at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena ooohing and aaahing as Jonathan Vilma lit up Eric Crouch. Brings a tear to my eye to think that it was a f’n decade ago. I remember barely makin it out of a snowstorm in Atlanta to see the game, the ride to Pasadena, and the post game celebration where the players stormed the ESPN set in the corner of the field. Most of all, though, I remember my buddy’s Johnny Rocket’s inspired diarrhea in the toilet the next morning. Thanks for not flushing. Still have that image seared into my brain.
