The warning in the title goes to Tom O'Brien former head coach of the BC football team. Tom moved onto a place with better facilities and a higher contract offer. you can't blame a guy for doing this, he'll make a lot more money at NC State but I predict that in five years Tom O'Brien will be looking for a new job. BC was the perfect job for O'Brien, a school where they would be satisfied with nine or ten wins and enjoy a top 25 finish and a school that would be just as proud of the teams tremendous graduation rate. The fans at NC State may be satisfied with that for a year or two, but once they see O'Brien's poor game coaching and they lose too many games that they should be winning they'll turn on him. I predict that by year three we'll be hearing about firetomobrien.com and a lot of announcers will come to his defense, but it won't matter the NC State administration will become frustrated by too many unexplainable losses and too many low top 25 finishes from a team that could've easily been in the top ten.
Happy 50th birthday to Larry Bird, I know you're an avid reader of the blog, so i just wanted to give a shout out.
The Celtics completed a very important loss last night, they currently sit as the third to last place team overall a half game ahead both the Grizzlies and the Bobcats. A loss like the one last night is really as good as two losses, not only did they add the L but granted the Grizz a W, on their home floor no less. I know that having the worst record is no guarantee that they'll win the Greg Oden sweepstakes, all I'm asking is that they do everything in their power to make it happen, if lose out during the lottery I won't blame them so long as they give their full effort. how good is Greg Oden? Even doc Rivers would have them competing for a title with Oden in the middle.
I saw a great article in ESPN.com about the old USFL, well really it was a mediocre article about a great topic. I loved the idea of the USFL and I find it hard to believe that a second football league in the spring couldn't work, I'd much rather be watching a second league starting the week after the Super Bowl and maybe finishing the last week in April. Have you ever seen some of the crap they put on TV during that time? Just show some games on saturday and sunday afternoons, the country loves real football, so much so in fact that people will watch that crappy indoor football just to get a little taste a small ten to twelve team league is all I'm asking for, just fill the rosters with guys who'd like to make the NFL but just don't quite make the cut, guys who'd love to prove themselves, don;t go out and sign college stars to ridiculous contracts, it isn;t worth an extra twenty million dollars to see Brady Quinn passing to Bam Childress, Rohan Davey would do just fine. Maybe I'm just not realizing how crappy the games would be, but I just want something decent to watch and I'v always been a big fan of the whole "where are they now?" thing that drives a second class league like that. So if you know any millionaires or billionaires looking for somewhere to throw their money, let me know.
I saw that the Royals spent big bucks on bringing in Gil Meche, which is a good thing I guess. I'm glad to see the Royals actually making a decent signing and throwing around some money, it just goes to show how much money is really floating around out there. But I can't help but think they're overpaying for a mediocre pitcher, maybe they would have been better off sitting back and watching all the other teams commit to bad contracts this opff-season and hope that there would be a market correction or teams that are looking to give these bad contracts away next season. Que sera, sera or mi casa es su casa or whatever the spanish would say here, now the cover of the Royals media guide can have Meche, Emil Brown and maybe a picture of Mike Sweeney in a cast or something.
That it for today.
-Bender Out
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