Spring Football

A few weeks ago, I made the case that you shouldn’t care about all the excitement caused by the NFL Draft. That even though opening day was months away, people like to go crazy over their football in any form. So with that it mind, let’s not care again and take a look at college football. Spring ball has wrapped for everyone and let’s take a way-to-early look to the fall season.
-The defending champion LSU Tigers graduated their great leader in Matt Flynn and then saw Ryan “let’s see how many ways I can mess up my career” Perrilloux after getting himself kicked off the team for more off-field problems. Its shame that guy could keep his nose clean. He had a great future. He was going to be the starting quarterback of the best team in the land, a Heisman favorite and future top draft pick. Well so much for that. Perrilloux will now be playing for Jacksonville State.
-LSU lost another key part when defensive coordinator Bo Pelini who took the head job at Nebraska. The Cornhuskers think the have found the guy that can get them back to old-fashion blue collar ways. He’s recruiting local kids and putting the tradition back in the program. He’s not a bad schemer either, just ask Ohio State. They still haven’t figured where his blitzes are coming from.
-This news just in! Joe Pa will remain as the coach at Penn State. What? You already knew that? Oh, Sorry.
-Rich Rodriquez will look to revamp Michigan with his option-run-pass-chutes and ladders-get your quarterback wiped out offense. It’s not a bad system if you’re playing in the Big East but a move to the Big Ten will require a big, athletic really good quarterback. A lot like what Urban Meyer got in Tim Tebow at Florida when he made the transition from a mid-major to a BCS team. Note to all those still mad a West Virginia: Coaches leave all the time, get over it.
-The over/under for the number of different uniform combinations that Oregon will have this year is 57.
-The Big 12 is returning all those really good quarterbacks. There is Sam Bradford (Oklahoma); Graham Harrell (Texas Tech); Todd Reesing (Kansas); Chase Daniel (Missouri); Colt McCoy (Texas) and Zac Robinson (Oklahoma State). This conference should just throw out the running backs and offensive lineman and just play 7-on-7 pass games.
-Norte Dame will have a much better season than they did last year. They can’t have much worse. Charlie Weis has to help quarterback Jimmy Clausen grow up in a hurry. The guy definitely has talent but he seemed really lost at times. The team also looked to be very un-athletic last season. That’s not good when you play teams like Michigan and USC every year.
-Back to the off-field trouble thing. If you go to www.foxsports.com and look at the top ten stories under college football, seven of them involve legal troubles. It’s ridiculous. These guys are getting free educations when most people spend half their lives paying back student loans. So please fellas, lets just stop throwing the opportunity away.
-A month of May prediction for the BCS championship game: USC v. Florida. I do reserve the right to change this pick multiple times over the next eight months however.