I had a big discovery this weekend: JetBlue airlines.
I woke up Friday morning after a perfectly-executed Thanksgiving (sleep in, football, eat, nap, eat, football) and hopped on the Long Island Rail Road, switched at Huntington and Jamaica (to the Airtrain) and boarded my plane destined for Richmond.
This is where it gets good, I sit down on the plane and in front of me is Larry Coker talking about being fired from the University of Miami, live. ESPN on the back of the seat in front of me. Yep, amazing. I paid about $150 round trip, but I would have paid an extra $20 to watch satellite TV on the plane. But no, I didn’t have to. I watched TV for free, ate some delicious Doritos mix the airline provided and had a bottle of water. What used to be a 6.5-hour drive was now a 51-minute pleasure cruise through the air.
Once I landed, I was able to listen to the LSU-Arkansas game on the drive to Blacksburg. And, I’ll say it once: I told you so.
However, I also told you Texas would win and cover the 13 it was giving. This was a stupid pick on my part, I apologize. Texas was facing a good A&M defense in a rivalry game. I should have known better. Blame it on youth? The same goes for Florida-Florida State, but I really didn’t think that was as dumb as a pick as the Texas/A&M one.
But I rebounded on Saturday with my ND-USC pick. I was so confident about my Southern California pick that I even defended it in the comments section last Wednesday when someone tried to tell me I would be completely wrong. As it turned out, I was completely right.
Not only did I get to watch the game on a HD projection screen, I enjoyed mahi-mahi stuffed with crab with my fellow 2006 alumnus (and Nick, who is there for his CPA). Being completely right and eating a nice piece of fish is quite the tandem, let me tell you…
As far as the Tech game goes, it was a push at 17-0. I didn’t watch much of the noon kickoff because my state of existence on Saturday morning was too impacted by Friday night’s events downtown.
But here are two things for ya: Virginia Tech still has the No. 1 defense in the country (yielding 17-fewer yards than No. 2 LSU) and the Hokies are the only 10-win team in the conference (actually, I was wrong about that...Wake is 10-2, my apologies). However, Georgia Tech did have a far tougher out of conference schedule and definitely will win the ACC Championship (more later in the week about championship weekend).
Back to Notre Dame though. Rumblings are abound that ND-Michigan will meet in the Rose Bowl. This just pisses me off. Notre Dame is not good. The Irish have beaten NOBODY this year worth writing home about. Let’s wait and see though. The only other potential BCS team Notre Dame would maybe beat is Boise State, but if Ian Johnson is healthy, I don’t think the Irish could even stop the Broncos enough to win that game. THE IRISH ARE NOT A BCS TEAM.
Before I get angry, I’ll cut it off here. Tomorrow I’ll talk about the coaching fire sale. But my vote goes to JetBlue.
Comments (4)
Wake is 10-2 also FWIW.
"Notre Dame hasn't beaten anyone." Except maybe your (lock) ACC champ, Georgia Tech. Remember? Nah. Guess you forgot that. You Notre Dame haters are funny. But don't worry. Nobody takes you seriously.
I mean... do you even remember G. Tech vs. ND? Nah. Probably not. Or Penn State, a bowl team last year? Probably not, again. I love ND haters. The selective memories are hysterical. And if Bush didn't illegally shove Leinhart last year... well... where would have USC been then? It's a shame you aren't even remotely objective. But by being so disposed, you're funny. Keep the giggles coming.
You have a point, but all year long I've said in my blog that I don't count first games because they aren't an indication of what a team is made of...that goes for USC-Arkansas, ND-GT, Cal-Tennessee, Miami-FSU (even though we found out both suck). I've also trashed the ACC all year, and I'm an ACC guy.
Notre Dame has shown it can't play defense. I'll give em the Penn State win, but that's about it. People said I was crazy when I picked Michigan and So Cal to cover by far...but Notre Dame is 45th in defense and they played offenses like Stanford (118 of 119), Army (111), North Carolina (101)...in fact, here's the rankings
GT-73
PSU-55
UM-32
MSU-48
Purdue-10
Stanford-118
UCLA-70
Navy-25
UNC-101
Air Force-54
Army-111
USC-23
AVERAGE=60...weak bro
Numbers don't lie. The future for Notre Dame is bright, I'll give you that. 10-2 is nice, I'll give you that. But this year's squad can't run with the SEC and Big 10 - the two conferences that matter this year.
Also, you can't talk about last year. Because last year's USC team had two Heisman winners on it who are gone this year, yet USC still stomped ND. And last year's Penn State team is waaay different than this years, starting with M. Rob.