I'm the f'n Soothsayer

  I love football.  Especially college football.  I've started to even get into the NFL, now that VY is there and the 'horns are putting a lot of players in the league.

I got into this Pick 'em league where you pick 10 games vs. the spread with the chance to win money.  I was 7-3 last week, which is pretty f'n good, I think.  I picked wrong on Notre Dame, Ole Miss, and Arizona.  But I cleaned up on UTEP, UCLA, Oregon, and Penn State, among others.  Of all 30 games available to pick from, I went 15-14.

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So here are some football predictions for that ass:

• Kenny Irons, RB from Auburn, will win the Heisman trophy
• The winner of this weekend's Texas-Ohio St. game will play for the National Championship.
• The Super Bowl will pitt the Dallas Cowboys against the Kansas City Chiefs.  Derrick Johnson will be the MVP.
• Vince Young will start for the Tennessee Titans by week 6, and lead them to a playoff birth.  They will lose in the first round.
• Other AFC NFL playoff teams will be the Baltimore Ravens, the Denver Broncos, and the Pittsburgh Steelers.
• Peyton Manning will get injured and the Colts will miss the playoffs.
• The NFC playoff teams will be the Cowboys, Eagles (wild card), Giants (wild card), Vikings, Bucs, and Rams.  The popular pick Carolina Panthers will not make the playoffs.
• This weekend, Temple will NOT lose by more than 39 points at home to a Michael Bush-less Louisville.  Take it to the bank.
• Other locks this weekend: Clemson +2.5 over BC, BYU +5.5 over Tulsa, and Oregon +5.5 over Fresno St.
• Texas will have 10 players drafted in the next NFL draft.
• I agree with Ojo, OU is fucked.

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Colt McCoy has a chance to be the next James Street.  This weekend is the first milestone.  I'm just glad there's no f'n controversy.  Worst case scenario is McCoy choffs on Saturday, we get down by 21, and we put in Snead and he blows up and almost leads us back but we still lose.  That would f'n SUCK.

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I'm glad Tarell Brown and Tyrell Gatewood are suspended for this week's game.  Regardless of how the legalities play out, IMO they should have to sit at LEAST two more.  Let them play against OU IF Aaron Harris takes all the rap and their charges get dropped completely; otherwise, give 'em the boot.  I hate to see this shit because, although it's naive, I like to think that Texas holds itself to a higher standard than other bigtime programs.  I have no problems with banging strippers or even smoking herb, but there's just no fucking excuse for anything involving guns.  Every time something like this happens, to me it's the equivalent of losing 3 straight games.  It has the same affect on recruiting, national perception, and fan/team morale.  Winning against Ohio St. and OU is NOT worth being represented by thugs.

Comments

[kineyb]

That a way to represent those C-H-I-E-F-S!!

Agree totally on the suspension. Get rid of them all together IMO. At least for the year. If he wants, he can come back next year, or transfer. With shit like this, UT slowly starts looking like Miami. I hate it.

[Ojo Rojo]

Jake,

I totally think you could be Matthew McConaughey from Two For the Money, or one of those young prodigy GMs for some pro sports franchise. After you get your bankroll together you oughta look into interning. There's an article in Texas Monthly about the new GM for the Rangers that you should read. Came out a couple of months ago. I'd be real interested to see your overall record against the oddsmakers at the end of the season.

I disagree on the suspensions. True, regardless of any actual wrongdoing perception rules out. A player simply cannot be allowed to jeopardize the program. BUT, I do believe in second chances. The public needs to believe in them too. If you give these guys the boot then they go to Sam and play with Bomar and end up broken hulls of their former selves in five years. Mack Brown was perfect in his reaction when he listed his four priorities. If he doesn't kick them off the team he needs to explain about forgiveness, second chances, reconciliation and supporting these kids who he made promises to while recruiting them. I think that statement would resonate well with recruits and diminish the ill effects of the whole incident at the same time.

[Snake Diggity]

At some point you have to let one player's F-up serve as the first chance for the whole team. Are you going to have 85 incidents like this every year, giving every scholarship player the second chance they deserve? Ramonce, in my opinion, WAS the first chance for everybody. After his dismissal, and I'm sure Mack Brown did this, I would have called the team together and served notice that Ramonce's multiple F-ups cost everyone on the team their first chance. Sorry, but until we go 6 f'n months without somebody getting into legal trouble, you are all on a one strike policy. Tarell Brown HAD to have known that tensions, spotlights, and scrutiny would be on everyone after both the program's success and Ramonce's antics (among others--remember El Ced getting busted, Ced Griffin on 6th St., Aaron Harris on 6th St., etc.). Yet he chose to ignore those factors and behave like a thug, or atleast hang around thugs. Unacceptable.

[Snake Diggity]

P.S.: I'm anxious to see how I fare against the oddsmakers, too.

[desert boy]

i'm not sure i'd assume anything mack has done. why the #$&% was there no curfew? huh? no curfew? are you kidding me? these guys need curfews and should have been in violation of such a policy while trotting around at 3am. sure, while i was in college i did similar stupid things, but i wasn't on a reigning national championship football team. with great power comes great responsibility...

[Ojo Rojo]

Okay, Desert Boy/Uncle Ben. I agree with the 1-game suspension but no more unless it comes out that he did more than has come out in the media. Missing THE game of the decade is a pretty stiff penalty. I just don't think you turn your back on somebody after one strike. I disagreed with the harsh treatment of Ramonce. I'm not in favor of a slap on the wrist a-la Miami, but I'm not in favor of the death penalty either.

[kineyb]

I can see where you are coming from, Ojo. It's really not a cut and dry situation. Meaning, Yes he has to be proven guilty first and the media always makes it out to be more than it is. But regardless of what really happened. The fact remains that he was up to no good. More than likely some illegal shit. And he got busted. He should be penalized. Maybe this one game is a big enough penalty. But what happens next week, or next month when this shit happens again? Players can start getting the feeling "Hey Tarrel didn't get kicked off the team when he was out all night *insert ghetto ass activity verb here*. We will be alright." Gotta nip this shit in the butt.

As my dad would say, "Enough is enough."

[Ojo Rojo]

I think suspending a player for the No. 1 vs. No. 2 prime time historical event that this game is going to be is deterrent enough. If I was Tarell I'd be suicidal. Nobody on that team wants to miss this game. Nobody.

[jakey jakey big money mistakey]

ouchiwawa. Fuckin' Temple and Clemson. In my defense, I was 5-5 on my top 10, so I'm 12-8 on the season, but...ouch.